If you ask any average person to name any English writers, he will probably be confused and will be able to remember at best one or two names. Although he actually knows at least ten, he simply does not realize that the birthplace of many popular authors is Misty Albion. Famous English writers are Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Herbert Wells, Robert Lewis Stevenson and many others. Familiar names? We know and remember the books of these authors from childhood.
Modern English writers are also represented by a whole galaxy of famous surnames: Joan Rowling, Joe Akrombury, Stephen Fry, Jasper Forde - all authors are simply impossible to list. And if you recall also the classics, such as William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens,
Ernest Hemingway , etc., you begin to understand that the inhabitants of our country read mainly the works of Russian and English word masters.
English authors whose works everyone should read:
1. John R. R. Tolkien is a well-known English writer whose books are recommended for all categories of readers. And do not limit yourself solely to “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit”. Perhaps you will prefer a little fairy tale “Farmer Giles from Ham” - in addition to dragons and heroes, there is a fair amount of humor in it.
2. Arthur Conan Doyle - an English writer who created the most popular detective of all time. It is interesting that the author himself did not like his protagonist, but readers fully appreciated the talent and intelligence of Sherlock Holmes from Baker Street and his permanent partner, Dr. Watson. Conan Doyle wrote a lot of books about Sherlock, there were even more different imitators and all kinds of sequels, but it’s better to read the source.
3. Lewis Carroll - an English writer who created the most unusual tale. Many believe that Alice in Wonderland is a book exclusively for children. In fact, both a child and an adult will be able to appreciate and love this very original work, which found a vocation a decade after publication.
4. Agatha Christie is the queen of a detective novel, and besides, she is the most popular and best-selling writer for all the years of the existence of the printed word. The works of Agatha Christie are considered classic, and they are certainly worth reading to all lovers of detective stories, as well as simply connoisseurs of good books.
5. George Orwell - an English writer who presented the world with the best dystopia. "Farmyard" and the novel "1984" - books that can make a person rethink the whole world around him. One quote is “all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others,” and the reader already looks differently at the people around him.
6. Jane Austen, who gave the world the most wonderful “female” novel. Despite criticism immediately after the release of the book, where the work was called boring and mediocre, Pride and Prejudice is considered the best book by millions of readers.
These six writers were chosen randomly, and the numbers do not reflect any rating or top - the proposed authors are very different, and they cannot be compared with each other.