Literature after the 19th century

Once we have expained the literature before the 19th century, is time to continue learning about the more recent centuries of the same.

Following what we said in our last post, belonging to the nineteenth century, we could find: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol; Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince and The Nightingale and the Rose; The Brothers Grimm’s Snow White, Rapunzel and Hansel and Gretel; Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling and The Snow Queen; Carlo Colloid’s The Adventures of Pinocchio; Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island; Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book; Louis Mary Alcott’s Little Women; and Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

The twentieth century could be considered the beginning of the children’s literature at itself, since texts were written specifically for children. In the 20th century, we could find great titles such as L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, Beatrix Potter series of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Kenneth Grahame and The Wind in the Willows, J.M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House in the Prairie, C.S. Lewis’s series of Chronicles of Narnia, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and J.K. Rowling’s series of Harry Potter.

Finally, recently in the twenty-first century it is worth mentioning Eoin Colfer and his ArtemisFowl series.