World’s Greatest Writers

A specific and discreet ppt showcasing the greatest writers ever born in history.

1. World’s Greatest Writers…

3. William Shakespeare…
•English poet and playwright.
•Stratford-upon-Avon in England.
•Lord Chamberlain’s Men in London.
•38 plays,154 sonnets and numerous poems.
•1589 and 1613.

4. Works…
•Plays published in The First Folio.
•Comedies, romance, histories and tragedies.
•First play- Henry VI (Love’s labour lost)
•To name a few…
–Midsummer night’s dream
–Romeo and Juliet
–Macbeth
•Reputation heightened in the 19
th
century.

5. ‘All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts’

6. JANE AUSTEN
•Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July
1817) was an English novelist whose works of
romantic fiction set among the gentry have
earned her a place as one of the most widely
read and most beloved writers in English
literature.
•Amongst scholars and critics, Austen's realism
and biting social commentary have cemented
her historical importance as a writer.

7. EARLY WORKS
•In 1793, Austen began and then abandoned a
short play, later entitled Sir Charles Grandison
or the happy Man, a comedy in 6 acts, which
she returned to and completed around 1800.
•This was a short parody of various school
textbook abridgments of Austen's favourite
contemporary novel, The History of Sir Charles
Grandison (1753), by Samuel Richardson.[46]
Honan speculates that at some point not long
after writing Love and Freindship.

8. Mark Twain…
•Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
•Genre: Fiction, travels, social commentary,
children’s literature.
•American author and humourist.
•Light, humourous verse .
•Evolved into the noted satire and hypocrisy.

9. Works…
•Major
publications
– The
Adventures of
Huckleberry
Finn
– Tom Sawyer
–The Prince
and the
Pauper.
• Used different pen-names
like ‘Josh’ and ‘Thomas
Jefferson Snodgrass’
• Origin of the pen-name
‘Mark Twain’ :
• Mississippi riverboats
• ‘Fathom’ unit of depth
• Riverboat man's cry ‘Mark
Twain’

10. J.K.Rowling
•Joanne ‘Jo’
Murray(31 JULY
1965)
•British novelist
•‘Harry Potter’ series
most successful
fantasy of all times

11. •Delayed train journey from Manchester to
London
•“Harry just strolled into my head fully
formed.”
•Potter originally rejected by 12 publishing
companies
•Finally published by Bloomsbury
•400 Million copies have been sold
• Rowling best known
for her ‘rags-to-riches’
story
•Born in England, loved
fantasy since childhood
•Wrote stories and
read them to her sister

12. The Success Story…
•1
st
person to become a U.S dollar
billionaire by writing books
•2
nd
richest female entertainer
•Légion d’honneur by French President
Nicolas Sarkozy.
•Charity work- One Parent Families
,Volant Charitable Trust,Multiple
Sclerosis society etc.
•The most notable success story.

13. INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION
•Dan Brown (born June 22,
1964) is an American author
of thriller fiction, best
known for the 2003
bestselling novel, The Da
Vinci Code. Brown's novels,
which are treasure hunts set
in a 24-hour time period.
• Dan Brown was born and
raised in Exeter, New
Hampshire, USA, the eldest
of three children. Brown
grew up on the campus of
Phillips Exeter Academy.

14. Dan Brown
• .
Americannovelist
• : ,
Genres Thrillerfiction ancientmysteries
.
andconspiracies
•
GraduatedfromPhillips ExeterUniversity

andspentayearabroadto studyHistoryin
.
the UniversityofSeville
• ’ ‘
GotinspiredbySidneySheldons The
’
DoomsdayConspiracy

15. FAMOUS NOVELS
THE DA VINCI CODE:
The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery-detective fiction novel written
by American author Dan Brown. It follows symbologist Robert
Langdon and Sophie Neveu as they investigate a murder in Paris's
Louvre Museum and discover a battle between the Priory of Sion
and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus Christ of Nazareth
having been married to Mary Magdalene.
ANGELS AND DEMONS :
2000 -
Angels &Demons is a bestselling mystery thrillernovel written by
.
American author Dan Brown and published by Pocket Books It revolves around

the quest of fictional Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon to

uncoverthe mysteries of a secret society called the Illuminati and to unravel a
.
plot to annihilate Vatican City using destructive antimatter The book uses the
,
idea of a historical conflict between science and religion particularly that
.
between the Illuminati and the Roman Catholic Church

16. Works…
•
Novels featuring RobertLangdon as the lead
.
character
• .
Based on historicalthemes and Christianity
•24- -
hourtreasure hunts involving on
, , , ,
cryptography keys symbols codes ancientsocieties
.
etc
• 40 80
Translated into over languages and sold
- .
million copies world wide
• : , ,
Othernovels Digitalfortress Deception pointThe

LostSymbol
•
Created controversies due to
historical themes and
Christianity as recurring motifs