The Great Age of the Novel in Europe: the Nineteenth Century

Jane Austen, 1811: Sense and Sensibility

Stendahl, 1830: The Red and the Black

Balzac, 1833: Eugenie Grandet

Charles Dickens, 1837: Pickwick Papers

Emily Bronte, 1847: Wuthering Heights

Charlotte Bronte, 1847: Jane Eyre

Thackeray, 1848: Vanity Fair

Flaubert, 1857: Madame Bovary

Dostoevsky, 1864: Notes from Underground

Tolstoy, 1865-1869: War and Peace

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), 1871-72: Middlemarch

British Novelists Writing after the Victorian Era but before WWI

Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891)

Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924

John Galsworthy, 1867-1933

E. M. Forster, 1879-1970

James Joyce, 1882-1941: Portrait (1916); Ulysses (1922)

D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930

British Novelists Influenced by "The Great War" (WWI, 1914-1918)

Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941: To the Lighthouse (1927); A Room of

One's Own (1929)

Evelyn Waugh, 1903-1966

Anthony Powell, 1905-

Samuel Beckett, 1906-

Laurence Durrell, 1912-

British Novelists Writing in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century

Iris Murdoch, 1919-

Muriel Spark, 1918-

John Fowles, 1926-

Kingsley Amis, 1922-1993, Lucky Jim, 1954

Anthony Burgess, Clockwork Orange, 1962

Doris Lessing, 1919-

Fay Weldon

Films:

Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights

Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre

Charles Dickens: David Copperfield

*Galsworthy: The Forsythe Saga

Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim

Thomas Hardy: Tess, Far from the Madding Crowd

E. M. Forster: A Room with a View, Howards End, Where Angels Fear to

Tread, Passage to India

Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited, The Loved One, A Handful of Dust

James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Dead

Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim

Anthony Burgess: Clockwork Orange

John Fowles: French Lieutenant's Woman, The Magus

*Iris Murdock: A Severed Head