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Rudyard Kipling's "Jungle Book"
It's a collection of stories . The stories were first published in magazines in 1893-1894 and most of them were based on Kipling's experiences of his life in India. -
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Famous British writers and their works
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T.S. Eliot
It's a poem which was published in Chicago in June 1915. Described as a "drama of literary anguish," it presents a stream of consciousness in the form of a dramatic monologue, and marked the beginning of Eliot's career as an influential poet. -
Sequence of Hercule Poirot - Agatha Christie
Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels and 51 short stories that were published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era. -
Gerontion - T.S.Eliot
One of the best-known poems in the English language. The work relates the opinions and impressions of a gerontic, or elderly man through a dramatic monologue which describes Europe after World War I through the eyes of a man who has lived the majority of his life in the 19th Century. -
Doctor Dolittle - Hugh Lofting
These series of books are about a man who learns to talk to animals. -
Ulysses - James Joyce
It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. It is said to be one of the most important works of Modernist literature. Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day. It's based on Homeros' Odysseus. -
Winnie-the-Pooh -A.A.Milne
It is a classic of children's literature The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh . The book focuses on the adventures of a teddy bear called Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, a small toy pig; Eeyore, a toy donkey; Owl, a live owl; and Rabbit, a live rabbit. -
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporality and psychological exploration. -
The Tower - William Butler Yeats
The Tower was a book of poems published in 1928. The title, which the book shares with the second poem, refers to the Thoor Ballylee castle which Yeats purchased and lived in for some time with his family. The book includes several of Yeats' most famous poems, including Sailing to Byzantium, Leda and the Swan, and Among School Children. Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with the volume. -
The Winding Stair and Other Poems - W.B:Yeats
It was the next new volume after 1928's The Tower. The title refers to the staircase in the Thoor Ballylee castle which Yeats had purchased and lived in with his family for some time. Yeats saw the castle as a vital connection to the aristocratic Irish past which he admired. -
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
An epic high fantasy sequence, featuring The Hobbit, The Silmarillion and the three books of The Lord of the Rings. The sequences depicts a fantasy world, in which the main antagonist, the Dark Lord Sauron, creates a ring to conquer and rule all of Middle-earth, but loses the One Ring, The ring ends up in the Shire and is later on destroyed. The book follows the course of the War of the Ring through the eyes of its characters, most notably the -
Animal Farm - G. Orwell
Animal Farm - 1945, G. Orwell - a dysoptian novel in the form of an allegory. The book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. The novel addresses not only the corruption of the revolution by its leaders but also how wickedness, indifference, ignorance, greed and myopia destroy any possibility of a Utopia. While this novel portrays corrupt leadership as the flaw in revolution (and not the act of revolution itself), it also shows how potential ignorance and in -
Nineteen Eighty-Four - G.Orwell
A dysoptian novel about the totalitarian regime of the Party, an oligarchical collectivist society where life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, public mind control, and the voiding of citizens' rights. -
Waiting for Godot -Samuel Beckett
A play n which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait for someone named Godot. Godot's absence, as well as numerous other aspects of the play, have led to many different interpretations since the play's premiere. The play is often considered one of the most prominent works in the Theatre of the Absurd movement. -
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S.Lewis
The Chroincles of Narnia present the advenures of children who play central roles in the unfloding history of the fictional ralm of Narnia, a place where animals talk, magic is common and good battles evil. In most of the books, children of our world are magically transported to Narnia, where they are called upon to help the Lion Aslan handle a crisis in the world of Narnia. -
The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
It takes place in Rhodesia, in southern Africa, during the late 1940s and deals with the racial politics between whites and blacks in that country (which was then a British Colony). The novel created a sensation when it was first published and became an instant success in Europe and the United States. -
James Bond - Casino Royale - I.Fleming
James Bond books - 1953-1966, I. Fleming - dozens of novels and a number of short stories have been published chronicling the adventures of a British secret agent James Bond, often referred to by his code name, 007. James Bond first appeared in Fleming's novel Casino Royale. -
Look Back in Anger - John Osborne
A play about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man (Jimmy Porter), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife (Alison), and her haughty best friend (Helena Charles). Cliff, an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace. The play was a success on the London stage, and spawned the term "angry young men" to describe Osborne and those of his generation who employed harshness and realism in the theater in contrast to the more es -
The Hundred and One Dalmatians - Dodie Smith
At a dinner party attended by the Dearly couple, Cruella de Vil expresses her dislike for animals; subsequently, the couple's new Dalmatian puppies disappear. The Dearly dogs are some of 97 puppies who are kidnapped or legally purchased from various owners, with the intention of skinning them for their fur. Through the co-operation of animals and the "Twilight Barking", the dogs are found in Suffolk, England, and a rescue ensues. -
The Once and Future King - T.H. White
T.H.White's personal view of the ideal society. The book chronicles the raising and education of King Arthur, his urle as a king and the romance between his best knight Sir Lancelot and his Queen Guinevere. The book ends immediately before Arthur's final battle against his illegitimate son Mordred. -
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The title is taken from an old Cockney expression, "as queer as a clockwork orange"¹, and alludes to the prevention of the main character's exercise of his free will through the use of a classical conditioning technique. With this technique, the subject’s emotional responses to violence are systematically paired with a negative stimulation in the form of nausea caused by an emetic medicine administered just before the presentation of films depicting " -
Discworld - Terry Pratchett
set on the Discworld, a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the back of a giant turtle, Great A'Tuin. The books frequently parody, or at least take inspiration from, J. R. R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft and William Shakespeare, as well as mythology, folklore and fairy tales, often using them for satirical parallels with current cultural, political and scientific issues. -
Watchmen - Alan Moore
Moore used the story as a means to reflect contemporary anxieties and to critique the superhero concept. Watchmen takes place on an alternate history Earth where superheroes emerged in the 1940s and 1960s, helping the United States to win the Vietnam War. The country is edging closer to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union, freelance costumed vigilantes have been outlawed and most costumed superheroes are in retirement or working for the government. -
Harry Potter and the philosopher stone
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Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fieldingin
Written in the form of a personal diary, the novel chronicles a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a thirty-something single working woman living in London. She writes (often humorously) about her career, self-image, vices, family, friends, and romantic relationships. -
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason - H. Fieldingin
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"Mary Shelley" by Miranda Seymour
A book written of Shelley's life.