Books and poetry
Society and culture · topic 9 of 11 · 5 lessons
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Prizes and popular fiction
Writers in the UK have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, including William Golding, Harold Pinter… (the rest needs full access)
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Classic novelists
Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, about marriage and family life… (the rest needs full access)
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20th-century novelists
Evelyn Waugh wrote funny, sharp novels such as Decline and Fall and Scoop, and is best known for… (the rest needs full access)
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Early poetry
British poetry goes back more than a thousand years. Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon poem about a hero… (the rest needs full access)
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Later poets
William Wordsworth wrote poems about nature. Sir Walter Scott used old Scottish stories and songs… (the rest needs full access)