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English Literature: Authors and their famous Works

Here is the list of famous authors of English literature and their famous works


Sr. No

Authors

Famous Works

1

William Faulkner

The Hamlet

2

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

3

Arvind Adiga

The white tiger, Last man in tower, Selection Day

4

Kamala Markandaya

Bombay tiger, The Nowhere Man

5

Arthur Miller

Death of a salesman, All My Sons

6

Ben Johnson

Alchemist

7

Krishna Kripalani

Gandhi a life

8

Aurobindo

The life divine

9

Jayanta Mahapatra

Relationship

10

Raja Rao

The serpent and the rope, kanthapura, The cat and Shakespeare

11

Bhabani Bhattacharya

He who rides a tiger, so many hungers

12

Ruskin Bond

The Last Tiger, The Blue Umbrella

13

Anita Desai

Fire on the mountain, cry the peacock, Bye blackbird

14

Shashi Deshpande

That long silence

15

Shobha De

Sisters, selective memory

16

Nargis Dalal

The sisters

17

Rama Mehta

Inside the haveli

18

Salman Rushdie

Midnight children, The satanic verses

19

Nayantara Sahgal

Storm in Chandigarh, Rich like us, Prison and chocolate cake

20

Khushwant Singh

I shall not hear the Nightingale, the company of women

21

Vikram Seth

A suitable boy the golden gate

22

Arun Joshi

The foreigner, The strange case of billy Biswas

23

Amitav Ghosh

The sea of poppies, the shadow lines, The Calcutta chromosome

24

Shashi Tharoor

An era of darkness the great Indian novel

25

K.R.S Iyengar

Indian writing in English

26

Bruce King

Modern Indian poetry in English

27

Jhumpa Lahiri

Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake

28

Arundhati Roy

The God of small things

29

Ruskin Bond

Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra

30

Wordsworth

The prelude, Tintern Abbey

31

Eliot

Preludes

32

D.H. Lawrence

A Prelude

33

Jonathan Swift

The battle of books, A tale of a tub, Gulliver travels

34

John Milton

Paradise lost, Areopagitica, Paradise regained, Samson agonists

35

Chaucer

Canterbury tales

36

Oliver Goldsmith

The Traveler the deserted village, The vicar of Wakefield

37

Matthew Arnold

Sohrab and Rustum culture and anarchy, Essay in criticism

38

Mary Wollstonecraft

A vindication of the rights of women

39

Thomas love peacock

The four ages of poetry

40

Geoffrey Chaucer

The House of Fame, Canterbury Tales, Legends Of Good Women

41

Wycliffe

The Bible

42

Sir Thomas More

Utopia

43

Sir Thomas Malory

More d’ Arthur

44

Edmund Spenser

The Faerie Queene, The Shepherdess Calendar, Amoretti, Epithalamion, Prothalamion

45

Philip Sydney

Astrophel and Stella, An Apologies for Poetrie

46

Ben Jonson

Alchemist, Volpone or The Fox, The Poetaster

47

Thomas Sackville

Gorboduc

48

George Peele

The famous chronicle of King Edward 1

49

Christopher Marlowe

Edward 2, Doctor Faustus, The Jew Of Malta, Tamburlaine the Great

50

William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

51

Thomas Kyd

The Spanish Tragedy

52

John Webster

The Duchess of Malfi

53

Thomas Heywood

A Woman Killed with Kindness, The English Traveller

54

Francis Bacon

Essays, The New Atlantis, Advancement of Learning

55

John Fletcher

The Maids Tragedy

56

Andrew Marvell

To His Coy Mistress, The Rehearsal Transposed

57

John Donne

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, Aires and Angels

58

John Dryden

Mac Flecknoe, The Hind and the Panther, All For Love

59

John Bunyan

The Puligrims Progress, The Holy War

60

John Locke

Essay on Human Understanding

61

Alexander Pope

Pastoral, An Essay On Criticism, Dunciad, The Rape Of The Lock, Essay on Man, The Messiah

62

John Gay

The Beggar's Opera, The Streets Of London

63

Dr. Samuel Johnson

London, The Vanity Of Human Wishes, Preface to Shakespeare

64

Oliver Goldsmith

The Deserted Village, She Stoops to Conquer, The Vicar Of Wakefield, The Traveller

65

Richard Steele

The Tattler, The Guardian, The Funeral

66

Henry Fielding

Tom Jones, The adventures of Joseph Andrews

67

William Blake

The Tyger, Song of Innocence, Song of Experience

68

Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, The Bard, The Progress Of Poesy

69

William Wordsworth

The Leech Gatherer, Lyrical Ballads, To Milton, Ode to Duty, The Borders

70

Walter Scott

Old Mortality, Tales of Grandfather

71

Robert Southey

The Scholar, Life Of Nelson

72

Coleridge

Biograohia Literaria, Kubla Khan, Christabel

73

Lord Byron

Don Juan, The vision of Judgement

74

P.B.Shelley

The Cenci, Ode to Skylark, Defense of Poetry, Ode to the West Wind

75

John Keats

Endymion, Lamia, Hyperion, Isabella, Ode to Nightingale

76

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma

77

Charles Lamb

Essays of Elia, Tales From Shakespeare

78

William Hazlitt

Characters of Shakespeare's Plays


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