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2. British literature Authors
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3. William Shakespeare 1564 1616
Stratford upon Avon
Anne Hathaway
London the Globe
the best dramatist
154 sonnets
37 plays
Reign of Elizabeth I
4. Plays Historical :
Julius Caesar
Henry VIII
Richard III
Tragedies:
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Othello
King Lear
Macbeth Comedies:
- A Midsummer Nights Dream
- The Merchant of Venice
- As You Like It
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
5. Jane Austen 1775 1817
Middle and upper class English families
12 she started
Anonymously
No husband
6. Novels Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Emma
Persuation
Mansfield Park Pride and Prejudice:
Elizabeth Bennet
Mr.Darcy
Mr. Bingley
Jane Bennet
7. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 1930
A doctor till 1890
A founder of modern detective story
1902 knighted for his activities in South Africa War
WWI he lost his son
His university teacher inspiration of Sherlock Holmes
8. Sherlock Holmes The master of deduction
His famous catchphrase -Elementary, my dear Watson
Violin playing
Indulgence in opium-taking Deer-stalker hat
Pipe
Slim figure
Bright thinking
Doctor Watson
9. Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
1890 1976
Queen of Crime
70 detective novels
6 romantic novels
20 plays
Married twice
Singer
10. Novels Murder on the Orient Express
Why Didnt They Ask Evans?
The ABC Murders
Murder in Mesopotamia
Death on the Nile
Ten Little Niggers Hercule Poirot
Miss Marple
11. Other famous writers Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning Poems
Charles Dickens Oliver Twist, Great Expectation, David Copperfield Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book
George Orwell Animal Farm
Sir William Golding Lord of Flies
J.R.R.Tolkien The Lord of the Rings
J.K.Rowling Harry Potter
12. Scotland and Ireland Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose
Robert Louis Stevenson Trasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Jonathan Swift Gullivers Travels
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion My Fair Lady
13. Nobel Prize in Literature 1925 G. B. Shaw
1907 R. Kippling Try to write main characters from their masterpieces
14. Do you like them?
15. And what about this guy?
16. What have you read? Describe your favourite book 1. author
2. title of the book
3. main characters
4. plot
5. your attitude