English writer - how many of them do you know?

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

If you ask any average person to name some English writers, he will probably be confused and will be able to remember at best one or two names. Although he actually knows at least ten, he simply does not realize that Foggy Albion is the birthplace of many popular authors. Famous English writers are Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Herbert Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson and many others. Familiar names? We know and remember the books of these authors from childhood.

Modern English writers are also represented by a whole galaxy of well-known names: JK Rowling, Joe Akrombury, Stephen Fry, Jasper FForde - it is simply impossible to list all the authors. And if you also remember the classics, such as William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, etc., then you begin to understand that the inhabitants of our country read mainly the works of Russian and English masters of the word.

English authors everyone should read:

1. John R. R. Tolkien is a famous English writer whose books are recommended for all categories of readers. And don't be limitedexclusively by The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Perhaps you'd like the little tale "Farmer Giles of Ham" - in addition to dragons and heroes, there is a fair amount of humor in it.

2. Arthur Conan Doyle is an English writer who created the most popular detective of all time. Interestingly, the author himself did not like his main character, but readers fully appreciated the talent and intelligence of Sherlock Holmes from Baker Street and his permanent partner, Dr. Watson. Conan Doyle wrote a lot of books about Sherlock, there were even more different imitators and all kinds of sequels, but it's still better to read the original source.

3. Lewis Carroll is an English writer who created the most unusual fairy tale. Many people think that Alice in Wonderland is a book exclusively for children. In fact, both a child and an adult will be able to appreciate and love in their own way this very original work, which found its calling a decade after publication.

4. Agatha Christie is the queen of the detective novel, and is also the most popular and best-selling writer in all the years of the existence of the printed word. The works of Agatha Christie are considered classics, and they are definitely worth reading for all lovers of detective stories, as well as just connoisseurs of good books.

5. George Orwell is an English writer who gave the world the best dystopia. "Animal Farm" and the novel "1984" are books that can make a person rethink the whole world around them. One quote - "All animals are equal, but some are more equal,than others”, and the reader already looks at the people around him in a different way.

6. Jane Austen, who gave the world the most wonderful "female" novel. Despite criticism immediately after the release of the book, where the work was called boring and mediocre, Pride and Prejudice is considered the best book by millions of readers.

These six writers were randomly selected and the numbers do not reflect any ranking or top - the proposed authors are very different and cannot be compared.