John Champlin Gardner Jr. ：an American novelist, essayist, literary critic and university professor. He is perhaps most noted for his novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view.
Raymond Clevie Carver： an American short-story writer and poet. Carver contributed to the revitalization of the American short story in literature during the 1980s.
The Canterbury Tales： a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer. The tales (mostly written in verse, although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from London to Canterbury in order to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.
Canterbury Cathedral： in Canterbury, Kent, is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England.
The Other Boleyn Girl：a 2008 drama film directed by Justin Chadwick. The screenplay by Peter Morgan was adapted from the 2001 novel of the same name by Philippa Gregory. It is a romanticized account of the lives of 16th-century aristocrats Mary Boleyn, one-time mistress of King Henry VIII, and her sister, Anne, who became the monarch's ill-fated second wife, though much history is distorted.
A Rose for Emily： a short story by American author William Faulkner first published in April 30, 1930 issue of The Forum. The story takes place in Faulkner's fictional city, Jefferson, Mississippi, in the fictional county of Yoknapatawpha County. It was Faulkner's first short story published in a national magazine.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented：a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, Though now considered a major nineteenth-century English novel and possibly Hardy's fictional masterpiece, Tess of the d'Urbervilles received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual morals of late Victorian England.
Modernism：a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. modernism's view of reality, which had been a minority taste before the war, became to more generally accepted in the 1920s.
One of the famous poem-----The Waste Land
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