“MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE”

Early 20th century prose

1. John Galsworthy ( 1867-1933)
John Galsworthy OM was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The
Forsyte Saga and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.

Born: 14 August 1867, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom

Died: 31 January 1933, Hampstead, United Kingdom
Spouse: Ada Pearson (m. 1905–1933)
Notable awards: Nobel Prize in Literature; 1932
Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature
- Depicted the social life of an upper class English family, in the foresyte saga, a series
of novels which records the changing values of such a family.
- Works:
 Villa rubein and the pharisees
 The island pharisees
 The forsyte saga
 The loyalties
 The silver box
 In chancery, 1920
 The man of property

2. H.G. Wells ( 1866-1946)

- Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946), usually referred to
as H. G. Wells, was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens
of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and
autobiography, including even two books on war games. He is now best remembered
for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fiction", along
with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback.
- His works:
 Time Machine
 The island of Dr. Moreau
 War of the lords

3. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

- Joseph Conrad (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjuz̪ɛf ˌkɔn.rad]; born Józef Teodor Konrad
Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-
British writer[1]regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English
 language.[2]Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a
master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature.[note
1]Conrad wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of

the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable universe.
- His works:
 Heart of darkness
 Nostromo
 The lord agent
 Lord Jim
 Secret Sharer
 Shadow line
 Short tales of joseph conrad
4. E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
- Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English
novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examined class
difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society, notably A Room with a
View (1908),
- Howards End (1910), and A Passage to India (1924), which brought him his greatest
success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years
- He inherited £8,000 in trust (the equivalent of about £990,000 in 2017)[5] from his
paternal great-aunt Marianne Thornton (daughter of the abolitionist Henry
Thornton), who died on 5 November 1887.[6] The money was enough to live on and
enabled him to become a writer. He attended Tonbridge School in Kent, as a day boy.
The theatre at the school has been named in his honour.
- He is also a master of a traditional plot. His characters are ordinary persons out of
middle class life. They are moved by accident because they do not know how to
choose of action. He is famous for his work of “ A Passage of India”. A novel that shows
the lives of Englishmen in india.
“His Famous Works”
 A passage of india(1910)
 A room with a view (1908)
 Where angels fear to thread (1905)
 The longest journey (1907)
 Howards end (1924)
 Aspect of novels (1927)
 Maurice (1971)
 The machine stops (1909)
 The celestial omnibus (1911)
 The hill of devil (1953)
Early 20th century poetry
1. A.E. Housman (1859-1936)

- Alfred Edward Housman (/ˈhaʊsmən/; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known
as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general
public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in
form, the poems wistfully evoke the dooms and disappointments of youth in the
English countryside.[1] Their beauty, simplicity and distinctive imagery appealed
strongly to late Victorian and Edwardian taste, and to many early 20th-century
English composers both before and after the First World War. Through their song-
settings, the poems became closely associated with that era, and
with Shropshire itself.
- Housman was one of the foremost classicists of his age and has been ranked as one
of the greatest scholars who ever lived.[2][3] He established his reputation publishing
as a private scholar and, on the strength and quality of his work, was appointed
Professor of Latin at University College London and then at the University of
Cambridge. His editions of Juvenal, Manilius and Lucan are still considered
authoritative.
- He is an anti Victorian who echoed the pessimism found in Thomas hardy. In
shropshire lad, mature is unkind; people without hope or purpose; boys and girls
laugh, love, and are untrue.
“ Famous works of Housman”
 A Shropshire Lad
 The last poem
 When I was one and twenty
 Loveliest of trees

2. William Butler Yeast (1865-1939)

- William Butler Yeats[a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of
the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British
literary establishments, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years
served as an Irish Senator for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish
Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.
- He was born in Sandymount, Ireland and educated there and in London. He spent
childhood holidays in County Sligo and studied poetry from an early age when he
became fascinated by Irish legends and the occult. These topics feature in the first
phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the 20th century. His earliest
volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced and lyrical poems display
Yeats's debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the poets of the Pre-
Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900, his poetry grew more physical and realistic. He
largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained
 preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life.
In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
- His famous works “
 A prayer for my daughter
 Among school children
 Aedh wishes for the cloth of heaven
 Leda and the swan
 The stolen child
 When you are old
 Easter
 Sailing to Byzantium
 Lake isle of Innisfree
 The 2nd coming
2.1 John Millington Synge (1871-1909)
- Edmund John Millington Synge (16 April 1871 – 24 March 1909) was an Irish
playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer and collector of folklore. He was a key
figure in the Irish Literary Revival and was one of the co-founders of the Abbey
Theatre. He is best known for his play The Playboy of the Western World, which
caused riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre.
- Although he came from a privileged Anglo-Irish background, Synge's writings are
mainly concerned with the world of the Roman Catholic peasants of rural Ireland and
with what he saw as the essential paganism of their world view. Synge
developed Hodgkin's disease, a metastatic cancer that was then untreatable. He died
several weeks short of his 38th birthday as he was trying to complete his last
play, Deirdre of the Sorrows.
- “ His Famous works”
- Millington Synge, The Playboy of the Western World, a comedy in three acts (Boston
1911).
- Augusta Gregory, Our Irish theatre (London 1914).
- William Butler Yeats, The death of Synge, and other passages from an old diary (Dublin
1928).
- Daniel Corkery, Synge and Anglo-Irish literature: a study (Cork 1931).
- Robin Skelton and Alan Price (eds.), Synge: the collected works (4 volumes) (Oxford
1962-68).
- Nicholas Greene, Synge: a critical study of the plays (London 1975).
- Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (ed.), The English language in Ireland (Thomas Davis Lecture
Series), (Cork 1977).
- Robert Hogan and James Kilroy, The Abbey Theatre: the years of Synge 1905-1909
(Dublin 1978)
 - Alan Bliss, Spoken English in Ireland: the background to the literature, 1600-1740
(Portlaoise 1979).
- G. J. Watson, Irish identity and the literary revival: Synge, Yeats, Joyce and O'Casey
(London 1979)

2.2. Lord Dunsanny ( 1878-1957)

-Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and
dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany.
Born: 24 July 1878, London, United Kingdom
Died: 25 October 1957, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Spouse: Beatrice Child Villiers (m. 1904–1957)
Plays: Five Plays
Movies: Dean Spanley, It Happened Tomorrow
“famous works “
- The Gods of Pegāna (1905) (Project Gutenberg Entry:[1])
- Time and the Gods (1906) (Project Gutenberg Entry:[2])
- The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (1908) (Project Gutenberg Entry:[3])
- A Dreamer's Tales (1910) (Project Gutenberg Entry:[4])
- The Book of Wonder (1912) (Project Gutenberg Entry:[5])
- Fifty-One Tales, aka The Food of Death (1915) (Project Gutenberg Entry:[6])
- Tales of Wonder (1916) (published in America as The Last Book of Wonder) (Project
Gutenberg Entry:[7])
- Tales of Three Hemispheres (1919) (Project Gutenberg Entry:[8])
- The Man Who Ate the Phoenix (1949)
- The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories (1952), including the "Linley"
crime/mystery tales

Note: those 3 famous poets are worked vigorously, for the Irish cause. All were dramatist
and helped found the famous Abbey theatre.

Writers after the world war:

 World war 1 brought discontent and disillusionment. Men were plunged into the gloom
at the knowledge that “progress” had not saved from the world from war. In fiction there
was a shift from the novels of the human comedy to novels of characters. Fiction cesed
to be concerned with a plot or a forward – moving narrative. Instead it followed the
twisted, contorted, development of a single character or a group of related characters.
1. William Somerset Maugham ( 1874-1964)

William Somerset Maugham, CH (/mɔːm/ MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December

1965), better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was a
British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular
writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s.[1]
After both his parents died before he was 10, Maugham was raised by a paternal uncle who was
emotionally cold. Not wanting to become a lawyer like other men in his family, Maugham
eventually trained and qualified as a physician. The initial run of his first novel, Liza of
Lambeth (1897), sold out so rapidly that Maugham gave up medicine to write full-time.
During the First World War he served with the Red Cross and in the ambulance corps, before
being recruited in 1916 into the British Secret Intelligence Service, for which he worked in
Switzerland and Russia before the October Revolution of 1917. During and after the war, he
travelled in India and Southeast Asia; these experiences were reflected in later short stories and
novels.
- Focused on alienation and despair of drifters. His Of Human Bondage portrays Phillip
Carey Struggling against self-consciousness and embarrassment because of his cub-
foot.
“his famous Works”
 San Sebastian (October 1898)
 Cupid and the vicar of swale ( 7 February 1900)
 Lady Habart ( 9 May 1900)
 The Mother ( April 1909)
 My South Sea Island ( 31 January 1922)
 Foreign Devils (February 1922)
 Fear ( March 1922)
 Gerald Festus Kelly: A Student of character ( January 1915)
 A traveler In romance ( 1909)

2. D.H. Lawrence (1855- 1930)

- David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer
and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection
upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Some of the issues
Lawrence explores are sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct.
 - Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution,
censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of
his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage
pilgrimage".[1] At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a
pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary
notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative
novelist of our generation."[2] The philosopher Bertrand Russellcharacterised
Lawrence as a proto-German Fascist. Later, the literary critic F. R. Leavis championed
both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness
- He explored highly psychological themes as a human desire, sexuality and instinct
alongside the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization in sucg great
novels as : Sons and Lovers, Women in love, The plumed Serpent, and the lady
Chatterlay’s Lover

“ His famous Literary Works “

 The rainbow
 The white peacock
 The plumed serpent
 Sea and Sardinia
 Women in love
 Sons and lovers
 Chartterlays Lover
 The lost girl
 The Aaron’s rod
 Twilight in Italy

3. James Joyce (1882-1941)

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short
story writer, and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-gardeand is regarded as one of the
most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known
for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in
a variety of literary styles, perhaps most prominently stream of consciousness. Other well-known
works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry,
a play, his published letters and occasional journalism.
Joyce was born in 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin, into a middle-class family. A brilliant
student, he briefly attended the Christian Brothers-run O'Connell Schoolbefore excelling at the
Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father's
alcoholism and unpredictable finances. He went on to attend University College Dublin.
In 1904, in his early twenties, Joyce emigrated to continental Europe with his partner (and later
wife) Nora Barnacle. They lived in Trieste, Paris and Zurich. Although most of his adult life was
spent abroad, Joyce's fictional universe centres on Dublin, and is populated largely by characters
who closely resemble family members, enemies and friends from his time there. Ulysses in
particular is set with precision in the streets and alleyways of the city. Shortly after the publication
of Ulysses, he elucidated this preoccupation somewhat, saying, "For myself, I always write about
Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the
world. In the particular is contained the universal."
- He is an Irish expatriate noted for his experimental use of the inter monologue and
the stream of consciousness and technique in landmarks novels as Ulysess,
finnegeans, wake, and in his semi-autobiographical novel The Portrait Of the Artist as
a youngman.
 Stream of Consciousness is a technique pioneered by Dorothy Richardson,
Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce. It presents the thoughts and feelings of a
character as they occur.
 Joyce’s a portrait of the artist as a young man, is one of the most notable
bildungsroman in English Literature. A buildings Roman is a novel of formation or
development in which the protagonist transforms from ignorance to knowledge,
innocence to maturity.

“ His famous Literary works”

 Dubliners
 Ulysses
 Finnegans wake
 Exiles
 Portrait of the artist as a young man

4. Virginia Woolf ( 1882- 1941)

- Adeline Virginia Woolf (/wʊlf/;[3] née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941)
was an English writer, who is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-
century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative
device.
- Virginia Woolf, then Stephen, was born into an affluent household in South
Kensington, London. She was the seventh child in a blended family of eight. Her
mother, Julia Stephen, celebrated as a Pre-Raphaelite artist's model, had three
children from her first marriage, her father Leslie Stephen, a notable man of letters,
had one previous daughter, and four children were born in her parents' second
marriage, of whom the most well known was the modernist painter Vanessa
 Stephen (later Vanessa Bell). While the boys in the family were educated at university,
the girls were home-schooled in English classics and Victorian literature. An
important influence in Woolf's early life was the summer home the family used in St
Ives, Cornwall, where she first saw the Godrevy Lighthouse, which was to become
iconic in her novel To the Lighthouse (1927). Woolf's childhood was disturbed by
sexual abuse by her half brothers, and came to an abrupt end in 1895 with the death
of her mother and her first mental breakdown. This was soon followed by the death
of her stepsister and surrogate mother, Stella Duckworth, two years later. The
Stephen sisters were then able to attend the Ladies' Department of King's College,
where they studied classics and history (1897–1901) and came into contact with early
reformers of women's higher education and the women's rights movement. Other
important influences were their Cambridge-educated brothers and unfettered access
to their father's vast library. Woolf's father encouraged her to become a writer and
she began writing professionally in 1900. Their father's death in 1905 was a major
turning point in their lives and the cause of another breakdown, following which the
Stephens moved from Kensington to the more bohemian Bloomsbury, where they
adopted a free-spirited lifestyle. It was there that, in conjunction with their brothers'
intellectual friends, they formed the artistic and literary Bloomsbury Group. With
Vanessa's marriage in 1907, Virginia became more independent, marrying Leonard
Woolf in 1912. With Leonard she founded the Hogarth Pressin 1917, which published
much of her work. In 1910, Woolf started to feel the need to have a retreat away from
London, in Sussex, and following the destruction of their London home during the war,
in 1940, the Woolfs moved there permanently. Throughout her life Woolf was
troubled by bouts of mental illness, including being institutionalised and attempting
suicide. Her illness is considered to be bipolar disorder, for which there was no
effective intervention in her lifetime. Eventually in 1941 she drowned herself in a river
at age 59.
- During the interwar period, Virginia Woolf was an important part of London's literary
and artistic society. She published her first novel, titled The Voyage Out, in 1915,
through her half-brother's publishing house, Gerald Duckworth and Company. Her
best-known works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the
Lighthouse and Orlando (1928). She is also known for her essays, including A Room of
One's Own (1929), where she wrote the much-quoted dictum, "A woman must have
money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
- Woolf became one of the central subjects of the 1970s movement of feminist
criticism, and her works have since garnered much attention and widespread
commentary for "inspiring feminism", an aspect of her writing that was unheralded
earlier. Her works are widely read all over the world and have been translated into
more than 50 languages. A large body of literature is dedicated to her life and work,
and she has been the subject of many plays, novels, and films. Some of her writing has
been considered offensive and has been criticised for a number of complex and
controversial views, including anti-semitism and elitism. Virginia Woolf is
 commemorated today by statues, societies dedicated to her work and a building at
the University of London.
- She also believed that reality or consciousness, is a stream. Life for both reader and
characters is immersion in the flow of that stream. Mrs. Dalloway and To The
Lighthouse are among her best works.

“ Famous Works Of Virginia Woolf”

 Between the acts
 Jacob’s room
 Moments of being
 Night and day
 A haunted house of collection
 3 guineas
 The voyage out
 Orlando: A Biography
 The waves
 To the light house

5. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, novelist,
philosopher,[1][2][3][4] and prominent member of the Huxley family. He graduated from Balliol
College at the University of Oxford with a first-class honours degree in English literature.
The author of nearly fifty books,[5][6] Huxley was best known for his novels (amongthem Brave
New World, set in a dystopian future); for nonfiction works, such as The Doors of Perception, in
which he recalls his experiences taking psychedelic drugs; and for his wide-ranging essays. Early
in his career, Huxley published short stories and poetry, and edited the literary magazine Oxford
Poetry. He went on to publish travel writing, film stories, satire, and screenplays. He spent the
latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.
Huxley was a humanist and pacifist. He became interested in spiritual subjects
suchas parapsychology and philosophical mysticism,[7][8] and in particular universalism.[9] By the
end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his
time.[10] He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times.[11] In 1962, a year before
he died, Huxley was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature.[12]
- He wrote point counter point, brave new world, and after many a summer dies the
swan, where he showed his cynicism of the contemporary.
“ Famous works of Aldous Huxley”

 Mortal coils
  The art of seeing
 Grey eminence
 Ends and means
 Music at night
 Time must have a stop
 The devils of loudon
 Eyeglass in gaza
 Antic hay
 The genius and the god

6. William Golding (born 1911)

-Sir William Gerald Golding CBE (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist,
playwright, and poet. Best known for his novel Lord of the Flies, he won a Nobel Prize in
Literature and was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage,
the first book in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth.
Golding was knighted in 1988.[1][2] He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[1] In
2008, The Times ranked Golding third on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since
1945".[3]
Brasenose College, Oxford offers a non-stipendiary William Golding Fellowship in the Arts,
Humanities, and Social Science
- He was awarded by the nobel pprize for literature in 1983, his 1st novel, Lord of the flies
tells of a group of schoolboys who revert to savagery when isolated on an island. In the
novel, Golding explores naturalist and religious themes of original sin.
“Famous works of William Golding”
 Lord of the files
 The pyramid
 The Scorpion God (1971)
 Darkness Visible (1979)
 The Paper Men (1984)
 To the Ends of the Earth (trilogy)
o Rites of Passage (1980)
o Close Quarters (1987)
o Fire Down Below (1989)
o The double tongue

7. George Owell (1903-1950)

 Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950),[1] better known by his pen
name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His
 work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition
to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.[2][3]
Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction, and polemical journalism. He is best known
for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopiannovel Nineteen Eighty-
Four (1949). His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting
his experience of working class life in the north of England, and Homage to
Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, are widely
acclaimed, as are his essays on politics, literature, language, and culture. In 2008, The
Times ranked him second on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[4]
Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture, and the
term Orwellian – descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices – has entered
the language together with many of his neologisms, including Big Brother, Thought
Police, Room 101, memory hole, newspeak, doublethink, proles, unperson,
and thoughtcrime. [5][6]

- Is world renown for the powerful anti communist satire Animal Farm. This was
followed in 1949 with an anti totalitarian novel entitled Nineteen eighty four
“ famous works Of George Orwell”
 A Hanging
 The lion and the unicorn
 Books cigarettes
 Coming up for air
 Burmese days
 Why I write
 The road to wigan pier
 Politics and the English
 Down and out in paris and London
 Animal farm

8. Graham Greene (1904-91)

Henry Graham Greene OM CH (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991), better known by his pen
name Graham Greene, was an English novelist regarded by many as one of the greatest
writers of the 20th century.[3][4] Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity,
Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious
Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or "entertainments" as he termed them). He was
shortlisted, in 1966 and 1967, for the Nobel Prize for Literature.[5][6] Through 67 years of
 writings, which included over 25 novels, he explored the ambivalent moral and political
issues of the modern world, often through a Catholic perspective.
Although Greene objected strongly to being described as a Roman Catholicnovelist,
rather than as a novelist who happened to be Catholic, Catholic religious themes are at
the root of much of his writing, especially the four major Catholic novels: Brighton
Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, and The End of the
Affair;[7] which are regarded as "the gold standard" of the Catholic novel.[8] Several works,
such as The Confidential Agent, The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, The Human
Factor, and his screenplay for The Third Man, also show Greene's avid interest in the
workings and intrigues of international politics and espionage.
Greene was born in Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire into a large, influential family that
included the owners of the Greene King Brewery. He boarded at Berkhamsted School in
Hertfordshire, where his father taught and became headmaster. Unhappy at the school,
he attempted suicide several times. He went up to Balliol College, Oxford, to study
history, where, while an undergraduate, he published his first work in 1925—a poorly
received volume of poetry, Babbling April. After graduating, Greene worked first as a
private tutor and then as a journalist – first on the Nottingham Journal and then as a sub-
editor on The Times. He converted to Catholicism in 1926 after meeting his future
wife, Vivien Dayrell-Browning.[9] Later in life he took to calling himself a "Catholic
agnostic".[10] He published his first novel, The Man Within, in 1929; its favourable
reception enabled him to work full-time as a novelist. He supplemented his novelist's
income with freelance journalism, and book and film reviews. His 1937 film
review[11] of Wee Willie Winkie (for the British journal Night and Day), commented on the
sexuality of the nine-year-old star, Shirley Temple. This provoked Twentieth Century Fox
to sue, prompting Greene to live in Mexico until after the trial was over. While in Mexico,
Greene developed the ideas for The Power and the Glory.[12] Greene originally divided his
fiction into two genres (which he described as "entertainments" and "novels"): thrillers—
often with notable philosophic edges—such as The Ministry of Fear; and literary works—
on which he thought his literary reputation would rest—such as The Power and the Glory.
Greene had a history of depression, which had a profound effect on his writing and personal
life. In a letter to his wife, Vivien, he told her that he had "a character profoundly antagonistic to
ordinary domestic life," and that "unfortunately, the disease is also one's material." William
Golding described Greene as "the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness
and anxiety." He died in 1991, at age 86, of leukaemia,[7] and was buried in Corseaux cemetery.
- He is known for novels of highly catholic temes like brighton rocks, the heart of the
matter, the end of the affair and the power and glory. Among his better-known later
novels are the quiet American, our man in Havana, a burnt out case, the human factor,
and monsignor Quixote.
“ Famous Works of Graham Greene “
 A sort of life
 The quiet American
  Our man in heaven
 A burnt out case
 The human factor
 Monsignor Quixote

9. Kingslev Amis
-Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet,
critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short
stories, radio and television scripts, along with works of social and literary criticism. According to
his biographer, Zachary Leader, Amis was "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of
the twentieth century." He is the father of British novelist Martin Amis.
In 2008, The Times ranked Kingsley Amis thirteenth on their list of the 50 greatest British
writers since 1945.
- He is considered by many to be the best of the writers to emerge from the 1950’s .
the social discontent he expressed made lucky jim famous in England. Lucky jim is the
story of Jim Dixon, who rises from a lower-class background only to find all the
positions at the top of the social ladder filled.
“ Famous literary works of Kingsley Amis”
Poetry
 1947 Bright November
 1953 A Frame of Mind
 1954 Poems: Fantasy Portraits
 1956 A Case of Samples: Poems 1946–1956
 1962 The Evans County
 1968 A Look Round the Estate: Poems, 1957–1967
 1979 Collected Poems 1944–78

Fiction
Novels
 c.1948 The Legacy (unpublished)
 1954 Lucky Jim
 1955 That Uncertain Feeling
 1958 I Like It Here
 1960 Take a Girl Like You
 1963 One Fat Englishman
 1965 The Egyptologists (with Robert Conquest)
 1966 The Anti-Death League
  1968 Colonel Sun: a James Bond Adventure (pseud. Robert Markham)
 1968 I Want It Now
 1969 The Green Man
 1971 Girl, 20
 1973 The Riverside Villas Murder
 1974 Ending Up

10. Anthony Burgees (born 1917)

John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published
under the pen name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. From relatively
modest beginnings in a Catholic family in Manchester, he eventually became one of the best-
known English literary figures of the latter half of the twentieth century.
Although Burgess was predominantly a comic writer, his dystopian satire A Clockwork
Orange remains his best-known novel.[2] In 1971, it was adapted into a highly
controversial film by Stanley Kubrick, which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the
popularity of the book. Burgess produced numerous other novels, including the Enderby
quartet, and Earthly Powers, regarded by many critics as his greatest novel[citation needed].
He wrote librettos and screenplays, including for the 1977 TV mini-series Jesus of
Nazareth. He worked as a literary critic for several publications, including The
Observer and The Guardian, and wrote studies of classic writers, notably James Joyce. A
versatile linguist, Burgess lectured in phonetics, and translated Cyrano de
Bergerac, Oedipus Rexand the opera Carmen, among others.
Burgess also composed over 250 musical works; he sometimes claimed to consider himself as
much a composer as an author, although he enjoyed considerably more success in writing.[
- Was a novelist whose a fictional exploration of modern dilemmas combines wit, moral
earnestness and touches of the bizaare. He is known for clock work orange. His other
novels include Enderby Outside, Earthly Powers, The end of the world News, and the
kingdom of the wicked

“ Famous literary work of Burgees’

 Time for a Tiger (1956) (Volume 1 of the Malayan trilogy, The Long Day Wanes)
 The Enemy in the Blanket (1958) (Volume 2 of the trilogy)
 Beds in the East (1959) (Volume 3 of the trilogy)
 The Right to an Answer (1960)
 The Doctor is Sick (1960)
 The Worm and the Ring (1961)
 Devil of a State (1961)
  (as Joseph Kell) One Hand Clapping (1961)
 A Clockwork Orange (1962; 2008 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award)
 The Wanting Seed (1962)
 Honey for the Bears (1963)
 (as Joseph Kell) Inside Mr. Enderby (1963) (Volume 1 of the Enderby quartet)
 The Eve of St. Venus (1964)
 Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life(1964)

11. Doris Lessing (born 1919)

Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British
novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. She was born to
British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern
Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England.
Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively
called Children of Violence (1952–69), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good
Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–
1983).
Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish
Academy described her as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and
visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny".[2] Lessing was the eleventh
woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.[3][4][5]
In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British
literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since
1945".[6]
- She is a Zimbabwean British writer, famous for novels, The grass is singing and the
golden Notebook. She won the nobel prize forliterature in 2007.

“ Famous work of Doris Lessing “

Novels
 The Grass Is Singing (1950) (filmed as Killing Heat (1981))
 Retreat to Innocence (1956)
 The Golden Notebook (1962)
 Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971)
 The Summer Before the Dark (1973)
 Memoirs of a Survivor (1974)
 The Diary of a Good Neighbour (as Jane Somers, 1983)
 If the Old Could... (as Jane Somers, 1984)
 The Good Terrorist (1985)
 The Fifth Child (1988)
 Love, Again (1996)
 Mara and Dann (1999)
 Ben, in the World (2000) – sequel to The Fifth Child
 The Sweetest Dream (2001)
 The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog (2005) – sequel
to Mara and Dann
 The Cleft (2007)

12. Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie[a] FRSL (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indiannovelist and essayist.
His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to
be "the best novel of all winners" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th
anniversary of the prize. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He
combines magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many
connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations.
His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the subject of a major controversy, provoking
protests from Muslims in several countries. Death threats were made against him, including
a fatwā calling for his assassination issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader
of Iran, on 14 February 1989. The British government put Rushdie under police protection.
In 1983 Rushdie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the UK's senior literary
organisation. He was appointed Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in
January 1999.[5] In June 2007, Queen Elizabeth IIknighted him for his services to literature.[6] In
2008, The Times ranked him thirteenth on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.[7]
Since 2000, Rushdie has lived in the United States. He was named Distinguished Writer in
Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University in 2015.[8] Earlier,
he taught at Emory University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In
2012, he published Joseph Anton: A Memoir, an account of his life in the wake of the controversy
over The Satanic Verses.is
He is a British Indian novelist and essayist noted for his Midnights Children and satanic
Verses which prompted Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa against him,
because muslims considered the book blasphemous. In July 2008, Midnight children
won a public vote to be named the best of the booker prize in the awards 40 year
history.

“literary works of Salman Rushdie”

 Grimus (1975)
 Midnight's Children (1981)
 Shame (1983)
 The Satanic Verses (1988)
 The Moor's Last Sigh (1995)
 The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999)
 Fury (2001)
 Shalimar the Clown (2005)
 The Enchantress of Florence (2008)
 Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (2015)
 The Golden House (2017)[114]
Collections[edit]
 Homeless by Choice (1992, with R. Jhabvala and V. S. Naipaul)
 East, West (1994)
 The Best American Short Stories (2008, as Guest Editor)
Children's books[edit]
 Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990)
 Luka and the Fire of Life (2010)
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TRIPLE JUNCTION SUBDIVISION, BRGY. MATUNGAO, BULAKAN, BULACAN

“MODERN ENGLISH
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