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Wilhelm Hauff
Wilhelm Hauff (1802–1827) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller der Romantik und zählt zu den bedeutendsten Märchenerzählern des 19. Jahrhunderts. Berühmt wurde er durch seine Kunstmärchen wie Der kleine Muck, Kalif Storch und Der Mann im Mond, die Fantasie, Ironie und Gesellschaftskritik auf einzigartige Weise verbinden.
Trotz seines frühen Todes im Alter von nur 25 Jahren hinterließ Hauff ein bemerkenswertes literarisches Werk. Seine Texte zeichnen sich durch sprachliche Eleganz, Humor und einen feinen Blick für menschliche Schwächen aus und haben bis heute ihren festen Platz in der deutschsprachigen Literatur.
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.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910) was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer widely regarded as the "father of American literature". His most famous works include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter often called the "Great American Novel".
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) was an American abolitionist and author of more than 20 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a realistic account of life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom.
Adelbert von Chamisso
Adelbert von Chamisso (d. i. Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamisso de Boncourt, getauft 31.1.1781 Schloss Boncourt [Champagne
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde est né le 16 octobre 1854 à Dublin et mort en 1900 à Paris. Après de brillantes études en Irlande, il reçoit un prix pour son poème sur Ravenne et crée le mouvement de l’Art pour l’Art. Il s’installe en 1879 à Londres où il est reçu dans la meilleure société et où il développe ses théories esthétiques qui feront l’objet de conférences aux États-Unis. En 1884, il épouse Constance Lloyd avec qui il a deux fils. En 1891, il rencontre Lord Alfred Douglas Queensberry et leur union homosexuelle scandalise Londres, le père d’Alfred poussera Oscar Wilde à entrer dans une procédure judiciaire pour diffamation. En 1895, le jugement est sans appel : Oscar Wilde doit passer deux ans en prison pour pédérastie. À son retour en 1897, l’auteur est changé et bien plus virulent contre l’ordre bourgeois. Il s’installe alors en France où il développe un intérêt croissant pour l’art gothique et pour une esthétique plus torturée. Lui-même se laisse peu à peu décliner malgré le soutien d’amis tels qu’André Gide à ses côtés et il meurt à 46 ans. Oscar Wilde est enterré au cimetière du Père Lachaise. Il laisse derrière lui une image de dandysme et de légèreté en accord avec ses dernières paroles : « Ou ce papier peint disparaît, ou c’est moi. »
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.
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) setzte mit seinen psychologischen und morbiden Erzählungen neue Maßstäbe in der Schauerliteratur und gilt als ein Wegbereiter der modernen Kurzgeschichte. Zu seinen berühmtesten Erzählungen gehören »Die Maske des roten Todes«, »Der Untergang des Hauses Usher«, »Die schwarze Katze« oder »Der Goldkäfer«.
William Hope Hodgson
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.
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.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (Dublín, 1814–1873) fue un escritor irlandés y una de las figuras fundamentales del relato gótico y de fantasmas en la era victoriana. Maestro de la atmósfera y la ambigüedad sobrenatural, influyó decisivamente en el desarrollo del terror moderno. Es autor de obras esenciales como Carmilla, novela clave en la tradición vampírica, Uncle Silas y La casa junto al cementerio, que lo consagraron como referente del género.
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (Dublín, 1814–1873) fue un escritor irlandés y una de las figuras fundamentales del relato gótico y de fantasmas en la era victoriana. Maestro de la atmósfera y la ambigüedad sobrenatural, influyó decisivamente en el desarrollo del terror moderno. Es autor de obras esenciales como Carmilla, novela clave en la tradición vampírica, Uncle Silas y La casa junto al cementerio, que lo consagraron como referente del género.
John Buchan
John Buchan was born in Perth in 1875, the son of a Church of Scotland Minister. After being educated locally, he attended Glasgow University and Brasenose College Oxford. He exchanged comparative poverty for affluence by his success as an author, but it was as a lawyer that his reputation began. He went to South Africa to serve as private secretary to the British Colonial administrator, Alfred, Lord Milner and assisted in reconstruction of the country after the Boer War. He entered publishing in 1906 as partner in the firm of his friend Thomas Nelson and married Susan Charlotte Grosvenor, cousin of the Duke of Westminster, in 1907. They had four children. Buchan was elected to Parliament in 1911, served in various capacities during the First World War, including writing speeches for Sir Douglas Haig and taking on the role of Director of Information under Lord Beaverbrook. He returned to the House of Commons in 1927 and then in 1935 he was appointed Governor-General of Canada and became Lord Tweedsmuir. He died in 1940. John Buchan was a prolific author and wrote poetry and biographies as well as novels, but he is still best remembered for his adventure stories and in particular the five Hannay novels: The Thirty Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Standfast, The Three Hostages, and The Island of Sheep.
Louis Tracy
Louis Tracy was a British journalist, and prolific writer of fiction. He used the pseudonyms Gordon Holmes and Robert Fraser, which were at times shared with M. P. Shiel, a collaborator from the start of the twentieth century.
He was born in Liverpool to a well-to-do middle-class family. At first he was educated at home and then at the French Seminary at Douai. Around 1884 he became a reporter for a local paper, The Northern Echo at Darlington, circulating in parts of Durham and North Yorkshire; later he worked for papers in Cardiff and Allahabad.
His fiction included mystery, adventure and romance.
Bram Stoker
Bram (Abraham) Stoker was an Irish novelist, born November 8, 1847 in Dublin, Ireland. 'Dracula' was to become his best-known work, based on European folklore and stories of vampires. Although most famous for writing 'Dracula', Stoker wrote eighteen books before he died in 1912 at the age of sixty-four.
Anatole France
Anatole France, pour l'état civil François Anatole Thibault, né le 16 avril 1844 à Paris et mort le 12 octobre 1924 à Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (Indre-et-Loire), est un écrivain français, considéré comme l’un des plus grands de l'époque de la Troisième République, dont il a également été un des plus importants critiques littéraires. Il devient une des consciences les plus significatives de son temps en s’engageant en faveur de nombreuses causes sociales et politiques du début du XXe siècle. Il reçoit le prix Nobel de littérature pour l’ensemble de son œuvre en 1921.
Anatole France, pour l'état civil François Anatole Thibault, né le 16 avril 1844 à Paris et mort le 12 octobre 1924 à Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (Indre-et-Loire), est un écrivain français, considéré comme l’un des plus grands de l'époque de la Troisième République, dont il a également été un des plus importants critiques littéraires. Il devient une des consciences les plus significatives de son temps en s’engageant en faveur de nombreuses causes sociales et politiques du début du XXe siècle. Il reçoit le prix Nobel de littérature pour l’ensemble de son œuvre en 1921.
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sister authors. Her novels are considered masterpieces of English literature – the most famous of which is Jane Eyre.
Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë, geboren 1818 in Yorkshire, gilt heute als eine der bedeutendsten und zugleich rätselhaftesten Stimmen der Weltliteratur. Die Tochter eines Geistlichen verbrachte den Großteil ihres kurzen Lebens im abgeschiedenen Pfarrhaus von Haworth, wo sie in enger Gemeinschaft mit ihren Schwestern Charlotte und Anne eine eigene, hochkomplexe Fantasiewelt erschuf. Sie galt als extrem scheu, naturverbunden und eigenwillig, wobei sie die Einsamkeit der Moore jedem gesellschaftlichen Kontakt vorzog. Unter dem männlichen Pseudonym Ellis Bell veröffentlichte sie 1847 ihren einzigen Roman Sturmhöhe, der die zeitgenössische Kritik durch seine erzählerische Wucht, die düstere Moral und die Darstellung ungezähmter Leidenschaft zutiefst verstörte.
Jack London
Jack London est né à San Francisco en 1876. Ces romans ont connu un vif succès de son vivant, mais l’auteur fascine aussi par l’existence qu’il a menée. Dès 15 ans, Jack est attiré par la mer et commence une vie d’errance et de voyages. Il s’embarque pour le Pacifique à 18 ans et découvre la matière de son premier roman, écrit en 1893, qui retrace la traversée d’une goélette jusqu’au Japon. À son retour en Californie, le pays est en pleine récession, il s’engage alors au Parti socialiste. À cette même période, Jack London participe à la ruée vers l’or du Klondike où il expérimente l’individualisme et la cruauté des hommes. Ce sentiment d’injustice se retrouve dans ces écrits, dont le premier à connaître un réel succès est L’Appel de la forêt, paru en 1903. Il meurt d’empoisonnement du sang, suites d’une maladie contractée dans le Pacifique, à l’âge 40 ans.
Henry James
Henry James (1843–1916) was an American writer, highly regarded as one of the key proponents of literary realism, as well as for his contributions to literary criticism. His writing centres on the clash and overlap between Europe and America, and The Portrait of a Lady is regarded as his most notable work.
Théophile Gautier
Né à Tarbes en 1811, Théophile Gautier est aussi bien connu pour ses romans comiques que pour ses poésies ou encore ses critiques artistiques. Précurseur d’un certain genre fantastique, il a su nouer des intrigues angoissantes ou satiriques où la vraisemblance n’est qu’une illusion supplémentaire de l’écriture. Il s’engage activement auprès de Victor Hugo dans la bataille d’Hernani et revendique son appartenance aux Romantiques. Il crée en 1844 le Club des Hashischins, auquel participe Baudelaire, et prend ainsi la figure de chef d’école. Il meurt en 1872 entouré de Mallarmé et Victor Hugo.
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.
Jane Austen
Jane Austen (1775–1817) gilt heute als eine der bedeutendsten Schriftstellerinnen der Weltliteratur. Zu ihren Lebzeiten veröffentlichte sie anonym, doch ihre sechs vollendeten Romane prägen bis heute unsere Vorstellung der englischen Regency-Ära (ca. 1811–1820). Sie war keine bloße Romantikerin, sondern eine brillante Satirikerin, die die gesellschaftlichen Zwänge ihrer Zeit mit feinem Witz und psychologischer Tiefe sezierte.
Thomas De Quincey
Thomas De Quincey was born in Manchester in 1785. Highly intelligent but with a rebellious spirit, he was offered a place at Oxford University while still a student at Manchester Grammar School. But unwilling to complete his studies, he ran away and lived on the streets, first in Wales and then in London. Eventually he returned home and took up his place at Oxford, but quit before completing his degree. A friend of Coleridge and Wordsworth, he eventually settled in Grasmere in the Lake District and worked as a journalist. He first wrote about his opium experiences in essays for The London Magazine, and these were printed in book form in 1822. De Quincey died in 1859.
John Meade Falkner
John Meade Falkner est un romancier et poète anglais. Il a grandi à Dorchester et Weymouth puis a suivi des études d'archéologie, de paléographie, d'histoire médiévale et d'héraldique au Marlborough College et au Hertford College d'Oxford, obtenant un diplôme d'Histoire en 1882. Après Oxford, il a brièvement enseigné à la Derby School, puis est devenu à Newcastle précepteur des enfants de Sir Andrew Noble, qui dirigeait alors la firme Armstrong, une des plus importantes manufactures d'armes au monde. Falkner finit par lui succéder au poste de directeur en 1916. Il quitta son poste de directeur en 1921 et devint Honorary Reader en Paléographie à l'Université de Durham, ainsi que Honorary Librarian à la Dean and Chapter Library. Falkner finit ses jours comme conservateur honoraire du musée de Durham.
Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
Henry-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant est un écrivain français né le 5 août 1850 au château de Miromesnil à Tourville-sur-Arques1 (Seine-Inférieure) et mort le 6 juillet 1893 à Paris. Lié à Gustave Flaubert et à Émile Zola, Guy de Maupassant a marqué la littérature française par ses six romans, dont Une vie en 1883, Bel-Ami en 1885, Pierre et Jean en 1887-1888, et surtout par ses nouvelles (parfois intitulées contes) comme Boule de suif en 1880, les Contes de la bécasse (1883) ou Le Horla (1887). Ces oeuvres retiennent l'attention par leur force réaliste, la présence importante du fantastique et par le pessimisme qui s'en dégage le plus souvent, mais aussi par la maîtrise stylistique. La carrière littéraire de Maupassant se limite à une décennie - de 1880 à 1890 - avant qu'il ne sombre peu à peu dans la folie et ne meure peu avant ses quarante-trois ans. Reconnu de son vivant, il conserve un renom de premier plan, renouvelé encore par les nombreuses adaptations filmées de ses oeuvres. (wiki source)
Guy de Maupassant
Henry-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant est un écrivain français né le 5 août 1850 au château de Miromesnil à Tourville-sur-Arques1 (Seine-Inférieure) et mort le 6 juillet 1893 à Paris. Lié à Gustave Flaubert et à Émile Zola, Guy de Maupassant a marqué la littérature française par ses six romans, dont Une vie en 1883, Bel-Ami en 1885, Pierre et Jean en 1887-1888, et surtout par ses nouvelles (parfois intitulées contes) comme Boule de suif en 1880, les Contes de la bécasse (1883) ou Le Horla (1887). Ces oeuvres retiennent l'attention par leur force réaliste, la présence importante du fantastique et par le pessimisme qui s'en dégage le plus souvent, mais aussi par la maîtrise stylistique. La carrière littéraire de Maupassant se limite à une décennie - de 1880 à 1890 - avant qu'il ne sombre peu à peu dans la folie et ne meure peu avant ses quarante-trois ans. Reconnu de son vivant, il conserve un renom de premier plan, renouvelé encore par les nombreuses adaptations filmées de ses oeuvres. (wiki source)
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.
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe est né en 1660 près de Londres et mort en 1731. Il consacre la première partie de sa vie à des engagements politiques anti-conformistes et écrit de nombreux pamphlets dans ce sens. Sa position lui valut les faveurs du gouvernement de Guillaume d’Orange et il devint alors espion pour l’Angleterre. Ses nombreuses missions accomplies avec succès l’amenèrent à beaucoup voyager mais le firent aussi retomber en disgrâce. Defoe se voue alors à la littérature. Son ouvrage le plus connu est Robinson Crusoé, publié en 1719, et que certains considèrent comme le premier roman en langue anglaise.
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.
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner Lowndes (née Belloc; 5 August 1868 – 14 November 1947), who wrote as Marie Belloc Lowndes, was a prolific English novelist, and sister of author Hilaire Belloc.
Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole, 4. Earl of Orford, war ein britischer Schriftsteller, Politiker und Künstler. Er wurde am 24.9.1717 in London geboren und verstarb am 2. März 1797 ebenda.
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling est né en 1865 à Bombay. Après avoir fait ses études en Angleterre, il retourne aux Indes à l'âge de 17 ans. Journaliste à Lahore, il commence à écrire, notamment les «Simples Contes de collines» qui seront publiés en 1887. Deux ans plus tard, il revient en Angleterre. Là, il publie la majeure partie de son œuvre, et plus particulièrement le «Premier Livre de la jungle», le «Second Livre de la jungle» et «Kim». Rudyard Kipling a obtenu le prix Nobel de littérature en 1907. Il est mort à Londres en 1936.
Lafcadio HEARN
Lafcadio Hearn, 1850 als Sohn einer Griechin und eines Iren auf Lefkas geboren, wuchs bei Verwandten in England auf, ehe er als junger Mann mittellos nach Amerika geschickt wurde. Er lebte als Journalist und Autor in Cincinnati und New Orleans, später in New York, dazwischen länger auf den französischen Antillen. 1890 wurde er als Korrespondent nach Japan entsandt. Er heiratete eine Japanerin, nahm die japanische Staatsbürgerschaft an und arbeitete zunächst als Lehrer, später als Professor für englische Literatur in Tokio, wo er 1904 starb.
Ambrose BIERCE
Ambrose Bierce was an American writer, critic and war veteran. Bierce fought for the Union Army during the American Civil War, eventually rising to the rank of brevet major before resigning from the Army following an 1866 expedition across the Great Plains. Bierce’s harrowing experiences during the Civil War, particularly those at the Battle of Shiloh, shaped a writing career that included editorials, novels, short stories and poetry. Among his most famous works are “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” “The Boarded Window,” “Chickamauga,” and What I Saw of Shiloh. While on a tour of Civil-War battlefields in 1913, Bierce is believed to have joined Pancho Villa’s army before disappearing in the chaos of the Mexican Revolution.
Ambrose Bierce was an American writer, critic and war veteran. Bierce fought for the Union Army during the American Civil War, eventually rising to the rank of brevet major before resigning from the Army following an 1866 expedition across the Great Plains. Bierce’s harrowing experiences during the Civil War, particularly those at the Battle of Shiloh, shaped a writing career that included editorials, novels, short stories and poetry. Among his most famous works are “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” “The Boarded Window,” “Chickamauga,” and What I Saw of Shiloh. While on a tour of Civil-War battlefields in 1913, Bierce is believed to have joined Pancho Villa’s army before disappearing in the chaos of the Mexican Revolution.
Washington Irving
Washington Irving (1783-1859) is 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) is 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.
David Lindsay
David Lindsay (1876-1945) is a writer best known for his first novel, A Voyage to Arcturus. Published in 1920, it has been called "the greatest imaginative work of the twentieth century" (Colin Wilson), "a stupendous ontological fable" (E H Visiak), "a masterpiece... an extraordinary work" (Clive Barker), "that shattering, intolerable, and irresistible work" (C S Lewis), and "less a novel than it is private kabbalah" (Alan Moore). John Grant, in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, called it "a masterpiece of allegorical fantasy".
Lindsay himself said that as long as publishing existed he would have readers, however few, and has been proved right. A Voyage to Arcturus, and his subsequent novels The Haunted Woman (1922), Sphinx (1923), The Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly (1926) and Devil's Tor (1932) have found a growing audience of devotees, enabling his unpublished novels (The Violet Apple, and the unfinished The Witch) to be brought out in the 1970s. He has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Bulgarian, Russian, Japanese, Catalan, Romanian and Turkish.
David Lindsay (1876-1945) is a writer best known for his first novel, A Voyage to Arcturus. Published in 1920, it has been called "the greatest imaginative work of the twentieth century" (Colin Wilson), "a stupendous ontological fable" (E H Visiak), "a masterpiece... an extraordinary work" (Clive Barker), "that shattering, intolerable, and irresistible work" (C S Lewis), and "less a novel than it is private kabbalah" (Alan Moore). John Grant, in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, called it "a masterpiece of allegorical fantasy". Lindsay himself said that as long as publishing existed he would have readers, however few, and has been proved right. A Voyage to Arcturus, and his subsequent novels The Haunted Woman (1922), Sphinx (1923), The Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly (1926) and Devil's Tor (1932) have found a growing audience of devotees, enabling his unpublished novels (The Violet Apple, and the unfinished The Witch) to be brought out in the 1970s. He has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Bulgarian, Russian, Japanese, Catalan, Romanian and Turkish.
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.
Arthur Machen
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.
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
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.
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.
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray was a nineteenth century English novelist who was most famous for his classic novel, Vanity Fair, a satirical portrait of English society. With an early career as a satirist and parodist, Thackeray shared a fondness for roguish characters that is evident in his early works such as Vanity Fair, The Luck of Barry Lyndon, and Catherine, and was ranked second only to Charles Dickens during the height of his career. In his later work, Thackeray transitioned from the satirical tone for which he was known to a more traditional Victorian narrative, the most notable of which is The History of Henry Esmond. Thackeray died in 1863.
William Makepeace Thackeray was a nineteenth century English novelist who was most famous for his classic novel, Vanity Fair, a satirical portrait of English society. With an early career as a satirist and parodist, Thackeray shared a fondness for roguish characters that is evident in his early works such as Vanity Fair, The Luck of Barry Lyndon, and Catherine, and was ranked second only to Charles Dickens during the height of his career. In his later work, Thackeray transitioned from the satirical tone for which he was known to a more traditional Victorian narrative, the most notable of which is The History of Henry Esmond. Thackeray died in 1863.
Fergus Hume
Fergus Hume was born in England in 1859 and raised in Dunedin, New Zealand. He studied Law at the University of Otago and after graduation relocated to Melbourne, Australia as a barristers' clerk. Inspired by the crime novels of Émile Gaboriau, he wrote the novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, set in Melbourne, which became the best-selling mystery novel of the Victorian era. Hume returned to England in 1888, producing more than 100 novels and short stories. He died in 1932.
Edward Bellamy
Ne en 1850 a Chicopee Falls, dans le Massachusetts, Edward Bellamy grandit dans une famille de pasteurs. Très tôt, il observe avec lucidité les inégalités sociales et les excès du capitalisme industriel. Apres quelques années d'études a l'Union Collège, il se tourne vers le journalisme, puis vers la littérature, cherchant a concilier écriture et engagement moral.
Son roman majeur, "Cent ans après ou l'An 2000" ("Looking Backward", 1888), le fait entrer dans l'histoire intellectuelle. Bellamy y imagine un homme du XIXe siècle, Julian West, qui s'endort et se réveille dans un monde futur, en l'an 2000, ou règnent justice, égalité et harmonie sociale. Cette utopie n'est pas un simple rêve : elle propose un modèle économique fonde sur la coopération, le partage du travail et la distribution équitable des richesses. Bellamy y décrit même un système de paiement anticipant la carte de crédit moderne.
Le succès du livre est immense. Des clubs de pensée, appelés "Nationalist Clubs", se multiplient a travers les Etats-Unis pour débattre et diffuser ses idées. Bellamy devient l'une des grandes voix du mouvement réformateur américain, prônant une société ou le progrès technique sert l'intérêt collectif plutôt que la seule recherche du profit.
Affaibli par la tuberculose, il meurt en 1898 a l'âge de quarante-huit ans. Mais son oeuvre continue d'inspirer ceux qui croient en un progrès au service de l'humain.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American sociologist, writer, lecturer, and social reformist. As a child, Gilman was often in the presence of her father’s relatives, notably Isabella Beecher Hooker, a well-known suffragist, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, an abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Many of Gilman’s own works reflect similarly feminist and social reformist perspectives, and in 1909 she established The Forerunner, a magazine that acted as a forum for discussion of these issues. Gilman’s most famous work is “The Yellow Wallpaper,” a semi-autobiographical short story written in response to being put on “rest cure” by a doctor to cure her depression. Gilman’s works also include the poetry collection In This Our World, and the feminist texts Women and Economics and The Home: Its Work and Influence. She died in 1935.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American sociologist, writer, lecturer, and social reformist. As a child, Gilman was often in the presence of her father’s relatives, notably Isabella Beecher Hooker, a well-known suffragist, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, an abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Many of Gilman’s own works reflect similarly feminist and social reformist perspectives, and in 1909 she established The Forerunner, a magazine that acted as a forum for discussion of these issues. Gilman’s most famous work is “The Yellow Wallpaper,” a semi-autobiographical short story written in response to being put on “rest cure” by a doctor to cure her depression. Gilman’s works also include the poetry collection In This Our World, and the feminist texts Women and Economics and The Home: Its Work and Influence. She died in 1935.
Florence Marryat
Die britische Autorin und Schauspielerin Florence Marryat (1833-1899) gehörte zu den bekanntesten Schriftstellerinnen der viktorianischen Zeit. Neben 68 Romanen schrieb sie Sachbücher, Reiseberichte, Bühnenwerke und Zeitschriftenartikel.
H. G. Wells
Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. His work spanned several genres, including history, politics, social commentary, textbooks and rules for war games.
He is best remembered for his science fiction novels. Of these, his most notable works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated four times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. His work spanned several genres, including history, politics, social commentary, textbooks and rules for war games. He is best remembered for his science fiction novels. Of these, his most notable works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated four times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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.
E. F. Benson
Edward Frederic Benson OBE (1867 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and short story writer.E. F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, the fifth child of the headmaster, Edward White Benson (later chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, Bishop of Truro and Archbishop of Canterbury), and his wife born Mary Sidgwick ("Minnie").E. F. Benson was the younger brother of Arthur Christopher Benson, who wrote the words to "Land of Hope and Glory", Robert Hugh Benson, author of several novels and Roman Catholic apologetic works, and Margaret Benson (Maggie), an author and amateur Egyptologist. Two other siblings died young. Benson's parents had six children and no grandchildren.Benson was educated at Temple Grove School, then at Marlborough College, where he wrote some of his earliest works and upon which he based his novel David Blaize. He continued his education at King's College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, he was a member of the Pitt Club, and later in life he became an honorary fellow of Magdalene College.
Jerome K. Jerome
Escreveu vários livros de sucesso. Adorava a natureza, os barcos e o rio. O seu livro mais famoso, Três Homens num Barco, uma das maiores obras-primas de narrativa de humor alguma vez escritas em língua inglesa, relata as suas próprias experiências com os amigos.
Nasceu em Walsall, em 1859, e era o filho mais novo de quatro irmãos. Deixou a escola aos 14 anos e trabalhou como jornalista, ator, professor e vendedor.
Adorava a Natureza, os barcos e os rios. Era um homem descontraído, cortês, e foi um impulsionador incansável de novas ideias e experiências. Viajou por toda a Europa, foi um dos pioneiros do esqui nos Alpes e visitou a Rússia e a América várias vezes. Foi um escritor prolífico e a sua obra é vasta e está traduzida em diversos idiomas; porém, o próprio Jerome disse: «É como autor de Três Homens num Barco que o público persiste em recordar-me».
Morreu em 1927, um ano depois de escrever a sua autobiografia A Minha Vida e os Meus Tempos e de ser condecorado pelas autoridades da sua terra natal. Foi sepultado no condado de Oxford.
M. R. James
Montague Rhodes James was born in 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage, Kent, where his father was a curate, but the family moved soon afterwards to Great Livermere in Suffolk. James attended Eton College and later King's College Cambridge where he won many awards and scholarships. From 1894 to 1908 he was Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and from 1905 to 1918 was Provost of King's College. In 1913, he became Vice-Chancellor of the University for two years. In 1918 he was installed as Provost of Eton. A distinguished medievalist and scholar of international status, James published many works on biblical and historical antiquarian subjects. He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1930. His ghost story writing began almost as a divertissement from his academic work and as a form of entertainment for his colleagues. His first collection, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary was published in 1904. He never married and died in 1936.
E. T. A. Hoffmann
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) war einer der bedeutendsten Autoren der deutschen Schwarzen Romantik und gilt als Meister der fantastischen Literatur. Neben seiner Tätigkeit als Schriftsteller war er auch Komponist, Zeichner, Jurist und Kritiker. Seine Werke erforschen die Grenzen zwischen Realität und Wahn, Identität und Illusion sowie das Motiv des Unheimlichen, das später von Sigmund Freud aufgegriffen wurde. Zu seinen bekanntesten Erzählungen zählen "Der Sandmann", "Das Fräulein von Scuderi" und "Die Serapionsbrüder". Hoffmanns einzigartiger Stil, geprägt von psychologischer Tiefe, düsterer Fantasie und scharfem Gesellschaftsblick, macht ihn zu einem prägenden Autor der europäischen Literaturgeschichte.
Stanley G. Weinbaum
Stanley G. Weinbaum (1902-1935) war ein US-Science-Fiction-Autor. Er schuf sympathische und intelligente Aliens, z.B. in "A Martian Odyssey" (1934). Er starb jung an Kehlkopfkrebs, aber seine Werke beeinflussten das Genre.
H. P. Lovecraft
Renowned as one of the great horror-writers of all time, H.P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 and lived most of his life in Providence, Rhode Island. Among his many classic horror stories, many of which were published in book form only after his death in 1937, are ‘At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror’ (1964), ‘Dagon and Other Macabre Tales’ (1965), and ‘The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions’ (1970).
Robert E. Howard
Romancier.
Edith Nesbit
Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later connected to the Labour Party.Edith Nesbit was born in Kennington, Surrey, the daughter of agricultural chemist and schoolmaster John Collis Nesbit. The death of her father when she was four and the continuing ill health of her sister meant that Nesbit had a transitory childhood, her family moving across Europe in search of healthy climates only to return to England for financial reasons. Nesbit therefore spent her childhood attaining an education from whatever sources were available - local grammars, the occasional boarding school but mainly through reading.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) publicó varias obras dedicadas a la infancia, pero sin duda se hizo mundialmente famosa tras la aparición de Anne of the Green Gables, en 1908. Con su pelo rojo, su inteligencia y su vitalidad, Ana
se hizo tan querida, que la escritora le dedicó toda una serie, siguiendo el crecimiento de la niña. Desde entonces sus aventuras, también adaptadas al cómic, los dibujos animados o la gran pantalla, siguen haciendo las delicias de todos.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) publicó varias obras dedicadas a la infancia, pero sin duda se hizo mundialmente famosa tras la aparición de Anne of the Green Gables, en 1908. Con su pelo rojo, su inteligencia y su vitalidad, Ana
se hizo tan querida, que la escritora le dedicó toda una serie, siguiendo el crecimiento de la niña. Desde entonces sus aventuras, también adaptadas al cómic, los dibujos animados o la gran pantalla, siguen haciendo las delicias de todos.Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Mary Elizabeth Braddon war eine englische Schriftstellerin.
Mary Louisa Molesworth
Mary Louisa Molesworth, Stewart (1839 1921) was an English writer of children's stories who wrote for children under the name ofMrs Molesworth. Her first novels, for adult readers, Lover and Husband(1869) to Cicely (1874), appeared under the pseudonym of Ennis Graham. Her name occasionally appears in print as M. L. S. Molesworth.She was born in Rotterdam, a daughter of Charles Augustus Stewart (18091873) who later became a rich merchant in Manchester and his wife Agnes Janet Wilson (18101883). Mary had three brothers and two sisters. She was educated in Great Britain and Switzerland: much of her girlhood was spent in Manchester. In 1861 she married Major R. Molesworth, nephew of Viscount Molesworth; they legally separated in 1879.Mrs Molesworth is best known as a writer of books for the young, such as Tell Me a Story (1875), Carrots (1876), The Cuckoo Clock (1877), The Tapestry Room (1879), and A Christmas Child (1880). She has been called "the Jane Austen of the nursery," while The Carved Lions (1895) "is probably her masterpiece." In the judgement of Roger Lancelyn Green:Mary Louisa Molesworth typified late Victorian writing for girls. Aimed at girls too old for fairies and princesses but too young for Austen and the Brontës, books by Molesworth had their share of amusement, but they also had a good deal of moral instruction. The girls reading Molesworth would grow up to be mothers; thus, the books emphasized Victorian notions of duty and self-sacrifice.Typical of the time, her young child characters often use a lisping style, and words may be misspelt to represent children's speech"jography" for geography, for instance. She took an interest in supernatural fiction. In 1888, she published a collection of supernatural tales under the title Four Ghost Stories, and in 1896 a similar collection of six tales under the title Uncanny Stories. In addition to those, her volume Studies and Stories includes a ghost story entitled "Old Gervais" and her Summer Stories for Boys and Girls includes "Not exactly a ghost story."A new edition of The Cuckoo Clock was published in 1914.She died in 1921 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolay Gogol, the author of the first great Russian novel of the 19th century, Dead Souls, as well as two classic plays and some of the finest short stories written in any language, was a true literary oddity. His peculiar, unhappy life and his uniquely dark comic sensibility have been consistently misunderstood by posterity, with critics fiercely debating his nationality, his religious beliefs, and even his sexuality. What has never been in doubt, however, is his immense literary talent which, while essentially sui generis, provided a template for the absurdist, surreal streak in Russian literature that continues to bear fruit to this day. Along with Alexander Pushkin, he also established a literary pattern for the depiction of St. Petersburg as a city of ambiguity and even monstrosity, life in which proves untenable for many of his long-suffering protagonists.
Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol was born in Sorochyntsi, a Ukrainian Cossack village in what is now Ukraine's Poltava Oblast. His family were from the lower ranks of the gentry, his mother of Polish descent and his father a Ukrainian Cossack who wrote poetry and drama in Ukrainian. The family spoke both Ukrainian and Russian at home, and Gogol would later make a conscious choice to pursue a literary career in Russian rather than Ukrainian. He was educated at the Gymnasium of Higher Sciences in Nezhyn, a school founded as part of Alexander I's education reforms.
Nikolay Gogol, the author of the first great Russian novel of the 19th century, Dead Souls, as well as two classic plays and some of the finest short stories written in any language, was a true literary oddity. His peculiar, unhappy life and his uniquely dark comic sensibility have been consistently misunderstood by posterity, with critics fiercely debating his nationality, his religious beliefs, and even his sexuality. What has never been in doubt, however, is his immense literary talent which, while essentially sui generis, provided a template for the absurdist, surreal streak in Russian literature that continues to bear fruit to this day. Along with Alexander Pushkin, he also established a literary pattern for the depiction of St. Petersburg as a city of ambiguity and even monstrosity, life in which proves untenable for many of his long-suffering protagonists. Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol was born in Sorochyntsi, a Ukrainian Cossack village in what is now Ukraine's Poltava Oblast. His family were from the lower ranks of the gentry, his mother of Polish descent and his father a Ukrainian Cossack who wrote poetry and drama in Ukrainian. The family spoke both Ukrainian and Russian at home, and Gogol would later make a conscious choice to pursue a literary career in Russian rather than Ukrainian. He was educated at the Gymnasium of Higher Sciences in Nezhyn, a school founded as part of Alexander I's education reforms.
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in 1797. Her mother was the famous feminist philosopher, Mary Wollstonecraft, and through her parents she moved in the intellectual and literary circles of her time. She was a prolific writer, well-remembered today through the legacy of her Gothic novel, Frankenstein, widely considered the first of its genre.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was a British novelist and short-story writer. Her works were Victorian social histories across many strata of society. Her most famous works include Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton est un écrivain et homme politique anglais. Les Derniers Jours de Pompéi, publié en 1834, est un succès l'année de sa parution et devient une œuvre largement adaptée, au théâtre notamment, à l'opéra, et bien sûr au cinéma, par le grand Sergio Leone.
Amelia B. Edwards
Amelia Anne Blanford Edwards nació en Londres en 1831, hija de un militar retirado convertido en banquero. Educada por su madre, a los siete años publicó su primer poema en una revista, y a los doce su primer cuento. En la década de 1860 fue asidua colaboradora de All The Year Round, la revista de Charles Dickens, a quien admiraba profundamente. Como la mayoría de sus cuentos de fantasmas, que ella misma ilustraba, se publicaron anónimamente, a veces se llegaban a confundir con los del propio Dickens debido a la similitud estilística entre ambos. Edwards participó asimismo abiertamente en la causa por el sufragio femenino. Viajó a Egipto a finales de 1873 y, escandalizada por la profanación y destrucción de obras de arte, creó una fundación, la Egypt Exploration Society, para preservar los monumentos arqueológicos. Edwards es una figura clave de la época victoriana, no solo por su obra literaria –cuentos de fantasmas y relatos de viajes– sino también por haber sido una de las mayores historiadoras y arqueólogas de la época. Escribió novelas muy populares como Barbara's History (1864) y Lord Brackenbury (1880), y el libro de viajes por Egipto A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877). Murió en 1892 en Weston-super-Mare, una ciudad en la costa de Somerset.
Matthew Gregory LEWIS
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.
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.
Fitz-James O'Brien
Fitz-James O’Brien (1828-62) was an
Irish-born American writer best known for
his Gothic short stories, which are now seen as precursors of modern science fiction
Bithia Mary Croker
Bithia Mary Croker (1847–1920) war eine auch in Deutschland erfolgreiche irische Autorin, die fast 15 Jahre mit ihrem Mann in Britisch-Indien lebte, wo auch viele ihrer Erzählungen spielen. Sie schrieb über 40 Romane und zahlreiche Short Stories, darunter auch Schauergeschichten.
Emile Erckmann
Émile Erckmann, né le 20 mai 1822 à Phalsbourg et mort le 14 mars 1899 à Lunéville en France, est un écrivain français.
Alexandre Chatrian
Alexandre Chatrian, né le 18 décembre 1826 à Abreschviller, et mort le 3 septembre 1890 à Villemomble, est un écrivain français.
Helena Blavatsky
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891) foi uma das figuras mais influentes do ocultismo moderno e cofundadora da Sociedade Teosófica em 1875. Nascida na Rússia, viajou extensivamente pela Europa, Ásia e Médio Oriente, em busca de conhecimento espiritual e sabedoria esotérica.
Dotada de uma mente brilhante, espírito rebelde e uma intuição fora do comum, Blavatsky desafiou as convenções da sua época ao explorar tradições místicas do Tibete, da Índia e do Egito, e ao estudar com mestres espirituais de várias culturas. Em 1888, publicou A Doutrina Secreta, a sua obra-prima, que se tornou um clássico do pensamento esotérico ocidental.
Mais do que uma escritora, Blavatsky foi uma mensageira de uma tradição oculta universal, defendendo que todas as religiões partilham uma mesma origem sagrada e que a verdadeira sabedoria está no reencontro entre ciência, filosofia e espiritualidade.
A sua vida foi marcada pela busca incessante do invisível, pelas controvérsias que a rodearam e pelo impacto profundo que deixou no pensamento espiritual contemporâneo. Ainda hoje, a sua obra inspira milhares de buscadores ao redor do mundo.
É ainda autora de A Voz do Silêncio (publicado pela Alma dos Livros), um guia espiritual poético e profundo, onde transmite ensinamentos esotéricos sobre o caminho interior da alma rumo à iluminação e à compaixão universal.
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