CONTENTS
CRITICAL REALISM IN ENGLAND 6
The Historical and Political Background of the Epoch:The Victorian Age 6
Chartism in Literature 11
The New Literary Trend and Its Characteristic Feutures 13
CHARLES DICKENS 15
Life of Ch.Dickens 15
The Young Journalist 17
Dickens the Novelist 18
The 4 periods in Dickens s Creative Work 20
Dombey and Son 24
Dickens - the First Novelist in the Trend of Critical Realism in English Literature 30
Dickens’s Original Style 30
Dickens’s Characters 31
Dickens and the Children 32
Dickens’s Illusions 32
Dickens’s Contribution to World Literature 33
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 35
Life of Thackeray 35
Literary Work 36
Novels of the Later Period 37
Thackeray’s Contribution to World Literature 38
Vanity Fair 39
Thackeray’s Style 46
Dickens and Thackeray 47
THE END OF THE CENTURY 50
Some Historical Facts 50
The Realistic Traditions in the Works of Prosaic
Writers 53
The Poetry of the Period 61
The Publicistics by J.Ruskin 75
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 78
Life of Stevenson 78
Literary Activity and Stevenson’s Dualism 80
OSCAR WILDE 87
Life of O.Wilde 87
Literary Work 88
The Picture of Dorian Gray 90
Ideal Husband 93
Oscar Wilde’s Tales 97
The Selfish Giant 99
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 104
A Short Review of The Epoch 104
The Beginning of the Century- 104
RUDYARD KIPLING 106
Boots 110
The Jungle Book 111
The Cat That Walked by Himself 117
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW 127
Bernard Shaw and Art 128
B.Shaw and War 129
B.Shaw’s Language 132
Widower’s Houses 133
Pygmalion 136
HERBERT GEORGE WELLS 141
Life of Wells 141
Works of Wells 143
The War of the Worlds 145
Wells’s Contribution to Literature 150
Relations between the Past, Present and Future as seen by Wells 150
JOHN GOLSWORTHY 153
Life of Golsworthy 153
Literary Work 154
The Man of Property 156
English Literature of the Period Since 1917 till 1945. 164
English Poetry of the Period 168
Dramatic Writers of the Period 176
English Novelists of the Period 179
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM 184
The Luncheon 191
KATHERINE MANSFIELD 196
A Cup of Tea 199
JAMES JOYCE 207
The Biography and Creative Activity of J.Joyce 207
Ulysses 211
RICHARD ALDINGTON 214
Death of a Hero 215
ARCHIBALD JOSEPH CRONIN 221
The Citadel 222
Post War and Modern Literature 231
English Poetry in the Period since 1945 till Nowadays 232
English Post-War and Modem Drama 237
English Port War and the Newest Novelists 241
AGATHA CHRISTIE 250
The Life and Creative Activity 250
GRAHAM GREENE 254
Life of G.Greene 254
Literary Work 255
The Quiet American 257
JAMES ALDRIDGE 261
IRIS MURDOCH 265
Literary Work. The Complicity of Style 265
The Bell 266
Murdoch Literary Works about Life and Phylosophy ... 268
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