English literature Made of Nina Chesnokova Great Britain is a place of birth of William Shakespeare. He is usually called a national poet of England. He draw ideas for his tragedies and comedies from the history of England and ancient Rome. His best-known plays are: “Othello”, “Hamlet”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “Much Ado about Nothing”, “King Lear”. «Alice in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll (children's adventure tale) It tells the story of a girl named Alice, who falls through a rabbit hole into an imaginary world inhabited by strange anthropomorphic creatures. The fairy tale enjoys steady popularity among both children and adults. The book is considered one of the best examples of literature in the genre of the absurd; it uses numerous mathematical, linguistic and philosophical jokes and allusions. Arthur Conan Doyle «The Chronicles of Narnia» is a series of seven books written by British writer Clive Staples Lewis in the 1950s. The central place of action of all the works is the magical land of Narnia, which is inhabited by talking animals and mythical creatures. The Chronicles of Narnia have long been considered classics of children's literature, but adults also read them with pleasure. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again"— with this book Tolkien entered literature. The book originally appeared as a work for the family circle — Tolkien began to tell his children a fairy tale about the Hobbit. Now the book is known more as a kind of prologue to The Lord of the Rings. This is one of the most popular works of the twentieth century in the fantasy genre, in which the endless confrontation of Good and Evil takes place in a fairyland. The noveltrilogy consists of three parts: "The Brotherhood of the Ring", "Two Fortresses" and "The Return of the King". Gerald Malcolm Durrell Gerald Malcolm Durrell is a British naturalist, writer, conservationist and television presenter. He founded the Darell Wildlife Trust and the Jersey Zoo on the Channel Island of Jersey in 1959. He wrote about forty books, mostly about his expeditions to exotic countries for wild animals, but the most famous of them is "My Family and other Animals" about his childhood on the Greek island of Corfu. Thank you for your attention!