In this book, there is William Shakespeare,human's greatest genius of drama,and as well as J.K.Rowling, the author of the greatest bestsellers in the 21th century. Britain is one of the countries with most Nobel prize winners across the world. It is also a holy land of literature and art, a mix of the old and the new, the classic and the modern.

Divided into six chapters, this book records the course of England literature development from Beowulf to Joanne Kathleen Rowling and other best-selling writers in contemporary England. Based on time sequence,the author of this book concludes the course of English literature development in a very detailed and comprehensive way, and shows to readers generations of English literature masters and their works. This book aims to give readers good knowledge of long history and various forms of English literature.