Née à l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard en 1874, Lucy Maud Montgomery, comme plusieurs de ses héroïnes, s'est retrouvée orpheline très tôt. Élevée par ses grands-parents, elle a vécu une enfance difficile. Rêvant de devenir écrivaine, Lucy Maud a commencé à écrire à l'âge de neuf ans en tenant son journal intime dans la petite ville de Cavendish, qui ressemble à s'y méprendre au village d'Avonlea où se déroule l'histoire de sa célèbre Anne. Elle a tour à tour été institutrice et journaliste avant de devenir romancière et finalement l'une des auteures canadiennes les plus connues dans le monde.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, né le 28 août 1749 à Francfort et mort le 22 mars 1832 à Weimar, est un romancier, dramaturge, poète, scientifique, théoricien de l'art et homme d'État de la ville libre de Francfort.
Although born in England in 1768, Maria Edgeworth was raised in Ireland from a young age after the death of her mother. After nearly losing her sight at age fourteen, Edgeworth was tutored at home by her father, helping to run their estate and taking charge of her younger siblings. Over the course of her life she collaborated and published books with her father, and produced many more of her own adult and children’s works, including such classics as Castle Rackrent, Patronage, Belinda, Ormond and The Absentee. Edgeworth spent her entire life on the family estate, but kept up friendships and correspondences with her contemporaries Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, and her writing had a profound influence upon Jane Austen and William Makepeace Thackeray. Edgeworth was outspoken on the issues of poverty, women’s rights, and racial inequalities. During the beginnings of famine in Ireland, Edgeworth worked in relief and support of the sick and destitute. She died in 1849 at the age of 81.
Emily Brontë (1818-1848) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights (1847). A year after publishing this single work of genius, she died at the age of thirty.
George Eliot (1819 - 1880), the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, and translator during the Victorian era. She authored seven novels including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), and Middlemarch (1871-72), most of which are set in provincial England and are known for their realism and psychological insight.
Théologien et christologue reconnu, John-Henry Newman (1801-1890), est l'une des figures majeures du catholicisme britannique. Anglican d'origine, converti en 1845 il est un des principaux fondateurs du mouvement d'Oxford, cet élan intellectuel qui mena bon nombre de ses membres vers le catholicisme.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is the author of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness, and other classics of Russian literature.
Robert Barr had careers in civil and military flying. Militarily, he completed 309 combat missions in Vietnam, with awards of the DFC and fourteen Air Medals. As a civilian, he became the chief pilot for a Fortune 500 company and flew Dick Cheney to many international destinations while Cheney was a CEO.
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) grew up in England, but she began writing what was to become The Secret Garden in 1909, when she was creating a garden for a new home in Long Island, New York. Frances was a born storyteller. Even as a young child, her greatest pleasure was making up stories and acting them out, using her dolls as characters. She wrote over forty books in her lifetime.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University in 1913, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre, and he quickly became a central figure in the American expatriate circle in Paris that included Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four.
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) is the author of the beloved Little Women, which was based on her own experiences growing up in New England with her parents and three sisters. More than a century after her death, Louisa May Alcott's stories continue to delight readers of all ages.
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803) a eu une grande carrière de militaire et a joué un rôle important dans la Révolution française. Fervent admirateur de Rousseau et de son roman, Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse, il se lance en 1778 dans l'écriture des Liaisons dangereuses qui est son oeuvre la plus connue.
(1804-1864). Nathaniel Hawthorne est l'un des principaux écrivains américains de la première partie du XIXe siècle, aux côtés de son ami Herman Melville, l'auteur de Moby Dick. Si son oeuvre la plus connue est un roman tragique, La lettre écarlate, les récits du Livre des Merveilles, vivants, amusants, n'ont pas pris une ride.
Title : Timeless Power of Love: 70 Romance Classics to Read and Reread
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