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English novelist, essayist, diarist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories. Well-known as a modernist.
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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce's life. Joyce is a key figure in the development of the modernist novel. Some popular works: "Ulysses" (1922) the short story collection "Dubliners" (1914), and the novels "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (1916) and "Finnegans Wake" (1939).
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Get back to the 20th century >:(
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Crime/ detective novels.
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"Winnie the Pooh", "Dr. Dolittle" (Lofting), "Secret Garden" (Burnett), "The Hobbitt" (Tolkien), etc.
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Wells, Ballard, Pratchett, Moorcock, Arthur Clarke
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H.G. Wells
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Authors: H. G. Wells, John Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, E. M. Forster, Kenneth Grahame. This was a period when an enormous number of novels and short stories were being published and consumed, and a significant distinction between highbrow literature and popular fiction was emerging.
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English author, playwright and literary critic. Catholic religious themes are at the root of much of his writing. Examples: "The Man Within" (1929), "Stamboul Train" (1932)
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Georgian society was well portrayed in the novels of writers such as Henry Fielding, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen.
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A marvellous piece of children's literature, also known as Mistress Mary.
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Authors: Gissing, Greene, Hardy, Aldous Huxley, Woolf. A lot of experimenting with subject matter, form and style.
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A lovely novel by the modernistic author.
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first novel!
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Purpose: shock people to think again about the meaning of art
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Genres: children's, adults' literature, horror, mystery, fantasy; works: James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox, Matilda
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English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. Most well known work: "A Clockwork Orange"
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A. A. Milne
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Type of novel derived from detective fiction. Ian Fleming's James Bond stories.
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Miss Marple's first appearance in a novel. Miss Marple is an elderly spinster who acts as an amateur detective - a fictional character by Agatha Christie
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Christie
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Blends literary genres and styles, attempts to break free from modernist styles.
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Orwell
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Samuel Beckett' most well known play. Considered one of the most prominent works of the absurdist movement
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Orwell. (born Eric Arthur Blair)
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A British cultural movement which developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre, art , novels, film and television plays. It used a style of social realism which often depicted the domestic situations of working class Britons to explore political and social issues.
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Rejects logical reason
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Mostly written for children, though even grown-ups like(d) to read fantasy sometimes :)
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Tolkien
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The most famous Anthony Burgess novel
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Used to be given to fiction authors, not any more (since 1999). worth £10,000.
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Twelfth richest woman in Britain, writer of the Harry Potter series.
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Given to the best novel of the year, worth £50,000. Winners: Paul Scott, Iris Murdoch, Kingsley Amis, Pat Barker, Ian McEwan
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In the 1960s and 1970s, Martian poetry aimed to break the grip of 'the familiar', by describing ordinary things in unfamiliar ways, as though, for example, through the eyes of a Martian. This drive to make the familiar strange was carried into fiction by Martin Amis.
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A novel by Graham Greene. A comedy that offers reflection on matters such as life after a dictatorship, Communism, and the Catholic faith.
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A novel written with the intention to imitate the Spanish classic Don Quixote by Cervantes. Quite a comical work.
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The first book in the series that made her a millionaire!
(They see her Rowling, they hatin')
