📙 Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish writer born in Dublin Swift was a prominent satirist, essayist and author. Notable works include Gulliver’s Travels (1726), A Modest Proposal and A Tale of a Tub.
📙 Samuel Johnson: British author best known for his compilation of the English Dictionary. Although not the first attempt in producing dictionary, it was widely considered to be the most comprehensive, setting the standard for later dictionaries.
📙 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: German poet, playwright, and author Notable works of Goethe include: Faust, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Elective Affinities.
📙 Jane Austen: English author who wrote romantic fiction combined with social realism. Her novels include: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1816).
📙 Honore de Balzac: French novelist and short story writer Balzac, was an influential realist writer who created characters of moral ambiguity–often based on his own real life examples. His greatest work was the collection of short stories La Comédie humaine.
📙 Alexander Dumas: French author of historical dramas, wrote works including–The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), and The Three Musketeers (1844). Also prolific author of magazine articles, pamphlets and travel books.
📙 Victor Hugo: French author and poet, Hugo’s novels include Les Misérables, (1862) and Notre-Dame de Paris (1831).
📙 Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic. His best-known works include novels such as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and A Christmas Carol.
📙 Charlotte Bronte: English novelist and poet, from Haworth Her best known novel is ‘Jane Eyre’ (1847).
📙 Henry David Thoreau: American poet, writer and leading member of the Transcendentalist movement, Thoreau’s “Walden” (1854) was a unique account based on living close to nature.
📙 Emily Bronte: English novelist Emily Bronte is best known for her novel Wuthering Heights (1847), and her poetry.
📙 George Eliot: Pen name of Mary Ann Evans Wrote novels, The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876).
📙 Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and moral philosopher Famous works include the epic novels – War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). Tolstoy also became an influential philosopher with his brand of Christian pacifisms.
📙 Fyodor Dostoevsky: Russian novelist, journalist and philosopher Notable works include Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment and The Idiot.
📙 Lewis Carroll: Oxford mathematician and author Famous for Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and poems like The Snark.
📙 Mark Twain: American writer and humorist, considered the ‘father of American literature’. Famous works include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).
📙 Thomas Hardy: English novelist and poet Hardy was a Victorian realist who was influenced by Romanticism. He wrote about problems of Victorian society–in particular, declining rural life. Notable works include: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895).
📙 Oscar Wilde: Irish writer and poet. Wilde wrote humorous, satirical plays, such as ‘The Importance of Being Earnest‘ and ‘The Picture of Dorian Grey.'
📙 Kenneth Graham: Author of the Wind in the Willows (1908), a classic of children’s literature.
📙 George Bernard Shaw: Irish playwright and wit Famous works include Pygmalion (1912), Man and Superman (1903) and Back to Methuselah (1921).
📙 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: British author of historical novels and plays Most famous for his short stories about the detective–Sherlock Holmes, such as The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) and Sign of Four (1890).
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