Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), dont le véritable nom est Samuel Langhorne Clemens, est né dans la Missouri. Orphelin de père à l'âge de douze ans, il exerce plusieurs métiers : typographe, rédacteur dans un journal, pilote de bateau à vapeur sur le Mississipi. Ne voulant pas se battre au côté des sudistes pour le maintien de l'esclavage, il s'enfuit vers les montagnes du Névada et devient chercheur d'or. A partir de 1864, il exerce l'activité de reporter à San Francisco et se déplace en Europe en tant que correspondant de presse. Romancier, humoriste et essayiste, il décrira avec réalisme et sévérité la société américaine.
Born in Ireland in 1856, Oscar Wilde was a noted essayist, playwright, fairy tale writer and poet, as well as an early leader of the Aesthetic Movement. His plays include: An Ideal Husband, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, and Lady Windermere's Fan. Among his best known stories are The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Canterville Ghost.
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), a major Italian poet of the late Middle Ages, has been called the father of the Italian language. His classic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is widely considered to be the greatest literary work ever composed in Italian, and his writing has inspired a wide range of artists including sculptor Auguste Rodin, composer Franz Liszt, and numerous authors, such as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton, and T.S. Eliot.
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. L'Appel du désert (1903) et Croc-Blanc (1907), qui mettent en scène l'aventure, le monde animal (comme l'histoire du chien Buck dans L'Appel de la fo
Écrivain et philosophe suisse d'expression française, Jean-Jacques Rousseau est né le 28 juin 1712 à Genève. Il est l'auteur entre autres de "Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes" (1755), "Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse" (1761), "Émile ou De l'éducation" (1762), "Du contrat social" (1762), "Les Confessions" (1765-1770) et "Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire" (1776-1778). Il est mort le 20 mai 1778 à Ermenonville (Oise).
Horacio Quiroga naît à Salto Oriental en Uruguay en 1878 et se suicide à Buenos Aires en 1937. Il s'installe à San Ignacio en pleine forêt tropicale où il s'essaiera à plusieurs exploitations, dont celle du coton. Fasciné par la forêt, toute son œuvre en porte l'empreinte, celle de la folie et de la violence. Considéré comme le maître de la nouvelle latino-américaine, il est l'égal de Maupassant pour le post-naturalisme et celui de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam pour les inventions cruelles. Le chant de la mélancolie de la mort envahit ses récits, d'une beauté exceptionnelle, où perce la vulnérabilité de l'existence.
Spanish realist (1852-1901) best known for the novel _La regenta_. Alas is also known as Clarín.
John Milton (1608–1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse. Milton's poetry and prose reflect deep personal convictions, a passion for freedom and self-determination, and the urgent issues and political turbulence of his day.
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900 and received enormous, immediate success. Baum went on to write seventeen additional novels in the Oz series. Today, he is considered the father of the American fairy tale. His stories inspired the 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz, one of the most widely viewed movies of all time.
MinaLima is an award-winning graphic design studio founded by Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima, renowned for establishing the visual graphic style of the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts film series. Specializing in graphic design and illustration, Miraphora and Eduardo have continued their involvement in the Harry Potter franchise through numerous design commissions, from creating all the graphic elements for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Diagon Alley at Universal Orlando Resort, to designing award-winning publications for the brand. Their best-selling books include Harry Potter and the Philospher’s Stone, Harry Potter Film Wizardry, The Case of Beasts: Explore the Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The Archive of Magic: Explore the Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, and J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts screenplays. MinaLima studio is renowned internationally for telling stories through design and has created its own MinaLima Classics series, reimagining a growing collection of much-loved tales including Peter Pan, The Secret Garden, and Pinocchio.
Écrivain anglais, Herbert George Wells est né à Bromley (Royaume-Uni) le 21 septembre 1866, mort à Londres le 13 août 1946. On lui doit de célèbres romans fantastiques et d'anticipation dont, entre autres, "L'Homme invisible", "Au temps de la comète" ou encore "La Guerre des mondes".
Philosophe allemand, Friedrich Nietzsche est né le 15 octobre 1844 à Roecken, en Prusse. On lui doit entre autres le célèbre Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra (Un livre pour tous et pour personne), son grand livre prophétique dans lequel il exalte les valeurs vitales aux dépens des valeurs de connaissance, Par-delà le bien et le mal (Prélude à une philosophie de l'avenir, Le Crépuscule des idoles, L'Antéchrist et Ecce homo. Il est mort après une crise de démence le 25 août 1900.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Tzu
Sun Tzu was a Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher who lived in the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China. The name he is best known by is actually an honorific which means "Master Sun".
He is traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, an extremely influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy.
Sun Tzu has had a significant impact on Chinese and Asian history and culture, both as the author of The Art of War and as a legendary historical figure.
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