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Great Britain gave the world a lot of
talented people. Many famous writers and poets were born
and lived in Great Britain.
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Geoffrey Chaucer.
I would like to tell about Geoffrey
Chaucer.
He wrote Canterbury Tales.
He
was born between 1340 and 1344 in London. His father was a good vintner.
He died in October in 1400.
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William Shakespare
(1564-1616)
a great English writer. He is one
of the most famous ever. He was born in
1564 in Stratford - on - Avon. His plays and tragedies Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth are well- known. Нe wrote comedies, historical plays and some very good poetry, especially the Sonnets.
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Daniel Defoe
(1660-1731)
a well-known English writer who
wrote one of the first novels in the history
of English literature .It was Robinson Crusoe (1719). He was born in London. He visited many countries and met many people. That helped him to write his stories.
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Jonathan Swift
(1667-1745)
a famous English writer, was
born in a poor family in Dublin, Ireland. He wanted the Irish people to be happy. He wrote satirical novels. The most famous novel is Gulliver’s Travels. It is about England of his time.
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Walter Scott
(1771-1832)
a Scottish writer and poet. He
is famous for his stories of Scottish life, which
are based on historical characters. The most popular are Ivanhoe and The Heart of Midlothian.
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Jane Austen
(1775 – 1817)
an English novelist,
whose works include Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice,
Emma. Her masterful use of language and irony made Austen one of the most influential and honored novelists in English literature.
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Charles Dickens
(1812-1870)
an English novelist, the
greatest one of all. His The Pickwick Papers, Oliver
Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield are very popular. He described life in Victorian England and showed how hard it was for the poor and for children.
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Lewis Carroll
(1832-1898)
the pen name of Charles
Lutwidge Dodgson, the English writer who wrote two well-known
children’s stories, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
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Mark Twain
The real name of this writer was
Samuel Clements.
He was born in 1835 in the United
States.
In 1876 he wrote “The adventures of Tom Sawyer”. This book made him famous.
(1854-1900)
-an Irish writer best known for his
play The Importance of Being Earnest and his story The Picture of Dorian Gray. Many of the clever and funny things he said in conversations are still famous.
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
(1859 —1930)
a great Scottish and
English writer, the author of the well-known crime about
Sherlock Holmes. He wrote many adventure and science fiction stories.
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Joseph Rudyard Kipling
(1865-1936)
a famous English writer,
was born in Bombay, India. He wrote very popular
stories about animals (The Jungle Book, 1894, The Second Jungle Book, 1895), some books on history and poems(The Seven Seas, 1896) and others.
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Agatha Christie
(1890-1976)
an English writer of popular books
and plays. Her most famous characters are the detectives
Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile are her best-known books
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Barbara Cartland
(1901 –2000 )
Mary Barbara Hamilton is
one of the most prolific writers of the 20-th
century. She published 723 books. Her books are translated in 38 languages and she is put down into the Guinness Book of Records. She wrote about love.
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Roald Dahl
(1916 -1990)
one of the most
popular writers of the books in Britain. He is
a remarkable novelist and short story writer. His Going Solo, Charlie and Chocolate Factory are wonderful. He vividly describes his characters and develop fabulous stories.
Joanne Rowling
was born in
July 1965 at Yate General Hospital in England and grew up in Chepstow. She is the author of one of the most popular British children’s books about young magician Harry Potter.
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