Alphonse Daudet est né dans le Gard le 13 mai 1840. Il quitte tôt les bancs de l'école pour venir à dix-sept ans à Paris, en quête d'une carrière littéraire. Il publie ses poèmes (Les Amoureuses en 1858), puis ses romans (Le Petit Chose, Tartarin de Tarascon, Sapho...) qui fondent, petit à petit, sa notoriété. Il travaille comme journaliste et secrétaire particulier, et rencontre, dans les salons, les grandes figures de son temps, notamment Flaubert, Zola et Edmond de Goncourt, avec qui il noue une relation intime.
Guy de Maupassant est né en Normandie en 1850. Il bénéficie des conseils littéraires de Flaubert, rencontre Zola, Huysmans, Daudet et les frères Goncourt. Son œuvre, d'une incroyable fécondité (nouvelles, romans, articles dans les journaux), lui assure célébrité et fortune. Atteint de syphilis, il meurt à quarante-trois ans dans la démence.
Benito Pérez Galdós nasce a Las Palmas de Gran Canaria il 10 maggio 1843 da famiglia numerosa; ultimo di dieci figli, si sposta giovanissimo a Madrid per intraprendere la carriera degli studi, e da lì vi rimane tutta la vita. Ben presto lascia gli studi giuridici per dedicarsi all'attività della scrittura letteraria.
Diventa autore e profondo conoscitore degli ambienti intellettuali madrileni e non solo; è anche personaggio metropolitano del suo tempo: spinto anche dal suo spirito liberale, intraprende moltissimi viaggi in giro per l'Europa, girovagando per Inghilterra, Francia, Germania e Italia, conoscendo le opere di Balzac e di Charles Dickens di cui fu anche traduttore in castigliano (I quaderni postumi del Circolo Pickwick); grazie alla sua instancabile sete di conoscenza e al contatto con i luoghi, la gente e i più ferventi contesti letterari europei della sua epoca, riesce a fare suo un linguaggio di rinnovamento attraverso il quale interpretare in modo critico e attento la realtà spagnola, che fa da spunto alla sua letteratura.
Galdós è letterato, novellista, romanziere, drammaturgo ed autore teatrale, e rappresenta una delle figure più importanti della letteratura spagnola.
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was the third son of a barrister, who ruined his family by giving up the law for farming, and an industrious mother. After attending Winchester and Harrow, Trollope scraped into the General Post Office, London, in 1834, where he worked for seven years. In 1841 he was transferred to Ireland as a surveyor's clerk, and in 1844 married and settled at Clonmel. His first two novels were devoted to Irish life; his third, La Vendée, was historical. All were failures.
After a distinguished career in the GPO, for which he invented the pillar box and travelled extensively abroad, Trollope resigned in 1867, earning his living from writing instead. He led an extensive social life, from which he drew material for his many social and political novels.
The idea for The Warden (1855), the first of the six Barsetshire novels, came from a visit to Salisbury Close; with it came the characters whose fortunes were explored through the succeeding volumes, of which Doctor Thorne is the third.
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.
Thomas Nelson Page was an American writer and lawyer, as well as the U.S. Ambassador to Italy during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. Despite his family’s wealthy lineage—both the Nelson and Page families were First Families of Virginia—Page was raised largely in poverty. Based on his own experiences living on a plantation in the Antebellum South, Page’s writing helped popularize the plantation-tradition genre, which depicted an idealized version of slavery and presented emancipation as a sign of moral decline in society. Page’s best-known works include the short story collections The Burial of the Guns and In Ole Virginia, the latter of which contains the influential story “Marse Chan.” Thomas Nelson Page died in 1922.
Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936), est né et a vécu au Texas.
Il a publié sa première histoire à 19 ans dans la revue Weird Tales (qui publia les auteurs mythiques de l'âge d'or, dont Lovecraft). Après quelques années difficiles, sa carrière démarra en 1928 avec la parution des récits de Solomon Kane, suivis par de nombreuses nouvelles dans des genres aussi divers que la Fantasy, l'horreur, l'histoire, le western ou la boxe.
Mais c'est Conan, créé en 1932, qui lui vaudra la postérité littéraire. Ce héros, ainsi que la puissance évocatrice de l'écriture de son auteur, a eu et a toujours une influence majeure, au moins égale à celle de Tolkien, sur la Fantasy et partant sur tout l'imaginaire occidental.
Henry van Dyke was an American religious writer, lecturer, and clergyman. Educated at the Theological Seminary at Princeton University, van Dyke returned to the school after his graduation as a Professor of English Literature and became an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1913 he was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson, his former classmate, as the ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg, a job that he maintained throughout the First World War. His most famous short stories include "The Story of the Other Wise Man" and "The First Christmas Tree", which, like many of his other works, centered around moral and religious themes. After a lifetime of public service and religious leadership, Henry van Dyke died in 1933 at the age of 80.
Née à l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard en 1874, Lucy Maud Montgomery, comme plusieurs de ses héroïnes, s'est retrouvée orpheline très tôt. Élevée par ses grands-parents, elle a vécu une enfance difficile. Rêvant de devenir écrivaine, Lucy Maud a commencé à écrire à l'âge de neuf ans en tenant son journal intime dans la petite ville de Cavendish, qui ressemble à s'y méprendre au village d'Avonlea où se déroule l'histoire de sa célèbre Anne. Elle a tour à tour été institutrice et journaliste avant de devenir romancière et finalement l'une des auteures canadiennes les plus connues dans le monde.
Wilhelm Grimm and his brother Jacob are famous for their classical collection of folk songs and folktales, especially for Children’s and Household Tales, generally known as Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
JULES SIMON (1814 – 1896) Homme d’État français, Jules Simon est l’un des pères de l’école républicaine. Il fut ministre de l’Instruction et Président du Conseil sous la IIIe République.
Título : Down the Chimney: 100+ Most Treasured Christmas Novels & Stories in One Volume (Illustrated)
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