Famous Books and Authors

Chapter # 24
 Hippocrates
 460 BC –370 BC
 Ancient Greek physician
 He separated the discipline of
medicine from religion
 Human body itself contain
balancing capability his
therapy focused easing this
natural process
 Aristotle
 384 BC – 322 BC
 Greek philosopher
 Student of Plato and teacher of Alexander
the Great
 Physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater,
music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government,
ethics, biology, and zoology.
 William Shakespeare
 Born in 1564; died 1616
 Greatest writer in English language
 England’s National Poet
 38 plays
 Career as an actor in London
 Books
 Henry IV, V, VI
 Romeo and Juliet
 Julius Caesar
 Hamlet
 Othello
 Antony and Cleopatra
 As You Like It
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Adaption of Othello
 John Milton
 1608 –1674
 An English poet, author
 He is best known for his epic poem
Paradise Lost.
 Writings related to contemporary issues
 In last stage of life became blind
 Jane Austen
 16December 1775 – 18 July
1817
 Novelist: Romantic fiction
 Most widely read and most
beloved writers in English
literature.
 Sense and Sensibility
 Pride and Prejudice
 Mansfield Park
 Emma
 Sense and sensibility

 Tamil film
 Kandukondain Kandukondain
 Pride and prejudice
 George Eliot
 Mary Anne
 She used a male pen name
 1819 – 1880
 English Novelist
 Politically astute pen
 Her books for their depictions of rural society
 Books
 The Mill on the Floss
 Silas Marner
 Middlemarch
 Daniel Deronda
 Mark Twain
 1835 – 1910
 American author and
humorist.
 Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn (1884), which has been
called "the Great American
Novel“
 Tom Sawyer
 Life on mississippi
 Henry James
 1843 -1916
 American born writer
 James never married
 James spent the last 40 years of his life
in England
 Articles and book of travel, biography,
autobiography, and criticism, and wrote
plays.
 The Portrait of a Lady
 Washington Square
 The Wings of the Dove
 Beast in the Jungle
 George Bernard Shaw
 1856 –1950
 Irish
 An ardent socialist
 He is the first person to have been awarded
both a Nobel Prize for Literature and an
Oscar for Pygmalion.
 D.H. Lawrence
 1885 – 1930
 An English author, poet,
essayist
 He endured official
persecution, censorship, and
misrepresentation of his
creative work.
 valued significant
representative of
modernism in English
literature
 Sons and Lovers
 The Rainbow
 Women in Love
 Margaret Mitchell
 1900 –1949
 American author
 Won Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel
Gone with the Wind
 Albert Einstein
 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955
 Theoretical physicist, philosopher and
author who is widely regarded as one of
the most influential and best known
scientists and intellectuals of all time.
 Regarded as father of modern physics
 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and
especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect
 Theories
 Theory of relativity
 Fluctuation dissipation theorem
 Quantum theory of atomic motion in solids
 Isaac Newton
 4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727
 English physicist, mathematician,
astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist,
and theologian
 One of the most influential people in human
history.
 Publication of the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
 Described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion
 Jonathan Swift
 1667 – 19 October 1745
 Essayist, political pamphleteer
 A Tale of a Tub, Gulliver's Travels, A
Modest Proposal, The Battle of the Books
 Adam Smith
 16 June 1723 – 17 July 1790
 Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer
of political economics.
 The Theory of Moral Sentiments
 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of
the Wealth of Nations
 Edward Gibbon
 1737 - 1794
 English Historian
 The History of the Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire
 Hegal
 1770 – November 14, 1831
 German philosopher
 Logic, Philosophy of history, Aesthetics,
Religion, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Political
Philosophy
 Philosophy of history
 Philosophy of right
 Karl Marx
 1818 – March 14, 1883
 German philosopher, political economist,
historian, political theorist
 Significant role in the development of
modern communism.
 Dos Capital famous work
 Sigmund Freud
 1856 – 23 September 1939
 Austrian neurologist who founded the
psychoanalytic school of psychiatry
 Origin of development of psycho-analysis
 Interpretation of dreams
 Declaration of Independence
(US)
 July 4, 1776
 Statement, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at
war with Great Britain were now independent states
 Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson
 Thomas Jefferson was third president of America
 The birthday of the United States of America—Independence Day—is
celebrated on July 4, the day the wording of the Declaration was approved
by Congress
 John Stuart Mill
 1806 –1873
 British philosopher and civil servant
 Theory of liberty
 Charles Darwin
 1809 – 19 April 1882
 English naturalist who established that all
species of life have descended over time
from common ancestors
 Book On the Origin of Species
 Charles Dickens
 February 1812–9 June 1870) was the most popular
English novelist
 Oliver Twist
 Christmas Carol
 Harry Potter
 Series of seven fantasy novels
 Written by J.K Rowling
 Adventure of Wizard Harry Potter
 First novel released in June 1997
 J.K Rowling
 British Author of Harry Potter
 Twelfth riches women in Britain
 Twilight
 Author: Stephen Meyer
 Vampire romance novel
 One of biggest selling book of 2008
 Karen Armstrong
 English writer
 Work on comparative religious
studies
 Successful book: History of God
 Books
 History of God
 Muhammad
 Battle for God
 In the beginning
 Short history of Islam
 Case for God (latest)
 Clash of civilization
 Full name: clash of civilization and remaking
of world order
 Written by: Political scientist Samuel P.
Huntington
 Idea: people's cultural and religious identities
will be the primary source of conflict in the
post-Cold War world
 The Da Vinci Code
 Author: Dan Brown
 Thriller function, American author

 Da Vinci Code that it is simply "an

entertaining story that promotes spiritual
discussion and debate"
 Digital Fortress, 1998
 Angels & Demons, 2000
 Deception Point, 2001
 The Da Vinci Code, 2003
 The Lost Symbol, 2009
 Paulo Coelho
 Brazilian novelist
 Famous work
 Al Chemist
 The Zahir
 Fifth Mountain
 Eleven minutes
 Crime novel by American Author Mario Puzo
Godfather
 About Mafia
 War between mafia families
 The Old Man and the Sea
 Novel by Ernest Hemingway
 written in Cuba
 Epic battle of wills between an old, experienced
fisherman and a giant marlin
 A Brief History of Time
 A popular science book
 Written by Stephen Hawking
 It was also on the London Sunday Times best-
seller list for more than four years
 By Khushwant Siangh
Train to Pakistan
 Historical novel
 Massacre in the train to Pakistan
A Study of History Arnold
 British Historian
 Arnold J Toynbee
 Studies major 21 – 23 major civilization of the world
 Applied his model detailing all the stages through
which each civilization passed
 Civilization were born and died due to challenges
 India Wins Freedom
 By Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
 Political scenario at the time of division of India
 Defined political events an told weaknesses and
blunders