Here are some of the greatest authors and a little something about the works that they created.
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1. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616), English poet, dramatist, actor. 2. Some of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, such as Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, are among the most famous literary works of the world. |
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1. Leo (Lev Nikolayevich) Tolstoy was born at YasnayaPolyana, on August 28, 1828, in Russia’s Tula Province. 2. His best novels are War and Peace, Anna Karenina. |
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1. Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on the 7th February of 1812. 2. He was an English writer and social critic. 3. His works includes The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. |
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1. Ms. J. K. Rowling was born on July 31st, 1965 in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England. 2. Her given name at birth was Joanne Kathleen. Her best work includes Harry Potter, the Goblet of Fire. |
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1. Orwell was born in on 25 June 1903 in India. 2. Orwell’s best-known books are Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. |
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1. Fyodor (1821 – 1881) was a Russian novelist, journalist, short-story writer. 2. Some of his books are: The House of the Dead (1862), Notes from The Underground (1864), Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868), and Devils (1871). |
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1. Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wills Wilde was born at Dublin, on 16 October 1854. 2. Some of his work includes play Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). |
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1. Adeline Virginia Woolf was born on the 25th January in 1882. 2. Her most famous works include To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando: A Biography and A Room of One’s Own. |
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1. Even though Tagore received his education in law he took great interest in Shakespeare and his literature. 2. His most significant works include ‘Gitanjali’, ‘Galpaguchchha’. |
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1. Writer, essayist and political activist, Arundhati Roy, is best known for her novel The God of Small Things. 2. Some of her other works include, The Algebra of Infinite Justice, Kashmir: The Case for Freedom and Capitalism: A Ghost Story. |
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1. He was a journalist, editor and novelist born in Hadali during the time of British India. 2. Some novels like Train to Pakistan (1956), Delhi: A Novel (1990), The Company of Women (1999), Truth, Love and a Little Malice (2002), The Good, the Bad and the Ridiculous (2013). |
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