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Best british writers

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George Orwell

Best known for Animal Farm, George Orwell was a writer and a journalist. Both “Animal farm” and “1984” are refined critics to communism.

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Malcolm Lowry

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Thomas Hardy

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J. R. R. Tolkien

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William Golding

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C. S. Lewis

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John Fowles

He became a best selling author as soon an his book “The collector” was published in 1963. His postmodernist style brought him great success also with “The magus”, “The French Lieutenant’s wife” and “The Enigma of Stonehenge”.

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Roald Dahl

Dahl became a very known writer in the 1940’s. He wrote children and adult books. His most important work is “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Matilda”.

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D. H. Lawrence

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Virginia Woolf

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Charles Dickens

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Doris Lessing

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Philippa Pearce

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Anthony Burgess

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Ian Fleming

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Mervyn Peake

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Aldous Huxley

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Salman Rushdie

One of the most controversial writers of Britain is Salman Rushdie. Most of his fiction works are set in India, as he has Indian origins. The mixes history, realism and fiction in his stories. “Midnight’s children” drew a lot of protest from Muslims all over the world.