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900
800-1000 Beowulf
Beowulf, legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons. -
1330
1330 Thomas Malory
Compiles Morte d'Arthur – an English account of the French tales of King Arthur -
1549
1549 Thomas Cranmer
The first version of the English prayer book, or Book of Common Prayer. -
1564
1564-1616 William Shakespeare
Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet to explain the worst possible lovers can find themselves in. Romeo and Juliet both are from families that hate each other -
1667 John Milton’s
Paradise lost. -
1719 Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
Fake traveler's tale -
1726 Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels
parody of traveller's tales, fantasy -
1818- 1837 Mary Shelley
Gothic Horror, Frankenstein and Dracula. -
1852 Peter Mark Roget
Publishes his dictionary of synonyms, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases -
1876 Henry James's
Early novel Roderick Hudson is serialized in the Atlantic Monthly and is published in book. -
1887 Arthur Conan Doyle
Detective Fiction: Sherlock Holmes series -
1890s H.G. Wells
The invisible man -
1912 George Bernard
Pygmalion. Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life -
1920s James Joyce
Virginia Woolf. -
1940s George Orwell
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1944-55 J.R.R Tolkien
The lord of the rings. -
1798-1819, Wordsworth, John Keats, Lord Byron
The romantic poetry. -
2000 Philip Pullman'
The Amber Spyglass completes Philip Pullman's trilogy -
1997-2007 J.K Rowling
The Harry Potter series
