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British: Agatha Christie: 2 billion [3] 4 billion [2] English Whodunits, including the Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot series 86 British Barbara Cartland: 500 million [4] 1 billion [5] English Romance: 723 British Danielle Steel: 500 million [6] 800 million [7] English General fiction, romance 179 American: Harold Robbins: 750 million [8] 750 ...
Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (a.k.a. Hubert Wolfstern, [3] Hubert B. Wolfe + 666 Sr., [4] Hubert Blaine Wolfe+585 Sr., [5] and Hubert Blaine Wolfe+590 Sr., [6] among others, 4 August 1914 – 24 October 1997) was a German-born American typesetter who held the record for the longest personal name ever used.
Name Notability Advocate Ref. 1 Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister (1940–1945, 1951–1955). Historically ranked as one of the greatest British prime ministers. Led the nation during World War II, when the country defended itself against a planned German invasion. He was an important figure in post-war national and ...
Name Author Year Ref. The Adventures of Augie March: Saul Bellow: ... The Guardian ' s 100 Best Novels Written in English (2015) [3] Le Monde's 100 Books of the ...
The resulting list of "100 novels that shaped our world", [1] called the "100 Most Inspiring Novels" by BBC News, [2] was published by the BBC to kick off a year of celebrating literature. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
The UK singles chart is a weekly record chart which for most of its history was based on single sales from Sunday to Saturday in the United Kingdom. [1] The chart was founded in 1952 by Percy Dickins of New Musical Express (NME), who telephoned 20 record stores to ask what their top 10 highest-selling singles were.
The following are other early long works of prose fiction in English not generally considered novels: William Caxton's 1483 translation of Geoffroy de la Tour Landry, The Book of the Knight of the Tower (originally in French)
Portrait of Samuel Richardson by Joseph Highmore. National Portrait Gallery, Westminster, England.. The English novel is an important part of English literature.This article mainly concerns novels, written in English, by novelists who were born or have spent a significant part of their lives in England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland (or any part of Ireland before 1922).