English classic
Timeless British work
A work of English literature recognized as having lasting artistic merit and cultural significance—novels, plays, and poems that have endured across generations.
Jane Austen, Shakespeare, and Dickens produced English classics.
The term can also describe something quintessentially English: a full English breakfast is an English classic.
- Tudor eraEnglish royal period, 1485-1603
- AustenLiterary family name
- drawing roomFormal reception space
- landed gentryLandowning class living on rents
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
Dickens · Chaucer · literary canon · sonnets · Hardy · English countryside · country estate · Shelley · Keats · Victorian era · Middle English · idioms · Wordsworth · prose style · Milton · Beowulf · Elizabethan era · Brontë
English classicforeign literature
Writing from other nations
Russian classic · French literature · French classic · Russian novel · American classic
English classicpulp fiction
Sensational cheap literature
penny dreadful · beach read · potboiler · dime novel · airport novel
English classicnew release
contemporary fiction · debut novel · experimental fiction · modern novel · avant-garde writing
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