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British Literature 20th Century
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Modernism
A literary and artistic movement that provided a radical breaks with traditional modes of Western art, thought, religion, social conventions, and morality. Major themes of this period include the attack on notions of hierarchy; experimentation in new forms of narrative, such as stream of consciousness; doubt about the existence of knowable, objective reality; attention to alternative viewpoints and modes of thinking; and self-referentiality as a means of drawing attention to the relationships be -
Freud's Essays on the theory of sexuality
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Bloomsbury Group
An informal group of friends and lovers, including Clive Bell, E. M. Forster, Roger Fry, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, and John Maynard Keynes, who lived in the Bloomsbury section of London in the early 20th century and who had a considerable liberalizing influence on British culture. -
Rudyard Kipling- Nobel Prize
"In consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author." -
Kenneth Grahame - "The Wind in the Willows"
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G. K. Chesterton - "The Man Who Was Thursday"
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James Joyce - "Dubliners"
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William Somerset Maughman - "Of Human Bondage"
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Thomas Stearns Eliot - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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Dadaism
An avant-garde movement that began in response to the devastation of World War I. Based in Paris and led by the poet Tristan Tzara, the Dadaists produced nihilistic and antilogical prose, poetry, and art, and rejected the traditions, rules, and ideals of prewar Europe. -
James Joyce - "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
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Hugh Lofting - "The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts"
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John Galsworthy - "The Forsyte Saga"
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James Joyce - "Ulysses"
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Thomas Stearns Elliot - "The Waste Land"
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T. E. Lawrence - "Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph"
is the autobiographical account of the experiences of British soldier T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), while serving as a liaison officer with rebel forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks of 1916 to 1918. -
William Butler Yeats- Nobel Prize
"For his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." -
George Bernard Shaw- Nobel Prize
"For his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty." -
Virginia Woolf - "Mrs Dalloway"
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Alan Alexander Milne - "Winnie-the-Pooh"
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Virginia Woolf - "To the Lighthouse"
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Arthur Evelyn Waugn - "Decline and fall"
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William Butler Yeats - "The Tower"
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John Galsworthy- Nobel Prize
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Aldous Huxley - "Brave New World"
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J. R. R. Tolkien - "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again"
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Agatha Christie - "Death on the Nile"
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Theatre of Absurd
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Postmodernism
: A notoriously ambiguous term, especially as it refers to literature, postmodernism can be seen as a response to the elitism of high modernism as well as to the horrors of World War II. Postmodern literature is characterized by a disjointed, fragmented pastiche of high and low culture that reflects the absence of tradition and structure in a world driven by technology and consumerism. Julian Barnes, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, and Kurt Vonnegut -
George Orwell - "Animal Farm"
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Thomas Stearns Eliot- Nobel Prize
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J. R. R. Tolkien - "Lord of the Rings"
The Fellowship of the Ring
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Clive Staples Lewis - "The Chronicles of Narnia"
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The Angry Young Men
A group of male British writers who created visceral plays and fiction at odds with the political establishment and a self-satisfied middle class. John Osborne’s play Look Back in Anger (1957) is one of the seminal works of this movement. -
Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell
"In recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought." -
Agatha Christie - "The Mousetrap"
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Samuel Beckett - "Waiting for Godot"
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill - Nobel Prize
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Ian Fleming - James Bond books
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Agatha Christie - "Witness for the Prosecution"
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Kitchen Sink Dramas
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Philip Larkin - "The Less Deceived"
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John Osborne - "Look Back in Anger"
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Alistar MacLean - "The Guns of Navarone"
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Harold Pinter - "The Birthday Party"
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Terence Hanbury White - "The Once and Future King"
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Harold Pinter - "The Caretaker"
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John Fowles - "The Collector"
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Ian Fleming - "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
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Tom Stoppard - "Rosenkrantz and Guilderstrn Are Dead"
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Alistair MacLean - "Where Eagles Dare"
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Arthur C. Clarke - "2001: The Space Odyssey"
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Booker Prize established
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John Fowles - "The French Lieutenant’s Woman"
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Samuel Beckett- Nobel Prize
"For his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation." -
Terry Pratchett - "The Carpet People"
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Richard Adams - "Watership Down"
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Agatha Christie - "Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case"
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Ruth Rendell - "A Judgement in Stone"
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Terry Pratchett - "Discworld" series
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William Golding- Nobel Prize
"For his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today." -
Ruth Rendell - "The Killing Doll"
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Seamus Heaney- Nobel Prize
"For works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." -
Alex Garland - "The Beach"
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J. K Rowling - Harry Potter series
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Alex Garland - "The Tesseract"
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Giles Foden - "Last King of Sccotland"
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Philip Pullmann - "His Dark Materials" (1995 Northen Lights, 1997 The Subtle Knife, 2000 The Amber Spyglass)
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Tom Stoppard - "The Coast of Utopia"
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Terry Pratchett - "Nation"
