Phps1XauV_Famous-British-writers.pptx

FAMOUS BRITISH WRITERS

William Shakespare

(1564-1616)

a great English writer. He is one of the most famous ever. He was born 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.

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.

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.

Robert Burns

(1759-1796)

a famous Scottish poet. His birthplace is Alloway in South West Scotland. He wrote hundreds of songs and poems. They are about country life, love and national life.

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 .

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.

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 describes life in Victorian England and shows how hard it was for the poor and for children.

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

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 adventures and science fiction stories.

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) a nd others.

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

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.

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.

Match the titles of the books

Joanne Rowling

Murder on the Orient Express

Roald Dahl

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

The Jungle Book

Agatha Christie

Robinson Crusoe

William Shakespare

Gulliver’s Travels

Daniel Defoe

Harry Potter

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Chocolate Factory

Jonathan Swift

Romeo and Juliet

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