Famous Authors

Lewis Carroll is a pen name of                 [Mark Twain, Charles Dodgson, Walter Scot], the man who wrote such famous books for children as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and through                   [the looking-glass, the torch, the kettle]. Lewis Carroll was a wonderful children’s         [writter, writer, wraiter]. He understood children and he could enter the world of children’s imagination.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, a professor of Literature and English at Oxford and a storyteller, became famous with his         [novel, poem, trilogy, drama] the word of the rings (1954-1955). It is especially loved by young people.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote under the name Mark Twain. Clemens was well-known as the author of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer and                     [Huckleberry Finn, Alice in Wonderland, Waverley] and other novels about growing up in a small town on the Mississippi River in               [the USA, Great Britain, Europe].

Walter Scott is the creator of a             [Hisory, historic, historical]novel in English literature. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He loved his native land deeply and was greatly interested in its past. In his youth he made a good collection of the old                     [British fairy tales, Scottish ballads, American adventures] .

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He was born in 1859. He was a writer of detective stories. The main character of his stories is Sherlock Holmes.

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He was English. He was born in 1564. He was a dramatist, a poet and an actor. He died in 1616.

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She was born in 1890. She wrote 66 detective novels. She died in 1976.

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My heart’s in the Highlands,

my heart is not here;

My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;

A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe —

My heart’s in the Highlands wherever I go