Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of England's greatest writers. Best known for his classic serialized novels, such as Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations, Dickens wrote about the London he lived in, the conditions of the poor, and the growing tensions between the classes. He achieved critical and popular international success in his lifetime and was honored with burial in Westminster Abbey.
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.
Écrivain écossais, Robert Louis Stevenson est né à Edimbourg (Écosse) le 13 novembre 1850, mort le le 3 décembre 1894 à Vailima (Îles Samoa). Il est l'auteur des célèbres L'ïle au trésor, L'Étrange Cas du Dr. Jekyll et de Mr. Hyde et Voyage avec un âne dans les Cévennes.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49) reigned unrivaled in his mastery of mystery during his lifetime and is now widely held to be a central figure of Romanticism and gothic horror in American literature. Born in Boston, he was orphaned at age three, was expelled from West Point for gambling, and later became a well-regarded literary critic and editor. "The Raven," published in 1845, made Poe famous. He died in 1849 under what remain mysterious circumstances and is buried in Baltimore, Maryland.
English author William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was known for his works of horror and science-fiction. His first story, The Goddess of Death, was published in 1904. The Night Land, his last printed effort, was published in 1918. Hodgson was also renowned as a photographer and a bodybuilder. He died in battle during World War I at the age of 40.
Bram Stoker (1847–1912) grew up in Ireland listening to his mother's tales of blood-drinking fairies and vampires rising from their graves. He later managed the Lyceum Theatre in London and worked as a civil servant, newspaper editor, reporter, and theater critic. Dracula, his best-known work, was published in 1897 and is hailed as one of the founding pieces of Gothic literature.
Fils d'un général de l'Empire, Victor Hugo, né à Besançon le 26 février 1802, est d'abord un poète classique et monarchiste (Odes, 1822). Mais la publication de la Préface de son drame historique Cromwell (1827) et des Orientales (1829), puis la représentation d'Hernani font de lui la meilleure incarnation du romantisme en poésie (les Feuilles d'automne, 1831 ; les Chants du crépuscule, 1835 ; les Voix intérieures, 1837 ; les Rayons et les Ombres, 1840), au théâtre (Marion de Lorme, 1831 ; Le roi s'amuse, 1832 ; Marie Tudor, 1833 ; Ruy Blas, 1838) et dans ses romans historiques (Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831), tandis qu'il évolue vers les idées libérales et le culte napoléonien. Après l'échec de sa trilogie dramatique des Burgraves (1843) et la mort de sa fille Léopoldine, il se consacre à la politique (il est pair de France en 1845). Député en 1848, il s'exile à Jersey, puis à Guernesey, après le coup d'État du 2 décembre 1851. C'est alors qu'il donne les poèmes satiriques des Châtiments (1853), dirigés contre Napoléon III, le recueil lyrique des Contemplations (1856), histoire de l'âme du poète dédiée à Léopoldine, l'épopée de la Légende des siècles (édition définitive : 1883), ainsi que des romans (les Misérables ; les Travailleurs de la mer, 1866 ; l'Homme qui rit, 1869). Rentré en France en 1870, partisan des idées républicaines, il est un personnage honoré et officiel, et, à sa mort le 22 mai 1885, ses cendres sont transférées au Panthéon.
George Eliot was the pseudonym for Mary Anne Evans, one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, who published seven major novels and several translations during her career. She started her career as a sub-editor for the left-wing journal The Westminster Review, contributing politically charged essays and reviews before turning her attention to novels. Among Eliot’s best-known works are Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda, in which she explores aspects of human psychology, focusing on the rural outsider and the politics of small-town life. Eliot died in 1880.
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.
Arthur Machen est né à Caerlon-on-Usk (Royaume-Uni) le 3 mars 1863. En 1885 un "Catalogue occultiste" puis devient journaliste et traducteur. Son oeuvre compte une trentaine d'ouvrages se rattachant principalement à la littérature fantastique. Parmi ses principaux récits, citons notamment "Le Grand Dieu Pan" (1894). Il est mort à Beaconsfield le 15 décembre 1947.
Wilkie Collins (January 8, 1824-September 23, 1889) was the author of thirty novels, more than sixty short stories, fourteen plays (including an adaptation of The Moonstone), and more than one hundred nonfiction pieces. His best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.
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".
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.
Romancier et auteur dramatique anglais, Matthew Gregory Lewis est né à Londres le 9 juillet 1775, mort le 14 mai 1818. Son œuvre principale est "Le Moine", considéré comme l'un des chefs-d'œuvre du roman gothique.
Title : 60 GOTHIC CLASSICS
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