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Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born British novelist, who became a British subject in 1886. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and then always with a marked Polish accent). Conrad was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature. -
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William Butler Yeats
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Rudyard Kipling
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Herbert George Wells
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Harold Monro
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Virginia Woolf
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James Joyce
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D.H. Lawrence
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David Herbert Richards Lawrence
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Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Robert Ranke Graves
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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George Orwell
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Graham Greene
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Rudyard Kipling awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
The first English language writer to receive the prize and to date he remains its youngest recipient. -
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Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
The third published novel of D. H. Lawrence, taken by many to be his earliest masterpiece, tells the story of Paul Morel, a young man and budding artist. -
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Imagism
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The Modern Period
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World War I
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The novel, which has had a "huge influence on novelists across the world", was ranked by Modern Library as the third greatest English-language novel of the 20th century. -
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Roald Dahl
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Surrealism
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The Waste Land by T.S.Eliot
It has been called "one of the most important poems of the 20th century." It shifts between satire and prophecy and includes abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time. -
Ulysses by James Joyce
One of the most important works of Modernist literature, it has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement".In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. -
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G.B. Shaw receives Nobel Prize
Received the 1925 Nobel Prize "for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty." -
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
In 1998, the Modern Library named To the Lighthouse No. 15, on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.In 2005, the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to present. -
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John Fowles
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Harold Pinter
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John Galsworthy receices the Nobel Prize
Received the 1932 Nobel Prize for Literature "for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga." -
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World War II
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Four Quartets by T.S.Eliot
The central focus of the Four Quartets is man's relationship with time, the universe, and the divine.Many critics find the Four Quartets to be Eliot's great last work -
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II.Time Magazine chose the book as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005); it also places at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels. It is also included in the Great Books of the Western World. -
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The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
It was the winner in 1948 of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.In 2005, the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to present. -
Thomas Stearns Eliot receives the Nobel Prize
Received the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry." -
1984 by George Orwell
A novel about a totalitarian regime. -
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Ken Follett
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Earl Russell receives the Nobel Prize
Received the 1950 Nobel in Literature "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought." -
Sir W.L.S. Churchill receives the Nobel Prize
Received the 1953 Nobel in Literature "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values." -
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
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The Collector by John Fowles
The main point behind the novel was to show what Fowles felt to be the danger of class and intellectual divisions in a society where prosperity for the majority was becoming more widespread, particularly power (whether by wealth or position) getting into the hands of those intellectually unsuited to handle it. -
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
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J.K. Rowling
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
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Samuel Beckett receives the Nobel Prize
Received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation." -
William Golding receives the Nobel Prize
Received the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature "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." -
Matilda by Roald Dahl
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The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
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Seamus Heaney receives the Nobel Prize
Received the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." -
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
