English literature of the 2 nd half of XIX century

English literature of the 2nd half of XIX century

Lewis Carroll1832 – 1898

Works• A Tangled Tale• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland• An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, With Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraic Equations• Euclid and his Modern Rivals (1879)• Facts• He thought he saw an elephant• Rhyme? And Reason? (also published as Phantasmagoria)• Pillow Problems• Sylvie and Bruno• Sylvie and Bruno Concluded• Symbolic Logic Part I• Symbolic Logic Part II (published posthumously)• The Game of Logic• The Hunting of the Snark• Three Sunsets and Other Poems• Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (includes Jabberwocky)• What the Tortoise Said to Achilles

Oscar Wilde 1854 –1900

Works

NovelsThe Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)

PoetryRavenna (1878)Poems (1881)The Sphinx (1894)

PlaysA Woman of No Importance (1893)SaloméAn Ideal Husband (1895) (text)

ProseThe Canterville Ghost (1887)The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888, fairy tales) A House of Pomegranates (1891, fairy tales)

William Makepeace Thackeray1811 – 1863

Charles Dickens1812 –1870

Works

Novels:• The Adventures of Oliver Twist • David Copperfield • A Tale of Two Cities • Great Expectations• Our Mutual Friend • The Mystery of Edwin Drood• Little Dorrit • Bleak Houseetc.

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens