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The Venerable Bed in his monastery at jarrow. Completes his history of the English church and people(731).
Beowulf, the first great work of germanic literature, mingles the legend of scandinavia with the experiencie in England of Angles and saxons(975-1025).
The materials of the Eddas, taking shape in Iceland, derives from earlier sources in Norway, Britain and Burgundy(959). -
A narrator who calls himself Will, and whose name may be Langland, begins the epic poem of Piers Plowman(1367).
Chaucer begins an ambitious scheme for 100 Canterbury Tales, of which he completes only 24 by the time of his death(1387).
Thomas Malory, in gaol somewhere in England, compiles Morte d'Arthur an English account of the French tales of king Arthur(1469). -
Erasmus and Thomas more take the northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian humanism(1510).
English poet Edmund Spenser celebrates the protestant Elizabeth I as the Faerie Queene(1590).
Shakespeare's central character in hamlet expresses both the ideals of the Renaissance and the disillusion of a less confident age(1601). -
Paradise lost in published, earning its author John Milton(1667).
Jonathan Swift send his hero on a series of bitteryl satirical travels in Gulliver's travels(1726).
Samuel johnson publishes his magisterial dictionary of the English language(1755). -
English author Mary Wollstonecraft publishes a passionately feminist work, A Vindication of the rights of Woman(1792).
Pride and prejudice, based on a youthful work of 1797 called first impressions, is the second of Jane Austen's novels to published(1813). Oliver Wendell Holmes poem The last leaf is inspired by an aged survivor of the Boston Tea Party(1831). -
Ebenzer Scrooge mends his ways just in time in Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol(1843). H.G. Wells publishes The Time Machine, a story about a Time Traveller whose first stop on his journey is the year 802701(1895). Frank Baum introduces children to Oz, in his book The wonderful Wizard of Oz(1900).
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Beatrix Potter publishes at her own expense the Tale of Peter Rabbit(1901). Lucy Maud Montgomery´s first novel, Anne of Green Gables, brings her instant fame and fortune(1908). H.G. Wells publishes The History of Mr Polly, A novel about a escape from drab everyday existence(1910).
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Rupert Brooke's 1914 and other Poems is published a few months after his death in Greece(1915). Virginia Woolf publishes her novel Mrs Dalloway, in which the action is limited to a single day(1925). Irish author Frank Harris publishes the fourth and final volume of My life and Loves(1928).
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US Author Margaret Mitchel publishes her one book, which becomes probably the best selling novel of all time. Gone with the Wind(1936). Ernest Hemingway publishes the novel for Whom The Bell Tolls, set in the Spanish Civil War(1940). In George Orwell's fable Animal Farm a ruthless pig, Napoleon, controls the framyard using the techniques of stalin(1945).
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C.S. Lewis gives the first glimpse of Narnia in the Lion, the witch and the Wardrobe(1950). US author Maya Angelou publishes her autobiographical first novel, I know Why The Caged Bird Sings(1979). A schoolboy wizard performs his first tricks in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone(1997).
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Mockingjay completes Suzanne Collins trilogy, the Hunger Games(2010). J.K. Rowling starts Cormoran Strike, a series of Crime fiction novels(2013).
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