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Who is the greatest English author of all time?

Who is the greatest English author of all time?

Britain’s top 10… British writers

  • William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
  • Jane Austen (1775-1817)
  • Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
  • George Eliot (1819-1880)
  • CS Lewis (1898-1963)
  • George Orwell (1903-1950)
  • Ian Fleming (1908-1964)
  • J K Rowling (1965-present)

Who are the classical writers in English literature?

The 10 Greatest Classic British Novelists

  • Jane Austen. In 1811, Sense and Sensibility was published anonymously ‘By a Lady’.
  • Charles Dickens.
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
  • George Orwell.
  • Virginia Woolf.
  • J.R.R. Tolkien.
  • George Eliot.
  • Mary Shelley.

Who is the greatest English poet?

Check out the list of top famous English poets of all time.

  • W.B Yeats.
  • Sylvia Plath.
  • Shakespeare.
  • Rudyard Kipling.
  • Robert Burns.
  • Oscar Wilde.
  • John Milton.
  • John Keats.

Who is the famous novelist?

List

Author Min. estimated sales Number of books
William Shakespeare 2 billion 42
Agatha Christie 2 billion 85
Barbara Cartland 500 million 723
Danielle Steel 500 million 179

Who were the famous classic authors?

Top 10 Authors by Number of Books Selected

  • William Shakespeare – 11.
  • William Faulkner – 6.
  • Henry James – 6.
  • Jane Austen – 5.
  • Charles Dickens – 5.
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky – 5.
  • Ernest Hemingway – 5.
  • Franz Kafka – 5.

Who is No 1 author in the world?

Who is the mother of English language?

English is a West Germanic language that originated from Anglo-Frisian languages brought to Britain in the mid 5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands.

Who are the best classic authors?

Jane Austen. In 1811,Sense and Sensibility was published anonymously ‘By a Lady’.

  • Charles Dickens.
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
  • George Orwell.
  • Virginia Woolf.
  • J.R.R.
  • George Eliot.
  • Mary Shelley.
  • Charlotte Brontë.
  • Thomas Hardy.
  • What are some classic author names?

    – Anne – Caroline – Catherine – Charlotte – Augusta – Harriet – Henrietta – Lydia

    What are the best classic literature books?

    Here’s my list of the 21 best classical literature books of all time, in no particular order. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy – Often called the best novel ever written. Dozens of characters, stretching from Muscovite peasants all the way to Napoleon himself.

    Who are the best English mystery authors?

    – Vision – Baldacci, David (Author) – English (Publication Language) – 704 Pages – 01/01/2010 (Publication Date) – Vision (Publisher)