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Great Authors of the British Isles
Great Authors of the British Isles introduces the extraordinary body of English literature with such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, J. K. Rowling and more.
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GBA $220.00/yr
Individual Programs SKU Term Price Program 1: Beowulf to Shakespeare
8th Century AD - Beowulf
14th Century - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
1387 - 1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer Writes The Canterbury Tales
1594 - Shakespeare Pens Romeo and Juliet
GBA-001 $27.50/yr
Program 2: The Renaissance Writers
1581 - Sir Francis Bacon, Renaissance Man
1587 - Christopher Marlowe Writes Tamburlaine the Great
1590 - Edmund Spenser Publishes The Faerie Queene
1592 - Sir Walter Ralegh's The Ocean to Cynthia
1598 - Ben Jonson Establishes a New Kind of Comedy
1631 - John Donne Delivers His Own Death Sermon
1658 - John Milton Begins Paradise Lost
GBA-002 $27.50/yr
Program 3: Augustan and Romantic Poets
1681 - The Age of Dryden Begins
1712 - Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
1755 - Dr Johnson Completes A Dictionary of the English Language
1786 - Robert Burns' Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
1819 - Lord Byron Pens Don Juan
1790 - 1830 - The Four Romantic Poets
1850 - Wordsworth's Spiritual Autobiography Ends
1850 - Alfred Lord Tennyson is Made Poet Laureate of England
1864 - The Brownings
GBA-003 $27.50/yr
Program 4: Early Novelists
1679 - John Bunyan, Father of the English Novel
1749 - Henry Fielding Writes Tom Jones
1813 - Pride and Prejudice, a Novel by Jane Austen
1819 - Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe
1837 - Charles Dickens Begins Oliver Twist
1847 - The Bronte Sisters
1886 - Robert Louis Stevenson Introduces Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
GBA-004 $27.50/yr
Program 5: Children's Literature
1719 - Daniel Defoe Pens Robinson Crusoe
1865 - Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1901 - Beatrix Potter Publishes The Tale of Peter Rabbit
1926 - A.A. Milne Creates Winnie the Pooh
1937 - J.R.R. Tolkien Writes The Hobbit
1961 - James and the Giant Peach, a Title by Roald Dahl
1997 - J.K. Rowling Introduces Harry Potter
GBA-005 $27.50/yr
Program 6: The Genre Innovators
1818 - Mary Shelley Gives Rise to Frankenstein
1887 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Introduces Sherlock Holmes
1895 - H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
1932 - 1948 - Huxley and Orwell Pen Dystopian Novels
1934 - Agatha Christie, First Woman of Detective Fiction
1953 - Ian Fleming Writes the First Bond Spy Thriller
GBA-006 $27.50/yr
Program 7: 20th Century Poets and Playwrights
1907 - Rudyard Kipling Wins Nobel Prize
1920 - John Galsworthy's The Skin Game is Performed
1922 - T.S. Eliot, Intellectual Giant
1937 - The '30s Poets
1953 - Dylan Thomas, Larger - Than - Life Poet, Dies
2005 - Harold Pinter Wins the Nobel Prize
GBA-007 $27.50/yr
Program 8: 20th Century Novelists
1902 - Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
1922 - Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury Group
1924 - E. M. Forster Writes A Passage to India
1928 - D.H. Lawrence Shocks the World
1944 - W. Somerset Maugham's Prophetic The Razor's Edge
1954 - William Golding Writes Lord of the Flies
1969 - John Fowles, The Existentialist
2007 - Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize Winner
GBA-008 $27.50/yr