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Born in Ireland. He was a member of the Communist Party from 1935 to 1938. Wrote crime and thirllers. Day Lewis was a nature poet
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The poet does not try to educate people or convert their unassertiveness.
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Wystan Hugh Auden was an English-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form and content.
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British poet and critic, born in London
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The first novel to feature Miss Marple
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Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her fiancé died in the manner prescribed in one of her books, a jury of her peers had a hangman's noose in mind. But Lord Peter Wimsey was determined to find her innocent as determined as he was to make her his wife.
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The Waves is a portrait of the intertwined lives of six friends: Bernard, Neville, Louis, Jinny, Susan, and Rhoda. The novel is divided into nine sections, each of which corresponds to a time of day, and, symbolically, to a period in the lives of the characters. Each section begins with a detailed description of the course of this symbolic day.
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Cold Comfort Farm is a parody of late eighteenth/early nineteenth century agricultural literature, such as novels by D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy.
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In the novel world Controllers rule the world and ensure the stability of society through the creation of a five-tiered caste system. Alphas and Betas are at the top of the system and act as the scientists, politicians, and other top minds, while Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons are at the bottom and represent the world's industrial working class. A drug called soma ensures that no one ever feels pain or remains unhappy, and members of every caste receive rations of the drug.
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poem by Cecil Day-Lewis
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When executive Victor Dean dies from a fall down the iron staircase at Pym's Publicity, a posh London ad agency, Lord Peter Wimsey goes undercover to investigate the mysterious murder
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Down and Out in Paris and London is one of George Orwell’s first published works, an autobiographical account of being destitute in Paris and London.
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James Hilton's novel, Good-bye Mr. Chips, is a sentimental tale about a popular schoolteacher at Brookfield, an English boys school. Nearly the entire story takes place in the form of a reminiscence as old Mr. Chips sits happily in his rocking chair before a roaring fire one November night
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From the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Banks house is forever changed. This classic series tells the story of the world's most beloved nanny, who brings enchantment and excitement with her everywhere she goes.
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The great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age, and her impressive detective Lord Peter Wimsey, one of mystery fiction’s most enduring protagonists. Gaudy Night takes Harriet and her paramour, Lord Peter, to Oxford University, for a reunion, only to find themselves the targets of a nightmare of harassment and mysterious, murderous threats.
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poem by Louis MacNiece considered to be one of the best poems of the 20th century.
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The ABC Murders is a surprising novel tackling the modern figure of the serial killer and the psychology behind it.
There’s a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet. With each murder, the killer is getting more confident – but leaving a trail of deliberate clues to taunt the proud Hercule Poirot might just prove to be the first, and fatal mistake. -
The Hobbit is an adventure story involving Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit, Gandalf, a wizard and several other creatures including dwarves, elves, and a dragon. This book is the precursor and introduction to Middle Earth where The Lord of the Rings trilogy takes place.
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The Family from One End Street is a realistic English children's novel. It is a classic story of life in a big, happy family set in a small Sussex town in the south east of England. It was regarded as innovative and groundbreaking for its portrayal of a working-class family at a time when children's books were dominated by stories about middle-class children
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The Death of the Heart is perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen reveals herself as a masterful novelist who combines a sense of humor with a devastating gift for divining human motivations
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William Boot, a young man who lives in poverty, far from the iniquities of London, contributes nature notes to Lord Copper's Daily Beast, a national daily newspaper. He is dragooned into becoming a foreign correspondent, when the editors mistake him for a fashionable novelist, a remote cousin; John Courtney Boot. He is sent to the fictional East African state of Ishmaelia to report on the crisis there.
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A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge a death
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Children's book about the legend of King Arthur
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A best-seller that sold 2,829,313 copies between its publication in 1938 and 1965, and the book has never gone out of print
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In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars
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poem by Stephen Spender
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Mystery novel and one of her most difficult books she wrote
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Collection of whimsical poems about psychology and sociology
