H. G. Wells
English writer
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J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
Anthony Trollope
English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, “Dean Swift”.
Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub , An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity , Gulliver’s Travels , and A Modest Proposal . He is regarded by the Encyclopdia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry
Beverley Nichols
English writer, playwright and public speaker
Rudyard Kipling
English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist
D. H. Lawrence
English writer and poet
Aldous Huxley
English writer and philosopher
M. R. James
English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King’s College, Cambridge , and of Eton College . He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge .
James’s work as a medievalist and scholar is still highly regarded, but he is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some consider among the best in the genre
Thomas Hardy
English novelist and poet