Jules Verne est un écrivain français né en 1828 à Nantes et mort en 1905 à Amiens. Son œuvre est, pour la plus grande partie, constituée de romans d'aventures utilisant les progrès scientifiques propres au XIXe siècle : De la Terre à la lune, Vingt mille lieues sous les mers, Voyage au centre de la Terre...
Mark Twain, who was born Samuel L. Clemens in Missouri in 1835, wrote some of the most enduring works of literature of American fiction, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died in 1910.
John Griffith, dit Jack London, est né à San Francisco le 12 janvier 1876. Fils illégitime de fermiers, élevé dans la misère, il est tour à tour marin chasseur de phoque, chercheur d'or au Klondike lors de la ruée vers l'or de 1897 et correspondant de presse.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. Before starting his writing career, Doyle attended medical school, where he met the professor who would later inspire his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes. A Study in Scarlet was Doyle's first novel; he would go on to write more than sixty stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. He died in England in 1930.
Jonathan Swift est né à Dublin en 1667. Orphelin de père, il fut élevé par ses oncles. Après des études de théologie, il fut nommé pasteur et commença à écrire sa première satire. Par la suite, il composera de nombreux pamphlets humoristiques, qui tous attestent d'un ton féroce et un style mordant, caractéristiques de son écriture. Il meurt à Dublin en 1745.
William Morris (1834-1896) fut imprimeur, poète, écrivain, peintre, conférencier, dessinateur, architecte et activiste socialiste. Ses livres ont durablement influencé la littérature fantastique anglaise.
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was the third son of a barrister, who ruined his family by giving up the law for farming, and an industrious mother. After attending Winchester and Harrow, Trollope scraped into the General Post Office, London, in 1834, where he worked for seven years. In 1841 he was transferred to Ireland as a surveyor's clerk, and in 1844 married and settled at Clonmel. His first two novels were devoted to Irish life; his third, La Vendée, was historical. All were failures.
After a distinguished career in the GPO, for which he invented the pillar box and travelled extensively abroad, Trollope resigned in 1867, earning his living from writing instead. He led an extensive social life, from which he drew material for his many social and political novels.
The idea for The Warden (1855), the first of the six Barsetshire novels, came from a visit to Salisbury Close; with it came the characters whose fortunes were explored through the succeeding volumes, of which Doctor Thorne is the third.
Garrett Putman Serviss (1851-1929)
Garrett Putman Serviss was an American astronomer and early science fiction writer. He was born in upstate New York and majored in science at Cornell University. He also studied law at Columbia University although he never worked as an attorney, instead becoming a journalist for The New York Sun in 1876. At the end of 1897, Serviss was commissioned to write an unofficial sequel to an equally unofficial 1897 revision of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds which set the action in America. Edison's Conquest of Mars first appeared in the New York Evening Journal as "The Conquest of Mars".
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Brillant orateur, Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) est un homme politique londonien. Tout au long de sa vie, il se consacre en parallèle à la littérature, en explorant tous les domaines : poésie, romans sociaux, récits d'épouvante. Mais ce sont ses romans historiques, inspirés de Walter Scott, qui ont fait sa notoriété, en particulier le célèbre "Les Derniers jours de Pompéi".
Título : The Greats of Sci-Fi: H. G Wells Edition
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