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Marjorie Boulton (1924–2017), in both English and Esperanto. Henrietta Maria Bowdler (1750–1830) Marjorie Bowen (1885–1952) Tim Bowler (born 1953), River Boy; William Boyd (born 1952), Any Human Heart; Paula Brackston (living), The Witch's Daughter; Jason Bradbury (born 1969), children's fiction; Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000), The ...
This is a subsidiary to the List of English people. There are or should be similar lists of Irish, Scots, Welsh, Manx, Jersey, and Guernsey writers. This list is split into four pages due to its size: List of English writers (A–C) List of English writers (D–J) List of English writers (K–Q) List of English writers (R–Z)
The list was compiled by a team of critics and editors at The New York Times and, with the input of 503 writers and academics, assessed the books based on their impact, originality, and lasting influence. The selection includes novels, memoirs, history books, and other nonfiction works from various genres, representing well-known and emerging ...
The 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction is a list of the 100 best English-language books of the 20th century compiled by American literary critic Larry McCaffery. The list was created largely in response to the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list (1999), which McCaffery considered out of touch with 20th-century ...
This is a list of English-language novels that multiple media outlets and commentators have considered to be among the best of all time. The books included on this list are on at least three "best/greatest of all time" lists.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This is a list of some notable authors in the western fiction genre. Part of a series on: Westerns;
Many complained of there being only nine books- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1759), The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1891); Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897), Ulysses by James Joyce (1922), Murphy by Samuel Beckett (1938), At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann ...
From around 1910 the Modernist movement began to influence British literature. While their Victorian predecessors had usually been happy to cater to mainstream middle-class taste, 20th-century writers often felt alienated from it, so responded by writing more intellectually challenging works or by pushing the boundaries of acceptable content.