INTERNATIONAL WELL-KNOWN AUTHORS

• William Shakespeare

  • he is an English poet and playwright
  • Famous plays were macbeth, romeo and juliet, Merchant of venice and hamlet
  • Considered as seminal writer of the english language
• Jonathan Swift

  • Anglo-Irish writer born in Dublin
  • Swift was a prominent satirist, essayist, and author.
  • Guillivers Travels, a modest proposal, and a tale of a tub.
• Samuel Johnson

  • British author best- known for his compilation of the English dictionary.
  • Most comprehensive- setting the standard for later dictionaries
• Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  • German Poet, playwright, and author.
  • Notable works are faust, wilhelm meister's apprenticeship and elective affinities
• Jane Austen

  • English author that wrote romantic fiction with social realism
  • Novels include Sense and sensibility, pride and prejudice, and emma.
• Honore De Balzac

  • French novelist and short writer
  • An influential realist who created characters with ambiguity
  • greatest work are collection of short stories La Comedie Humaine
• Alexandre Dumas

  • French author of historical drama
  • Includes The count of monte Cristo, Three musketeers
  • Articles, Pamphlets, and travelbooks
• Victor Hugo

  • French author and poet
  • Les miserables, and Notre-dame de paris
• Charles Dickens

  • English writer and social critic
  • Best known works are Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and A Christmas carol
• Charlotte Bronte

  • English novelist and poet from haworth
  • Best known for Jane Eyre
• Henry David Thoreau

  • american poet , writer, and leading member
  • Walden was a unique account of living close to nature
• Emily Bronte

  • English novelist
  • Best known for novel: wuthering heights and her poetry
• George eliot

  • Mary ann evans is pen name
  • Wrote the mill on the floss, silas marner, middle march, and daniel deronda
• Leop Tolstoy

  • russian novelist
  • Notable works include from undergrounf, crim and punishment and the idiot
• Lewis Caroll

  • Oxford mathematician
  • Famous for alice and the wonderland
• Mark Twain

  • American writer and humorist
  • Adventures of tom sawyer and adventures of huckleberry fin
• thomas hardy

  • English novelist and poet
  • A victorian realist who was influenced by romanticism
  • Victorian society and declining rural life
  • Notable works are Far from the madding crowd, tess of thed'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure
• Oscar wilde

  • Irish wirter and poet
  • wrote satirical plays
  • the importance of being earnest and the picture of dorian grey
• Kenneth Graham

  • Author of the wind and the willows
  • a classic children's literature
• Sir arthur conan doyle

  • British author of historical novels and plays
  • Most famous for his short stories about detective Sherlock Homes
  • Hound of the baskervilles and sign of four
• Beatrix Potter

  • English conversationist
  • Childrens book such as tales of peter the rabbit
• Marcel Proust

  • french author
  • Best known for his novel in search of Lost time
  • published 7 parts
• William somerset maugham

  • British novelist and writer
  • One of the most popular author
  • The moon and sixpence and the razors's edge, and of human bondage
• P.G Wodehouse

  • English comic writer
  • Humorous and Satirical stories about English upper class
  • Jeeves and Wooster and Blandings Castle
• Virginia Wolf

  • English modernist writer
  • member of bloomsbury group
  • Famous novels include Mrs. Dalloway, To the light house, and Orlando
• James Joyce

  • Irish writer from Dublin
  • Most influential modernist avant-garde writers of the Twentieth Century
  • Novels are Ulysses famous for his ground-breaking strem of consciousness style
  • dubliners and finnegans wake
• D.H Lawrence

  • English poet, novelist, and writer
  • Sons and lovers, the rainbow, women in love, and lady chatterley's lover
  • Banned for many years
• Agatha Cristie-

  • British fictional crime writer
  • Many of her books focus on series including featuring her detectives "Piorot" and Mrs. Marple