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CHRISTMAS MYSTERIES - 20 Thriller Classics in One Volume - format ePub
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens est né dans le sud de l'Angleterre en 1812. Son enfance "cahotique" sera marquée par l'incarcération de son père pour dettes qui le conduira à arrêter l'école pour aider sa famille et à subir le travail en usine dès l'âge de 12 ans. Il reprendra ses études grâce à un héritage familliale mais restera un fervent défenseur du droit des enfants à l'éducation et il dénoncera les injustices de classe durant toute sa carrière d'écrivain. Son œuvre très populaire a été traduite, rééditée et adaptée dans le monde entier, il décède en 1870, il est considéré comme le plus grand romancier de l'époque victorienne.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born on 13 November 1850, changing his second name to ‘Louis’ at the age of eighteen. He has always been loved and admired by countless readers and critics for ‘the excitement, the fierce joy, the delight in strangeness, the pleasure in deep and dark adventures’ found in his classic stories and, without doubt, he created some of the most horribly unforgettable characters in literature and, above all, Mr. Edward Hyde.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most famous for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes and long-suffering sidekick Dr Watson. Conan Doyle was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.
John Kendrick Bangs
A TOAST TO SANTA CLAUSWhene'er I find a man who don'tBelieve in Santa Claus,And spite of all remonstrance won'tYield up to logic's laws,And see in things that lie aboutThe proof by no means dim,I straightway cut that fellow out,And don't believe in him.The good old Saint is everywhereAlong life's busy way.We find him in the very airWe breathe day after dayWhere courtesy and kindlinessAnd love are joined together,To give to sorrow and distressA touch of sunny weather.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne né en 1804 à Salem, Massachusetts, États-Unis et mort en 1864 à Plymouth, New Hampshire est un écrivain américain, auteur de nouvelles et de romans.
Grant Allen
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.
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.
Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the son of a successful and popular painter. Collins himself demonstrated some artistic talent and had a painting hung in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1849, but his real passion was for writing. On leaving school, he worked in the office of a tea merchant in the Strand but hated it. He left and read law as a student at Lincoln's Inn but already his writing career was flowering. His first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850. In 1851, the same year that he was called to the bar, he met and established a lifelong friendship with Charles Dickens. While Collins' fame rests on his best known works, The Woman in White and The Moonstone, he wrote over thirty books, as well as numerous short stories, articles and plays. He was a hugely popular writer in his lifetime. Collins was an unconventional individual: he never married but established long term liaisons with two separate households. He died in 1889.
O. Henry
O. Henry (1862 - 1910) is the pen-name of William Sidney Porter, the American writer born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was known for a style of writing that featured surprise endings and showed the grim and often humorous effect of coincidence on the lives of his subjects. A keen observer of the lives of Americans from New York to Texas in the early 20th century, his works have been adapted many times for the stage and screen.
O. Henry (1862 - 1910) is the pen-name of William Sidney Porter, the American writer born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was known for a style of writing that featured surprise endings and showed the grim and often humorous effect of coincidence on the lives of his subjects. A keen observer of the lives of Americans from New York to Texas in the early 20th century, his works have been adapted many times for the stage and screen.
SAKI
Hector Hugh Munro, dit Saki, né le 18 décembre 1970 en Birmanie, mort au combat le 13 novembre 1916 dans la Somme, était un écrivain britannique aux écrits marqués par un humour noir grinçant.
M.R. James
M. R. James (1862-1936)
Montague Rhodes James was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905-18), and of Eton College (1918-36). James was born in Goodnestone Parsonage, near Dover in Kent, England. Though James's work as a medievalist is still highly regarded, he is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre. James redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1930. He died in 1936 and was buried in Eton town cemetery.
M. R. James (1862-1936)
Montague Rhodes James was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905-18), and of Eton College (1918-36). James was born in Goodnestone Parsonage, near Dover in Kent, England. Though James's work as a medievalist is still highly regarded, he is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre. James redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1930. He died in 1936 and was buried in Eton town cemetery.
G.K. Chesterton
Gilbraith Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) és un dels grans noms de les lletres angleses de tots els temps. Autor de la novel·la L'home que fou dijous (1908), de les biografies de Charles Dickens i de Sant Francesc d’Assís, d’una Història d’Anglaterra i dels llibres de reflexions Allò que està malament en el món i Ortodòxia. Chesterton ha exercit una forta influència en autors com Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene o Jorge Luís Borges.
Gilbraith Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) és un dels grans noms de les lletres angleses de tots els temps. Autor de la novel·la L'home que fou dijous (1908), de les biografies de Charles Dickens i de Sant Francesc d’Assís, d’una Història d’Anglaterra i dels llibres de reflexions Allò que està malament en el món i Ortodòxia. Chesterton ha exercit una forta influència en autors com Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene o Jorge Luís Borges.
Emmuska Orczy
Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865-1947) was Hungarian-born royalty but lived most of her life in London. Baron Felix Orczy, a noted composer and conductor, was her father. She received a convent education in Paris and Brussels and moved with her family to London, where she studied Art and met her future husband - Montague Barstow - who she would marry in 1894 and collaborate with on the theatrical original of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" in 1903. Her lack of success in the artistic field led her to start writing and found it surprisingly easy to get her early crime stories published. Orczy and Barstow moved to Monte Carlo, where the latter died in 1943, leaving his wife to write her autobiography, which was published a matter of weeks before her death.
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