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ForeignProse Writers:
Alighiere, Dante
(1265-1321)
An Italian poet
His Famous works:
“La Divina Commedia”
“The Divine Comedy”
“La Vita Nuova”
“The New Life”
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Father of
Literary Criticism
One of the
greatest
Greek
Philosophers.
He Wrote:
“Organon”
Scientific Research
“Poetics”
Theory of Tragedy
Logic
Balzac, Honor de (1799-1850)
“Father of French Realism”
French Realistic
novelist
His Works:
“ The Human Comedy”
(95 novels)
“Eugenie Grandet” and “Pere Goriot”
Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1875-1950)
An American
writer
He produced writings
about the popular
character, Tarzan
Cervantes, Miguel Saavedra de
(1547-1616)
Greate
st
Spanish
writer
Famous novel
“Don Quixote de la
Mancha”
Confucius (551-479B.C.)
Father of Chinese Literature
Founder o th
e
relig
ion
Confucia
nism
His Works:
“Confucian Classics”“The Book of
Songs”“The Book of
Changes”“The Book of Rites”
“The Book of Poetry”
“The Spring and Autumn Annals”
The Four Books
“The Analects”“Doctrine of the
Mean”“The Great Learning”
“The Book of Mencius”
Dickens, Charles(1812-1870)
An English
novelist o
f
socia
l protest
His works:
“David and Copperfield
”
“Tale of Two Cities”
Dos Pasos, John(Born 1896)
An American
sociological
novelist
His Famous Novel:
“Manhattan Transfer”
Dostoevsky, Feodor(1822-1881)
A Russian
psychological
novelist
“The Brothers
Karamazov”
“Crime and Punishment”
His Writings:
Dryden, John(1631-1700)
“Father of English Prose”
An Englis
h
Essay
ist a
nd
Dram
atis
t
Faulkner, William(1897-1700)
He is known best for his short story:
“A Rose for Emily”
An Americ
an
socio
logical
novelist
“The Unvanquishe
d” and “Intruder in the Dust ”
He authored:
Fielding, Henry(1707-1754)
“Tom Jones”
“Fath
er of
English N
ovel”
He wrote :
Fitzgerald, F. Scott(1896-1940)
An American
novelist
“The Great Gatsby”
Fielding, Henry
Hawthorne, Nathaniel(1804-1864)
He wrote
short storie
s
and novels
An American
Romanticist
His Famous work:
“The Scarlet Letter”
Hemingway, Ernest(1898-1961)
An American
Fictionist
He authored
short stories
and novels
Two of his novel
“The Old Man and A Sea”
“A Farwell of Arms”
Irving, Washington(1783-1859)
An American
writer
“Legend of the Sleepy Hallow”
He is known for his
Legends:
“Legend of the Enchanted Soldier”
He also wrote legends Dutch
and of Granada, Spain
Joyce, James(1882-1941)
An Irish
stre
am-
of-
consc
iousness
novelist
He authored:
“Portrait of the Artist as
a Young Man”
“Ulysses”
Maupassant, Guy De(1850-1893)
Master o
f the
French
Short
Story
“Two Little Soldiers”
He is known for his works:
“The Necklace”
“Jewels”
Melville, Herman(1819-1893)
An American
novelist
“Moby Dick”
He became known for his
work:
Montaigne, Michael Eyquem De
(1533-1592)
“Fath
er of
Modern
Essay”
A collection of essay
“Essais”(from which
the word “essay” was
derived)
He wrote :
“Of Smells”
Poe, Edgar Allan(1809-1849)
He authored:“The Cask
of Amontillado
”“The
Raven”
“The Gold Bug”
“The Fall of the House of
Usher”
“Father of
American
Short Story”
Pushkin, Alexander(1799-1837)
Among of his woks turns into operas:
“Eugene Onegin”
“Russian and
Ludmilla”
He produced
works that were turned into operas
A Russian poet,
dramatist, novelist,
and short-story writer
“Boris Godunov”
Richardson, Samuel(1689-1761)
He authored:
“Pamela” (“Virtue
Rewarded”)
“Father of
English
Short Story”
Rousseau, Jean Jacques(1712-1778)
He composed :
“The Village Soothsayer”
(comic opera)
“Father of
French
Romanticism
”
“Social Contract”
“Emile”
Scott, Sir Walter(1771-1832)
He wrote :
“The Heart of
Midlothian”
A Sco
ttish
historic
al
novelis
t “Bride of Lammermoo
r”
Steinbeck, John(1902-1968)
He is famous for his works :
“Cup of Gold”
“To a God Unknown”
An Am
erican
novelist a
nd
playwright
“Grapes of Wrath”
“Tortilla Flat”
“Of Mice and Men”
Tagore, Rabindranath(1861-1941)
Foremost Indian
Aesthete
His major works
include :“Gitanji”(1910)
Won a Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1913
“Raja”(1910)
“Dakghar”(1912)
“Achalayatan”
(1912)
Thoreau, Henry David(1817-1862)
His Famous work:
“Walden”
An American
essayist,
poet,
naturalist
Tolstoy, Leo(1828-1910)
“Anna Karerina”
A Russ
ian
novelist
His renowned
work :
“War and Peace”
Turgenev, Ivan(1818-1883)
He wrote :
“Father and Sons”
A Russ
ian
novelist
