Aakash Lit Gyan

A tale of two cities

Part 1 : About the Book
https://youtu.be/28uIekdIVH4?si=-JZuMW2ZSsmTJliP

part 2 : Dover Beach
https://youtu.be/Wy7ssHTKvY8?si=Sh-fNRrVf1KOr2PX

Part 3 : The Shoemaker Paris 1775
https://youtu.be/uuTpMqkWpCk?si=CdXdBPNJpkh5szg5

Part 4 :the trailer at old bailey : London 1780
https://youtu.be/rH3o5fDAhmQ?si=MreLDgRrZaJm94Ry

Part 5 : The House in Soho : London 1782
https://youtu.be/ru8O_K7TZEg?si=chcrCPhuzmxJCMwq

Part 6 : The Marquiz de Stm Evermond : Parus 1783
https://youtu.be/48_57hj0GNA?si=TjB1tyNA5cbEdH98

Part 7 : Conversation in London : 1784
https://youtu.be/j-DVQfIAuwY?si=7N4niK90_nNXh-6S

Part 8 : The Knitting Paris , 1784
https://youtu.be/Z1jWycfelFU?si=PZRkL05YbFY2etmH

Part 9 : London 1785
https://youtu.be/x-RR07KZyoM?si=obQWKY2PcpMKC8kK

Part 10 : to the Bastille , Paris 1789
https://youtu.be/32ss2Am8X3c?si=Af0jspozM_Aug1WM

Part 11 : Monsieur Foulon eats grass : Paris 1789 to 1792
https://youtu.be/YuG_IUeQ3nc?si=MieV9oIH0WbtFHtn

Part 12 : the letter : London 1792
https://youtu.be/ox9pT5xyLI4?si=F7_vemGNULnq9KzF

Part 13 : The emigrant return, Paris 1792
https://youtu.be/S_IBP3fkYoM?si=7Y23bn32Rco6Oa-q

Part 14 : The bastille Prisoner returns
https://youtu.be/awUKsqc2Sb0?si=752Jr7v2fFVULzba

Part 15 : Changing fortunes
https://youtu.be/GczYUCIe8cQ?si=DDOLETud0IezcjAm

Part 16 : The doctor's evidence
https://youtu.be/-4jmOgon4BY?si=S4yA0tIsKhHfYXcX

Part 17 : A hand at cards
https://youtu.be/LBGKSH-epH4?si=e8Xnn2jgyyrPzujV

Part 18 : Carton prepares to do his part
https://youtu.be/4F724drjwMc?si=D8njLhqcrj75VbEJ

Part 19 : the knitting done
https://youtu.be/4gUPobnrc3o?si=f2nNaZZ9pyhNEOmU

Part 20 : The Footsteps die out
https://youtu.be/IbNW6Lvdcu4?si=4GdI5FG4F00kKfQ3

Part 21 : Character List
https://youtu.be/HIDZGmnLlLo?si=FkVmrpuQfOTXCCv7

|| Part 21 || A tale of two cities || Charcter list || Hindi audiobook ||

|| Part 20 || A tale of two cities || The Footsteps die out || Hindi audiobook || # part20

Major Trilogy in English literature

|| Aunt Jennifer's tiger|| poetic Devices Explanation in Hindi || Animated video || Li...

Chapter 1 - Triumph of surgery https://youtu.be/nONP-vDcdZo
Chapter 2 - Thief's story
https://youtu.be/c1L7TcK2p-o
Chapter 3 - Midnight Visitor
https://youtu.be/GlHZL_CrLu8
Chapter 4 - A Question of trust
https://youtu.be/W1pzeC768fY
Chapter 5 Footprints without Feet
https://youtu.be/8CK9WtDJSME
Chapter 6 - The making of a scientist
https://youtu.be/E_j4tCaQlXQ
Chapter 7 - The necklace
https://youtu.be/2-DXD1fiFnI
Chapter 8 - The Hack Driver
https://youtu.be/7FrEiaHZsOk
Chapter 9 - Bholi
https://youtu.be/vtYKSRcqd-M
Chapter 10 - The Book that saved the earth
https://youtu.be/RH8LLdfO9Jo

||CHAPTER -1 || A TRIUMPH OF SURGERY || ANIMATED VIDEO IN HINDI|| Book - Footprints without Feetchapter 1 -

Samuel Butler 1835-1902
A FIRST YEAR IN CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT (1863)
• Compiled by his father from Samuel's letters
• Published in 1863 in a New Zealand journal and became the core of EREWHON
EREWHON (1872)
• Published anonymously
• E-re-whon, an anagram of 'nowhere'
• A satirical novel
• The narrator (whose name is revealed in EREWHON REVISITED as Higgs) crosses a range of mountains and comes upon the undiscovered country of Erewhon
• A collection of articles previously written
• The best of the many Utopias which appeared toward the end of the century
• Church institutions, parental authority, the worship of machinery, and the treatment of crime were aspects of contemporary society which it satirized with a shrewd and penetrating irony
• Setting: New Zealand
THE FAIR HAVEN (1873)
• An elaborate and ironic attack on the Resurrection
• Brought him encouragement from Charles Darwin and Stephen
A PSALM OF MONTREAL
• His well-known poem
• Inspiration: a journey to Canada in 1874-1875
• First printed in the Spectator in May 1878
• He laments the Canadian philistinism that relegated a Greek statue of a Discobolus to a room in the Natural History Museum used by a taxidermist, who explained that the statue was 'vulgar' because 'he hath neither vest nor pants to cover his lower limbs'.
• The refrain: 'O God! O Montreal!'
LUCK OR CUNNING AS THE MEANS OF ORGANIC MODIFICATION? (1887)
Three articles on 'The Deadlock in Darwinism'
• Universal Review, 1890
THE TRAPANESE ORIGIN OF THE ODYSSEY (1893)
Prose translation of THE ILLIAD (1898)
Prose translation of ODYSSEY (1900)
ALPS AND SANCTUARIES OF PIEDMONT AND THE CANTON TICINO (1881)
• The first of several animated works on art and travel
NARCISSUS (1888)
• Written in collaboration with his great friend Festing Jones
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF DR SAMUEL BUTLER (1896)
THE NOTEBOOKS OF SAMUEL BUTLER
• Posthumously published in 1912
EREWHON REVISITED (1901)
• A sequel to EREWHON
• John, the son of Higgs and Arowhena, is the writer of this account of his father's
return to Erewhon
• Unified work
• Based on Butler’s disbelief in the doctrine of the Ascension (Sunchilsism)
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH
• Published posthumously in 1903
• A novel
• Butler's most revealing work
• His semiautobiographical novel
• He completed the book some 17 years before his death, but he never revised the second half
• The story (narrated by a family friend, Overton) was originally called Ernest Pontifex

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Class 1 :- Tense introduction
https://youtu.be/sjAi8vZoZ7Q
Class 2 :- Present Tense introduction
https://youtu.be/eqQGm02XPpk
Class 3 :- Simple Present Tense
https://youtu.be/a7JoJJloXHI
Class 4 :- Use of simple present tense
https://youtu.be/8X6evCFshjU
Class 5 :- Present Continuous Tense
https://youtu.be/M9pe1Lg-MHw
Class 6 :- Uses of Present Continuous Tense
https://youtu.be/GNqjJhyM48c
Class 7 :- Simple Present vs Present Continuous
https://youtu.be/h-arwCGBIYc
Class 8 :- Present Perfect Tense
https://youtu.be/6m-jlw9uSDk
Class 9 :- Uses Of Present Perfect Tense
https://youtu.be/S8PpYmg1sVA
Class 10 :- Present Perfect continuous tense
https://youtu.be/9F78IIes6Rg
Class 11 :- Uses of Present Perfect continuous tense
https://youtu.be/jQ1OnJcOBSs
Class 12 :- Present Perfect vs Present Perfect continuous tense
https://youtu.be/7IBy9Qmg3KY
Class 13 :- Past Tense - introduction
https://youtu.be/RGG_XbSLc5s
Class 14 :- Simple past tense
https://youtu.be/bcjaZKXuhRE
Class 15 :- uses of simple past tense
https://youtu.be/X7ZS74cNsGE
Class 16 :- Past continuous tense
https://youtu.be/ohp5CoUSOfA
Class 17 :- Uses Of Past continuous tense
https://youtu.be/fyTI8_fsFr8
Class 18 :- Past Perfect Tense
https://youtu.be/bGLr6CbwdSw
Class 19 :- Simple past vs past perfect
https://youtu.be/7uXi6nU3Grg
Class 20 :- Past perfect continuous tense
https://youtu.be/5dDfdymcDF4
Class 21 :- Uses of Past perfect continuous tense
https://youtu.be/7Ae4Jf450cc
Class 22 :- Past perfect vs Past perfect continuous
https://youtu.be/_feQtfHXLKM
Class 23 :- Future tense - introduction
https://youtu.be/JekQAqwCPnE
Class 24 :- Simple Future tense
https://youtu.be/D5D6p86U32w
Class 25 :- Uses Of simple future tense
https://youtu.be/WTN3vNjkvZo
Class 26 :- Future Continuous Tense
https://youtu.be/T5W0bXsCjJE
Class 27 :- Uses Of future continuous tense
https://youtu.be/d8KES3WtcpY
Class 28 :- Future Perfect Tense
https://youtu.be/Px_oIli4Fmw
Class 30 :- Uses Of Future perfect tense
https://youtu.be/1a5CHTHqopE
Class 31 :- Future Perfect continuous tense
https://youtu.be/NnmAEMjObAU
Class 32 :- Uses of future perfect continuous tense
https://youtu.be/dCxby77i_cg

TheMajor writers and their Major works

Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400):- The Romaunt of the Roses, The Book of Duchess(1369), Anelida and Arcite, The Parliament of Fauls, Troilus and Criseyde, The House of Fame(incomplete), The Legend of Good Women, The Canterbury Tales

William Langland(1330-1386):- The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman, A Treatise on the Astrolabe

John Barbour( 1320-95):- Bruce(1375)

John Gower(1330-1408):- Speculum Meditantis(1376-78), Vox Clamantis(1374-81), Confession Amantis

James 1(1394-1437):- The King is Quair, Peblis to The Play, Christis Kirk on the Grene

Sir David Lyndsay(1490-1555):- The Dreme(1528), The Testament of Squyer Meldrum, The Testaments and Compleyment of the Papyngo, The Pleasant Satyre of Thrie Estaits

Robert Henryson (1429-1508):- Morall Fabillis of Esope, The Testament of Cressied, Orphens and Eurydice, Robene and Makyne, Garmond of Gude Ladies.

William Dunbar (1460-1530):- Goldyn Targe, Thrissil and Rois, Dance of the Seven Deidlie Synnis, Lament for the Makaris.

Gavin Douglas (1474-1522):- The Palice of Honour, King Hart, Conscience.

John Skelton (1460-1529):- Garland of Laurell, Why Come Ye nat to Court, Dirge on Edward 4, Magnigicence.

John Lydgate (1370-1451):- The Falls of Princess, The Temple of Glass, Story of Thebes, London Lickpenny.

Thomas Occleve (1368-1450):- Regement of Princess, La Mala Regle, The Complaint of Our Lady, Occleve’s Complaint

Stephen Hawes (1474-1530):- the Passetyme of Pleasure, The Example of Virtue, The Conversion of Swesrrs, A Joufull Medytacyon

Alexander Barclay (1475-1552):- Ship of Fools, Certayne Ecloges

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599):- The Shepherds Calendar (1579), The Ruins of Time, The Tears of the Muses, Mother Habberd’s Tale, The Ruins of the Muses, Amoretti, Epithalamion, Prothalamion, A View of the Present State of Ireland (prose), The Faerie Queene

George Gascoigne (1525-77):- The Steele Glass (1576), Jocasta (1566), Supposes (1566)

Sir Phillip Sidney (1554-86):- Astrophel and Stella (1591), Arcadia (1598), Apology for Poetry(1595), The Harmonie of the Church

John Donne(1573-1631):- Of the Progress of the Soul (1601), Songs and Sonnets, Aire and Angels, A Nocturnall Upon S Lucies Day, A Valediction : Forbidding, Mourning, The Extasie, The Pseudo- Martyr(1610), Ignatius His Conlave (1611), Devotions (1611), Death’s Duell (1630)

Robert Greene:- Alphonsus King of Aragon (1587), Friar Bacon and Friar Bongey (1589), Orlando Furioso (1591), The So High Histories of James the Fourth(1592)

Thomas Nash (1567-1601):- Summer’s Last Will and Testament (1592), The Unfortunate Traveller, Or the Life of Jack Wilton (1594)

Thomas Lodge (1558-1625):- The Wounds of Civil War, Rosalynde (1590), Legacie (1590)

Christopher Marlowe (1564-93):- Tamburlaine the Great (1587), The Second Paart of Tamburlaine the Great (1588), The Jew of Malta (1589), Edward 2 (1591), Doctor Faustus (1592), The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage (1593), Thea Massacre at Paris (1593)-(unfinished)

George Peele (1558-98):- The Arrangement of Paris (1584), The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First (1593), The Old Wive’s Tale (1594), The Love of King David and Fair Bethasabe (1599)

Richard Lovelace (1618-58):- Lucasta (1649), To Althea From Prison, To Lucasta Going to the Wars

Sir John Suckling (1609-42):- Ballad Upon a Wedding, Why So Pale and Wan Fond Lover?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616):- Venus and Adonis (1593), The R**e of Lucree (1594), The Passionate Pilgrim (1599), Henry 6 (1591-92), Richard 3 (1593), The Comedy of Errors (1593), Titus Andronicus (1594), The Taming of The Shrew (1594), Love’s Labour Lost (1594), Romeo and Juliet (1594), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1595), King John (1595), Richard 2 (1596), The Merchant of Venice ( 1596), Henry 4 (1597), Much Ado about Nothing (1598), Henry 5 (1599), Julius Caesar (1599), The Merry Wives of Windsor (1600), As You Like It (1600), Hamlet (1601), Twelfth Night (1601), Troilus and Cressyede (1602),
All's Well That Ends Well (1602), Measure for Measure (1604), Othello (1604), Macbeth (1605), King Lear (1605), Antony and Cleopatra (1606), Coriolanus (1606), Timon of Athens (1607)-(unfinished), Pericles(1608), Cymbeline (1609), The Winter’s Tale (1610), The Tempest (1611), Henry8 (1613)-(completed by Fletcher)

Thomas Kyd (1558-94):- The Spanish Tragedy (1585), Cornelia (1593)

Ben Jonson (1573-1637):- Every Man in His Humour (1598), Every Man out of His Humour (1599), Cynthia’s Revels (1600), The Poetaster (1601), Volpone or The Fox (1605), Epicaene or the Silent Woman (1609), The Alchemist (1610), Bartholomew Fayre (1614), The Devil is an Ass (1616), The Staple of News (1625), Sejanus His Fall (1603), Catline his Conspiracy (1611), The Masque of Beauty (1608), The Masque of Queens (1609), Oberon The Fairy Prince (1611), Underwoods(lyric)

John Webster (1578-1634):- The White Devil(1612), The Duchess of Malfi(1614)

Francis Beaumount (1584-1616) And John Fletcher (jointly wrote):- The Devil’s Law Case (1623), A Kind of No King (1611), The Night of the Burning Pestle(1607), The Scronful Lady (1616), The Maid’s Tragedy(1610), Philaster(1611), The Faithful Shepherdess( by Fletcher alone)

George Chapman(1559-1634):- The Blind Beggar of Alaxandria(1596), Busy d’ Ambois(1604), Charles Duke of Byron (1608), The Tragedy of Chabot (1613), All Fools (1605), Eastward Ho (1605)-(he also translated Homer)

Thomas Malorie (died in 1471):- Morte D’ Arthur

Reginald Peacock(1390-1461):- The Repressor of Over-much Blaming of the Clergy (1445), The Book of Faith

William Caxton(1422-91):- Recuyell of the Histories of Troye(1471), Game and Play of the Chess

John Fisher(1459-1535):- The Ways of Perfect Religion

Sir Thomas More (1478-1535):- Utopia (1551)-(English translation), The Life of the John Picus, The History of Richard 3

Francis Bacon(1561-1626):- Essays(1597,1612,1625 three editions respectively), The Advancement of Learning(1605), The History of Henry 7 (1605), Apophthegms(1625), The New Atlantis(unfinished), Novum Organum (1620) in Latin, Sylva and Sylvarum

Roger Ascham(1515-68):- Toxophilus(1545), The Schoolmaster(1570)

John Lyly(1554-1606):- Euphues The Anatomy of Wit(1579), Eupheus and his England(1580)

Robert Burton(1577-1640):- The Anatomy of Melancholy(1621)

Michael Drayton(1563-1631):- England’s Heroical Epistles(1603), The Baron’s Wars (1603), Poly-Olbion

Samuel Daniel(1562-1619):- Christ Victorie Triumph (1610)

Phinea Fletcher(1582-1650):- Defence of Ryme(1602)-(criticism)

John Milton(1608-74):- L’Allegro(1632), 2 Penseroso(1632), Comus(1634), lycidas(1637), Paradise Lost (1667), Paradise Regained(1671), Samson Agonistes(1671), Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity(1629), Oh Shakespeare(1630), On Arriving at the Age of Twenty Three(1631), Of Education(1644), History of Britain(incomplete)

Thomas Middleton(1570-1627):- The Changeling (1624), women Beware Women(1622), The Witch, The Spanish Gipsy(1623), The Roaring Girle or Moll Cutpurse(1611)in collaboration with Dekker

John Marston(1575-1634):- Anotonio and Mellida (1599), Antonio’s Revenge(1602)

Thomas Dekker(1572-1632):- Old Fortunatus(1599), The Shoemaker’s Holiday(1599), Satiromastix(1602)in collaboration with Massinger

Thomas Heywood(1575-1650):- A Woman Killed with Kindness(1603), The English Traveller(1633), The Captives(1624), King Edward the Fourth(1597), The Royale King and the Loyal Subject(1602)

Phillip Massinger(1583-1640):- A New Way to Pay Old Debts(1633), The City Madam(1632), The Duke Milaine(1623), The Unnatural Combat(1639),

John Ford (1586-1639):- The Broken Heart(1633), Tis Pity She’s a Whore(1633), Perking Warbeck(1634), The Witch of Edmonton(1621) in collaboration with Dekker and Rowley, The Lover’s Melancholy(1628), Love’s Sacrifice(1633), The Fancies chart and Noble(1638)

George Herbert(1593-1633):- The Temple(1633), Affliction, Easter wings, The Collar, Man

Richard Crashaw(1613-49):- Steps to the Temple(1646), Carmen Deo Nostro(1652), The InfantMortyrs, A Letter to the Countess of Denbigh

Henry Vaughan(1622-95):- Poems(1645), Olor Iscanus(1651), Silex Scintilans(1650), Thalia Redivia(1678), Regeneration, The Retreat,

Andrew Marvell(1621-78):-To His Coy Mistress, An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return From Ireland, The Rehearsal Transposed(1673), New Letters(a prose work)-(1653),The Definition of Love(between 1650-52,pub in 1681),

Abraham Cowley(1618-67):- Pytamus and Thisbe(1628), Constantia and Philestus(1630), The Darideis(1656), The Mistress(1647), Pindarigue Odes, Discourse by Way of Vision, Concernning the Government of Oliver Cromwell(1661)

Thomas Carew(1594-1639):- Poems(1640)

Robert Herrick(1591-1674):- Noble Numbers(1647), Hesperides(1648), To Anthea, To Julia, Cherry Ripe

Sir Thomas Brown(1605-82):-Religio Medici(1642), Pseudodoxia Epidemica of Vulgar Errors(1646), Hydriotaphia: Urn Burial(1658), The Garden of Cyrus(1658), Christian Morals

Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon(1609-74):- The History of the Revellion and Civil Wars in England(1704)

Thomas Hobbes(1588-1679):- Leviathan(1651)

Jeremy Taylor(1613-67):- The Liberty of Prophesying(1647), Holy Living(1650), Holy Dying(1651)

Thomas Fuller(1608-61):- The History of the Holy War(1639), The Church History of Britain(1655), An Alarum to the Countries of England and Wales(1660), The Worties of England(1662), Good Thought and Bad Times(1645)

John Dryden(1631-1700):- The Wild Gallant(1663), The Rival Ladies(1663), The Indian Emperor(1665), Tyrannick Love(1669), The Conquest of Granada( in two parts,1669 and 1670), Aurenzeb(1675), All for Love, or the World Well Lost(1678), Don Sebastian(1690), Cleomenes(1692), Love Triumphant(1694), Astraea Redux(1660), Annus Mirabilis(1667), Absalom and Achitophel(1681), MacFlecknoe, Absalom and Achitophel Part 2(1682), Religion Laici(1682), The Hind and the Panther(1687), Alexander’s Feast(1697), Essay of Dramatic Poesie(1668-a Prose work)

William Congreve(1670-1729):- The Old Bachelor(1693), The Double Dealer(1693), Love for Love(1695), The Way of the World(1700), The Mourning Bride(1697, a Tragedy)

William Wycherly(1640-1715):- Love in Wood(1671), The Gentleman Dancing Master(1672), The Country Wife(1674), The Plain Dealer(1676)

George Etheredge(1635-91):- The Comical Revenge or Love in a Tub(1664), She Would if She Could(1668), The Man of Mode or Sir Fopling Flutter(1676)

Sir John Vanbrugh(1664-1726):- The Relapse(1696), The Provoked Wife(1697), The Confederacy(1705),

George Farquhar(1678-1707):- The Recruiting Officer(1706), The Beaux Stratagem(1707)

Thomas Shadwell(1642-92):- The Sullen Lovers(1668), The Squire of Alsatiia(1688), Bury Fair(1689)

Thomas Otway(1651-85):- Alciblades (1675), Don Carlos(1676), The Orphan(1680), Venice Preserved(1682)

Nathaniel Lee(1649-92):- Nero(1674), Sophonisba(1676), The Rival Queens(1677), Mithridates(1678)

John Crowne(1649-1703):-Caligula(1698), Thyestes(1681), Sir Courtly Nice(1685)

Samuel Butler(1612-80):- Hudibras(1663),

Nicholas Rowe(1674-1718):- Tamerlane(1702), The Fair Penitent(1703), Jane Shore(1714)

Sir Richard Steele(1672-1729):- The Funeral(1701), The Lying Lover(1703), The Tender Husband (1705), The Conscious Lovers(1722)

Lord Halifax(1633-95):- Miscellanies, The Character of a Trimmer, Advice to a Daughter

Sir William Temple(1628-99):- Letters(1700), Memours(1691), Miscellanea

John Tillotson(1630-94):- Sermons

Jonathan Swift(1667-1745):- The Battle of the Books(1704), A Tale of Tub(1704), Journal to Stella, The Drapier’s Letters(1724), Gulliver’s Travels(1726), Discourse to Prove the Antiquity of the English Tongue, Cadenus and Vanessa(1713)

Joseph Addison(1672-1719):- The Spectator, The Vision of Mirza, Public Credit, The Campaign(1704), Cato(1703), Rosamond(1707), The Drummer(1715)

Sir Richard Steele(1672-1729):- The Tatler(1709), The Guardian(1713)

Daniel Defoe(1659-1731):- The Shortest Way with the Dissenters(1702), The True-born Englishman(1701), Robinson Crusoe(1719), Duncan Campbell(1720), Memoirs of a Cavalier(1720), Captain Singleton(1720), Moll Flanders(1724), Roxana(1724), A New Voyage Round the World(1725), Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men(poetry), An Essay on Man(Poetry), Imitation of Horace, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot(1735)

Matthew Prior(1664-1721):- Alma: or the Progress of the Mind(1718), Solomon on the Vanity of the World(1718)

John Gay(1685-1732):- The Rural Sports(1713), The D’ye Call it(1715), Trivia or The Art of Walking – the Streets of London(1716), The Beggar’s Opera(1728)-(a Play), Black Eyed Susan( a Ballad)

Lady Winchilsea(1661-1720):- The Spleen(1701), The Prodigy(1706), A Nocturnal Reverie(1713)

Alexander Pope(1688-1744):- Pastorals(1709), An Essay on Criticism(1711), Windsor Forest(1713), The R**e of the Lock(1712), Translation of Iliad and Odyssey, Dunciad(1728), To Lord Bathurst(Poetry), Of the Use of the Riches(Poetry)

James Thomson(1700-48):- The Seasons(1730), Liberty(1736), The Castle of Indolence(1748), Sophonisba(1729- a Play), Alfred(1740)

Oliver Goldsmith(1728-74):- The Traveller(1764), The Deserted Village(1770), The Hermit, Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, The Good Natured Man(1768)(a Play), She Stoops to Conquer(1773-a play), The Citizen of the World(1759), The Vicar of the Wakefiels

Thomas Gray(1716-71):- Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College(1747), Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard(1751), Pindaric Odes(1757)

William Blake(1757-1827):- Poetical Sketches(1783), Songs of Innoence(1789), The Book of Thel(1790), The French Revolution(1791), Songs of Experience(1794)k, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell(1793)

Samuel Richardson(1703-54):- Joseph Andrews(1742), A Journey form this World to the Next(1743), Jonathan Wild the Great(1743), Tom Jones(1749), Amelia(1751), Voyage to Lisbon

Laurence Sterne(1713-68):- Tristram Shandy(1767), A Sentimental Journey, Through France and Italy(1768)

James Bosewell(1740-95):- The Life of Samuel Johnson(1791)

Edmund Burk(1729-97):- A Vindication of Natural Society(1756)

Adam Smith(1723-90):- The Wealth of Nations(1776)

William Godwin(1756-1836):- Political Justice(1793), Caleb Williams(1794-novel)

Richard Brinsley Sheridan(1751-1816):- The Rivals(1774), St. Patrick’s Day, A Trip to Scarborough(1776), The School for Scandal(1777), The Critic or a Tragedy, Rehearsed(1779)

Bishop Percy(1729-1811):- Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

Robert Burns(1759-96):- A Found Kiss and Then We Sever, The Jolly Beggars

Samuel Johnson(1709-84):- London(1738), The Vanity of Human Wishes(1749), The Life of Savage(1744), The Lives of Poets(1781), Dictionary of the English Language(1755), Shakespeare(1765), A Journey to The Western, Island of Scotland(1775), The Rambler Rasselas a Prince of Abyssinia (1759)

William Wordsworth(1770-1850):- The Prelude(1805), The Excursion, We are Seven, Lucy Gray, Simon Lee, The Leech Gatherer, Michael, The Rainbow, Lines Written in March, The Deffodils, Lines Written in Early Spring, To the Coockoo, The Solitary Reaper, Laodamia, Dion, Ode to Duty, Ode on Imitations of Immortality, The World is too much with us, Milton, Upon Westminister Bridge, Tintern Abbey, The Old Cumberland Beggar, An Evening Walk(1793), Descriptive Sketches(1793), She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways, Strange Fits of Pesssion Have I Known

S.T. Coleridge(1772-1834):- Lyrical Ballad(1798-with Wordsworth), Biographia Literaria(1817), Aids to Reflection, Table Talk, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel,

George Gordon Byron(1789-1724):- English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, Child Harold’s Pilgrimage, The Bride of Abydos, The Giaour, Manfred, Don Juan, Hours of Idleness, The Vision of Judgement, The Prisoner of Chillon, Lara, Marino Faliero

Percy Byshe Shelly(1792-1822):- The Necessity of Atheism, Queen Mab, Alaster, The Mask of Anarchy(1819), Prometheus Unbound(1818-19), The Revolt of Islam, Epipsychidion(1821), The Triumph of Life Adonais(1821), Ode to the Westwind, The Cloud, Ode to a Skylark, To Night, Music When Soft Voices Die, O World! O life! O Time!, When the Lamp is Shattered, Hellas, Lines to an Indian Air, England in 1819, Defence of Poetry(1821-prose), The Cenci(1819), Julian and Maddalo(1818), The Witch of Atlas(1820), The Indian Serenade, Ozymandias of Egypt

John Keats(1795-1821):- Endymion(1818), Hyperion(1819), Lamia(1819), Isabella or the Pot of Basil(1818), The Eve of St. Agnes(1819), La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to Autumn, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to psyche, On Melancholy

Henry Hart Milman(1791-1868):- The History of Jews(1829)

Thomas Love Peacock(1785-1866):- Melincourt(1829), Maid Marian(1822), The Misfortunes of Elphin(1829), Crotchet Castle(1831), Gryll Grange(1860), The Philosophy of Melancholy(1812), The Four Ages of Poetry, Headlong Hall(1816), Nightmare Abbey(1818)

Charles Lamb(1775-1834):- The Old Familiar Faces, To Hester, John Woodvil(1802-a play), Tales from Shakespeare(1807), Specimens of English Dramatic Poets(1808), The Essays of Elia(1823), The Last Essays of Elia(1833), The English Comic Writers(1819),

Thomas De Quincey(1785-1859):- Confession of an English O***m Eater(1821), The English Mail-Coach(1849), Suspiria de profundis(1845), On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

William Hazlitt(1778-1830):- Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays(1817), The English Poets(1818), The English Comic Writers(1819), The Drammatic literature of the Age of Elizabeth(1820), The Round Table(1817- a Collection of Essays), Table Talk or Original Essays on Men and Manners(1822), The Spirit of Age(1825), When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be, Bright Star, would I Were Steadfast as thou Art, On First Looking into Champman’s Homer, In a Drear-nighted December

Walter Scott(1771-1832):- Waverly(1814), Guy Mannering(1815), The Antiquity(1816), Old Mortality(1816), Rob Roy(1818), The Heart of Midlothean(1818), The Bride of Lammermoor(1819), Ivanhoe(1820), Queutin Durward(1823), Redgauntlet(1824), The Black Dwarf(1816), A Legend of Montrose(1819), The Abbot(1820), Kenilworth(1821), The Pirate(1822), The Fortunes of Nigel(1822), Peveril of the Peak(1823), St. Roman’s Well(1824), The Betrothed(1825), The Talisman(1825), Woodstock(1826),The Fair Maid of Perth(1828), Lives of Novelists(1824), Life of Napolean(1827), Tales of Grandfather(1830)

Jane Austen(1775-1817):- Pride and Prejudice(1813), Sense and Sensibility(1811), Northanger Abbey(1798), Mansfield Park(1814), Emma(1816), Persuasion(1818), Sadition(Unfinished)

Ann Radcliff(1764-1823):- The Misteries of Udolpho

Gregory Lewis(1775-1818):- The Monk

Mary Wollstonecraft(1759-97):- A Vindication of the Rights of Men, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Thomas Paine(1737-1809):- Rights of Man

James Hogg(1770-1835):- The Private Memories and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Alfred Lord Tennyson(1809-96):- Poems by Two Brothers(1827), Timbucto(1829), Poems Chiefly Lyrical(1830), Poems(1833), Ulysses, Locksley Hall, The Princess a Medley(1847), In Memoriam(1850), Maud and Other Poems(1855), Encoh Arden(1864(, Idylls of the King(1859), Queen Mary(1875-a play), Harold(1876-a play), Becket(1884-a Play), The Falcon(1879-a play), Palace of Art(1832), A Dream of Fair women(1823), The Cup(1889-a play), Demeter and Other Poems(1889), The Death of Oenone and Other Poems(1892)

Robert Browning(1812-89):- Pauline(1833), Paracelsus(1835), Stafford(1837), Sordello(1840), Bells and Pomegranates(1846), Pippa Passus(1841), King Victor and King Charles(1842), Dramatic Lyrics(1842), Dramatic Romances and Lyrics(1845), Men and Women(1855), Fra Lippo Lippi, Andrea del Sarto, Dramatis Personae(1864), The Ring and the Book(1869), Certain People of Importance in their Day(1887), Asolando(1889)
Matthew Arnold(1822-88):- Essays in Criticism(1865 and 1889), Culture and Anarchy(1869), Literature and Dogma(1873), the Strayed Reveller and Other Poems(1849), Empedocles on Etna and other poems(1852), New Poems(1867), Dover Beach, Thyrsis-a Monoday, Scholar Gypsy, Sohrab and Rustum, Rugby Chapel, Balder Dead, On translating Homer(1861)

Arthur Hugh Clough(1819-61):- The Bothie of Toper-nafusich, Amours de Voyage(1849), Dipsychus(1850), Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth

Elizabeth Barrett Browning(1806-61):- An Essay on Mind(1826), Prometheus Bound(1833), The Seraphim and Other Poems(1838), Sonnets from the Portuguese(1847), Aurora Leigh(1857)

Edward Fitzgerald(1809-83):- Euphranor A Dialogue on Youth(1851), Translation of Rubaiat

H.W. Longfellow(1807-82):- Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea(1835), Voices of the Night(1839), Evangeline(1847), The Song of Hiawatha(1855-indian folk tales)

William Morris(1834-94):- The Life and Death of Jason(1867), The Earthly Paradise(1870), Hope and Fears for Art(1982-a lecture), Signs of Change(1888-a lecture), A Dream of John Ball(1888), News from Nowhere(1891), A Tale of the House of the Wolfings(1889), The Roots of the Mountains(1890), the Story of the Glittering Plain(1891), The Sundering Flood (1898), Sigurd the Volsung(1876)

Algernon Charles Swineburne(1837-1909):- Atlanta in Calydon(1865), Songs Before Sunrise(1871), Erechtheus(1876), Tristram and other Poems(1882), Chasterland(1865-a play), Bothwell(1874-a play), Mary Stuart(1881-a play), William Blake(1868-critcism), A Study of Shakespeare(1880 criticism), A Study of Ben Jonson(1889)

Christina Georgina Rosetti(1830-94):- Goblin Market and Other Poems(1864), The Prince’s Progress and Other poems(1866), A Pageant and Other Poems(1881)

Dante Gabriel Rosetti(1828-82):- Ballads and Sonnets(1881), The Blessed Damozel

Charles Dickens(1812-70):- David Copperfield(1849), Great Expectation(1860), Oliver Twist(1837), Pickwick Papers(1836), Nicholas Nickleby(1838), Martin Chuzzlewit(1843), Little Dorrit(1855), Baraby Rudge(1841- historical novel), The Uncommercial Traveller, Bleak House(1852), Our Mutual Friend(1864), The Tale of Two Cities(1859), A Christmas Carol(1843), Hard Times(1854), Sketches by Boz(1836), Dombey and Son(1846), Old Curiosity Shop(1840), Mystery of Edwin Drood(incomplete)

William Makepiece Thackeray(1811-63):- The Yellow plush Correspondence (1837-38), The Book of Snobs(1849), The History of Samuel Titmarsh and The Great Hoggarty diamond(1841), The Fitzboodles Papers(1842-43), The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon(1844), Vanity Fair(1847-48), The History of Pendennis(1848-50), The History of Esmond(1852), The Virginians(1857-59), Lovel the Widower(1860), The Adventures of Phillip(1861-62), The Round About Papers(1860-63), The English Humorists of the Eighteenth century(1853), The Four Georges(1860), Rebecca and Rowena(1850), The Rose and the Ring(1855), Ivanhoe the Legend of the Rhine(1845), The Newcomers(1853-55)

Charlotte Bronte(1816-55):- The Professor(1857), Jane Eyre(1847), Shirley(1849), Villete(1853)

Emily Bronte(1818-48):- Wuthering Hights(1847)

Anne Bronte(1820-49):- Agnes Gray(1847), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall(1848

George Eliot( Mary Ann Evans 1819-80):- Life of Jesus, Scenes of Clerical Life(1857)- (a collection of Short stories), Adam Bede(1859), The Mill on the Floss(1860), Silas Marner:The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Romola(1863), Felix Holt the Radical(1866), Middlemarch a Study of Provincial Life(1872), Daniel Deronda(1876), Impressions of Theophastus Such(1879 a collection of essays),

George Meredith(1828-1909):- The Ordeal of Richard Feveral(1859), Evan Harrington(1861), Emilia in England(1864), Rhoda Flemin(1865), Vittoria(1867), The Adventures of Harry Richmond(1871) Beauchamp’s Career(1876), The Egoist(1879), The Tragic Comediens(1880), Diana of the Crossways(1885), One of Our Conquerors(1891), The Amazing Marriage(1895)Benjamin Disraeli(1804-81):- Vivian Grey(1827),, The Voyage of Captain Popavilla(1828), Contarini Fleming aPsychological Autobiography(1832), Henrietta Temple(1837), Coningsby or the New Generation(1844), Sybil or the Two Nations New Crusade(1845), Tancred or the New Crusade(1847), The Wondrous Tale of Alroy and the Rise of Iskander(1833)

Anthony Trollope(1815-82):- The Kellys and the O’Kellys(1848), The Warden(1855), Barchester Towers(1857), Doctor Thorne(1858), The Last Chronicle of Barset(1867), Phineas Redux(1874)

Wilkie Collins(1824-89):- The Dead secret(1857), the Woman in White(1860), No Name(1862), The Moonstone(1868)

Charles Kingsley(1819-75):- Westward Ho(1855), Alton Locke Tailor and Poet(1850), Yeast a Problem(1848), Hypalia or New Foes with an old Face(1853)

Robert louis Stevenson(1850-94):- AN Inland Voyage(1878), Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes(1879), Virginibus pueresque(1881), New Arabian Nighys(1882), Treasure Island(1883), The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr Hyde(1886), Kidnapped(1886), The Black Arrow(1888), The Master of Ballantrae(1889), Catriona(1893), Weir of Hermiston(unfinished), A Child’s Garden of Verses(1885 Poetry), Underwords(1887 Poetry), Jude the Obscure(1895), A Group of Nobles Dames A short story, Life’s Little Ironies a Short story, A Changed Man a Short story, The Waiting Supper and Other Tales a short story, Wessex poems Poetry, The Dyansts(Poetry), Winter Words(poetry)

Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell(1810-65):- Mary Barton a Tale of Manchester Life(1849), North and South(1855), Sylvia’s Lovers(1863), Wives and Daughters(1866), Cranford(1853), My Lady Ludlow(1858), Cousin Phillis(1864), The life of Charlotte Bronte(1857)

John Ruskin(1819-1900):- Modern Painters, The Seven Lamps of Architecture(1849),The Stones of Venice(1851-53 in three volumes), The Two Paths(1859), Unto this Last(1860), Sesame and Lilies (1865), The Crown of Wild Olive(1866)

Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881):- The Life of Schiller(1825), Sartor Resarus(1834), The French Revolution(1837), Life of John Sterling(1851), Chartism(1840), Past and Present(1843), The Heroes Hero Worship and the heroic in History(1841),

Thomas Babington Macaulay(1800-59):- Lays of Ancient Rome(1842 Poetry), History of England(1849), Essays on Milton(1825)

Thomas Hardy(1840-1928):- Desperate Remedies(1871), Under the Green Wood Tree(1872), A Pair of Blue Eyes(1873), Far From The Madding Crowd(1874), The Hand of Ethelberta(1876), The Return of the Native(1878), The Trumpet Major(1880), A Laodicean(1881), Two on a Tower(1882), The Mayor of the Casterbridge(1886), The Woodlanders(1887), Tess of the D’Urbervilles(1891), The Well Beloved(1892), Darkling Thrush(1746)

Joseph Conrad(1857-1924):- Aimayer’s Folly(1985), An Outcast of the Islands(1896), The Ni**er of the Narcissus(1897), Lord Jim A Tale(1900), Youth A Narrative(1902), Heart of Darkness(1902), Nostromo a Tale of the Seaboard, The Secret of Agent(1907), The Shadow Line(1917), Suspense A Napoleonic Novel(1925)

Herbert George Well(1866-1946):- The Time Machine(1895), The Wonderful Visit(1895), The Island of Dr. Moreau(1896), The Invisible Man(1897), The War of the Worlds(1898), When The Sleeper Walks(1899), The First Men in the Moon(1901), The Food of the Gods(1904), Kipps(1905), Experiment in Autobiography(1934), Marriage(1912), The Contemporary Novel(1911), The History of Mr. Polly

James Joyce(1882-1941):- Dubliners(1900), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man(1916), Ulysses(1922), Finnegan’s Wake(1939)

Virginia Woolf(1882-1941):- The Voyage Out(1941), Jacob’s Room(1922), Mrs. Dalloway(1925), To The Light House(1927), The Waves(1931), Flush(1933), The Years(1937), Orlando(1928 a Biography), The Common Reader(1925), Roger Fry(1940), The Death of the Moth(1942), Between the Acts(1941 unfinished), Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown(1924 an essay), A Room of One’s Own(1929 a feminist essay)

Graham Greene(1904-91):- Battlefield(1934), England Made Me(1935), Brighton Rock(1938), The Power and the Glory(1940), The Heart of the Matter(1948), The End of the Affair(1951), The Quiet American(1955), A Burnt Out Case(1961), The Comedians(1966), Travels with My Aunt(1969), May We Borrow Your Husband(1967 short fiction), Shades of Greene(1976 short story), A Gun for Sale(1936 short story), The Ministry of Fear(1943 short story), The Third Man(1959 short story), Our Man in Havana(1958)

Charles Percy Snow(lord snow 1905-80):- Strangers and Brothers(1940), Time of Hope(1949), The Masters(1951), The New Men(1954), The Conscience of the Rich(1958), Corridors of Power(1964), The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution(1959 a lecture)

Kingsley Amis(b. 1922):- Lucky Jim(1954), That Uncertain Feeling(1955), I Like it Here(1958), Take a Girl Like You(1960), Girl 20(1971), The Anti death League(1966)

William Butler Yeats(1865-1939):- The Wanderings of Oisin(1889), The Wind among the Reeds(1899), The Shadowy Waters(1900), The Green Helmet and Other Poems(1910), Responsibilities(1914), The Wild Swans at Coole(1919), The Tower(1928), The Winding Stair and Other Poems(1933), Dramas: The countess Cathleen(1892), The Land of Heart’s Desire(1894), The Shadowy Waters(1900), Cathleen ni Haulihan(1902), On Baile’s Strandd(1904), The Hour Glass(1904), The King;s Threshold(1904), Deirdre(1907), The Resurrection(1913), At the Hawk’s Well(1917), The Only Jealousy of Emer(1919), Calvary(1921), The Cat and the Moon(1926), Ideas of Good and Evil(1903 prose), Discoveries(1907 Prose)

Gerard Manley Hopkins(1844-89):- Spring, God’s Grandeur, The Caged Skylark, Felix Rendal, Pied Beauty, Inversnaid, Harry Ploughman, The Wreck of the Deutschland, The Windhover, Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves, That Nature Heraditean Fire

Anthony Powell( b. 1905):- The Music of Time(1951)

John Wain(b. 1925):- Hurry on Down(1953)

John Braine:- Room at the Top(1957), Life at the Top(1957), The Jealous God(1965)l

Alan Silitoe(b.1928):- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning(1958),

Angus Wilson(1913-91):- The Wrong Set(1949 short stories), Such Darling Dodos(1950 short stories), Old Men at the 200(1961 short stories), No laughing Matter(1967), If By Magic(1973), The Middle Ages of Mrs. Eliot(1958), Late Call(1964)

Anthony Burgess(b. 1917):- Malayan Trilogy, Time For a Tiger(1956), The Enemy in the Blanket(1958), Beds in the East(1959), A Clockwork Orange(1961)

Iris Murdoch(b.1919):- Under the Net(1954)

Muriel Spark(b. 1918):- Memento Mori(1959), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie(1962)

Dorris Lessing(b. 1919):- The Grass is Singing(1950), children of violence, Martha Quest(1952):- A Proper Marriage(1954), A Ripple from the Storm(1958), Land Locked(1965), The Four Gated City(1969), The Golden Note Book(1962)

Margaret Drabble(b. 1939):- Millstone(1965), The Needle’s Eye(1972)

J.G. Ferrel(1935-79):- The Siege of Krishnapur(1973 Based on Indian Mutiny)

T.S.Eliot(1888-1965):- Gerontion, Prufrock and Other Observation(1917), The Waste Land(1922), The Hollow Men(1925), Ash Wednesday(1930), Four Quartets(1944), Sweeny Anonistes(1927 a drama), The Rock(1934 a drama), Murder in the Cathedral(1935 drama), The Family Reunion(1939 drama), The Cocktail Party(1949 drama), The confidential Clerk(1953 drama), The Elder Statesman(1958 drama), The Sacred Wood(1920 essay), The Idea of a Christian Societyk(1939), What is a Classic?(1945), For Lancelot Andrews(1928), The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism(1933), Elizabethan Essays(1934), After Strange Gods(1934), Points of View(1941)

Wystan Hugh Auden(1907-1973):- The Orators(1932), Look Stranger(1936(, New Year Letter(1941), The Age of Anxiety(1948), Collected Shorter Poems(1950), The Poet’s Tongue(1935), The Oxford Book of Light Verse(1938)

Stephen Spender(1909-77):- Poems(1933), Vienna(1934), Ruins and Visions(1942), Collected Poems(1955), The Destructive Element(1935 critical work), Poetry since(1947), World Within World(1951 autobiography)

Day Lewis(1909-72):- Transitional Poem(1929), From Feathers to Iron (1931), The Magnetic Mountain(1933), A Time to Dance(1935), Overtures to Death and Other Poems(1938), Word Over All(1943), Poems(1948), The Georgics of Virgil(1940 translation), The Friendly Tree(1936 novel), Starting Point(1937 novel), Child of Misfortune(1939 novel), Hope for Poetry(1934 criticism), The Poetic Image(1947 criticism)

Louis Macneice(1907-63):- The Earth Compels(1938), Autumn Journal(1939), Plant and Phantom(1941), Spring Board, Holes in the Sky(1948)

Dylan Marlais Thomas(1914-53):- 18 poems(1934), Twenty five poems(1836), The Map of love(1939), The Deaths and Entrance(1946), Under Milk Wood(1954 verse play),

Dame Edith Sitwell(1887-1964):- The Sleeping Beauty(1924), Troy Park(1925), collected English Eccentrices(1933), Aspects of Modern Poetry(1934), Street Songs(1942), The Son of the Cold(1945)

Ezra Pound(1885-1972):- The Pisan Cantos(1948), Hugh Selwyn Mobberly(1920)

Robert Bridges(1844-1930):- The Growth of Love(1876), Prometheus the Fire Giver(1883), Eros and Psyche(1885), Poems in Classical Prosody(1903), The Feast of Bacchus(1889), Palicio(1890), The Christian Captives(1890), The Return of Ulysses(1890), Achilles in Scyros(1890), The Humours of the Court(1893), Nero Port 1 and 2(1885 and 1894)

John Masefield(1878-1967):- Ballads and Poems(1910), The Everlasting Mercy(1911), The Widow in the Bye Street(1912), The Daffodil Fields(1913), Lollingdon Downs(1917), Dauber(1913), Reynard the Fox(1919), Right Royal(1920), The Land Workers(1943), Midsummer Night(1928), End and Beginning(1934), wondering(1943), Sand Harker(1924 novel), The Bird of Dawning (1933 novel), The Tragedy of Nan(1909), The Campden Wonder(1907), The Tragedy Pompey the Great(1910), Great(1910), Good Friday(1917), Melloney Holtspur(1922), The Trial of Jesus(1925), The Coming of Christ(1978)

Walter De La Mare(1873-1956):- Songs of Childhood(1902), Peacock Pie(1913), Bells and Grass(1941), The Traveller(1946), Early the Morning(1935), Love(1943)

Siegfried Sassoon(1886-1967):- Counter Attack(1918), The Heart’s Journey(1928), Vigils(1935), Memoirs of a Fox hunting Man(1929), Memoirs of an Infantry Officer(1930), Sherston’s Progress(1936),

George Bernard Shaw:- Wiower’s House(1892) Buoyant Billions, The Philanderer(1893), Mrs. Warren’s Proffesion(1894), Arms and the Man(1894), Candida(1895), The Man of Destiny(1897), The Devil’s Disciple(1897), You Never Can Tell(1899), Caesar and Cleopatra(1899), Captain Brassbound’s Converison(1900), Man and Superman(1903), John Bull’s Other Island(1904), Major Barbara(1905), The Doctor’s Dilemma(1906), Getting Married(1908), The Shewing up of Blanco, Posnet(1909), Misalliance(1910), The Dark Lady of the Sonnets(1910), Fanny’s First Play(1911), Androcles and the Lion(1912), Heartbreak house(1921), Back to Methuselah(1921), St. joan(1923), The Apple Cart(1929), Too True to be Good(1932), On the Rocks(1933), The Six Calais(1934), The Simoleton of the Unexpected Isle(1934), Pygmalion(1913), The Millionairs(1936), Geneva(1938), Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, The Quintessence of Ibsenism, Dramatic Opinions and Essays, The intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism, Everybody’s Political What is What, Immaturity(novel), The Irrational Knot(novel), Love Among the Artists(novel), Cashel Byron’s Profession(novel)

John Mellington Synge(1871-1909):- The Shadow of the Glen(1903), Riders to the Sea(1904), The Well of the Saints(1905), The Tinker’s Wedding(1907), The Pl***oy of the Western World(1907)

Henry Arthur Jones(1851-1929):- The Silver King(1882), Saints and Sinners(1884), The Temper(1893), The Liars(1897), Judah(1890), Mrs. Dane’s Defence(1900)

John Galsworthy(1867-1933):- The Country House(1907 novel), Fraternity(1909 novel), The Patrician(1911 novel), The Dark Flower(1913 novel), The Free Lands(1915 novel), Beyond(1917 novel), Saint’s Progress(1919 novel), Maid in Waiting(1931 novel), Flower Wilderness(1932 novel), The Man of Property(1906 novel), The Forsyte Saga(1922 novel), The Silver Box(1906 drama), Justice(1910 drama), The Skin

Game(1920 drama), Loyalties(1922 drama), Escape(1926 drama), The Inn of Tranquility(1912)

Oscar Wilde(1856-1900):- The Sphinx(1894 poetry), The Ballad of Reeding Gaol(1998 poetry), The Canterville Ghost(1887 prose), The Happy Prince and the Other Tales(1888prose), The Picture of Dorian Gray(1890 novel), De Profoundis(1897), Vera or the Nihilists(1880 drama), The Duchess of Padua(1883 drama), An Ideal Husband(1895 drama)

Sean O’ Casey(1884-1964):- The Shadow of a Gunman(1923), Juno and the Polycock(1924), The Plough and the Stars(1926), The Silver Tassie(1929), Within the Gates(1933), The Star Turns Red(1940), Red Roses for Me(1946), Oak Leaves and Lavender(1946), Cockadoodle Dandy(1949),

William Somerset Maugham(1874-1965):- A Man of Honour(1903), Lady Frederick(1907), Mrs. Dot(1908), Jack Straw(1908), Home and Beauty(1919), The Circle(1921), The Constant Wife(1927), For Services Rendered(1932), Caesar’s Wife(1919)

J.B. Priestley(1894-1984):- Dangerous Comer(1932), Time and the Conways(1937), I Have been Here Before(1937), An Inspector Calls(1946), When we are Married(1938), A Severed Head(1964)

Harold Pinter(b. 1930):- The Birthday Party(1958), The Dumb Waiter(1960), The Care Taker(1960), A Night Out(1961), The Home Coming(1969), Old Times(1971), Silence(1969)

Arnold Wesker(b. 1932):- Chicken Soup with Barley(1960), Roots(1960), I am Talking About Jerusalem(1960)

Rebecca West:- The Return of the Soldier(1918), Harriet Hume: A London Fantasy(1929), Black Lamb and Grey Falcon(1941), A Train of Powder(1955), The Fountain Overflows(1956), The Birds Fall Down(1966)

Grahaam Greene:- The Man Wthin(1929), Brighton Rock(1938), The Power and the Glory(1940), The Ministry of Fear(1943), The Heart of the Matter(198), The Third Man(1950), The End of the Affair(1951)

Anthony Powell:- A Dance to the Music of Time, A Question of Upbringing(1951), The Soldier’s Art(1966), Hearing Secret Harmonies(1975)

Christopher Frye:- A Phoenix too Frequent(1946), The Lady’s Not for Burning(1948), Venus Observed(1950), A Sleep of Prisoners(1951)

Terence Rattigan:- French Without Tears(1936), The Winshow Boy(1946), The Deep Blue Sea(1952)

Arthur Miller:- Death of a Salesman(1949), The Crucible(1952), A view From the Bridge(1955),

Samuel Beckett:- Murphy(1938), Molloy(1951), Malone Meart(1951), L’innomable(1953), Waiting For Godot(1955), Endgame(1957), Krapp’s last Tape(1960), Happy Days(1962), Film (1964), Eh Joe(1965), Ghost trio(1977), Footfalls(1976), That Time(1976)

John Osborne:- Look Back in Anger(1956), The Entertainer(1957), Luther(1961), Inadmissible evidence(1964), A Better Class of Person(1981), Déjà vu(1992)

Angus Wilson:- The Wrong set (1949), Such Darling Dodos(1950), Hamlock and After(1952), Anglo Saxon Attitudes(1956), The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot(1958), Late Call(1964), Old Men at the Zoo(1961), No laughing Matter(1967), As if By Magic(1973), Setting the World on Fire(1980)

Irish Murdoch:- The Flight from the Enchanter(1955), The Sea the Sea(1978), The Bell(1958), Bruno’s Dream(1969), A Fairly Honourable defeat(1970), The Black Prince(1973), The Philosopher’s Pupil(1983)

Philip Larkin:- The North Ship(1945), Jill(1946 novel), The Less Deceived(1955), The Whitsun Weddings(1964), High Windows(1974)

Dorris Lessing:- Children of Violence(1962-69), The Golden Notebook(1962), The Four Gated City(1969)

Angela Carter:- FireWorks(1974), The Passion of New Eve(1977), The Bloody Chamber(1979), Quartet in Autumn(1978), Nights at the Circus(1984), Wise Children(1991)

John Fowles:- The Collector(1963), The French Lieutenant’s Women(1969), The Magus(1966), Mantissa(1982),

Joe Orton:- Entertaining Mr. Sloane(1964), Loot(1966), The Ruffian on the Stair(1967), The Erpingham Camp(1967), What the Butler Saw(1969)

Tom Stoppard:- If you’ re Glad I’ll Be Frank(1966), The Real Inspector Hound(1968), Jumpers(1972), Travesties(1974), Every Good Boy Deserves Favour(1977), Professional foul(1978), Hapgood(1988), Arcadia(1994)Caryl Churchill:- Owners(1972), Cloud Nine(1979), Top Girls(1982), Serious Money(1987), Mad Forest: a Play from Romania(1990), Heart’s desire(1997), Blue Kettle(1997)

Brian Friel:- Philadelphia Here I come, The Freedom of the City, Translations(1980), Making History(1980), Dancing at Laughnasa(1990)

Ted Hughes:- The Hawk in the Rain(1957), Lupercal(1960), Wodwo(1967), Crow(1972), Tales from Ovid Twenty four Passages from the Metamarphosis(1997), Birthday Letters(1998)

Geoffrey Hill:- For the Unfallen(1959), Mercian Hymns(1971), Tenebrae(1978), The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy(1983), The Triumph Of Love(1999)

Malcolm Bradbury:- The History Man(1975), Rates of Exchange(1983), Why Come to Slaka(1986)

Ian Mcewan:- The Cement Garden(1978), The Comfort of Strangers(1981), Black Dogs(1992), Amsterdam(1998)

Alisdair Gray:- A Life in Four Books(1981), Poor Things(1992)

Jeanette Winterson:- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit(1985), The Passion(1987), Sexing the Cherry(1989), Written on the Body(1992)

Antonia Susan Byatt:- The Virgin in the Garden(1978), Possession(1990)

Allan Holinghurst:- Swimming Pool Liberary(1988), The Folding Star(1994), The Spell(1998)

Charles Palliser:- The Quincure(1989), The Unburried(1999)

Peter Ackroyd:- The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde(1983),Hawksmoor(1985), Chatterton(1987), Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem(1994)

Salman Rushdie:- Midnight’s Children(1981), The Satanic Verses(1988), The Moor’s Last Sigh(1995)

Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist of the Floatings(1986), The Remains of the Day(1989)

Louis de Bernieres:- The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts(1990), Senior Vivo and the Coca Lord(1991), The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman(1992)), Captain Corelli’s Mandolin(1994)
Mulkraj Anand
(1905-2004)
 Mulk Raj Anand was an Indian writer in English literature notable for his depiction of the lives of the
poorer castes in traditional Indian society.
 He is notable for incorporating Punjabi and Hindustani idioms into English.
 His first main novel “Untouchable” (1935) was a chilling expose of the day-to-day life of a member of
Indian’s untouchable caste.
 For introducing Hindi and Punjabi idioms, Anand is regarded as India’s Charles Dickens.
 He is one of the pioneers of indo Indo-American fiction together with R. K. Narayan, Ahmed Ali and
Raja Rao.
 His first prose essay was a response to the su***de of an aunt in his family who had been ex-
communicated by his family for sharing a meal with a Muslim woman.
 The introduction of untouchable is written by E. M. Forster. Forster wrote: “Avoiding rhetoric and
circumlocution, it has gone straight to the heart of its subjects and purified it”.
 He spent half of his life in London and half in India.
 George Orwell penned a favorable review of Anand’s 1942 novel, The Sword and the Sickle.
 He returned to India in 1946.
 He founded a literary magazine “Marg” 1946.
 In 1950, he embarked on a project to write a seven part autobiography. One part Morning Face, won him
Sahitya Akademi Award.
 In 1952, he was awarded The International Peace for World Peace.
 He called himself ‘bogus professor’.
 He is called Zola or Balzac of India.
 He is also known as “Founding Fathers of Indian English novels”.
 He met Forster, while he was working on T. S. Eliot’s magazine “Criterian”.
 He combines anthropology, history and fiction.
Important novels of Anand

 Untouchable (1935)
 Coolie (1936)
 Two Leaves and a Bud (1937), Protagonist- Gangu.
 Lal Singh Trilogy:
 The Village (1937) –Protagonist: Lal Singh
 Across the Black Water (1939)
 The Sword and the Sickle (1942); (the title is given by George Orwell)
 The Big Heart (1945) Protagonist: Ananta
 The Private Life of an Indian Prince (It is autobiographical in nature and deals with the abolition ofprincely states system in India).
Autobiographies
 Seven Summers (1951) (It is in 7 volumes. When compiled it was titled The Seven Ages of Man).
 The Morning Face (1968)
 Conversations of Bloomsbury (1981)
 It is about his life in London during the heyday of Bloomsbury group.
Untouchable (1935)
 This novel was inspired by his aunt’s experience when she had a meal with a Muslim women and was
treated as an outcast by his family.
 It depicts a day in the life of ‘Bakha’, a young sweeper, who is untouchable due to his work of cleaning
latrines.
 The entire plot gives us the account of events happening in a single day in the life of Bakha. He doesn’t
like to do toilet cleaning but wants to do study and be a learned man. Lakha is the father of Bakha, who is
a bit of antagonist in the novel, his profession is sweeper.
 The outcasts were not allowed to draw water from wells, enter temples or basically touch anything, as it
would make anything impure and corrupt.
 In the end of the novel, Anand presents three answers to the malpractice of untouchability.
 Bakha in offered to accept Christianity that has no caste system and so he will be no longer an outcaste.
But Bakha fears changing his religion.
 Sohini is the sister of Bakha.
 Mahatma Gandhi comes to the village and educates everyone on untouchability.
 In the concluding paragraph, a person randomly comes into the scene and informs everyone about a
machine (perhaps toilet flush) that will clean faecal matters automatically
 Bakha thinks that this will be a solution to all his problems.
Coolie (1936)
 The book is highly critical of British rule in India and India’s caste system.
 The plot revolves around a 14-year old boy Munoo and his plight due to poverty and exploitation aided
by social and political structure in place.
 Munoo who at his early stage gets into obscurity of his own exist
TGT: Arundhati Roy
(1959 –)

 Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who is best known for her novel ‘God of Small Things’ (1997)
which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997.
 She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes.
 She was awarded with Sahitya Akademi Award in 2006.
 She is labeled as diasporic writer.
Important Works
Fictions
1. The God of Small Things (1997)
 It centers around a tragedy that sends a family apart and its lasting effects on the twins who were at the
heart of it.
 The book explores how the small things affect people’s behavior and their lives.
 The story is set in Ayemenem (Kerala).
 Fraternal twins Rahel and Esthappen are seven years old in 1969.
 Ammu is the most important female character. ‘Baba’ is Rahel & Estha’s father who is divorced by
Ammu when the children were very young.
 The story enters in 1990 as the young women Rahel returns to her village to be re-united with her twin
brother Esthappen at the age of 31.
 The twins used to call themselves as “Me” or “Us”.
 The day before Margaret and Sophie arrived, the family visits a theatre to see “The Sound of Music”
where Estha is molested by the “Orangedrink Lemondrink Man” a beverage vendor.
 Velutha is an untouchable, a dalit. His family has been working for the IPE family for generations.
 Rahel and Estha form an unlikely bond with Velutha and come to love him, despite his untouchable
status.
 When Ammu’s relationship with Velutha is discovered, Ammu is locked in her room and Velutha is
banished.
 In her rage, Ammu blames the twins for her misfortune and calls them “Millstones around her neck”.
Non-Fictions
1. The End of Imagination (1998)
2. The Algebra of Infinite Justice (2001)
3. War is Peace (2001)
4. The Greater Common of God (1999)
5. Walking with the Comrades (2010)

 Anita Mazumdar Desai is an Indian novelist. She has been shortlisted for Booker Prize but didn’t get.
 She was awarded with Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel “Fire and Mountain”.
 She was born in Mussoorie, India, to a German mother Toni Nime and a Bengali businessman D.N.
Mazumdar.
 Her husband Ashvin Desai also has written a book “Between Eternities: Ideas on Life and the Cosmos”.
 She published her first novel Cry, the Peacock (1963).
 She considers “Clear Light of the Day” (1986) her most autobiographical work as it is set during her
coming of age and also in the same neighborhood in which she grew up.
 In 1984, she published “In Custody” about an Urdu poet in his declining days.
 Her novel The Zig Zag Way is set in 20th century Mexico, appeared in 2004 and her latest collection of
short stories “The Artist of Disappearance” (2011).
 She has written 10 novels and many short stories. Her collection of stories for children The Peacock
Garden, Cat on a House Boat and Village by the Sea.
Awards
1. Sahitya Akademi Award (1978): for Fire and Mountain.
2. Short listed for Booker Prize for Clear Light of the Day (1980), In Custody (1984) and Fasting Feasting
(1999)
3. Sahitya Akademi Fellowship (2007)
4. Padma Bhushan (2014)
Important Works of Anti Desai
1. The Artist of Disappearing (2011).
2. The Zig Zag Way (2004): It is a novel about an American academic and writer who goes with his girlfriend
to Mexico and re-discovers his passion for fiction writing.
3. Diamond Dust and Other Stories (2000).
4. Fasting Feasting (1999): The novel is in two parts, in India and America. Main characters are Uma, and
Arun. It focuses on the life of the unmarried Uma, a spinster and the family’s older daughter with Arun,
the boy and baby of family.
5. Journey to Ithaca (1995).
6. Baumgartner Bombay (1983).
7. In Custody (1984): The novel is set in India. It focuses on the decline of Urdu language. Main character is
Devan Sharma. Other characters –
 Nur - Urdu poet
 Murad – a cold friend of Devan.
 Siddiqui – Devan’s fellow lecturer.
8. The Village by the Sea (1982)
 It is an Indian family story that is set in a small Village called Thul, in western India. Main Character –
Lila (13 years) and her brother Hari.
9. Clear Light of Day (1980)
 This novel is primarily set in Old Delhi. The story describes as adults and moving back into their lives
throughout the novel.
 The novel is split into 4 sections covering the ‘Das’ family set at various times during partition on Old
Delhi the tension between Hindu and Muslims. It is a partition novel.
 In this novel, Quotes from various poets are used as –
T.S. Eliot’s (The Wasteland and Burnt No