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16, 1854. His most popular works are “The Happy Prince and other Tales”, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, and his comedies “Lady Windermere`s Fan”, “An Ideal Husband”, “The Importance of Being Earnest”.
Wilde also wrote poems, essays, reviews, letters. He attracted the attention of his audiences by the brilliance of his conversation, his knowledge, and the force of his personality.

Nightingale and the Rose”) and despises egoism and greed (“The Selfish Giant”, “The Devoted Friend”). The theme of most of his works, even of his tales, is quite realistic. He shows the contrast between wealth and poverty. His own sympathy for poor, labouring people is quite evident.

as a reporter to the Parliament and became a writer of short stories.

of the Pickwick Club”. And the young reporter became a famous writer. Then he published novel after novel – “Oliver Twist”, “Dombey and Son”, “David Copperfield” and many other good books. His books are very interesting, they tell us about the hard life of the poor people in England of that time. When we read his books, we sometimes laugh, but we often want to cry.

1876 he wrote “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”. The book was read by everybody, by the young and old and was translated into nearly every language in the world. “The adventures of Tom Sawyer” was such a success that in 1884 he wrote “The adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, and then “Tom Sawyer Abroad” and “Tom Sawyer the Detective” in 1896.

well-drawn, his stories are true-to-life and the plots of his stories are skilfully built up.

all Shakespeare wrote 37 plays. He cooperated with the best English theatres during 25 years. His best and the most famous plays are “Othello”, “King Lear”, “Hamlet”, “Romeo and Juliet”.

translated into many languages and is well-known throughout the world.
In his works he described the events of England`s contemporary life.
In 1599 the famous Globe Theatre was built on the south bank of the river Thames. In that theatre most of his plays were performed.

William Sydney Porter.
O`Henry was an outstanding humourist. He worked out and enriched all the types of the short story: the anecdote, the adventure story, tales and sketches.

Kings”, “The four million”, “Heart of the West”, “The Voice of the City” and others. He was famous for his stories of city life. O`Henry wrote nearly 150 stories with a New York background. His works have considerable influence on American literature. His love for humanity, for the common people, his critical attitude towards injustice attract readers.

difficulties he met during the first years of his literary work are described in his novel “Martin Eden”.

published about fifty books: short stories, novels and essays. In his best stories London described the severe life and struggle of people against nature.

was born in 1759.
At the age of 15 Robert wrote his first verse, My Handsome Nell. He wrote poems about people, about everyday life.

his poems. Burns took part in creating a book of old Scottish folk songs, writing words for many melodies. Burns is the author of the song Auld Lang Syne which Scottish people sing on the New Year`s Day.

in England in 1816.
In her works she wrote about the society she lived in and criticized it. Her first novel “The professor” was published after Charlotte`s death.

biographical. In 1849 the novel “Shirley” was published. The story is about the Luddits, workers who did not understand that the real enemy of the working class were the capitalists and aristocrats. They thought that machinery, which they destroyed, was their enemy.
The last novel “Vilette” came out in 1853.

all over the world as the Queen of Crime.
Agatha Christie was born in 1890 in Torquay in England.

Mysterious Affair at Styles. This novel was met with interest by the reading public. That was the first appearance of Hercule Poirot. He became one of the most popular private detectives since Sherlock Holmes.

novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in 1926. It is still her masterpiece.
When Agatha Christie got tired of Hercule Poirot she invented Miss Marple. Miss Marple is a deceptively mild old lady with her own method of investigation.

romantic novels.
Her books have been translated into 103 foreign languages. She is the third best-selling author in the world (after Shakespeare and the Bible). Many of her novels and short stories have been filmed.