Plan of the lecture

1. John Galsworthy – one of the outstanding representatives of the English authors of the close of the XIX century and the begin­ning of the XX century.

a) The Forsyte Saga

b) A Modern Comedy.

c) End of the Chapter

2. Bernard Shaw – the fighter for family relations built on spiritual understanding free from so­cial and class prejudices.

a) early works of Bernard Shaw. The first cycle of Shaw’s plays

b) The second cycle of plays – Plays Pleasant

c) The most popular plays of Bernard Shaw

3. Literary activity of Herbert George Wells

4. William Somerset Maugham – one of the best known writers of the present day.

5. Richard Aldington – a writer, who showed life as it really was

6. John Bointon Priestley – the author of realistic novels and plays

7. Archibald Josef Cronin – a representative of realism in contemporary Eng­lish literature.

8. Graham Greene, an English novelist and short story writer.

9. Jack Lindsay, an outstanding English writer and public figure, the most ardent fighter for peace and the national liberation movement

10. Evelyn Waugh - a satirist, prone to the hyperbolization of the evil, to the grotesque concentration of the especially repugnant features of life and human characters.

11. General problems of contemporary politics, of various ideologi­cal trends or theoretical currents treated in the works of Charles Percy Snow.

12. Catherine Cookson – the best known and most prolific of all North Eastern English writers. 13. William Golding - the writer of philosophical and allegorical novels.

14. Muriel Spark – a representative of the critical realism in the newest English litera­ture.

15. Iris Murdoch – the author of novels, drama, philosophical criticism, critical theory, poetry, a short story, a pamphlet, a philosopher and a novelist

16. Philip Larkin – a poet, a novelist and essayist.

17. John Robert Fowles

18. Maeve Binchy "All I ever wanted to do, is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with."

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