Classical English Literature

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English is, and always had been, one of the most powerful languages in the world throughout all ages. It is wide spoken and understood, and allows people from all over the world to communicate with each other conveniently. As citizens of an English spoken country, we should be familiar with the variety of famous novels, poetries, and other forms of literary works in our culture. It isn't hard to be familiar with the recent writings, but not too many people, especially younger people, understand the beauty of languages in the classical ages. Those works were truly the pearls of our culture. In the past, the language spoken and written was very similar to the one that we use today. However, the spoken language was much more formal and strict. Grammer were exactly the same, except that there were less slangs in the language used in daily conversation. There were no easy going "hi"s or "What's up"s in classical English; when people meet each other, it would often go by a formal and somewhat cold "how do you do?". not extremely friendly, according to today's standard. Even family members used to converse in very formal manners. There wasn't any of today's light hearted chatters in the family livign room back then. Life seemed pretty uptight back in the classical ages (approximately from the 16th century to the 19th century). However, writers everywhere in every epoque were the same in some manner. They seek the freedom to express their minds in their voices through writing. Without these writers, life would truly be boring in the olden days. However, people like Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and other famous writers enlightened the lives of all people. They used their imaginations to insert the ideas of ideal societies into people's ordinary lives. By doing that, they inserted creativeness and romance into the values and thinkings of normal people, and so lives was more interesting and bearable. They took the societies that they lived in and added tibits here and there, and threw touches to make the stories exciting, yet reflective. The following is a list of famous English authors. Click on their names to view some of their works. Jane Austin Anne Bronte Charlotte Bronte Emily Bronte Daniel Defoe Charles Dickens Sir Arthur Conan Doyle George Elliot F. Scott Fizgerald Elizabeth Gaskell Thomas Hardy Henry James William Shakespeare L.M.Montgomery Jules Verne Jane Austen Emma Mansfield Park Northanger Abbey Persuasion Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Anne Bronte Agnes Grey The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre The Professor Shirley Villette Emily Bronte Wuthering Height Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Moll Flanders Charles Dickens Bleak House Christmas Books David Copperfield Dombey and Son Great Expectations hard times Little Dorrit Marting Chuzzlewit Nicolas Nickleby Old Curiosity Shop Oliver Twist A Tale of Two Cities Our Mutual friend Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Advantures of Sherlock Holmes The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes The Return of Sherlock Holmes The Lost World Sir Nigel The HWite Comapny George Elliot Adam Bede Daniel Deronda The Mill on the Floss Middlemarch SIlas Marner F. Scott Fizgerald The Diamond as big as Ritz The Great Gatsby Tender is the night Elizabeth Gaskell Wives and Daughters Cranford North and South Thomas Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd Jude the Obscure The Mayor fo Casterbridge A Pair of Blue Eyes The Return of the Naive Tess of the D'Urbervilles The Trumpet Major Under the Greenwood Tree WEssex Tales The Woodlanders Henry James The Ambassadirs Daisy Miller The Europeans The Golden Bowl The Portrait of a Lady THe Turn of the Screw & The Aspen Papers William Shakespeare All's Well that ENds Well Anthony and Cleopatra The Comedy of Errors Hamlet Henry IV Julius Ceasar King John King Lear Love's Labours Lost Macbeth The Merchant of Venice A Midsummer Night's Dream Othello Romeo adn Juliet The Tempest Twelveth Night A Winter's Tale Jules Verne Around the Owrld in Eighty Days Five Weeks in a Ballon Journey to the Centre of the Earth Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonles Anne of the Island Anne of Windy Poplars Anne's House of Dreams Anne of Ingleside Rainbow Valley Rilla of Ingleside Back to Top Click Here to view some awesome novels.