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Famous British & American Writers

This document lists many famous British and American writers and provides brief descriptions of their major works. Some of the notable British writers mentioned include Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Virginia Woolf. Famous American writers listed are Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Jack London. The document serves as a high-level overview of the most prominent authors from Britain and the United States and their literary contributions.

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Famous British & American Writers

This document lists many famous British and American writers and provides brief descriptions of their major works. Some of the notable British writers mentioned include Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Virginia Woolf. Famous American writers listed are Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Jack London. The document serves as a high-level overview of the most prominent authors from Britain and the United States and their literary contributions.

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THE

MOST
FAMOUS
WRITERS
&
THEIR
WORK
BRITISH &
AMERICAN
The Most Famous British & American Writers And Their Works

British
Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales
 Troilus and Criseyde and Book of the Duchess
 The House of Fame
 The Parliament of Fowles
 The Legend of Good Women

Sir Thomas More


 Utopia
 The History of King Richard the Third
 The Life of Pico della Mirandola
 The Four Last Things

William Shakespeare
 All's Well That Ends Well
 As You Like It
 The Comedy of Errors
 Love's Labour's Lost
 Measure for Measure
 The Merchant of Venice
 The Merry Wives of Windsor
 A Midsummer Night's Dream
 Much Ado About Nothing
 Pericles, Prince of Tyre
 The Tempest
 The Two Gentlemen of Verona
 The Winter's Tale
 King John
 Richard III
 Henry VIII
 Romeo and Juliet
 Julius Caesar
 Macbeth
 Hamlet
 King Lear
 Othello
 Cymbeline
 Shakespeare's sonnets
 Venus and Adonis
 The Rape of Lucrece
 The Passionate Pilgrim
 The Phoenix and the Turtle

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The Most Famous British & American Writers And Their Works

 A Lover's Complaint
 The History of Cardenio
 Arden of Faversham
 The Birth of Merlin
 Edward III
 Edmund Ironside
 Locrine
 The London Prodigal
 The Puritan
 The Second Maiden's Tragedy
 Sir John Oldcastle
 Thomas Lord Cromwell
 A Yorkshire Tragedy
 Sir Thomas More

Christopher Marlowe
 Dido, Queen of Carthage
 Tamburlaine, part 1&2
 The Jew of Malta
 Doctor Faustus
 The Massacre at ParisHero and Leander

Ben Jonson
 Every Man in His Humour
 Volpone, or The Foxe
 The Alchemist
 Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy

John Donne
 An Anatomy of the World
 Of the Progress of the Soul
 Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
 Biathanatos
 Pseudo-Martyr
 Ignatius His Conclave

Thomas Middleton
 Women Beware Women
 A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
 The Revenger's Tragedy

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John Milton
 Paradise Lost
 Paradise Regained
 Comus
 Lycidas

Thomas Hobbes
 Leviathan

Daniel Defoe
 Appeal to Honour and Justice
 The Family Instructor
 The Complete English Tradesman
 The New Family Instructor
 Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business
 A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain
 Robinson Crusoe
 The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
 Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: with his
Vision of the angelick world
 Memoirs of a Cavalier
 Captain Singleton
 A Journal of the Plague Year
 London, the Most Flourishing City in the Universe
 Moll Flanders and Roxana

Jonathan Swift
 A Tale of a Tub
 Battle of the Books
 Drapier's Letters
 A Modest Proposal
 Gulliver's Travels
 A Journal to Stella
 Lady´s Dressing room

Samuel Richardson
 Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded
 Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady
 The History of Sir Charles Grandison

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Alexander Pope
 Essay on Criticism
 The Rape of the Lock
 The Dunciad

Jane Austen
 Sense and Sensibility
 Pride and Prejudice
 Mansfield Park
 Emma
 Northanger Abbey
 Persuasion

George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)


 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
 Don Juan Song for the Luddites
 The Isles of Greece
 The First Kiss of Love

George Eliot (Mary-Ann Evans)


 Adam Bede
 The Mill on the Floss
 Silas Marner
 Middlemarch
 Daniel Deronda

Thomas Hardy
 Far from the Madding Crowd
 The Mayor of Casterbridge
 Tess of the d'Urbervilles
 Jude the Obscure

Charles Dickens
 The Pickwick Papers
 David Copperfield
 Oliver Twist
 Bleak House
 A Christmas Carol
 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
 Little Dorrit
 Great Expectations

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Charlotte Bronte
 Jane Eyre
 Shirley
 Villette
 The Professor
 Wuthering Heights
 Agnes Grey
 The Young Men's Magazine, Number 1 – 3

Emily Bronte
 Wuthering Heights
 Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Anne Bronte
 Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
 Agnes Grey
 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Oscar Wilde
 The Picture of Dorian Gray
 Salome
 The Importance of Being Earnest
 De Profundis
 The Ballad of Reading Gaol

George Bernard Shaw


 Candida
 Pygmalion
 An Unsocial Socialist Arms and the Man
 Caesar and Cleopatra
 The Irrational Knot
 Cashel Byron's Profession

William Butler Yeats


 The Island Of Statutes Iris
 Fairy Tales
 On Baile' Strand
 The Hour Glass
 In The Seven Woods

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Rudyard Kipling
 The Jungle Book
 Just So Stories
 Kim
 Mandalay
 The Story of the Gadsbys
 Captains Courageous

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 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
 Gerontion Sweeney Among the Nightingales
 The Waste Land
 The Hollow Men
 The Journey of the Magi
 Ash Wednesday

D.H. Lawrence

 Sons and Lovers


 Everlasting Flowers Eleg
 Discord in Childhood
 Dolor of Autum
 Excursion
 Lady Chatterley's Lover
 Women in Love

James Joyce
 Ulysses
 Dubliners
 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
 Finnegans Wake

Virginia Woolf
 Mrs. Dalloway
 To the Lighthouse
 Orlando
 A Room of One's Own

Lewis Carroll
 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
 Through the Looking-Glass
 The Hunting of the Snark
 Jabberwocky

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The Most Famous British & American Writers And Their Works

Robert Stevenson
 Treasure Island
 Kidnapped
 Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Arthur Conan Doyle


 The Mistery of Cloomber
 Narative Of Jon Smith
 A Study In Scarlet
 Sherlock Holmes

Agatha Christie
 The Mousetrap
 The Mysterious Affair at Styles
 And Then There Were None
 Witness for the Prosecution
 Murder On Te Orient
 After The Funeral
 Murder On The Links
 The Adventure Of The Christmas Puding

Graham Greene
 Brighton Rock
 The Power And The Glory
 The Heart Of The Matter
 The End Of The Affair
 The Third Man
 The Human Factor
 The Confidential Agent

Joanne Rowling
 Harry Potter Series
 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
 Quidditch Through the Ages

C. S. Lewis
 The Chronicles of Narnia

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John Winthrop
 A Modell of Christian Charity
 The History of New England (The Journal of John Winthrop)
 The Humble Request of His Majesties Loyal Subjects

Cotton Mather
 Boston Ephemeris
 The Biblia Americana
 Pillars of Salt
 Magnalia Christi Americana
 The Christian Philosopher

Benjamin Franklin
 Pennsylvania Chronicle
 Poor Richard's Almanack
 The Pennsylvania Gazette

Thomas Paine
 Common Sense
 The American Crisis
 Rights of Man
 The Age of Reason
 Agrarian Justice

Thomas Jefferson
 Declaration of Independence

John Jay
 The Federalist Papers

1789. - The Constitution of the United States

Washington Irving
 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
 Rip Van Winkle
 The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
 Biographies

James Cooper
 Leatherstocking Tales
 The Last of the Mohicans

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The Most Famous British & American Writers And Their Works

Edgar Allan Poe


 Politian
 PolitianThe Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
 Tamerlane and Other Poems
 The Raven

Ralph Emerson
 Self-Reliance
 The Over-Soul
 Circles
 The PoetExperience
 Nature

Henry Thoreau
 Walden
 Civil Disobedience

Emily Dickinson
 The Poems of Emily Dickinson
 Little Town of Bethlehem
 Amazing Grace

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)


 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Henry James
 A Tragedy of Error
 Watch and Ward
 Daisy Miller
 The Portrait of a Lady
 The Bostonians
 What Maisie Knew
 The Ambassadors
 The Turn of the Screw
 Guy Domville

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Jack London
 The Call of the Wild
 White Fang
 To Build a Fire
 Love of Life
 The Pearls of Parlay
 The Sea Wolf
 The Iron Heel
 The People of the Abyss
 The War of the Classes

Scott Fitzgerald
 This Side of Paradise
 The Beautiful and Damned
 The Great Gatsby
 Tender Is the Night
 The Love of the Last Tycoon

W.E.B. DuBois
 The Souls of Black Folk
 Black Reconstruction in America

Ezra Pound
 Ripostes
 Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
 The Cantos

Ernest Hemingway
 Indian Camp
 The Sun Also Rises
 A Farewell to Arms
 The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
 For Whom the Bell Tolls
 The Old Man and the Sea
 A Moveable Feast
 True at First Light

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William Faulkner
 A Fable
 The Reivers
 The Sound and the Fury
 As I Lay Dying
 Light in August
 Absalom, Absalom!

Eugene O’Neill
 Ah, Wilderness!

Ralph Ellison
 Invisible Man
 Shadow and Act
 Going to the Territory

Alice Walker
 The Color Purple
 Meridian

Maya Angelou
 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
 On the Pulse of Morning

Arthur Miller
 All My Sons
 Death of a Salesman
 The Crucible
 A View from the Bridge
 The Misfits

Tennessee Williams
 The Glass Menagerie
 Suddenly, Last Summer
 A Streetcar Named Desire
 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
 Sweet Bird of Youth
 In Masks Outrageous and Austere

Anne Rice
 The Vampire Chronicles
 Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt
 Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana

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