English Literature

The genre of the realistic short story in the early twenties is best represented by Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923). She was born in Welling...

William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. His parents died when he was very little and the boy was brought up by his uncle, a cler...

The Twenties The years between 1917 and 1930 form the first period. This was the time when the crisis of the bourgeois world reached its hig...

John Galsworthy was one of the last representatives of Critical Realism in English literature. He was a novelist, dramatist, short story wri...

Herbert George Wells is often called the great English writer who looked into the future. Indeed, he was the first to warn the bourgeois wor...