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- The Poems of Wilfred Owen
Unfortunately, war is an unmitigated part of the human...
- The Red Queen
Perhaps she had planned something else to sever the White...
- Fiona Hill
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- Spencer Wells
Spencer Wells is a geneticist, anthropologist, author,...
- Tell Me, Pretty Maiden
I also write the Agatha-winning Royal Spyness series, about...
- Midnight is a Place
Joan Aiken is a master at creating atmosphere, and Midnight...
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7 gru 2015 · This list includes no nonfiction, no plays, no narrative or epic poems (no Paradise Lost or Beowulf), no short story collections (no Morte D’Arthur) – novels only, by British authors (which...
15 mar 2023 · From Dickens and Shakespeare to Jane Austen, these famous British writers are renowned not only in the United Kingdom but across the globe.
George Orwell, the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was a prolific British writer known for his lucid prose, social criticism, and opposition to totalitarianism. His most famous works include the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
6 mar 2024 · We list the top 10 British writers who make up our great literary landscape, from William Shakespeare to Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond
Charles Dickens (1812–70) emerged on the literary scene in the late 1830s and soon became probably the most famous novelist in the history of British literature.
All the books on the list "The 100 Greatest British Novels" from BBC. BBC Culture polled book critics outside the UK, to give an outsider’s perspective on the best in British literature.
