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Period: 800 to 1000
Beowulf
The Anglo- Saxon epic. It is about a Vikin warrior fighting monster, ca 800-1000 -
1380
The Canterbury Tales
24 short stories by Geoffrey Chaucer -
Period: 1564 to
William Shakespeare
Wrote plays and sonnets, including: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and King Lear -
Paradise
Jhon Milton is a major poet from the 1600s, he wrote an epic poem about Lucifer and the first Genesis story -
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe (Fake traveller's tale). It is a very popular novel as far back as 1719 -
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift. It was a parody of travelers tale fantasy -
Period: to
Romantic Literature of Jane Austen
Wrote several books
Sense and sensibility, 1811
Pride and Prejudice, 1813 -
Period: to
The Romantic Poetry
By William Wordworth, Jhon Keats, Lord Byron -
Frankentein
Gothic Horror -
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens -
Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heihts
Gothic Fiction: Charlote: Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heihts -
Sherlock Holmes Series
By Arthur Conan Doyle -
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wildes -
Period: to
The Science-Fiction
The Time Machine, Invisible Man, The Island od Dr. Moreau -
Dracula
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Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw -
James Joyce and Virginia Woolf
Modernism and stream conciousness -
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien -
Dystopian novels of George Orwell
Big Brother -
Harry Potter Series
J.K Rowling