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50 WESTERNS (Vol. 1) - format ePub
Karl May
Karl May wurde am 25. Februar 1842 als fünftes von vierzehn Kindern einer bitterarmen Weberfamilie in Hohenstein-Ernstthal in Sachsen geboren. Ein durch Not und Elend bedingter Vitaminmangel verursachte eine funktionelle Blindheit, die erst in seinem fünften Lebensjahr geheilt wurde. Nach der Schulzeit studierte May als Proseminarist an den Lehrerseminaren Waldenburg und Plauen. Seine Karriere als Lehrer endete bereits nach vierzehn Tagen, als die Anzeige durch einen Zimmergenossen wegen angeblichen Diebstahls einer Taschenuhr zu einer Verurteilung führte und May aus der Liste der Lehramtskandidaten gestrichen wurde. In der Folge geriet er auf die schiefe Bahn und verbüßte wegen Diebstahls, Betrug und Hochstapelei mehrere Haftstrafen. Von 1870 bis 1874 saß er im Zuchthaus Waldheim. Nach seiner Entlassung wurde er im Alter von 32 Jahren Redakteur einer Zeitschrift und begann Heimaterzählungen und Abenteuergeschichten zu schreiben. Sein stetes literarisches Schaffen war ungewöhnlich erfolgreich und machte ihn bald zum bedeutendsten Autor von Kolportageromanen und Trivialliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland. Seine Abenteuerromane, die an exotischen Schauplätzen im Wilden Westen und im Orient spielen, wurden in 33 Sprachen übersetzt. Durch seine archetypischen Wildwest-Helden Winnetou und Old Shatterhand erlangte Karl May literarische Unsterblichkeit und wurde zum meistgelesenen Autor deutscher Sprache. Karl May starb am 30. März 1912 in seiner Villa »Shatterhand« in Radebeul.
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
James Fenimore Cooper was born in 1789 in New Jersey, but later moved to Cooperstown in New York, where he lived most of his life. His novel The Last of the Mohicans was one of the most widely read novels in the 19th century and is generally considered to be his masterpiece. His novels have been adapted for stage, radio, TV and film.
Max Brand
Max Brand was the pen name of Frederick Schiller Faust (1892–1944), an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns.
James Oliver Curwood
Michigan-born James Oliver Curwood, author of thirty-three books, was one of the world's most popular adventure writers, often ranked in a class with Jack London and Zane Grey. Curwood's realm was the North and Northwest; his assets, a remarkable imagination and insight into animals, a love of nature, and a born storytelling gift. He was a seasoned hunter and tracker himself when he faced the open jaws of a grizzly who chose not to kill him. The encounter transformed him and became the inspiration for his novel The Bear, which was the basis for Jean-Jacques Annaud's film success.
Michigan-born James Oliver Curwood, author of thirty-three books, was one of the world's most popular adventure writers, often ranked in a class with Jack London and Zane Grey. Curwood's realm was the North and Northwest; his assets, a remarkable imagination and insight into animals, a love of nature, and a born storytelling gift. He was a seasoned hunter and tracker himself when he faced the open jaws of a grizzly who chose not to kill him. The encounter transformed him and became the inspiration for his novel The Bear, which was the basis for Jean-Jacques Annaud's film success.
Zane Grey
American author (Pearl Zane Grey) is best known as a pioneer of the Western literary genre, which idealized the Western frontier and the men and women who settled the region. Following in his father’s footsteps, Grey studied dentistry while on a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania. Grey’s athletic talent led to a short career in the American minor league before he established his dentistry practice. As an outlet to the tedium of dentistry, Grey turned to writing, and finally abandoned his dental practice to write full time. Over the course of his career Grey penned more than ninety books, including the best-selling Riders of the Purple Sage. Many of Grey’s novels were adapted for film and television. He died in 1939.
American author (Pearl Zane Grey) is best known as a pioneer of the Western literary genre, which idealized the Western frontier and the men and women who settled the region. Following in his father’s footsteps, Grey studied dentistry while on a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania. Grey’s athletic talent led to a short career in the American minor league before he established his dentistry practice. As an outlet to the tedium of dentistry, Grey turned to writing, and finally abandoned his dental practice to write full time. Over the course of his career Grey penned more than ninety books, including the best-selling Riders of the Purple Sage. Many of Grey’s novels were adapted for film and television. He died in 1939.
Jack London
Jack London : 1876-1916. Quarante années de vie remplies par une cinquantaine de volumes, des pièces de théâtre, des poèmes, des articles et reportages, des discours enflammés pour la cause du socialisme. Une vie brève et dense à laquelle il mit fin par un suicide, comme l'avait fait le héros de son roman autobiographique, Martin Eden. Jack London est mort dans son ranch de Glen Ellen, à quelques heures de cheval de sa ville natale, San Francisco. Il n'avait cessé de parcourir le monde, la société, la vie dans tous les sens possibles : marin et chasseur de phoques, chômeur et vagabond du rail à travers les États-Unis et le Canada, clochard dans les bas-fonds de Londres, boxeur, chauffeur dans une centrale thermique, repasseur dans une teinturerie pour payer ses inscriptions à l'université, mineur au Klondike pendant la ruée vers l'or de 1898, ou encore correspondant de guerre en Corée et au Mexique...
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950), romancier populaire prolixe, est avant tout célèbre pour avoir créé le personnage de Tarzan (26 romans ou recueils de nouvelles). Mais son imagination débordante ne s'est pas limitée à la création du personnage le plus célèbre de la fiction contemporaine : avec le Cycle de Pellucidar, histoire d'une civilisation au coeur de la Terre et le Cycle de Mars, épopée de science-fiction, il a créé des mythologies contemporaines qui ont influencé des générations d'écrivains de S-F et de fantastique.
Andy Adams
Andy Adams (1859 – 1935) was an American writer of western fiction, who began writing at the age of 43, publishing his most successful book in 1903.
Bret Harte
Francis Bret Harte (1836 - 1902) was an American short-story writer, poet, and humorist. Best remembered for his stories fiction stories concerning the California Gold Rush, featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures. He helped create the American local-colour writing style, which attempted to better represent the particularities of a place and its inhabitants through elements such as dialect, landscape, and folklore. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction.
Francis Bret Harte (1836 - 1902) was an American short-story writer, poet, and humorist. Best remembered for his stories fiction stories concerning the California Gold Rush, featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures. He helped create the American local-colour writing style, which attempted to better represent the particularities of a place and its inhabitants through elements such as dialect, landscape, and folklore. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction.
Owen Wister
Owen Wister (1860–1938) was an American writer and is considered the father of Western fiction. He is best remembered for his novel The Virginian, although he never wrote about the West afterwards.
O. Henry
O. Henry (1862 - 1910) is the pen-name of William Sidney Porter, the American writer born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was known for a style of writing that featured surprise endings and showed the grim and often humorous effect of coincidence on the lives of his subjects. A keen observer of the lives of Americans from New York to Texas in the early 20th century, his works have been adapted many times for the stage and screen.
O. Henry (1862 - 1910) is the pen-name of William Sidney Porter, the American writer born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was known for a style of writing that featured surprise endings and showed the grim and often humorous effect of coincidence on the lives of his subjects. A keen observer of the lives of Americans from New York to Texas in the early 20th century, his works have been adapted many times for the stage and screen.
Robert W. Chambers
Robert W. Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933) was a prolific American artist and author, best known for his influential collection of weird fiction stories, The King in Yellow (1895). While he achieved immense popularity during his lifetime for his romantic and historical novels, his reputation today rests largely on his early contributions to the horror and fantasy genres.
Robert E. Howard
R. E. Howard (Texas, 1906-1936) escribió decenas de relatos que vieron la luz en la revista Weird Tales, donde publicaban H. P. Lovecraft o Clark Ashton Smith. Su héroe más popular, Conan, generó una larga colección de cómics y adaptaciones cinematográficas. Además de fantasía, redactó historias de boxeo, al que era muy aficionado, aventuras orientales y del Oeste.
Ernest Haycox
Auteur d'une trentaine de romans et d'environ trois cents nouvelles, Ernest Haycox (1899-1950) est un célèbre écrivain et scénariste de westerns. Parmi ses admirateurs figurent Gertrude Stein et Ernest Hemingway, à qui l'on attribue cette phrase : "J'ai lu le journal chaque fois qu'il publiait un feuilleton de Haycox."Son œuvre a inspiré huit adaptations cinématographiques, dont La Chevauchée fantastique, Les clairons sonnent la charge (adaptation du roman Des clairons dans l'après-midi, Actes Sud, 2013) et Le Passage du canyon, film de Jacques Tourneur de 1946, basé sur l'ouvrage du même nom (Actes Sud, 2015). En 2005, le prestigieux jury des Western Writers faisait de Haycox l'un des vingt-quatre meilleurs auteurs de l'Ouest du XXe siècle.
Title : 50 WESTERNS (Vol. 1)
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