1. British Literature LUKÁŠ PAZDERA

2. Old English Literature Beowulf – the oldest important literary work in English

3. Medieval Literature Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

4. Literature of Renaissance WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE – the greatest dramatist of all time Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer‘s Night Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It… Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth… Historical plays: Henry IV., Henry VI., Richard III.

5. Classicism and Enlightment Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe Jonathan Swift: Gulliver‘s Travels Samuel Johnson: A Dictionary of the English Language

6. Romantism George Gordon Byron: Childe Harold‘s Pilgrimage Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound John Keats: Ode to Nightingale

7. Victorian Era Charles Dickens: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, The Adventures of Oliver Twist Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion

8. Literature of the 20th Century Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter

9. My favourite book A. A. Milne: Winnie-the-Pooh