Modernism (20th century literature) ‘experimental novels" © Virginia Woolf (1882 -1941) —a woman writer, novel To the Lighthouse © James Joyce (1882-1941) - wrote short stories The Dubliners novel Ulysses detective stories: © Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) he brought the igure of Sherlock Holmes into English Iteracure: The Hound of the Baskervilles © Agatha Christie she gave life to the figure of Belgian-born detective Hercule Poirot and Ms Jane Marple scifi stories: © H.G.Wells (1866 ~ 1946) - The War of the Worlds, Time machine John Galsworthy (1867 — 1933) © the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907 © Forsyte Saga — about the Forsytes which is an upper-class family George Orwel © born in India © a political allegory Animal Farm - satire of the politics of the Soviet Union 1903 - 1950) William Golding © the Nobel Prize for literature © novel Lord of the Flies — he fights against negative powers in people20th century drama G.B.Shaw (1856-1950) © ‘the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925 © Anglo-Irish dramatist, he criticized the false morals of the society * ‘is play Pygmalion (a film musi ,My Fair Lady’) Angry young men" = a group of young writers who hated social system: © John Osborne - drama Look Back in Anger = famous for the concept of kitchen sink drama” set in ordinary ineriors © Kingsley Amis - novel Lucky Jim (describes a rebelious spirit a university) . Absurd drama" (in the 1950s) - there is almost no action nor plot: © Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot - owo people are waiting for Godot who has no identity, so the whole work is full of absurd ris,