English Literature

English literature includes many countries and has been evolving for more than 1400 years, so it is not strange that it considers diverse topics such as the brilliance of comedy, the birth of the novel, and deep landscape poetry. It is known for some great literary movements such as Modernism and Romanticism as well as influential authors including Woolf, Dickens, Austen, Wordsworth, Johnson, Donne, Chaucer, Shakespeare, etc.

Below you'll find a list of book summaries from authors that influenced the English literature and left their mark in the writing world.

Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Christie, the queen of crime stories, is one of the bestselling and most widely published English authors of all time.

• And Then There Were None

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English novelist who wrote 45 books and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature seven different times.

• Brave New World

Beowulf

Epic poem Beowulf is set in about 500 A. D. Some of the characters are based on members of Danish and Swedish royalty.

• Beowulf

Charles Dickens

He was an English novel writer and a storyteller and one of the most popular writers in the history of literature.

• A Tale of Two Cities
• Bleak House
• David Copperfield
• Great Expectations
• Hard Times
• Oliver Twist

Charlotte Brontë

She was an English novelist and a poet, famous for the book Jane Eyre and is one of the pioneers of the Gothic novel genre.

• Jane Eyre

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett

She was one of the best Anglo-Saxon writers. Amongst readers she was appreciated for her children's stories.

• Little Lord Fauntleroy
• The Secret Garden

George Orwell

He was a British writer born in India. His most famous and significant work were a distopian novel 1984 and an allegorical fable Animal Farm.

• 1984.
• Homage to Catalonia
• The Animal Farm

H.G. Wells

Herbert George Wells was an English author, most famous for his SF novels with prophetic depictions of the triumphs of technology and the horrors of 20th-century warfare.

• The Invisible Man
• The Island of Doctor Moreau
• The Time Machine
• The War of the Worlds

Jane Austen

She was an English writer who died at the age of 41. She wrote 6 novels during her life that became famous in English literature.

• Emma
• Northanger Abbey
• Persuasion
• Pride and Prejudice
• Sense and Sensibility

Virginia Woolf

She was an English writer who wrote essays, short stories, and novels. The main part of her work is consisted out of 9 novels.

• A Room of One's Own
• Mrs Dalloway
• Orlando: A Biography
• To The Lighthouse

Villiam Shakespeare

He was a great English writer and is probably the biggest playwright in the world. He wrote 37 plays that are famous even today.

• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Hamlet
• King Lear
• Macbeth
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Othello
• Romeo and Juliet
• Taming of the Shrew
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Tempest
• The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
• Twelth Night: Or, What You Will

More of the English Literature

• Irish literature
• Scottish literature