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- An author is the writer of a book or play, or someone who creates something.
- You can't usually take out more than two books from a public library in Britain.
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- Things written on the cover of a book are called a preface.
- A book published in a great number of copies is called a bestseller.
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- A preface contains the author's remarks at the beginning of a book.
- There are very few libraries in Britain where you can choose from a catalogue.
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- When joining a library you usually get a 'library ticket' or 'lending card'.
- You may pay an extra charge if you don't return a book in time.
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- A playwright is a person who writes plays and dramas.
- Critics usually write reviews.
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- A thriller is a person who writes crime stories and detective novels.
- Journalists usually write newspaper articles and newspaper reports.
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- Crime stories and detective novels are often referred to as 'thrillers'.
- An essay is usually a short piece of writing in prose on a certain subject.
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- Some famous English poets also wrote essays and different articles.
- Fiction is a branch of literature including stories, novels and romances.
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- Medieval romances were usually poems concerned with love and chivalry.
- Milton was the first great dramatist before the age of Shakespeare.
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- Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained were written by Milton in the 17th century.
- Shakespeare wrote more than 35 plays and over 60 sonnets.
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- Geoffrey Chaucer, the author of the Canterbury Tales, was also a diplomat.
- He was the reformer of English poetry in the 14th century.
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- Shakespeare is the author of wonderful plays, but he was never an actor.
- Some of his plays were taken from Ben Jonson, another dramatist of his age.
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- Byron, Shelley and Keats are great representatives of realistic poetry.
- Two of Sir Walter Scott's historical novels are Waverley and Ivanhoe.
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- Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats are all romantic poets.
- Ben Jonson, Richardson, Scott, Kipling and Tennyson are all great novelists.
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- Defoe, Swift, Dickens, Thackeray, Fielding and Hardy were all novelists.
- Joyce, Lawrence, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf all lived in the 20th century.
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