Écrivain anglais, David Herbert Lawrence, auteur du célèbre roman L'Amant de lady Chatterley (1928), est né le 11 septembre 1885 à Eastwood (Nottinghamshire, Royaume-Uni). Sa réputation de chantre de la sexualité et le parfum de scandale qui s'attache à son nom ont un peu occulté la richesse d'une oeuvre qui inclut romans, nouvelles, poésie, essais, récits de voyage, théâtre, peinture, sans compter des milliers de lettres et un manuel d'histoire. Il meurt le 2 mars 1930 à Vence (Alpes-Maritimes).
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.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is the author of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness, and other classics of Russian literature.
Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish writer and the author of the acclaimed novel Dracula. Stoker moved to London where he worked as acting and business manager at Lyceum Theatre for twenty-eight years. He was also personal assistant to actor Henry Irving. To this day Dracula is a timeless piece of literature, which has inspired countless films and spin off stories.
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 - 1950)
Edgar Rice Burroughs was a prolific American author of the 'pulp' era. The son of a Civil War veteran, he saw brief military service with the 7TH U.S. Cavalry before he was diagnosed with a heart problem and discharged. After working for five years in his father's business, Burroughs left for a string of disparate and short-lived jobs, and was working as a pencil sharpener wholesaler when he decided to try his hand at writing. He found almost instant success when his story 'Under the Moons of Mars' was serialised in All-Story Magazine in 1912, earning him the then-princely sum of $400.
Burroughs went on to have tremendous success as a writer, his wide-ranging imagination taking in other planets (John Carter of Mars and Carson of Venus), a hollow earth (Pellucidar), a lost world, westerns, historicals and adventure stories. Although he wrote in many genres, Burroughs is best known for his creation of the archetypal jungle hero, Tarzan. Edgar Rice Burroughs died in 1950.
Troisième fille d'un pasteur anglican, Charlotte Brontë est née en 1816 à Haworth. À 10 ans, retirée de l'école religieuse où deux de ses sœurs ont contracté la tuberculose, qui leur sera fatale, elle commence à écrire, concevant avec son frère et ses sœurs un univers de fantaisie. À 19 ans, elle devient gouvernante et commence à rédiger Le professeur, qu'enrichira son séjour dans une pension de jeunes filles en Belgique, en 1842.
Son projet de créer une école avec ses sœurs n'aboutira pas, mais en 1846, sous le pseudonyme de Bell, paraît leur premier recueil. Nourri de tant d'expériences, Jane Eyre trouve un éditeur en 1847 et connaît un vif succès. Trollope, George Eliot, Thackeray ne cachent pas leur admiration. Deux romans suivront, Shirley en 1849 et Villette en 1853.
Mariée en 1854, elle meurt de maladie en 1855.
Wilella Sibert Cather (1873 - 1947) is an eminent author from the United States. She is perhaps best known for her depictions of U.S. life in novels such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. Other Books of Willa Cather: • Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) • Pioneers! (1913) • My Ántonia (1918) • One of Ours (1923) • Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940) • The Song of the Lark (1915) • The Professor's House (1925) • The Troll Garden and Selected Stories (1905) • Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920) • Not Under Forty (1936)
Miguel de Cervantes was born on September 29, 1547, in Alcala de Henares, Spain. At twenty-three he enlisted in the Spanish militia and in 1571 fought against the Turks in the Battle of Lepanto, where a gunshot wound permanently crippled his left hand. He spent four more years at sea and then another five as a slave after being captured by Barbary pirates. Ransomed by his family, he returned to Madrid but his disability hampered him; it was in debtor's prison that he began to write Don Quixote. Cervantes wrote many other works, including poems and plays, but he remains best known as the author of Don Quixote. He died on April 23, 1616.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. He died in 1881 having written some of the most celebrated works in the history of literature, including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov.
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