UNITED KINGDOM

CONTEMPORARY

WRITERSJorge González

Mayrim De La Cruz

This project is intended to increase our knowledge about English literature and British writers from the late XVlll century until our days.

INTRODUCTION

OBJECTIVES

GENERALEncouraging a close relationship between United Kingdom Contemporary Writers and this generation of young people.

SPECIFICS: • Promote the love for literature through the books of the best United Kingdom Contemporary Writers.• Inspire youth through the legacy that these writers gave to the world.

• Aspects to highlight

• Presentation

• Data Sheet

• Relevant writers

Selection Investigation

Categorization

Consolidation

METHODOLOGY

Contemporary Age

1789 - today

Characters

MARY SHELLEYBorn: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin 30 August 1797 Somers Town, London, England

Died: 1 February 1851 (aged 53) Chester Square, London, England

Parents: William Godwin Mary Wollstonecraft Spouse: Percy Bysshe Shelley (m. 1816–1822; his death)

Notable works:

• Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)

• Valperga; or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (1823)

• Lodore (1835)• Falkner (1837)

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.”

JOHN WILLIAM POLIDORI

ROMANTIC VAMPIRE GENRE

Sir ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Born: Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle 22 May 1859. Edinburgh, Scotland

Died: 7 July 1930 (aged 71) Crowborough, Sussex, England

Occupation: Novelist, sort story writer, poet, physician Genre: Detective, fiction, fantasy, science fiction, historical novels, non-fiction

Notable works:

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

• Stories of Sherlock Holmes (1887 - 1927)

• The Lost World (1912)

Novels

• A Study in Scarlet (1887)• The Sign of the Four (1890)• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901–1902)• The Valley of Fear (1914–1915)

Short story collections

The short stories, originally published in magazines, were later collected in five anthologies:

• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891–1892)• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1892–1893)• The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1903–1904)• His Last Bow: Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock

Holmes (1908–1917)• The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1921–1927)

First appearance: A Study in ScarletCreated by: Sir Arthur Conan DoyleGender: MaleOccupation: Consulting detectiveFamily: Mycroft Holmes (brother)Nationality: British

SHERLOCK HOLMES

• Knowledge of Literature – nil.• Knowledge of Philosophy – nil.• Knowledge of Astronomy – nil.• Knowledge of Politics – Feeble.• Knowledge of Botany – Variable. Well up in belladonna,

opium and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.

• Knowledge of Geology – Practical, but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks, has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their color and consistence in what part of London he had received them.

• Knowledge of Chemistry – Profound.• Knowledge of Anatomy – Accurate, but unsystematic.• Knowledge of Sensational Literature – Immense. He

appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century.

• Plays the violin well.• Is an expert singlestick player, boxer and swordsman.• Has a good practical knowledge of British law.

– Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

IAN FLEMINGBorn: Ian Lancaster Fleming 28 May de 1908 London, England

Died: 12 August 1964 Canterbury, England (aged 56)

Spouse: Geraldine Mary Fleming (1913–1981) Children: Caspar Robert Fleming (1952–1975)

Known for:• James Bond series of spy novels• The Diamonds Smugglers• Thrilling Cities• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

“You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.”

1953 Casino Royale

1954 Live and Let Die

1955 Moonraker

1956 Diamonds Are Forever

1957 From Russia, with Love

1958 Dr. No

1959 Goldfinger

1960 For Your Eyes Only (short story collection)

• "From a View to a Kill“• "For Your Eyes Only“• "Quantum of Solace“• "Risico“• "The Hildebrand Rarity"

1961 Thunderball

1962 The Spy Who Loved Me

1963 On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1964 You Only Live Twice

1965 The Man with the Golden Gun

1966 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (short story collection)

• "Octopussy“• "The Property of a Lady“• "The Living Daylights“• "007 in New York"

James Bond by Ian Fleming

Kingsley Amis as Robert Markham• Colonel Sun

John Pearson• James Bond: The Authorized Biography of

007

Christopher Wood• James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me

(novelisation)• James Bond and Moonraker (novelization)

John Gardner• Licence Renewed• For Special Services• Icebreaker• Role of Honour• Nobody Lives For Ever• No Deals, Mr. Bond• Scorpius• Win, Lose or Die• Licence to Kill (novelisation)• Brokenclaw• The Man from Barbarossa• Death Is Forever• Never Send Flowers• SeaFire• GoldenEye (novelisation)• COLD

Raymond Benson• "Blast From the Past“• Zero Minus Ten• Tomorrow Never Dies (novelisation)• The Facts of Death• "Midsummer Night's Doom“• "Live at Five“• The World Is Not Enough (novelisation)• High Time to Kill• Doubleshot• Never Dream of Dying• The Man with the Red Tattoo• Die Another Day (novelisation)• "The Heart of Erzulie"

Charlie Higson (Young Bond)• SilverFin• Blood Fever• Double or Die• Hurricane Gold• By Royal Command• "A Hard Man to Kill“

Samantha Weinberg as Kate Westbrook (The Moneypenny Diaries)• Guardian Angel• Secret Servant• Final Fling• "For Your Eyes Only, James“• "Moneypenny's First Date with Bond"

Sebastian Faulks• Devil May Care

Jeffery Deaver• Carte Blanche

William Boyd• Solo

Steve Cole (Young Bond)• Shoot to Kill• Heads You Die

Anthony Horowitz• Trigger Mortis,

James Bond by other writers

JAMES BOND FILMS

TV SERIES

Videogames

• James Bond 007• A View to a Kill• Goldfinger• The Living Daylights• The Spy Who Loved Me• The Stealth Affair• James Bond Jr.• James Bond: The Duel• GoldenEye 007 (N64)• James Bond 007 (GB)• Tomorrow Never Dies (PS)• The World Is Not Enough (N64,

PS, GB)• 007 Racing (PS)• Agent Under Fire (PS2, GC, Xbox)• Nightfire (PS2, GC, Xbox, GCA,

PC, Mac)

JAMES BOND GAMES

• Everything or Nothing (PS2, GC, Xbox, GCA)• GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (PS2, GC, Xbox,

NDS)• James Bond 007: From Russia with Love

(PS2, GC, Xbox, PSP)• Quantum of Solace (PS2, PS3, Wii, xbox360,

PC, NDS)• GoldenEye 007 (Wii, NDS aka Goldeneye: • Realoded on PS3, Xbox360)• Blood Stone (NDS, PS3, Xbox360, PC)• 007 Legends (Wii U, PS3, Xbox360, PC)• World of Espionage (Mobile game by Glu

Mobile)

Role-playing game

• James Bond 007, Role-Playing in Her Majesty's

Secret Service

Card game

• Before I Kill You, Mr. BondOctober 5th: GLOBAL JAMES BOND DAY

LITERARY FAMILY

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”

“I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.”

“Well, let them seize on all they can; —one treasure still is mine, — a heart that loves to think on thee, and feels the worth of thine.”

ANNE BRONTË

1820 - 18491818 - 1848

EMILY BRONTËCHARLOTTE BRONTË

1816 - 1855

THE BRONTË SIBLINGS

Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë, by their brother Branwell (c. 1834). He painted himself among his sisters, but later removed the image so as not to clutter the picture.

PEN NAMESREAL NAME

PEN NAME

GEORGE ELIOT Born: Mary Ann Evans 22 November 1819 Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England

Died: 22 December 1880 (aged 61) Chelsea, Middlesex, England

Pen name: George Eliot

Period: Victorian

Notable works:

• The Mill on the Floss (1860)

• Silas Marner (1861)

• Middlemarch (1870 – 71)

• Daniel Deronda (1876)

“What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?”

Born: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson 27 January 1832, Daresbury, Cheshire, England

Died: 14 January 1898 (aged 65) Guildford, Surrey, England

Occupation: Writer, mathematician, Anglican cleric, photographer, artist

Genre: Children's literature, fantasy literature, mathematica, logic, poetry, literary nonsense, linear algebra, voting theory

Notable works:

LEWIS CARROLL

“– Alice: How long is forever? – White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)• Through the Looking-Glass (1871)• Jabberwocky (1871)• The Hunting of the Snark (1876)• The Principles of Parliamentary Representation

(1884)• Curiosa Mathematica, Part I: A New Theory of

Parallels (1888)• Curiosa Mathematica, Part II: Pillow Problems

(1892)

Original cover of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

GEORGE ORWELL Born: Eric Arthur Blair

25 June 1903 Motihari, India

Died: 21 January 1950 (aged 46) University College Hospital, London, England, UK

Pen name: George Orwell

Subjects: Anti-fascism and anti-communism, democratic socialism, literary criticism, news, polemic.

Notable works:

• 1984 (1949)• Animal Farm (1945)• The Road to Wiegan

Pier (1937)

• Homage to Catalonia (1938)

“In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

Cold war: intense economic, political, military and ideological rivalry between nations, short of military conflict; sustained hostile political policies and an atmosphere of strain between opposed countries.

Big Brother: the head of a totalitarian regime that keeps its citizens under close surveillance.

Thought police: a group of people with totalitarian views on a given subject, who constantly monitor others for any deviation from prescribed thinking.

Memory hole: a piece of one's memory that seems to be missing; also, a place where lost memories seem to go.

Doublethink: the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.

Newspeak: an official or semiofficial style of writing or saying one thing in the guise of its opposite, especially in order to serve a political or ideological cause while pretending to be objective, as in referring to “increased taxation” as “revenue enhancement.”

Terms created by George Orwell

VTRANSCENDENTWOMEN

Born: 16 December 1775 Steventon Rectory, Hampshire, England

Died: 18 July 1817 (aged 41) Winchester, Hampshire, England

Resting place: Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire, England

Period: 1787 to 1809–11

Genre: Romance

Notable works:

JANE AUSTEN

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

• Sense and Sensibility (1811)

• Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Novels

Sense and Sensibility (1811)Pride and Prejudice (1813)Mansfield Park (1814)Emma (1815)Northanger Abbey (1818, posthumous)Persuasion (1818, posthumous)

Short fiction

Lady Susan (1794, 1805)

Unfinished fiction

The Watsons (1804)Sanditon (1817)

Other works

Sir Charles Grandison (adapted play) (1793, 1800)Plan of a Novel (1815)Poems (1796–1817)Prayers (1796–1817)Letters (1796–1817)

VIRGINIA WOOLF Born: Adeline Virginia Stephen

25 January 1882 Kensington, Middlesex, England

Died: 28 March 1941 (aged 59) River Ouse, near Lewes, Sussex, England

Spouse: Leonard Woolf (m. 1912–1941; her death)

Affiliations: Bloomsbury Group

Notable works:

• Mrs Dalloway (1925)• To the Lighthouse

(1927)• Orlando: A Biography

(1928)• A Room of One's Own

(1929)• The Waves (1931)

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

Born: Hilary Mary Thompson 6 July 1952 (age 63) Glossop, Derbyshire, UK Occupation: Novelist, short story writer, essayist and critic

Spouse: Gerald McEwen (m. 1972)

Notable works:

Notable awards:

Dame HILARY MANTEL

“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”

• Wolf Hall (2009)• Bring Up the Bodies

(2012)

• Man Booker Prize 2009, 2012

• Walter Scott Prize 2010• Costa Novel Prize 2012

Nobel Laurates

Rudyard Kipling190

7“In consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author.”

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

1865 - 1936

T.S. Eliot

1948“For his outstanding, pioneer

contribution to present-day poetry."

1888 - 1965

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

Bertrand Russell195

0“In recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought." 1872 - 1970

“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”

Harold Pinter200

5

1930 - 2008

“Each play was, for me, a different kind of failure’. And that fact, I suppose, sent me on to write the next one.”

“Who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms."

Doris Lessing200

7

1919 - 2013

“Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.”

“That epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny."

John Galsworthy

Sir Winston Churchill

Elias Canetti

1932“For his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga.”

1953“For his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values."

"for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power"

1981

1981

Sir V.S. NaipulSir William Golding

2001“For having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories."

“For his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today."

1983

Most Important

Poets

Born: 18 March 1893 Oswestry, Shropshire, England

Died: 4 November 1918 (aged 25) Sambre–Oise Canal, France

Nationality: British

Period: World War I

Genre: War poem

Notable works:

WILFRED OWEN

“My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.”

• Anthem for Doomed Youth (1917)

• Dulce et Decorum est (1920, posthumous)

Poems

PHILIP LARKIN Born: Philip Arthur Larkin

9 August 1922 Radford, Coventry, Warwickshire, England

Died: 2 December 1985 (aged 63) Hull, Humbers, England

Occupation: Poet, librarian, novelist, jazz critic

Notable works: The Whitsun Weddings (1964) High Windows (1974)

Honours:

• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry• Nº1 position: “The Times: The 50 Best British

writers since 1945”• Floor stone memorial at Poets' Corner in

Westminster Abbey (The memorial will be unveiled on on 2 December 2016, the 31st anniversary of his death)

“Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.”

Memorials

Sculpture of Larkin as a toad, displayed during the Larkin 25 Festival in 2010, Kingston upon Hull

Bronze statue of Larkin by sculptor Martin Jennings, at Hull Paragon Interchange

Blue plaque at Queen's University Belfast

Born: 17 August 1930 Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, England

Died: 28 October 1998 (aged 68) London, England

Occupation: Poet, playwright, writer

Notable works:

“What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.”

TED HUGHES

• The Iron Man (1968)• The Hawk in the Rain (1957)• Crow (1970)• Tales from Ovid (1997)

Spouse: Sylvia Plath (m. 1956–1963) (her death) Carol Orchard (m. 1970–1998) (his death)

LAKE POETS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

1770 - 1850

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

1772 - 1834

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”

“Our own hearts, and not other men’s opinion, form our true honor.”

ROBERT SOUTHEY

“Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.”

1774 - 1843

TIME TRAVEL

INVISIBILITY

ALIENS ON EARTH

1866 -1946

H. G. WELLS

“Human history in essence is the history of ideas.”

1895 1897 1898

ANNA SEWELL

1820 - 18771877

“Do your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.” ― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

1936 1900 - 1949

MARGARET MITCHELL

“You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.”― Margaret Mitchell, Gone With The Wind

ANTHONY BURGESS

1917 - 1843 1862 1971 Dir. Stanley Kubrick“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose, he

ceases to be a man.” ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

MISTERY WRITERS

WILLIAM GODWIN

Born: William Wilkie Collins 8 January 1824 Marylebone, London

Died: 23 September 1889 (aged 65) London

Genre: Detective novel, suspense.

Notable works:

WILLIAM WILKIE COLLINS

• The Woman in White (1859)

• No Name (1862)• Armadale (1866)• The Moonstone

(1868)“We neither know nor judge ourselves. Others may judge but they don’t know us. God alone judges and know us.”

Born: Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller 15 September 1890 Torquay, Devon, England

Died: 12 January 1976 (aged 85) Winterbrook, Oxfordshire, England

Genre: Murder mystery, thriller, crime fiction, detective, romance

Spouse: Archibald Christie (m. 1914; div. 1928) Sir Max Mallowan

Notable works:

Dame AGATHA CHRISTIE

• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)• The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)• Murder on the Orient Express (1934)• And Then There Were None (1939)• The Mousetrap (1952)

“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”

JOHN LE CARRÉ Born: David John Moore Cornwell

19 October 1931 (age 84) Poole, Dorset, England

Occupation: Novelist, short story writer, former intelligence, officer, librettist, actor, executive producer.

Spouse: Alison Sharp (m. 1954–1971) Valerie Eustace (m. 1972–present)

Genre: Spy fiction

Notable works:

• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)• Smiley's People (1979)• The Constant Gardener (2001)• The Night Manager (1993)“A desk is a dangerous

place from which to view the world.”

The “Smiley” series

Agent “George Smiley” in other novels

Fun FactsFantasy writers

About

C. S. LEWIS

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

1898 - 1963

The Chronicles of Narnia

FILM ADAPTATIONS

Friends and family called him "Jacksie" and "Jack" for most of his life.

At the age of 15 Lewis gave up his childhood Christian faith and became an atheist.Then, at the age of 33, he converted to Christianity again.

He married only once, at the age of 58, to Joy Davidman on April 1956. She died 4 years later.

He never had any children of his own, but raised his two step sons after Joy's death.

His death was almost completely overshadowed by news of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which occurred on the same day, as did the death of Aldous Huxley. It is reported that only 30 people attended his funeral.

He was part of a literary group called “The Inklings”, in which was also a close friend of him: J. R. R. Tolkien.

J. R. R. Tolkien

“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.”

1892 - 1973

He was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa.

Tolkien’s Lengendarium

2001 2002 2003

Dir. Peter Jackson

Film Adaptations

2012 2013 2014

Animated Film Adaptations

Dir. Ralph Bakshi

19781977Dir. Arthur Rankin Jr. Jules Bass

1980Dir. Arthur Rankin Jr. Jules Bass

o The Battle of the Eastern Field 1911o From the many-willow'd margin of the immemorial Thames

1913o The Voyage of Eärendel the Evening Star (The Book of Lost

Tales 2 267–269) 1914o The Bidding of the Minstrel 1914 (The Book of Lost Tales 2

261f.,269f. )o Tinfang Warble 1914 (The Book of Lost Tales 1 107f.)o Goblin Feet 1915o You and Me / and the Cottage of Lost Play 1915 (The Book of

Lost Tales 1 27f.)o Kôr 1915, published as The City of the Gods in 1923 (The

Book of Lost Tales 1 136)o Kortirion among the Trees 1915 (revised in 1937 and in the

1960s, The Trees of Kortirion)o Over Old Hills and Far Away 1915o A Song of Aryador 1915o The Shores of Elfland 1915o Habbanan beneath the Stars 1916o The Sorrowful City 1916o The Song of Eriol 1917 (The Book of Lost Tales 2 298ff.)o The Horns of Ulmo 1917o The Happy Mariners, published in 1920, composed in 1915o The Children of Húrin (begun in 1920 or earlier, continued to

1925) (The Lays of Beleriand)o The Clerke's Compleinte 1922o Iúmonna Gold Galdre Bewunden 1923o The Eadigan Saelidan 1923o Why the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon 1923o Enigmata Saxonic - a Nuper Inventa Duo 1923o The Cat and the Fiddle: A Nursery-Rhyme Undone and its

Scandalous Secret Unlocked 1923o An Evening in Tavrobel 1924o The Lonely Isle 1924o The Princess Ni 1924o Light as Leaf on Lindentree 1925o The Flight of the Noldoli from Valinor 1925 (The Lays of

Beleriand)o The Lay of Leithian 1925–1931 (The Lays of Beleriand)o The Lay of Eärendel 1920s (The Lays of Beleriand)o The Nameless Land 1926

o Adventures in Unnatural History and Mediaeval Metres, being the Freaks of Fisiologus 1927:

• Fastitocalon• Iumbo

o Tinfang Warble, published in 1927, composed in 1914o Mythopoeia, circa 1931 (published in Tree and Leaf)o Progress in Bimble Town 1931o Errantry 1933o Firiel 1934o Looney 1934

o Songs for the Philologists, with E.V. Gordon et al., published 1936:

• Bagme Bloma• Éadig Béo þu!• Frenchmen Froth• From One to Five• I Sat upon a Bench• Ides Ælfscýne• La Húru• Lit and Lang• Natura Apis: Morali Ricardi Eremite• Ofer Wídne Gársecg• The Root of the Boot• Ruddoc Hana• syx Mynet

o The Dragon's Visit 1937

• Knocking at the Door: Lines induced by sensations when waiting for an answer at the door of an Exalted Academic Person 1937

• The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, published in Welsh Review, December 1945

• Imram (The Death of St. Brendan) 1946 (published in Time and Tide, December 1955, Sauron Defeated 261ff,296ff)

o Elvish translations of Catholic prayers (ed. Wynne, Smith, Hostetter in Vinyar Tengwar 43, 44, 2002), composed in the 1950s:

• Ataremma versions (Quenya Pater Noster) versions I-VI• Aia María (Quenya Ave Maria) versions I-IV• Litany of Loreto in Quenya• Ortírielyanna (Quenya Sub tuum praesidium)• Alcar i Ataren (Quenya Gloria Patri)• Alcar mi tarmenel na Erun (Quenya Gloria in Excelsis Deo)• Ae Adar Nín (Sindarin Pater Noster)

o The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son 1953

o The Adventures of Tom Bombadil published in 1962:

• The Adventures of Tom Bombadil• Bombadil Goes Boating• Errantry• Little Princess Mee• The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late• The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon• The Stone Troll• Perry-the-Winkle• The Mewlips• Oliphaunt• Fastitocalon• The Cat• Shadow-Bride• The Hoard• The Sea-Bell• The Last Ship

o Once upon a time 1965o Bilbo's Last Song 1966 (first published as a poster in 1974)o For W. H. A. in 1967 in Shenandoaho King Sheave in The Lost Road in 1987 in The Lost Road and

Other Writingso Narqelion published in 1988 in Mythlore

Poems by J. R. R. Tolkien

- From his mother:

• Latin• French• German

- In College:

• Middle English• Old English, Finnish• Gothic• Greek• Italian• Old Norwegian• Spanish• Welsh • Medieval Welsh

- Familiarized

• Danish• Dutch• Lombard• Norwegian• Russian• Serbian• Swedish • Ancient forms of modern German and Slovak

Languages spoken by J. R. R. Tolkien

• English Language and Literature• Old English Heroic verse• History of English• Various Old English and Middle

English texts • Old and Middle English philology • Anglo-Saxon• Introductory Germanic philology• Gothic• Old Norse • Old Icelandic• Medieval Welsh

Courses taught by J. R. R. Tolkien

1. Elvish:

o Primitive Quendian

• Avarin languages (at least six languages)• Common Eldarin• Quenya• Vanyarin• Noldorin Quenya• Telerin of Valinor (from Common Telerin but influenced by Quenya)• Common Telerin• Telerin of Valinor (considered a dialect of Quenya)• Sindarin (at least three dialects)• Nandorin languages (influenced by Avarin)

2. Mannish languages (all showed influence by Avarin tongues as well as Khuzdul):

o Languages of forefathers of the First and Third Houses of the Atanatári ("Northern Mannish")

• Taliska (two dialects)• Adûnaic• Westron (influenced by Sindarin, and languages of Eriador)• Hobbitish (dialect of Westron, influenced by languages of Northmen)• Black Adûnaic of Black Númenóreans• Languages of Men of Eriador during the Second Age• Languages of Northmen• Dalish• Rohirric

o Language of forefathers of the Second House of the Atanatári ("Southern Mannish")

• Haladin language• Dunlending language

o Drûg languages

• Language of the Drúedain of Brethil• Language of the Woses of Drúadan Forest

o Many Haradrim languageso Many tongues of Easterlingso Language of the Lossoth

3. Languages of Dwarves:

o Khuzdulo Iglishmêk (sign language)

4. Languages of the Ents

o Old Entisho "New" Entish

5. Languages of the Ainur (Valar and Maiaro Valarino Black Speech, created by Sauron

Languages constructed by J.R.R. Tolkien

“I vividly remember going to church with him in Bournemouth. He was a devout Roman Catholic and it was soon after the Church had changed the liturgy from Latin to English. My grandfather obviously didn't agree with this and made all the responses very loudly in Latin while the rest of the congregation answered in English. I found the whole experience quite excruciating, but my grandfather was oblivious. He simply had to do what he believed to be right.”

– Simon Tolkien

He was VERY devoted to the Roman Catholic faith

Tolkien wrote “The Hobbit” for his own children.

He worked for the Oxford English Dictionary from 1918 and is credited with having worked on a number of words starting with the letter W, including walrus, over which he struggled mightily.

The signed first hardback edition of The Hobbit from 1937 has reportedly been offered for $85,000..

Since 2003 The Tolkien Society has organized “Tolkien Reading Day” which takes place on 25 March in schools around the world.

THINGS NAMED AFTER TOLKIEN AND TOLKIEN’S CHARACTERS

ASTEROIDS

MOUNTAINS

STREETS ANIMALS

“LAAN VAN TOLKIEN”

20 RINGS

TOLKIEN DIED IN 1

973

J. K. ROWLING

1965

“—After all this time?—Always.”

Harry Potter Saga

FILM ADAPTATIONS

The original Harry Potter manuscript was rejected by 12 publishing houses before Bloomsbury picked it up.

Mr. And Mrs.

Dursley, of

number four,

Privet Drive, were

proud to say that

they were

perfectly normal,

thank you very

much. They were

the last people

you’d expect to

be involved in

anything strange

or mysterious,

because they just

didn’t hold with

such nonsense.She wrote her initial HARRY POTTER Ideas on a napkin while on a train to London.

She filled five notebook pages with made up "Q" words before she came up with "Quidditch".

JK Rowling and Harry Potter share the same birthday: July 31st.

JK Rowling's parents met at King's Cross Station, where Harry takes the Hogwarts Express each year.

JK Rowling went from being unemployed to becoming a multi-millionaire in five years.

WRITERS WITH

CURIOUS STORIES

“Who so loves believes the impossible.”

“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.”

ELIZABETH BARRETT ROBERT BROWNING

1812 - 1889

1806 - 1861

Mr. and

Mrs.

Browning

How Do I Love

Thee?How do I love thee? Let me

count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and

breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling

out of sight

For the ends of Being and ideal

Grace.

I love thee to the level of every

day's Most quiet need, by sun and

candlelight.

I love thee freely, as men strive

for Right;

I love thee purely, as they turn

from Praise.

I love with a passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my

childhood's faith.

I love thee with a love I seemed

to lose

With my lost saints, -- I love

thee with the breath,

Smiles, tears, of all my life! --

and, if God choose,

I shall but love thee better after

death.

Life in a LoveEscape me?Never---Beloved!While I am I, and you are you,

So long as the world contains us both,

Me the loving and you the loth

While the one eludes, must the other

pursue. My life is a fault at last, I fear:

It seems too much like a fate, indeed!

Though I do my best I shall scarce

succeed.But what if I fail of my purpose here?

It is but to keep the nerves at strain,

To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,

And, baffled, get up and begin again,---

So the chace takes up one's life ' that's all.

While, look but once from your farthest

boundAt me so deep in the dust and dark,

No sooner the old hope goes to ground

Than a new one, straight to the self-same

mark,I shape me---EverRemoved!

JAN MORRIS

James Humphrey Morris

(1968 – 78)Jan Morris

“Life always offers you a second chance, it’s called tomorrow.”

James Morris and Elizabeth Tuckniss

Twm Morys

SALMAN RUSHDIE

1988

“If you're offended, it's your problem.”

CURRENT

WRITERS

Born: Kazuo Ishiguro (Japanese: カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄 ) November 8, 1954 (age 61) Nagasaki, Japan

Occupation: Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, columnist, songwriter

Period: 1981–present

Children: Naomi Ishiguro

Notable works:

• An Artist of the Floating World (1986)

• The Remains of the Day (1989)

• When We Were Orphans (2000)

• Never Let Me Go (2005)

KAZUO ISHIGURO

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”

NEIL GAIMAN

“Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.”

Born: Neil Richard Gaiman 10 November 1960 (age 55) Portchester, Hampshire, England

Occupation: Novelist, graphic novel author and screenwriter

Period: 1980s–present

Genre: Fantasy, horror, science fiction, dark fantasy

Notable works:

• The Sandman (1889 – 2005)

• Good Omens (1990)• Neverwhere (1996)• Stardust (1999)• Coraline (2002)• The Graveyard Book

(2008)

Born: Sadie Smith 25 October 1975 (age 40) Brent, London, England Literary movement: Realism, postmodernism, hysterical realism, new Sincerity

Spouse: Nick Laird (2004–present)

Children: 2

Notable works:

• White Teeth (2000)• The Autograph Man

(2002)• On Beauty (2005)• NW (2012)• Swing Time (2016)

ZADIE SMITH

“You’re never stronger than when you land on the other side of despair”

OTHER IMPORTA

NT WRITERS

Born: Charles John Huffam Dickens 7 February 1812 Landport, Hampshire, England

Died: 9 June 1870 (aged 58) Higham, Kent, England

Spouse: Catherine Thomson Hogarth

Children: Charles Dickens, Jr. ,Mary Dickens, Kate Perugini, Walter Landor Dickens, Francis Dickens, Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens, Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens, Henry Fielding Dickens, Dora Annie Dickens, Edward Dickens.

Notable works:

• The Pickwick Papers (1836)• Oliver Twist (1837 - 1839)• A Christmas Carol (1843)• David Copperfield (1849 -

1850)• A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

CHARLES DICKENS

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”

SERIAL PUBLICATION OF FICTIONAL NARRATIVE

Ebenzer Scrogge

Fagin Mrs Gamp

David Copperfield

Charles Darnay Oliver Twist

Micawber

Miss Havisham

Wackford Squeers

CHARACTERS CREATED BY CHARLES DICKENS

BEST SELLING BOOKS OF ALL TIME

“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Born: Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson 13 November 1850 Edinburgh, Scotland

Died: 3 December 1894 (aged 44) Vailima, Samoan Islands

Period: Victorian era

Notable works:

• Treasure Island (1883)• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr

Hyde (1886)

Spouse: Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne

Children: Isobel Osbourne Strong (stepdaughter) Lloyd Osbourne (stepson)

WORKS

ROALD DAHL

“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.”

Born: 13 September 1916 Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, UK

Died: 23 November 1990 (aged 74) Oxford, England, UK

Genre: Children's, adults' literature, horror, mystery, fantasy

Relatives: Nicholas Logsdail (nephew) Sophie Dahl (granddaughter)

Notable works:

• James and the Giant Peach (1961)• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) • Matilda (1988)• Tales of the Unexpected (1979)

1984Dir. Joe Dante

1996Dir. Danny DeVitto

2004Dir. Tim Burton

FILM ADAPTATIONS

OTHER FILM ADAPTATIONS

1971Dir. Mel Stuart

1996 Dir. Henry Selick

1989Dir. Brian Cosgrove

CONCLUSION

This project has been enriching to the meaningful development, approaching us to the contemporary British literature in a more dynamic way. Likewise, the knowledge that we have acquired has enabled a greater understanding of the socio-cultural context in which these writers were immersed.In turn, the legacy that each of them gave to Human Sciences should be of a great inspiration for the society in which we live.

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