51-Famous
English Literature-1
There is a lot of very famous
English literature which is very necessary to know in relation to Indian
literature. Only British and American literature has been written in English
language. You will find here many famous names and many famous books. If you
have read literature in English language, this list is a reminder to you
to your old days.
America and Britain
Austen, Jane (19th century) - Novelist
(1) Pride and Prejudice (1813) - filmed, filmed as "Bride and Prejudice" too
(2) Sense and Sensibility - filmed
(3) Mansfield Park
(4) Persuasion
(5) Emma
Bacon, Sir Francis
(1) New Atlantis
Barrie, JM
(1) Peter Pan
Bennett, Arnold (20th century) - Novelist
(1) The Old Wives' Tale
Blake, William (19th century) - Poet
Browning, Robert - Poet
Buchan, John - Novelist
(1) The 39 Steps - an adventure novel
- filmed
Bunyan, John - Writer
(1) The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)
Burns, Robert (19th century) -
Scottish Poet (short brief poems)
(1) She Walks in Beauty
(2) So, We'll Go No More a Roving
(3) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
(4) Don Juan
Byron, George Gordon (1788-1824 AD) - Poet
Carroll, Lewis (19th century)
(1) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - children's literature
Charteris, Leslie (20th Century) - Novelist
many books chronicled the adventures of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint"
Chaucer, Geoffrey (late 14th century) - Father of English Literature
(1) The Canterbury Tales
(2) Parlement of Foules (1382)
Chesterton, GK - Author
Childers, Erskine (20th century)
(1) The Riddle of the Sands (1903) - a spy novel
Churchill, Winston - Nobel Laureate (1953)
He was a great painter and writer. First to
become an honorary citizen of USA
(1) The Second World War - a 6-volume memoir
(2) A History of the English-speaking Peoples - a 4-volume history from 55 BC to 1919 AD
Clarke, Arthur C
(1) 2001 : a space odyssey - filmed
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Collins, Wilkie (19th century) - Novelist
(1) The Moonstone (1868) - a detective novel
Defoe, Daniel (18th century) - Novelist
(1) Robinson Crusoe
(2) Castaway
Dickens, Charles (early 19th century) - Novelist
(1) Pickwick Papers
(2) Oliver Twist
(3) A Christmas Carol
(4) Great Expectations
(5) A Tale of Two Cities
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan - Novelist and Short Story Writer
Wrote 4 novels and 56 short stories featuring Holmes, from 1880 to 1907. All but four stories
are narrated by Holmes' friend, assistant, and biographer, Dr John H Watson.
(1) Sherlock Holmes
Eliot, TS - Noble
Laureate (1948)
Forster, EM (20th
century) - Novelist
(1) A Room with a View
(2) Howards End
(3) A Passage to India (1924) - filmed
Frost, Robert (1874-1963) - Poet
Galsworthy, John (20th
century) - Novelist, Nobel Laureate (1932)
(1) The Forsyte Saga
Goldsmith, Oliver
(1) The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
Graves, Robert (20th century) - Novelist
(1) Claudius (1934)
Haggard, Sir Henry Rider (late 19th century)
(1) King Solomon's Mines (1885) -
Adventure novel
(2) Allan Quaterman - sequel of "King Solomon's Mines"
(3) She - Adventure novel
(4) Ayesha - sequel of "She"
(5) Nada, The Lily
Hardy, Thomas (20th century) - Lyric Poet
After writing three novels, he wrote poetry
(1) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (novel)
(2) Far from the Madding Crowd (novel)
(3) Jude the Obscure (novel)
Hemingway, Ernest - Novelist (Pulitzer Price Winner)
(1) A Movable Feast
(2) A Farewell to Arms
(3) Green Hills of Africa
(4) The Sun also Rises
(5) The Old Man and the Sea -
(Pulitzer Prize)
(6) Ulysses
(7) The Great Gatsby
(8) To Kill a Mocking Bird
Hilton, James (20th century) - Novelist
(1) Lost Horizon (1933) - known for the origin of Shangri-la, a mythical utopian monastery in Tibbat
(2) Good Bye Mr Chips
Huxley, Aldus (20th century) - Novelist
(1) Brave New World (1932)
(2) The Doors of Perception / Haven and Hell
Irving, Washington
(1) Rip van Winkle (1819)
Joyce, James
(1) Ulysses
Keats, John (19th century) - Poet, Noble Laureate
The youngest Nobel Prize winner in Literature
(1) Ode to Nightingale
(2) To Autumn (his final work)
Kipling, Rudyard (20th century) - Novelist, Story Writer,
Poet - Noble Laureate (1907)
(1) The Jungle Books (novel)
(2) The Man Who Would Be King (novel)
(3) Kim (novel)
(4) If : a father's advice to his son (a favorite poem)
Lawrence, DH (20th century)
(1) Sons and Lovers (1913)
(2) The Rainbow (1915)
(3) Women in Love (1920)
(4) Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
Lawrence, TE (20th century - known as Lawrence of Arabia)
(1) Arab Revolt
(2) Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Lewis, Matthew
(1) The Monk (1796)
Maugham, W Somerset (20th century)
(1) Of Human Bondage - autobiography, masterpiece
Milton, John (early 17th century) - Poet
(1) Paradise Lost (1667)
(2) Areopagitica
More, Thomas
(1) Utopia in Latin (1526) - Utopia word was coined by him
Orwell, George (20th century)
Orwell's works are often semi-autobiographical and in the case of Homage to Catalonia, wholly
(1) The Road to Wigan Pier
(2) Down and Out in Paris and London
(3) Nineteen Eighty-Four
(4) Animal Farm
(5) Burmese Days
(6) Why I write
(7) Homage to Catalonia
Potter, Beatrix
(1) The Tale of Peter Rabbit - beginning of picture books
Ruskin, John (19th century) -
(1) The King of the Golden River (1841)
Russell, Bertrand -
Essayist, Noble Laureate (1950)
Scott, Walter (19th century) - Novelist
(1) Waverley (1814)
(2) Ivanhoe
(3) Rob Roy
Sewell, Anna (19th century)
(1) Black Beauty - animal
Shakespeare, William -
Poet, Drama and Story Writer
Wrote over 35 plays,
(1) Romeo and Juliet - Most adapted love story of Italy, in literature, musical, opera, film etc
etc. Many versions of this story are available but as one takes this name, only Shakespeare's
drama name comes to mind. It has immortalized it.
(2) King Lear (a play)
(3) Macbeth (a play)
(4) Hamlet (a play)
(5) A Midsummer Night's Dream
(6) Othello (a play)
(7) Antony and Cleopatra
(8) The Merchant of Venice
(9) Henry V
(10) Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shaw, George Bernard - Essayist,
Noble Laureate (1925)
Shelley, Mary (19th century) - Novelist
(1) Frankenstein (1818) - a chilly scientific novel - filmed
(2) The Last Man (1826)
Shelley, Percy B - Poet
(1) Ozymandias
(2) Prometheus Unbound
(3) The Masque of Anarchy (advocate of non-violence, inspired Gandhi)
for his non-violence policy
Southey, Robert
(1) The Story of the Three Bears - children's literature
Steinbeck, John - Pulitzer Award,
Nobel laureate of 1962
(1) Of Mice and Men (1937)
(2) The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
(3) East of Eden (1952)
(4) Wrote 27 books - 16 novels, 6 non-fiction, 5 collection of short stories
Stevenson, Robert L (1896) - Novelist
(1) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
(2) Kidnapped
(3) Jacobite Rising
(4) Treasure Island (1886)
Stoker, Bram
(1) Dracula - seminal horror work - filmed
Swift, Jonathan
(1) Gulliver's Travels (1726) - children's literature
Tennyson, Lord Alfred - Poet
Twain, Mark (1835-1910
AD) - The Father of American Literature
(1) The Celebrated Jumping
Frog of Calaveras County (1868)
(2) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(3) Old Times on the Mississippi
(4) Life on the Mississippi
(5) The Prince and the Pauper
Wells, HG (late 19th century) - The Father of Science Fiction
(1) The War of the Worlds (1898)
(2) The Time Machine - "Time Machine" term was coined by him
Wilde, Oscar
(1) The Picture of Dorian Gray
Woolf, Virginia (20th century) - Novelist
(1) Mrs Dolloway 1925)
(2) To the Lighthouse (1927)
(3) Orlando (1928)
(4) A Room of One's Own (1929) - that contains her famous dictum; "A woman must
have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction".
(5) The Waves (1931)
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) - Poet
Wyatt, Thomas (early 16th century)
He introduced the Sonnet style poetry
Yeats, WB - Noble
Laureate (1923)
Some Modern Famous Novels and Novelists
Alcott, Louisa May
(1) The Little Women - filmed
Irving, John
(1) The Cider House Rules
(2) The World According to Garp
Jordon, Robert
(1) "Wheel of Time" Series" - many books
(2) "Conan" Series
Lee, Harper
(1) To Kill a Mocking Bird
Rand, Ayn
The Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged - filmed
Zelazny, Roger
(1) "Amber Chronicles Series" - many books
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