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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 Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong Nguyen Thi Hoi

Three parts of our presentation

I History and literature in the 20th

century

II The novelist: Joseph Conrad

III The novelist: Arthur Conan Doyle

Social

Social background

The British faced 2 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

losses of human lives and property.

The world wars’ influence to Britain

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.

 All of events influenced to the literature in 20th century

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 introduction of the short story ,a new genes of fiction

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

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

• It also has a setting which is on a limited

scope in terms of time and space.

Joseph Conrad

(1857-1924)

His life and His contribution

Writer’s biography

• Joseph Conrad(1857- 1924) was a

Polish-born British novelist

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

• His mother dided when he was eight years old

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

• In 1886, he became a Bristish

subject.

His contribution to British

• Moods of the sea and life of a seaman provided the setting for many of his novels

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)

His contribution to British

literature

• Honour and loyatly are much praised

virtues in his books

• Conrad’s novels express depression, doubt and pessimism

self-• His narrative style and anti-heroic

characters have influenced many authors

• Films have been adapted from or inspried

by Conrad’s works.

His contribution to British

literature

The novelist: Arthur Conan Doyle

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:

– The lost world(1912)

– The Poisen Beld(1913)

prepartory school Hodder place Stony hurstat the age nice.

In 1875 he left the school, he had rejected Christianity to became an agnostic.

 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 7 July, 1930

Personal experiences

His famous works

His contribution to British literature

• He is famous for “Sherlock Holmes”, a

major initiative in the mystery novels.

• The novels of his works include science fiction so many cultutal influences from him, especially mystery novels.