After the Second World War,two of England’s most important writers were George Orwell,who wrote Nineteen Eighty-four and Animal farm,and Agatha Christie,who wrote sixty-six detective novels, including the adventures of Miss Marple and Hercule Poilot.Modern fantasty literature writing about magic,monsters and other imaginary things-became popular this time too,when The Lord of the Rings,by JRR Tolkien,was published in 1949.