Foreign prose writers humanities 1

2. Alighiere, Dante
(1265-1321)
His Famous
works:
“La Divina
Commedia”
“The Divine Comedy”
“La Vita
Nuova”
“The New Life”

3. Aristotle
(384-322 B.C.)
He Wrote:
“Organon”
Logic
“Poetics”
Theory of Tragedy
Scientific
Research

4. Balzac, Honor de
(1799-1850)
His Works:
“Father of French
Realism”
“ The Human
Comedy”
(95 novels)
“Eugenie Grandet”
and “Pere Goriot”

5. Burroughs, Edgar
Rice (1875-1950)
He produced
writings
about the
popular
character,
Tarzan

6. Cervantes, Miguel Saavedra de
(1547-1616)
Famous novel
“Don
Quixote
de la Mancha”

7. Confucius
(551-479B.C.)
The Four
Books
His Works:
“The Analects”
“Doctrine of the
Mean”
“The Great
Learning”
“The Book of
Mencius”
“Confucian
Classics”
“The Book of Songs”
“The Book of Changes”
“The Book of Rites”
“The Book of Poetry”
“The Spring and
Autumn Annals”
Father of Chinese
Literature

8. Dickens, Charles
(1812-1870)
His works:
“David and
Copperfield”
“Tale of Two
Cities”

9. Dos Pasos, John
(Born 1896)
His Famous
Novel:
“Manhattan
Transfer”

10. Dostoevsky, Feodor
(1822-1881)
His Writings:
“The Brothers
Karamazov”
“Crime and
Punishment”

11. Dryden, John
(1631-1700)
“Father of
English Prose”

12. Faulkner, William
(1897-1700)
He authored:
“The
Unvanquished”
and “Intruder in
the Dust ”
He is known
best for his
short story:
“A Rose for
Emily”

13. Fielding, Henry
(1707-1754)
He wrote :
“Tom Jones”

14. Fitzgerald, F. Scott
(1896-1940)
“The Great
Gatsby”

15. Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Fielding,
(1804-1864)
Henry
His Famous
work:
“The Scarlet
Letter”

16. Hemingway, Ernest
(1898-1961)
Two of his
novel
“A Farwell of
Arms”
“The Old Man
and A Sea”

17. Irving, Washington
(1783-1859)
He is known for
his Legends:
“Legend of the
Sleepy Hallow”
“Legend of the
Enchanted
Soldier”
He also wrote
legends Dutch
and of Granada,
Spain

18. Joyce, James
(1882-1941)
He authored:
“Ulysses”
“Portrait of
the Artist as a
Young Man”

19. Maupassant, Guy De
(1850-1893)
He is known
for his works:
“Two Little
Soldiers”
“The
Necklace”
“Jewels”

20. Melville, Herman
(1819-1893)
He became
known for his
work:
“Moby Dick”

21. Montaigne, Michael Eyquem De
(1533-1592)
He wrote :
“Essais”
(from which the
word “essay”
was derived)
A collection of
essay
“Of Smells”

22. Poe, Edgar Allan
(1809-1849)
He authored:
“The Cask of
Amontillado”
“The Raven”
“The Gold
Bug”
“The Fall of
the House of
Usher”

23. Pushkin, Alexander
(1799-1837)
A Russian
poet,
dramatist,
novelist, and
short-story
writer
He produced
works that
were turned
into operas
Among of his
woks turns
into operas:
“Russian and
Ludmilla”
“Eugene
Onegin”
“Boris
Godunov”

24. Richardson, Samuel
(1689-1761)
He authored:
“Pamela”
(“Virtue
Rewarded”)

25. Rousseau, Jean Jacques
(1712-1778)
He composed :
“The Village
Soothsayer”
(comic opera)
“Social
Contract”
“Emile”

26. Scott, Sir Walter
(1771-1832)
He wrote :
“The Heart of
Midlothian”
“Bride of
Lammermoor”

27. Steinbeck, John
(1902-1968)
He is famous
for his works :
“Cup of Gold”
“To a God
Unknown”
“Tortilla Flat”
“Of Mice and
Men”
“Grapes of
Wrath”

28. Tagore, Rabindranath
(1861-1941)
Foremost
Indian
Aesthete
Won a Nobel
Prize in
Literature in
1913
His major
works include :
“Gitanji”
(1910)
“Raja”
(1910)
“Dakghar”
(1912)
“Achalayatan”
(1912)

29. Thoreau, Henry David
(1817-1862)
His
Famous
work:
“Walden”

30. Tolstoy, Leo
(1828-1910)
His
renowned
work :
“War and
Peace”
“Anna
Karerina”

31. Turgenev, Ivan
(1818-1883)
He wrote :
“Father and
Sons”