The textbook on modern English literature is designed for students of philology and is determined by the Program on the history of foreign literature for higher educational institutions. The main goals of this work are seen in the consolidation of future philologists 'conscious interest in the latest works of modern English literature, familiarization of students with the main trends in its development through the prism of close connection with the national literature of previous eras, as well as the formation of students' ideas about the typological unity of processes in the literary work of Russia. and Great Britain in the second half of the 20th and early 21st centuries.