My favourite English writers Plan

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) 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 Comedie Humaine.
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870) English writer and social critic. His best-known works include novels such as Oliwer Twist, David Copperfield and A Christmas Carol.
Charlotte Bronte (1816 -1855) English novelist and poet, from Haworth. Her best - known novel is ‘Jane Eyre’ (1847).
Henry David Thoreau (1817- 1862) – American poet, writer and leading member of the Transcendentalist movement. Thoreau’s “Walden” (1854) was a unique account of living close to nature.
Emily Bronte (1818 - 1848) English novelist. Emily Bronte is best know for her novel Wuthering Heights (1847), and her poetry.
George Eliot (1819 – 1880) Pen name of Mary Ann Evans. Wrote novels, The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871-1872), and Daniel Deronda (1876).
Mark Twain (1835-1910) 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 (1840 - 1928) English novelist and poet. Hardy was a Victorian realist who was infuenced by Romanticism. He wrote about problems of Victorian society-in particular, declining rural life. Notable works include : Far from the Madding Crowd (1847), Tess of the d’ Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895).
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) 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 Sigh of Four (1890).
William Somerset Maugham (18874 – 1965) British novelist and writer. One of the most popular authors of 1930s. Notable works included The Moon and Sixpence (1916), The Razor’s Edge (1944), and Of Human Bondage (1915).
P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) English comic writer. Best known for his humorous and satirical stories about the English upper classes, such as Jeevea and Wooster and Blandings Castle.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) English modernist writer, a member of the Bloomsbury group. Famous novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando(1928).
James Joyce (1882 - 1941) Irish writer from Dublin. Joyce was one of most influential modernist avant - garde writers of the Twentieth Century. His novel Ulysses (1922), was ground- breaking for its stream of consciousness style. Other works include Dubliners (1914) and Finnegans Wake (1939).
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) English poet, novelist and writer. Best known works include Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) – which was banned for many years.