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• His father was a novelist and traslator English and French literature. • His mother dided when he was eight years old.[r]

Group two: Nguyen Thi Dao Do Hong Nhung Dinh Thi Du

Dao Thi Hoa Sim Chu Thi Len

Hoang Quynh Trang Phan Thi Hoa

Bui Thi Giang Phan Thi Oanh

Pham Thi Kim Oanh

Hoang Thi Hien Nguyen Thi Tham Doan Thi Ha

Tran Thi Sen Ly Anh Ngoc

Nong Phuong Hong Vi Thi Khanh Tuyet Nguyen Phuong Linh

Three parts of our presentation I History and literature in the 20th

century

II The novelist: Joseph Conrad

Social

Social background

The British faced far bigger wars, World War I (1914-1918) and World War II (1939-1945) in which she was a major participant.

The wars killed a dozen of millions of people in Europe and Britain had to suffer heavy

Social background

• By this time, the United States, also her former colony had become the strongest economic and military power of what was called the capitalist block, and Britain had to accept her second porition behind the U.S.

Characteristics of this age

• The Darwin’s theory about man’s origin made the society anxious.This leg to pessimism trend in literature

• Writers shift of focus.

• The explosion in the kind and trend of the novel.

• The short story is a novel in miniature It has all the elements of a novel but in a smaller proportion.

• It has a plot

• It has fewer characters • It has a climax

Characteristics of the short story

• It has a theme ,which is a truth about life that the author wants to reveal to the reader. • Its value lies in the writing techniques

employed by the author to achieve the aim of a short story

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

His life and

His

Writer’s biography

• Joseph Conrad(1857- 1924) was a Polish-born British novelist

• His father was a novelist and traslator English and French literature

Writer’s biography

• After his father’s death, he lived in his uncle’s house

• He worked as a sailor and then captain on British ship

His contribution to British literature

• In 1894, Conrad gave up the sea and decided on a literary career

• In 1895, he produced his first novel in English “ Almayer’s Folly”

• He is ragarded as one of the greatest novelists in English , though he did not speak the language fluently

After somer intinal difficulties with the

language which sometimes appeared in his early works,Conrad achieved great success as an English writer with his:

+ Lard Jim (1990) + Youth(1902)

+ Typhoon(1903)

+The secret Agent( 1907) + Chance(1914)

+ Victory(1915)

• Honour and loyatly are much praised virtues in his books

• Conrad’s novels express depression, self-doubt and pessimism

• His narrative style and anti-heroic

characters have influenced many authors • Films have been adapted from or inspried

by Conrad’s works.

His famous works

• Canon of Sherlock Holmes:

– A study in scarlet(1887)

– The adventure of Sherlock Holmes(1892) – The Case book of Sherlock Holmes(1927)

• Challenger storier:

Personal experiences

Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh

Scotland.

 He is now referred to as “Conan Doyle”

the origin of his compound surname is uncertain.

 He was sent to the Roman catholic Jesuit

prepartory school Hodder place Stony hurstat the age nice.

In 1875 he left the school, he had rejected

 From 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh While studying he also began writing short stories

 Following his term at university he was employed as a ship’s doctor on the SS Mayumba

 He completed his doctorate in 1885.

 In 1885 he married Lousia Hourkins After his wife’s death, he married Jean Elizabeth

 He died of a heart attack age 71 on July, 1930

His famous works • Historical novels:

+Micah Clark (1888)

+The white company (1891) +Sir Nigel (1906)

• Other works:

+The Mystery of Cloomber (1889) +The film of Girdlestone (1890)

His contribution to British literature

• He is famous for “Sherlock Holmes”, a major initiative in the mystery novels.