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Bede, a Benedictine Monk and teacher from Northumbria (672) writes his work "The Ecclesiastical History of the English People" around AD 731 where he poses his views on politics and religion and events at the time.
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A collection of literary works that include the Prose Edda, and a collection of poems known as the Poetic Edda written in Iceland and containing writings dating back to the Viking Age.
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Consider one of the best works of Old English literature, Beowulf tells the story of a hero, who fights to protect king Hrothgar's mead hall against a monster called Grendel.
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The Occam's Razor is a principle stating "We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances" Isaac Newton. Name after William of Ockham, (a Franciscan friar, theologian and philosopher) because of his frequent use of the principle
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An alliterative verse poem divided in "Visions" and "Passus" presumed to be written by William Langland of whom little is know, it is considered one of the best literary works of the middle ages.
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This is a romantic prose of Arthurian stories from the middle ages. It is written in alliterative verses. It tells the story of Sir Gawain, one of King Arthur's round table knights and his adventures involving the Green Knight
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A collection of 24 stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer around the 14th century, all styled in verse and prose. It tells the story of a group of pilgrims traveling from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.
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It is a prose first published by William Caxton, and whose writer is been a subject of debate.It tells the story of the rise of King Arthur, son of King Uther Pendragon and raised by a different family than his own, up to his tragic end.
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in 1526, the first complete English translation of the New Testament was completed by William Tyndale using the Greek and Hebrew texts. He was the first to use the printing press.
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A play written by Christopher Marlowe in Elizabethan times where language is more vivid, fresh and interesting. It tells the story of Tamburlaine and Bajazeth, emperor of the Turks.
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Written by the English poet Edmund Spenser, it is inspired by the then queen Elizabeth I.
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It narrates the raise of King Richard III and the short reign of his machiavellian rule.
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This is the most famous and celebrated of Shakespeare's play and his most performed. It was since inspired writers such as Charles Dickens and James Joyce.
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By the instructions of King James VI the bible was revisited and translated in what is known until today as the King James Version of the Bible. At this stage the English Language was in its early modern shape.
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Ben Jonson produces Volpone, a comedy play with elements of city comedy and beasts fable
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John Milton's Lycidas is published in memory of a Cambridge friend, Edward King
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The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America is the title of the work containing the poems of Massachusetts author Anne Bradstreet published in London.
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Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko makes an early protest against the inhumanity of the African
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John Locke publishes his Essay concerning Human Understanding, arguing that all
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Alexander Pope writes this type of narrative, satiric poem in a new genre called Mock-Heroic which mocks the stereotypical heroes of literature.
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This novel tells the story of a castaway who has to live for 28 years on a desert island with men who are in captivity, mutineers and cannibals. Written by Daniel Defoe and based on the life of a Scottish man named Alexander Selkirk while on an island near Chile.
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Written by the Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, Gulliber's Travels is a satire of the typical traveler novels. Considered a satirical masterpiece.
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Poem written by Thomas Gray and published in 1751. It is a elegy on death.
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A novel by Laurence Sterne pulbished in 1759.
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Printed for the first time in 1768 in Edinburgh, Scotland, with just three volumes, The Encyclopaedia Britannica is still being published, although after 2011 it's available just online.
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The first volume of the book is published in 1776 by English historian Edward Gibbon
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Thomas Paine publishes his completed Age of Reason, an attack on conventional
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is published in Lyrical
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Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus written by Mary Shelley is published. It's a Gothic tale about an artificial man who is giving life.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes probably his best-known poem, the sonnet Ozymandias
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Charles Dickens' second novel is published, which centers on the live of an orphan named Oliver Twist. It exposes the cruel life of orphans at the time.
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It tells the story of a young girl called Alice and her entrance to a world of fantasy through a rabbit hole.
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The poem by Lewis Caroll is published. It centers around a quest searching for a mythical creature
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Oxford University Press publishes the A volume of its New English Dictionary, which will
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Written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, center around a legal practitioner from London.
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Oscar Wilde writes this comedy which was performed at the St James's Theatre in London
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Published in 1897 by author H. G. Wells, and it follows a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race.
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One of the best selling books of all time, The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a children's book written by Beatrix Potter for her governess' son, rejected many times until it was printed by Frederic Warne & co in 1902.
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Published in 1902 by Rudyard Kipling.
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Richard Hughes publishes his first novel, A High Wind in Jamaica
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in his autobiography, Robert Graves, an English writer talks about his dislike for England at the time.
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The book is experimental and consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters.
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H.G. Wells publishes The Shape of Things to Come, a novel in which he accurately predicts a
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In I, Claudius the autobiography of the Roman emperor is ghost-written by Robert Graves
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The first installment of seven novels known as The Chronicles of Narnia, written by C. S. Lewis and published in 1950 by Geoffrey Bless
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William Golding writes this novel which focuses on a group of boys stranded on an uninhabited island.
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Irish dramatist Brendan Behan's play The Hostage is produced in Dublin
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A novel by Keith Waterhouse, it tells the story of a William Fisher and his live with his parents in the fictional town of Stradhoughton in Yorkshire.
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A satirical black comedy novel by Anthony Burgess, it centers on juvenile violence and behaviorism.
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Roald Dahl publishes a fantasy treat for a starving child, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie is a novel of the magic realism genre and is centered around India's Independence
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Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to Black Holes is published in 1988. Written for common readers with no prior knowledge of physics or scientific theories.
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Inspired by the life the prophet of Islam Muhammad, the Satanic Verses is a controversial novel using magical realism and based on real events of the time. The author
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A Game of Thrones is the first novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by the American author George R. R. Martin. It was first published on August 1, 1996
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In 1997, the first book by author J. K. Rowling is published. It is about a young wizard called Harry potter and his adventures at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An international hit translated into more than 70 languages.
