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The first twentieth century novel | Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is published. | |
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the most famous short horror story | The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs. | |
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Nobel Prize for R. Kipling | Kipling turned down many honours offered to him including a knighthood, Poet Laureate and the Order of Merit, but in 1907 he accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature. His best known works areThe Jungle Book , the novel Kim, and Just So Stories . He was the first English author and the joungest up to date to receive the Nobel Prize | |
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Kenneth Grahame - ''The Wind In the Willows'' | 'The Wind In the Willows'' is one of his most famous works - it has now been adapted into a Disney film and has become a ''classic'' in children's literature. | |
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"If" is published | A very famous poem by Rudyrad Kipling. A poem that is said to be even more relevant today than it was at the time Kipling wrote it. | |
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The start of the Modernist Movement | The modernist movement began to influence English literature, artists and poets. | |
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"The love song of J.A. Prurock | (September 26, 1888–January 4, 1965) A book by Thomas S. Eliot, an American-born English poet, playwright, and literary critic, arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century.This was his first notable publication, and it is regarded as a masterpiece of the modernist movement | |
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"Anthem for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen | He in considered to be one of the leading war poets. His works are shocking and realistic. | |
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Isaac Rosenberg died | ||
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"Doctor Dolittle" by Hugh Lofting | (January 14, 1886 – September 26, 1947) Having seen the horrors of war, he did not wish to write to his children of the brutality, so he decided he would fill their lives with happy little stories.He has written many famous children's stories. | |
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"Ulysses" by James Joyce | Joyce is a key figure in the development of the modernist novel. He is best known for his novel Ulysses. | |
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Isaac Rosenberg's poems collected and published | Isaac Rosenberg (25 November 1890 – 1 April 1918) was an English poet of the First World War who was considered to be one of the greatest of all English war poets. His "Poems from the Trenches" are recognised as some of the most outstanding written during the First World War. | |
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"Winnie the Pooh" by A. A. Milne | A popular children's book. | |
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"Hercule Poirot" by Agathe Christie | A book that because very popular and is now for a basis of the TV show by the same name. | |
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Rudyard Kipling died | (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) He was a British author and poet. | |
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James Joyce died | He lived from 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941. He was an Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. | |
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The beginning of Postmodernism | Literature by and about people from former European colonies, primarily in Africa, Asia, South America, and the Caribbean. This literature aims both to expand the traditional canon of Western literature and to challenge Eurocentric assumptions about literature, especially through examination of questions of otherness, identity, and race. | |
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Julian Barnes | Writer. Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005) | |
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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie was born | A British-Indian novelist and essayist | |
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The movement - Postcolonial Literature | Literature by and about people from former European colonies, primarily in Africa, Asia, South America, and the Caribbean. This literature aims both to expand the traditional canon of Western literature and to challenge Eurocentric assumptions about literature, especially through examination of questions of otherness, identity, and race. | |
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Geroge Orwell's "1984" is published | ||
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Alan Alexander Milne died | (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) He was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.He wrote over 25 plays. | |
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John Robert Fowles | His first novel "The Collector" is published. Was made into a movie | |
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Ruth Rendell "To Fear A Painted Devil " | First novel by the famous English Crime Writer is published | |
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Alistair MacLean "Where Eagles Dare" | ||
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Terry Pratchett "The Carpet People" | First book by the famous British author was published. he did the illustrations himself | |
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"Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie | Rushdie achieved notability with his second novel, Midnight's Children. | |
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William Golding | British novelist, poet and playwright is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was knighted in 1988 by Elizabeth II | |
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Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards | Eddie Edwards sets the British national record in ski-jumping(73.5m) in Galgary Winter Olympic games and is the definite last. | |
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Seamus Heaney | Irish poet and writer is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature | |
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Philip Pullmann "His Dark Materials" | First book from the fantasy triology is published. The book is called Northern Lights and is retitled The Golden Compass in US. Nicole Kidman played in the movie version. | |
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Alex Garland "The Beach" | Garland's first novel becomes a hit. Leonardo DiCaprio plays in the movie version. | |
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Philip Pullmann "His Dark Materials" | Second book of the triology called "The Subtle Knife" is published | |
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Philip Pullmann "His Dark Materials" | Third book from the triology called "The Amber Spyglass" is published | |
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Geroge Orwell's "1984" - the Prometheus Award | Honored with the Prometheus Award for their contributions to dystopian literature. | |
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J.R.R. Tolkien | The author of "The Lord Of The Rings" triology and the "Hobbit" Tolkien is dentified as the "father" of modern fantasy literatureTolkien's writings have inspired many other works of fantasy and have had a lasting effect on the entire field. The famous "Lord of the Rings" saga is world famous and probably needs no introduction. | |
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Author George Orwell | ||
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The War Poets | They reflected the experiences of WW I, often in a disapproving manner. The most known war poets are: Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg, Edmund Blunden and Siegfried Sassoon. | |
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The movement Literature of the Absurd | Began in 1930s. A movement, primarily in the theater, that responded to the seeming illogicality and purposelessness of human life in works marked by a lack of clear narrative, understandable psychological motives, or emotional catharsis. | |
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Postmodernism | The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain characteristics of post-World War II literature. It is both a continuation of the experimentation championed by writers of the modernist period (relying heavily, for example, on fragmentation, paradox, questionable narrators, etc.) and a reaction against Enlightenment ideas implicit in Modernist literature.Postmodern literature, like postmodernism as a whole, is hard to define and there is little agreement on the exact characteristics, | |
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Author Graham Greene | ||
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The movement Angry Young Men |
