Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. In 1824, his father was imprisoned for debt, so Charles was sent to work in a shoe-dye factory. He later became a clerk in a law firm, a shorthand reporter in the courts, and a parliamentary and newspaper reporter. In 1833, Dickens began to contribute short stories and essays to periodicals, heralding the start of a glittering and prolific literary career. He married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, with whom he had nine surviving children before they separated in 1858. Dickens died suddenly at home on June 9, 1870, leaving behind an internationally acclaimed canon of work, including OLIVER TWIST (1837), NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (1838), DAVID COPPERFIELD (1849-50), BLEAK HOUSE (1852-53), LITTLE DORRIT (1855-57), A TALE OF TWO CITIES (1859), GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1860-61) and OUR MUTUAL FRIEND (1864-65). He was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Charles Dickens is a writer of classics.
English author William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was known for his works of horror and science-fiction. His first story, The Goddess of Death, was published in 1904. The Night Land, his last printed effort, was published in 1918. Hodgson was also renowned as a photographer and a bodybuilder. He died in battle during World War I at the age of 40.
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 - 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction. He was a leading ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era.
M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories"
Théophile Gautier (1811-1872), après une période romantique, expose sa théorie de « l’art pour l’art » (culte du beau) dans la préface de son roman Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835) et l’illustre dans ses poèmes (Émaux et Camées, 1852). Mais il ne dédaigne ni le genre historique (Le Capitaine Fracasse, 1863), ni les nouvelles fantastiques (dont la célèbre et vampirique Morte amoureuse).
George Eliot was the pseudonym for Mary Anne Evans, one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, who published seven major novels and several translations during her career. She started her career as a sub-editor for the left-wing journal The Westminster Review, contributing politically charged essays and reviews before turning her attention to novels. Among Eliot’s best-known works are Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda, in which she explores aspects of human psychology, focusing on the rural outsider and the politics of small-town life. Eliot died in 1880.
Grant Allen a travaillé pendant plus de vingt ans dans le domaine des nouvelles technologies, en tant que CTO, chef de projet et administrateur de bases de données. Il travaille aujourd'hui pour Google, et donne des conférences partout dans le monde sur la gestion de contenus, les bases de données, l'innovation et les écosystèmes mobiles comme Android.
Arthur Machen est né à Caerlon-on-Usk (Royaume-Uni) le 3 mars 1863. En 1885 un "Catalogue occultiste" puis devient journaliste et traducteur. Son oeuvre compte une trentaine d'ouvrages se rattachant principalement à la littérature fantastique. Parmi ses principaux récits, citons notamment "Le Grand Dieu Pan" (1894). Il est mort à Beaconsfield le 15 décembre 1947.
Romancier et dramaturge irlandais, Charles Robert Maturin est né le 28 septembre 1780 à Dublin. En 1820, paraît son livre devenu depuis le plus célèbre, l'étrange Melmoth, ou l'Homme errant, qui marque l'apogée du genre gothique. Il meurt empoisonné accidentellement le 30 septembre 1824, à l'âge de 42 ans.
Nikolai Gogol was a Russian writer and dramatist. He was born in the Ukraine in 1809.
Constance Garnett was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature and one of the first English translators of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov.
Natasha Randall is a translator, writer and scholar, living in London. Her work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times among others and she has translated the literary works of Dostoevsky and Lermontov.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, into a life of personal tragedy. In 1816, she married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and that summer traveled with him and a host of other Romantic intellectuals to Geneva. Her greatest achievement was piecing together one of the most terrifying and renowned stories of all time: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Shelley said she conceived of Frankenstein in “a waking dream.” This vision was simply of a student kneeling before a corpse brought to life. Yet this tale of a mad creator and his abomination has inspired a multitude of storytellers and artists. She died on February 1, 1851.
Romancier et auteur dramatique anglais, Matthew Gregory Lewis est né à Londres le 9 juillet 1775, mort le 14 mai 1818. Son œuvre principale est "Le Moine", considéré comme l'un des chefs-d'œuvre du roman gothique.
Title : The Greatest Gothic Classics
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