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This list concentrates on authors writing in English, and those writing in other languages who are most frequently translated into English. This is not to denigrate writers in other languages, but to inform the reader of English.
DATES | AUTHOR | NATIONALITY | SOME FAMOUS WORKS |
1343-1400 | Geoffrey Chaucer | English | The Canterbury Tales |
1628-1688 | John Bunyan | English | The Pilgrim's Progress |
1660-1731 | Daniel Defoe | English | Robinson Crusoe |
1667-1754 | Jonathan Swift | Irish | Gulliver's Travels |
1707-1754 | Henry Fielding | English | Tom Jones |
1771-1832 | Sir Walter Scott | Scottish | The Heart of Midlothian |
1775-1817 | Jane Austen | English | Pridge and Prejudice |
1802-1870 | Alexandre Dumas | French | The Three Musketeers |
1804-1864 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | American | The Scarlet Letter |
1812-1870 | Charles Dickens | English | David Copperfield |
1816-1855 | Charlotte Bronte | English | Jane Eyre |
1819-1891 | Herman Melville | American | Moby Dick |
1821-1881 | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Russian | The Brothers Karamazov |
1828-1905 | Jules Verne | French | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
1828-1910 | Leo Tolstoy | Russian | War and Peace |
1835-1910 | Mark Twain | American | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
1840-1928 | Thomas Hardy | English | Tess of the D'Urbervilles |
1847-1912 | Bram Stoker | Irish | Dracula |
1857-1924 | Joseph Conrad | Anglo-Polish | Lord Jim |
1859-1930 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | English | The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes |
1865-1936 | Rudyard Kipling | English | The Jungle Books |
1866-1946 | H.G. Wells | English | The War of the Worlds |
1874-1965 | W. Somerset Maugham | English | Of Human Bondage |
1882-1941 | James Joyce | Irish | Ulysses |
1885-1930 | D.H. Lawrence | English | Lady Chatterley's Lover |
1892-1973 | J.R.R. Tolkien | English | The Lord of the Rings |
1896-1940 | F.Scott Fitzgerald | American | The Great Gatsby |
1899-1961 | Ernest Hemingway | American | For Whom the Bell Tolls |
1902-1968 | John Steinbeck | American | The Grapes of Wrath |
1922-1969 | Jack Kerouac | American | On The Road |
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