History of English Literature main points
History of English Literature Key Points Plato called Archilochus “the prince of Sages”. George Eliot’s pen name is Mary Ann Evans. Her famous debut novel is Adam Bede. A Doll’s House is a three act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen A House’s Tale is a novel by Mark Twain. His name is Samuel Clemens. A Tale of a Tub is a satire by Jonathan Swift. “An Essay on Criticism” (1711) and “Windsor Forest” (1713) are also his works. Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw. The title was borrowed from Virgil’s Aeneid in Latin (Arms and the man I Sing). Raina is a character in the play. Shaw’s other works are Candida, You Never Can Tell, The Man of Destiny. Between the Acts is the final novel by Virginia Woolf published in 1941 shortly after her suicide. George Bernard Shaw’s Candida set in the month of October. Confidence is a novel by Henry James in 1879. Death in Venice (1912) is a novella by German author Thomas Mann. Dream of Four to Middling Women is S...