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WILD WEST Boxed Set: 150+ Western Classics in One Volume - format ePub
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, plus connu sous son pseudonyme Mark Twain, est né en 1835 à Florida, dans le Missouri. Il grandit au bord du fleuve Mississippi, cadre naturel de ses plus célèbres romans, Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer et Les Aventures de Huckleberry Finn. Successivement pilote de bateau à vapeur, journaliste, imprimeur, il se rend célèbre par le récit semi-autobiographique d'une longue croisière en Europe, en 1867 (Le Voyage des innocents). Figure tutélaire de la littérature américaine, il s'éteint en 1910 à Redding, dans le Connecticut, léguant à la postérité d'innombrables nouvelles, plusieurs romans, des pamphlets, des récits de voyage et une autobiographie posthume, qui paraîtra en 1924.
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
James Fenimore Cooper was born in 1789 in New Jersey, but later moved to Cooperstown in New York, where he lived most of his life. His novel The Last of the Mohicans was one of the most widely read novels in the 19th century and is generally considered to be his masterpiece. His novels have been adapted for stage, radio, TV and film.
Max Brand
Max Brand was the pen name of Frederick Schiller Faust (1892–1944), an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns.
James Oliver Curwood
Michigan-born James Oliver Curwood, author of thirty-three books, was one of the world's most popular adventure writers, often ranked in a class with Jack London and Zane Grey. Curwood's realm was the North and Northwest; his assets, a remarkable imagination and insight into animals, a love of nature, and a born storytelling gift. He was a seasoned hunter and tracker himself when he faced the open jaws of a grizzly who chose not to kill him. The encounter transformed him and became the inspiration for his novel The Bear, which was the basis for Jean-Jacques Annaud's film success.
Michigan-born James Oliver Curwood, author of thirty-three books, was one of the world's most popular adventure writers, often ranked in a class with Jack London and Zane Grey. Curwood's realm was the North and Northwest; his assets, a remarkable imagination and insight into animals, a love of nature, and a born storytelling gift. He was a seasoned hunter and tracker himself when he faced the open jaws of a grizzly who chose not to kill him. The encounter transformed him and became the inspiration for his novel The Bear, which was the basis for Jean-Jacques Annaud's film success.
Zane Grey
American author (Pearl Zane Grey) is best known as a pioneer of the Western literary genre, which idealized the Western frontier and the men and women who settled the region. Following in his father’s footsteps, Grey studied dentistry while on a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania. Grey’s athletic talent led to a short career in the American minor league before he established his dentistry practice. As an outlet to the tedium of dentistry, Grey turned to writing, and finally abandoned his dental practice to write full time. Over the course of his career Grey penned more than ninety books, including the best-selling Riders of the Purple Sage. Many of Grey’s novels were adapted for film and television. He died in 1939.
American author (Pearl Zane Grey) is best known as a pioneer of the Western literary genre, which idealized the Western frontier and the men and women who settled the region. Following in his father’s footsteps, Grey studied dentistry while on a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania. Grey’s athletic talent led to a short career in the American minor league before he established his dentistry practice. As an outlet to the tedium of dentistry, Grey turned to writing, and finally abandoned his dental practice to write full time. Over the course of his career Grey penned more than ninety books, including the best-selling Riders of the Purple Sage. Many of Grey’s novels were adapted for film and television. He died in 1939.
Jack London
Jack London : 1876-1916. Quarante années de vie remplies par une cinquantaine de volumes, des pièces de théâtre, des poèmes, des articles et reportages, des discours enflammés pour la cause du socialisme. Une vie brève et dense à laquelle il mit fin par un suicide, comme l'avait fait le héros de son roman autobiographique, Martin Eden. Jack London est mort dans son ranch de Glen Ellen, à quelques heures de cheval de sa ville natale, San Francisco. Il n'avait cessé de parcourir le monde, la société, la vie dans tous les sens possibles : marin et chasseur de phoques, chômeur et vagabond du rail à travers les États-Unis et le Canada, clochard dans les bas-fonds de Londres, boxeur, chauffeur dans une centrale thermique, repasseur dans une teinturerie pour payer ses inscriptions à l'université, mineur au Klondike pendant la ruée vers l'or de 1898, ou encore correspondant de guerre en Corée et au Mexique...
Andy Adams
Andy Adams (1859 – 1935) was an American writer of western fiction, who began writing at the age of 43, publishing his most successful book in 1903.
Bret Harte
Francis Bret Harte (1836 - 1902) was an American short-story writer, poet, and humorist. Best remembered for his stories fiction stories concerning the California Gold Rush, featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures. He helped create the American local-colour writing style, which attempted to better represent the particularities of a place and its inhabitants through elements such as dialect, landscape, and folklore. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction.
Francis Bret Harte (1836 - 1902) was an American short-story writer, poet, and humorist. Best remembered for his stories fiction stories concerning the California Gold Rush, featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures. He helped create the American local-colour writing style, which attempted to better represent the particularities of a place and its inhabitants through elements such as dialect, landscape, and folklore. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction.
Owen Wister
Owen Wister (1860–1938) was an American writer and is considered the father of Western fiction. He is best remembered for his novel The Virginian, although he never wrote about the West afterwards.
Washington Irving
Washington Irving (1783-1859) was an American author best known for his short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. He is largely considered to be America's first internationally best-selling author.
Washington Irving (1783-1859) was an American author best known for his short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. He is largely considered to be America's first internationally best-selling author.
Willa Cather
WILLA CATHER (1873–1947), the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of more than fifteen books, was one of the most distinguished American writers of the early twentieth century.
WILLA CATHER (1873–1947), the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of more than fifteen books, was one of the most distinguished American writers of the early twentieth century.
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.
Charles King
Charles King es profesor de Relaciones Internacionales y Gobierno en la Universidad de Georgetown. Doctorado en Historia y Política por la Universidad de Arkansas, cursó un máster de Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad de Oxford. Durante su etapa de investigación recibió las becas Fullbright y Marshall. En su labor divulgadora, ha aparecido en medios como la CNN, la BBC y la MTV. Es autor de siete libros, entre los que destacan Midnight at the Pera Palace, escogido por The New York Times como uno de los mejores libros de 2014, y Odessa, premiado en 2011 con el National Jewish Book Award. Escuela de rebeldes ha sido galardonado con los premios Francis Parkman y Anisfield-Wolf, y fue finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award.
Charles King es profesor de Relaciones Internacionales y Gobierno en la Universidad de Georgetown. Doctorado en Historia y Política por la Universidad de Arkansas, cursó un máster de Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad de Oxford. Durante su etapa de investigación recibió las becas Fullbright y Marshall. En su labor divulgadora, ha aparecido en medios como la CNN, la BBC y la MTV. Es autor de siete libros, entre los que destacan Midnight at the Pera Palace, escogido por The New York Times como uno de los mejores libros de 2014, y Odessa, premiado en 2011 con el National Jewish Book Award. Escuela de rebeldes ha sido galardonado con los premios Francis Parkman y Anisfield-Wolf, y fue finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award.
Stephen Crane
Quatorzième enfant d'un pasteur méthodiste, Stephen Crane est né en 1871 à Newark. Il publie ses premières nouvelles à 20 ans – il en écrira plus de deux cents. Jeune reporter, il explore les bas-fonds de New York et en tire un court roman, Maggie, fille des rues (1893). Mais c'est L'Insigne rouge du courage (1895), récit antihéroïque d'un épisode de la guerre civile, qui fait sa brusque renommée. En 1899 paraissent son second recueil de poésie, War is Kind, ainsi que son dernier roman, Active Service, inspiré de son activité de correspondant pendant les guerres gréco-turque (1897) et hispano-américaine (1898). Il meurt de tuberculose avant trente ans, en 1900, dans un sanatorium allemand. Henry James le tenait pour " un immense génie " et H. G. Wells le qualifiera en 1915 de " meilleur écrivain de langue anglaise des cinquante dernières années ".
Marah Ellis Ryan
Marah Ellis Ryan, also known as Ellis Martin, was an author, actress, and activist from the United States. She was considered an authority on Native Americans after living with the Hopi.
Robert W. Chambers
Robert W. Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933) was a prolific American artist and author, best known for his influential collection of weird fiction stories, The King in Yellow (1895). While he achieved immense popularity during his lifetime for his romantic and historical novels, his reputation today rests largely on his early contributions to the horror and fantasy genres.
Ann S. Stephens
Ann Sophia Stephens (March 10, 1810 – August 20, 1886) was an American novelist and magazine editor. She was the author of dime novels and is credited as the progenitor of that genre.
Robert E. Howard
R. E. Howard (Texas, 1906-1936) escribió decenas de relatos que vieron la luz en la revista Weird Tales, donde publicaban H. P. Lovecraft o Clark Ashton Smith. Su héroe más popular, Conan, generó una larga colección de cómics y adaptaciones cinematográficas. Además de fantasía, redactó historias de boxeo, al que era muy aficionado, aventuras orientales y del Oeste.
R.M. Ballantyne
Robert Michael Ballantyne fue un autor escocés de ficción juvenil, que escribió más de cien libros. También fue un artista consumado: exhibió algunas de sus acuarelas en la Real Academia Escocesa.
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