William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.
Auteur de récits, d'essais, de pamphlets, Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) s'inspire, pour écrire Robinson Crusoé (1719), d'un fait divers réel. Ce roman de commande, oeuvre « alimentaire » entreprise pour doter ses filles, devait pourtant assurer l'immortalité de son auteur.
Cervantès (1547-1616) a été soldat aux ordres de Don Juan d'Autriche. Grande figure de la littérature espagnole, il écrit surtout des comédies où il fait référence à son expérience de soldat et de bagnard. Il publie la première partie de Don Quichotte à l'âge de cinquante-sept ans.
Logan Marshall, born Logan Howard-Smith, was an American writer and editor who specialized in books about current events that were produced quickly to satisfy public curiosity. Among the best known of Marshall's books are Life of Theodore Roosevelt, The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters, and The Story of the Panama Canal. The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters was published mere weeks after the tragedy, and continues to be referenced as a credible source of the events of April 15, 1912.
Born in 1804, Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his historical tales and novels about American colonial society. After publishing The Scarlet Letter in 1850, its status as an instant bestseller allowed him to earn a living as a novelist. Full of dark romanticism, psychological complexity, symbolism, and cautionary tales, his work is still popular today. He has earned a place in history as one of the most distinguished American writers of the nineteenth century.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was a famed abolitionist and author. In 1851, she received $400 (a great sum in her day) for a serialized version of her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, which went on to be the bestselling novel of the 19th century and the second most-sold book, behind The Bible. The novel's portrayal of slavery is credited as a catalyst for the slavery debate in the years preceding the Civil War.
Título : Children's Library of Classics: A 20-Book Collection
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