1.	First novelists

1.1.	Daniel Defoe

1.2.	Jonathan Swift

2.	Realistic novelists

2.1.	Charles Dickens

2.2.	Charlotte and Emily Brontë

2.3.	Thomas Hardy

3.	Period from world war

3.1.	James Joyce

3.2.	Virgina Woolf

3.3.	Another famous novelist

4.	Post-war period

4.1.	Graham Green

4.2.	Kingsley Amis

4.3.	J. A. R. Tolkien

"The first novelists in English literature were Daniel Defoe and Johathan Swift. Daniel Defoe was born in London in a very rich family. It is way he could travel a lot, he visited Spain, Germany, France and many others countries. His greates work is a book The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York. The story is based on real experiences of a Scottish Saylor. Robinson Crusoe is a typical character of the period. He loves adventure, is hard-working and optimistic. Another famous book of Daniel Defoe is Moll Flanders.
Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin.His life was dark and sad becouse he suffered from madness caused by a brain tumour. He wrote famous satiries, e. g. The Tale of Tub and many pamphlets. The most famous of them is The Modest Proposal. The greatest work of Jonathan Swift is the novel Gulliver´s Travels in which he critisized politicions, church,queen and court.Another famous novelist is Samuel Richardson. His famous book Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded has a form of a long seris of love-letters. His masterpiese is a book Clarissa. It ends tragically. This book gave rise to sentimentalism. The first real novel in English literature is a book by Henry Fielding Tom Jones, a Foundling. In this book Fielding describes real characters and showed real life during the long period.

The most famous realistic novelists were Charles Dickens and Brontë sisters. Charles Dickens was the greatest representative of realism of the 19th century and one of the world´s famous novelists. His first book The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club made Dickens the most popular novelist of the day. Then he started writing novels that describe English society. Other famous books of Charles Dickens are f. e. Oliver Twist, Hard Times, Little Dorrit or David Copperfield, which is an autobiography. Something about the Brontë sisters – Charlotte Brontë is known for her novels The Professor and Jane Eyre, which is the most famous book of her. It is an autobiographical, realistic tale. The masterpiece of Emily Brontë is Wuthering Heigts. It has a romantic plot but is realistic in scenery and characters. The most famous author of naturalism is Thomas Hardy. He was interested mainly in rural life in England. One of his most famous works is a book The Mayor of Casterbridge that is a story of a man who sells his wife witch a child after having drunk too much. Another famous book of him is Tess of the D´Urbervilles."