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(1907) Rudyard Kipling : UK (born in British india) (1913) Rabindranath Tagore : India (1923) W.B. Yeats : Ireland (1925) George Bernard Shaw : Ireland (1930) Sinclair Lewis : US (1932) John Galsworthy : UK (1936) Eugene O'Neill : US (1938) Pearl S. Buck: US (1948) T.S. Eliot : UK (born in the US) (1949) William Faulkner : US (1950) Bertrand Russell : UK (1953) Winston Churchill : UK (1954) Ernest Hemingway : US (1962) John Steinbeck : US (1969) Samuel Beckett : Ireland (lived in France much of his life) (1973) Patrick White : Australia (1976) Saul Bellow : US (born in Canada) (1978) Isaac Bashevis Singer : US (born in Poland) (1983) William Golding : UK (1986) Wole Soyinka : Nigeria (1987) Joseph Brodsky : US (born in Russia) (1991) Nadine Gordimer : South Africa (1992) Derek Walcott : St Lucia, West Indies (1993) Toni Morrison : US (1995) Seamus Heaney : Ireland (2001) V.S. Naipaul : UK (born in Trinidad) (2003) J.M. Coetzee : South Africa (2005) Harold Pinter...

1. The old English Period or The Anglo-Saxon Period(450-1066)  2. The Middle English Period (1066-1500)  a) Anglo-Norman Period (1066-1340) b) The Age of chaucer (1340-1400) 3. Renaissance Period (1500-1660) a) Elizabethan Age or The Age of Shakespeare(1558-1603) b) Jacobean Age or The Age of Donne(1603-1625)  C) Caroline Age or The Age of Milton(1625-1649)    d) Commonwealth Period or Puritan interregnum(1649-1660) 4. The Neo-classical Period (1660-1785/98) a) The Restoration Period or The Age of Dryden (1660-1700)  b) The Augustan Age or The Age of Pope(1700-1745) C) The Age of Sensibility or The Age of Johnson (1745-1785/98)   5. The Romantic Period (1798-1837) 6. The Victorian Period (1837-1901) a) The Pre-Raphaelites (1848-1860)  b) Aestheticism and Decadence (1880-1901)  7. The Modern Period (1901-1939/50)  a) The Edwardian Period (1901-1910)  b) The Georgian Period (1910-1936)  8. The Postmodern Period (1939/50 Onwards)...

Joseph Conrad is one of the great novelists of modern period. He was a Polish-British novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as One of the greatest writers in the English language though he did not Speak English fluently until twenties. He is known for the novels - Lord Jim , Nostromo and The Secret agent . Joseph Conrad was born on December 3, 1857 in  Berdychiv , Ukraine . He was educated at Saint Petersburg state university. Joseph Conrad moved to England and became a British Citizen in 1886. In 1895, his first novel Almayer's Folly appeared. His novels made him one of the influential novelists in 20th Century.  Among his great novels are  - Almayer's Folly, Lord Jim, Nostromo, The secret Agent, The Heart of Darkness, Typhoon, Romance, chance, victory, An Outcast of the Islands, The Heart of Darkness etc.  In his writings there are themes of social and political evil of his time. His novel " chance " was a study of loneliness and compassion. " Vict...