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CHARACTERS (FAMOUS) IN ENGLISH 1. Absolute , Sir Anthony; a famous character in Sheridan’s The Rivals. He is an old gentleman with a warm heart. He is one of the most popular characters in English comedy. 2. Adams , Parson; a village parson in Fielding’s Joseph Andrews.  He is a very pious and simple-hearted fellow. He is utterly ignorant of the ways of the world. He is the chief source of humour in the novel. 3. Admirable Crichon; a butler in J. M. Barries’s famous fantasy play of the same title. 4. Agnes ; the daughter of Mr. Wick field, the lawyer, in Dickens’ David Copperfield.         After Dora’s death she becomes David Copperfield’s wife. 5. Little Emily ; Pegotty’s niece who is betrothed to Ham but elopes away with Steer forth in Dickens’ novel David Copperfield. 6. Alice ; a little girl in Lewis Carols’ Alice in Wonderland   and Through the looking Glass. 7. All...

WRITERS OF ENGLISH ---------------********----------------                LITERATURE         -----------*****--------- (from Geoffrey Chaucer to the Post Modern Period 1340 2000) ________________________ AGE OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER.  (1340 -1400) IMP WRITERS ________________________ 1) Geoffrey Chaucer 2) William Langland 3) John Wycliffe 4) John Mondeville 5) John Grower 6) Thomas Hoccleave 7) John Lydgate ________________________ AGE OF REVIVAL       (1400-1550) _______________________ 1) Earl of Surrey 2) Erasmus 3) Thomas Moore 4) William Tyndale 5) Richard Tottel 6) Thomas Wyat 7) Henry Howard 8) Roger Ascham 9) Thomas Elyot 10) Thomas Malory 11) William Dunbar ________________________ ELIZABETHAN AGE (1558- 1603) _______________________              ...

       Nobel prize In Literature 1. Rudyard Kipling - 1907 2. William Butler Yeats - 1923 3. George Bernard Shaw - 1925 4. Sinclair Lewis - 1930 5. John Galsworthy - 1932 6. Eugene O'Neill - 1936 7. Pearl S. Buck - 1938 8. T.S. Eliot - 1948 9. William Faulkner - 1949 10. Bertrand Russell - 1950 11. Sir Winston Churchill  - 1953 12. Ernest Hemingway - 1954 13. John Steinbeck - 1962 14. Samuel Beckett - 1969 15. Patrick White - 1973 16. Saul Bellow -  1976 17. William Golding - 1983 18. Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka -1986 19. Joseph Brodsky - 1987 20. Nadine Gordimer - 1991 21. Derek Walcott - 1992 22. Toni Morrison - 1993 23. Seamus Heaney - 1995 24. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul - 2001 25. John Maxwell Coetzee - 2003 26. Harold Pinter - 2005 27. Doris Lessing - 2007 28. Alice Munro - 2013

                  TYPES OF NOVELS ✍Adventure novel A novel where exciting events are more important than character development and sometimes theme. Adventure novels are sometimes described as "fiction" rather than "literature" in order to distinguish books designed for mere entertainment rather than thematic importance. Examples: Alexandre Dumas-The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas-The Count of Monte Cristo., ✍Autobiographical novel A novel based on the author's life experience. More common that a thoroughly autobiographical novel is the incluision of autobiographical elements among other elements. Joyce- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,Thomas Wolfe., ✍Adventure novel A novel focusing on the solving of a crime, often by a brilliant detective, and usually employing the elements of mystery and suspense. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-The Hound of the Baskervilles,Agatha Christie- Mu...

     Interesting Facts About Authors Virginia Woolf was the granddaughter of novelist William Makepeace Thackeray. Aldous Huxley was the great-nephew of Matthew Arnold. Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, lived next door to Mark Twain. Evelyn Waugh’ s first wife’s name was Evelyn. They were known as ‘He-Evelyn’ and ‘She-Evelyn’. Arthur Ransome, author of Swallows and Amazons, married Leon Trotsky’s secretary. In 1951, William Burroughs accidentally shot his common-law wife Joan Vollmer dead at a party during a drunken game of ‘William Tell’. Samuel Johnson had only three pupils enrol at the school he opened in the 1730s. However, one of those three was future actor David Garrick. Jonathan Swift invented the name Vanessa. Vladimir Nabokov had a ‘genitalia cabinet’ in which he kept his collection of male blue butterfly genitalia. It’s now housed at Harvard. In 197...

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales – Some Points to be noted* 1. *The Host* - Harry Bailey 2. *Knight's Tale* - Arcite, Palamon and Emelye (Source - Boccaccio's Teseida) - Longest Tale – iambic pentameter 3. *Miller* - His name was Robin 4. *Miller's Tale* - Carpenter named John and His wife Alisoun, Absolon - Flood and misdirected kiss 5. *Reeve* - Oswald (Once a carpenter) 6. *Reeve's Tale* - Symkyn is a miller in the Tale. John and Aleyn 7. *The Cook's Tale* - Never finished tale - Main Character Perkyn 8. *Man of Law Story* - A Muslim Ruler and Christian Girl (Custance) - Banquet Massacre, Northumberland and Hermengyld, Satan 👺, Alla - the king of Northumberland, Custance and Alla Marry, Birth of Mauricius, Donegild - Villian, Mauricius becomes Emperor - Source - Trivet and Gower. 9. *Wife of Bath's Tale* - King Arthur's Court, women want control of their husbands and their own lives 👈 10. *The Frair's Tale* - A widow, A co...