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A Clean Well-Lighted Place Ernest Hemingway

A Rose for Emily William Faulkner

Animal Farm George Orwell

Brave New World Aldous Huxley

Doctor Faustus Thomas Mann

Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad

King Lear William Shakespeare

Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury

The Alchemist Paulo Coelho

The Crucible Arthur Miller

The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck

The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

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William Shakespeare Jane Austen Charles Dickens John Steinbeck Ray Bradbury Ernest Hemingway C. S. Lewis Edgar Allan Po

Biography

William Shakespeare and his works are known all over the world. His plays contain all sides of human feelings, emotions, and quarrels. Though his works became famous, there are very few facts about the life of the author. We could find information about him in the official documentation and, of course, in his plays. He wrote more than 150 sonnets and something about 40 plays. Shakespeare was admitted as one of the best English playwrights. The exact date of Shakespeare’s birth remains unknown…read more

Best Works

Hamlet

Macbeth

Othello

Romeo and Juliet

The Tempest

Biography

The creativity of this author belongs to the Georgian era. She wasn’t recognized during the life: Austen became world famous only in the twentieth century. The writer is most famous for her amazing novel “Pride and Prejudice”. Other fascinating works are “Emma” and “Sense and Sensibility”: they are characterized by the wonderful combination of realism and romanticism, which was unusual for the novels of those times. The great author was born in 1775 in England. Besides her, there were 6…read more…

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Emma

Northanger Abbey

Persuasion

Pride and Prejudice

Sense and Sensibility

Biography

Charles Dickens is a Victorian writer who not only reflected it in his works and raised the problems that troubled English society, but also tried to solve them. His active literary and social activities contributed to great changes, the elimination of debt prisons, reforms in the field of education and legal proceedings, an increase in the number of charitable organizations and the revival of philanthropy. His love for the poor and the offended was real. He gave them all the power of his…read more…

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A Christmas Carol

A Tale of Two Cities

David Copperfield

Hard Times

Oliver Twist

Biography

Novelist, essayist, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner mostly known as by The Grapes of Wrath. Steinbeck was called daring and acknowledged among writers of his generation, who found his calling in studying human nature through introducing it to ‘raw’ life circumstances, where a person could expose their true face. John Steinbeck (27th of February 1902) was born to a family of an educator, Olive Hamilton, and a financial officer of California, John Steinbeck Senior. The family had three more children…read more…

Best Works

East of Eden

Of Mice and Men

The Pearl

The Red Pony

Tortilla Flat

Biography

Ray Bradbury, in full Ray Douglas Bradbury, (born August 22, 1920, Waukegan, Illinois, U.S.—died June 5, 2012, Los Angeles, California), was one of the most distinguished and celebrated American authors of the 20th and 21st century. He famous for his creative and futuristic short stories and novels that mix the concepts of science fiction with a more academic writing manner. Ray Bradbury was more than just a novelist. Bradbury was one of those writers who, in their science fiction, tried to rely…read more…

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A Sound Of Thunder

Dandelion Wine

Dark They Were And Golden Eyed

Fahrenheit 451

The Pedestrian

Biography

The writer was born on July 21, 1899, in the town called Oak Park, Illinois. His father worked as a doctor, and his mother was a musician. Since childhood, his father wanted Ernest to love nature, and expected that the son would follow his way of life, and study the medicine. The mother of the future writer made him attend music classes and even compelled him to sing in the church choir. Later Hemingway noted that he did not have musical talent. At twelve, the boy got a gift from his grandfather…read more…

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A Farewell to Arms

For Whom the Bell Tolls

The Old Man and the Sea

The Snows Of Kilimanjaro

The Sun Also Rises

Biography

Some had found out who Clive Lewis is when Narnia appeared on the screens. And for someone, Clive Staples was an idol from their childhood, when they read the Narnia Chronicles or the Screwtape Letters. In any case, writer Staples Lewis opened up a magical country for many readers. And, going along with his books in Narnia, almost nobody thought about what Clive Staples Lewis actually wrote about God and religion. In Clive Staples Lewis, virtually all the works have a religious theme, but…read more…

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Perelandra

That Hideous Strength

The Dark Tower The Gunslinger

The Screwtape Letters

Till We Have Faces

Biography

Edgar Allan Po is an American poet, prose writer, critic, and editor, one of the first US professional writers who lived exclusively in literary work, who was very popular, but who was not immediately understood and appreciated in the homeland. Edgar Poe was born in Boston on Jan. 19, 1809 in a family of actors. He came from an ancient Irish family. Little Edgar was distinguished among the children by the lively mind, and Allan’s wife was fascinated by this child and persuaded her husband to…read more…

Best Works

The Cask of Amontillado

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Oval Portrait

The Raven

The Tell-Tale Heart

Writers Quotes

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

William Shakespeare

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Mark Twain

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Jonathan Swift

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

George Orwell