Name

Works

Other

Films

William Shakespeare

(1564-1616)

Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Henry the Fifth
A Midnight Summer Dream

He was a playwright.
He wrote 37 plays, many books and poems

Romeo and Juliet (1934)
Director: George Kukor

Romeo and Juliet (1968)
A Paramount Picture
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Starring: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey and Michael York
Awarded 2 “Oscars”

Hamlet (1948)
Director and producer: Laurence Olivier
Starring: Laurence Olivier
Awarded 4 “Oscars”

King Henry the Fifth (1946)
A Laurence Olivier Production
Director: Laurence Olivier
Starring: Laurence Olivier
Awarded 1 “Oscar”

A Midnight Summer Dream (1935)
Director: Max Reinhard
Awarded 2 “Oscars”

George Gordon Byron
(1788-1824)

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Don Juan

He wrote poetry

Charles Dickens
(1812-1870)

David Copperfield
The Pickwick Papers
Oliver Twist
Nicholas Nickleby
Dombey and Son

David Copperfield (1935)
Director: George Kukor

Percy Bysshe Shelly
(1792-1822)

Song to the Men of England

He wrote poetry

Charlotte Brontё
(1846-1855)

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre
Director: Julian Amyes
Starring: Zelah
Clarke, Timothy Dalton

Arthur Conan Doyle
(1859-1930)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Lost World
The Poisoned Belt

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
(1977-1983)
Starring: V. Livanov (В. Ливанов) and V. Solomin (В. Соломин)

George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950)

Pygmalion
The Apple Cart

He was a playwright

Pygmalion (1938)
Director: Leslie Howard
Awarded 2 “Oscars”

My Fair Lady (1964)
Warner Brothers Production
Director: George Kukor
Starring: Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison
Awarded 8 “Oscars”

John Galsworthy
(1867-1933)

The Forsyte Saga

He wrote short stories

Jerome Klapka Jerome

The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Three Men in a Boat to Say Nothing about the Dog

He wrote humorous stories

Three Men in a Boat to Say Nothing about the Dog (1979)
Film studio: “Lenfilm”
Starring: A. Mironov (А. Миронов), M. Derzhavin (М. Державин), A. Shirvindt (А. Ширвиндт)

Katherine Mansfield
(1888-1923)

Thу Doll's House

(Australia and New Zealand)
She wrote short stories

Herbert George Wells
(1866-1946)

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents
The Time Machine
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Invisible Man
The War of the Worlds

He wrote science fiction

The Island of Doctor Moreau
Staring: Michael York

Island of Dr. Moreau (1997)
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Val Kilmer, Marlon Brando

Alfred Coppard
(1878-1957)

The Cherry Tree

He wrote stories

Agatha Christie
(1890-1976)

68 novels, 17 plays, more than a hundred stories

She wrote detective stories

Agatha Christie’s Poirot (1989)
Starring: David Suchet and Hugh Fraser

William Somerset Maugham
(1874 - 1965)

The Moon and Sixpence
Cakes and Ale
Of Human Bondage
The Theatre

He wrote novels and stories

Archibald Joseph Cronin
(1896-)

The Green Years
Shannon’s Way

(Scotland)

James Aldridge
(1918-)

The Last Inch
The Sea Eagle

The Last Inch (1958)
Film studio: «Lenfilm»
Starring: N. Krjukov (Н. Крюков)

Daniel Defo
(1660-1731)

Robinson Crusoe (1719)

Robinson Crusoe
Starring: L. Kuravlyov (Л. Куравлёв)

Jonathan Swift
(1667-1745)

Gulliver’s Travels (1727)

Walter Scott
(1771-1832)

Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe (1952)
Director: Richard Torp

Robert Luis Stevenson
(1850-1894)

Treasure Island
Kidnapped
a poem Heather Ale

Kidnapped
Starring: Armand Assante

William Makepiece Thackery
(1811-1863)

Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair (2004)
Director: Mira Nahir
Starring: Reeze Whitherspoone, Gabriel Byrne

Jane Austin
(1775-1817)

Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility

Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, E. E. Clive, Ann Rutherford

Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Starring: Keira Knightley, Donald Sutherland

Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman

William Wilkie Collins
(1824-1889)

Woman in White
The Moonstone

Oscar Wilde

(1854-1900)

Plays:
An Ideal Husband
The Importance of Being Earnest

Novels:
The Picture of Dorian Gray

He wrote plays and novels

Christie Brown

My Left Foot

My Left Foot (1989)
Director: Jim Sheridan
Awarded 2 “Oscars”