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(731) The veberable Bede
(975-1025) Beowulf
(959) The material of the Eddas -
1367- Begins the epic poem of Piers Plowman
1387- Chaucer begins an ambitious scheme for 100 Canterbury tales
1469- Compilation of Morte d´Artur, an English account of the French tales of king Arthur -
1510- Erasmus and Thomas
1590- English poet Edmund Spenser celebrate the protestant Elizabeth I as the Faerie Queene
1601- Shakespeare´s central character in Hamlet expresses both the ideals of the renaissance and the disillusion of a less confident age -
1667- Paradise lost is published
1726- Gulliver´s travel
1755- Dictionary of the English language -
1792- Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
1813- Pride and Prejudice
1831- Oliver Wendell Holmes ‘poem The Last Leaf -
1843- Charles Dickens a Christmas Carol
1895- The Time Machine
1900- Frank Baum introduces children to his book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz -
1901- The Tale of Peter Rabbit
1908- Anne of Green Gables
1910- The History of Mr Polly -
1915- Rupert Brooke poems are published
1925- Mrs Dalloway
1928- Fourth and final volume of My Life and Loves -
1936- Gone with the Wind
1940- For Whom the Bell Tolls
1945- Napoleon controls the farmyard using the techniques of Stalin -
1950- C.S. Lewis gives the first glimpse of Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
1979- autobiographical first novel, I know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1997- J.K. Rowling´s Harry Potter and the Philosopher´s Stone -
2010- Suzanne Collins ‘trilogy, The hunter Games.
2013- present- Cormoran Strike, a series of crime fiction novels.