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Critical Analysis of British Writer: Nadia Alda Chua Nabila Daniel Koh

The document provides biographical information on three British writers: Graham Greene, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Doris Lessing. It discusses their careers, notable works, and recurring themes/styles. Greene was a novelist and playwright known for exploring moral issues. Catholic themes featured prominently in many of his novels. Warner fell in love with poet Valentine Ackland and settled in Dorset. Her novels often examined the position of women in patriarchal societies and ambiguous sexuality. Lessing was born in Iran and banned from Rhodesia for her activism. Her breakthrough work The Golden Notebook was influential in discussing feminism and communism.

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Critical Analysis of British Writer: Nadia Alda Chua Nabila Daniel Koh

The document provides biographical information on three British writers: Graham Greene, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Doris Lessing. It discusses their careers, notable works, and recurring themes/styles. Greene was a novelist and playwright known for exploring moral issues. Catholic themes featured prominently in many of his novels. Warner fell in love with poet Valentine Ackland and settled in Dorset. Her novels often examined the position of women in patriarchal societies and ambiguous sexuality. Lessing was born in Iran and banned from Rhodesia for her activism. Her breakthrough work The Golden Notebook was influential in discussing feminism and communism.

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Critical Analysis of British Writer

Nadia Alda Chua Nabila Daniel Koh

Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene,(2 October 1904

3 April 1991) was an English writer, playwright and literary critic. His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. Greene was notable for his ability to combine serious literary acclaim with widespread popularity.

Although Greene objected strongly to

being described as a Roman Catholic novelist rather than as a novelist who happened to be Catholic, Catholic religious themes are at the root of much of his writing. especially the four major Catholic novels: Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter and The End of the Affair.

Early Career
Greene's first published novel was The

Man Within (1929). The next two books, The Name of Action (1930) and Rumour at Nightfall (1932), were unsuccessful; and he later disowned them. His first true success was Stamboul Train (1932) which was taken on by the Book Society and adapted as the film Orient Express (1934).

Style of Writing
Greene originally divided his fiction into

two genres: thrillers (mystery and suspense books), such as The Ministry of Fear. And religious based literature such as The Power and The Glory. Greene was one of the most "cinematic" of twentieth century writers; most of his novels and many of his plays and short stories would eventually be adapted for

Sylvia Townsend Warner


In 1930 Warner first met Valentine

Ackland, a young poet. The two women fell in love and settled at Frome Vauchurch in Dorset. Early in her career she researched 15th and 16th century music, and spent ten years as one of the editors of the substantial Tudor Church Music, published by Oxford University Press. In the 1970s, she became known as a

In 1934 she published a joint collection of

poems with Valentine Ackland entitled Whether a Dove or a Seagull. Her novels were Lolly Willowes (1926), Mr Fortune's Maggot (1927), The True Heart (1929), Summer Will Show (1936), After the Death of Don Juan (1938), The Corner That Held Them (1948), The Flint Anchor (1954). Recurring themes are evident in a

Style of Writing
A rejection of Christianity in Mr

Fortune's Maggot, and in Lolly Willowes, where the protagonist becomes a witch. The position of women in patriarchal societies like Lolly Willowes, Summer Will Show, The Corner that Held Them. Ambiguous sexuality, or bisexuality in Lolly Willowes, Mr Fortune's

Doris Lessing
Doris May Lessing born 22 October 1919

is a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Lessing was born in Iran, then known as Persia, on 22 October 1919. Because of her campaigning against nuclear arms and South African apartheid, Lessing was banned from that country and from Rhodesia for many years.

Her first novel, The Grass Is

Singing, was published in 1950. Her breakthrough work, The Golden Notebook, was written in 1962. Her breakthrough work, The Golden Notebook, was written in 1962. In 1984, Doris Lessing attempted to publish two novels under a pseudonym, Jane Somers, to show the difficulty new authors faced in trying to have their works in print.

The novels were declined by Lessing's UK

publisher, but was later accepted by another English publisher, Michael Joseph, and in the US by Alfred A. Knopf. In 2007, Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was 87, making her the oldest winner of the literature prize at the time of the award and the third oldest Nobel Laureate in any category. She also stands as only the eleventh woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by the Swedish Academy in its 106-year history.

Style of Writing
Lessing's fiction is commonly divided

into two distinct phases: the Communist theme (19441956), when she was writing radically on social issues (to which she returned in The Good Terrorist 1985) The Feminist theme (1962), an extended analysis of communism and the Communist Party in England from the 1930s to the 1950s (The Golden

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