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.
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.
1802 - 1870. Aidé de plusieurs collaborateurs, il signa près de trois cents ouvrages et fut le plus populaire des écrivains de l'époque romantique avec ses drames (Henri III et sa Cour, Antony, la Tour de Nesle, Kean) et ses romans ([...] Vingt Ans après, le Vicomte de Bragelonne, le Comte de Monte-Cristo, la Reine Margot, la Dame de Montsoreau, les Quarante-Cinq).
El novelista, dramaturgo, cronista y político español, Benito Pérez Galdós nació en Las Palmas de Gran Canaria el 10 de mayo de 1843-y falleció en Madrid el 4 de enero de 1920
Se le considera uno de los mejores representantes de la novela realista del siglo XIX no solo en España y un narrador capital en la historia de la literatura en lengua española, hasta el punto de ser propuesto por varios especialistas y estudiosos de su obra como el mayor novelista español después de Cervantes.
Galdós transformó el panorama novelesco español de la época, apartándose de la corriente romanticista en pos del naturalismo y aportando a la narrativa una gran expresividad y hondura psicológica.
En palabras de Max Aub, Galdós, como Lope de Vega, asumió el espectáculo del pueblo llano y con «su intuición serena, profunda y total de la realidad», se lo devolvió, como Cervantes, rehecho, «artísticamente transformado». De ahí que «desde Lope ningún escritor fue tan popular, ninguno tan universal desde Cervantes». Aunque, salvo en su juventud, no mostró especial afición por la política, aceptó su designación como diputado en varias ocasiones y por distintas circunscripciones
Écrivain allemand, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe est né à Francfort-sur-le-Main (Allemagne) le 28 août 1749. On lui doit quatre grands romans: Werther, Les Années d'apprentissage de Wilhelm Meister, Les Affinités électives et Les Années de voyage de Wilhelm Meister. Il est mort à Weimar le 22 mars 1832.
Franz Kafka vient de rencontrer Julie Wohryzek, la deuxième femme qui réveillera en lui le désir de se marier, lorsqu'il se lance dans l'entreprise assez terrifiante de cette Lettre au Père. Il a 36 ans et a déjà publié un certain nombre de textes, dont Le jugement et La métamorphose.
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.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), born in Lyons, France, is one of the world’s best loved and widest read writers. His timeless fable, The Little Prince, has sold more than 100 million copies and has been translated into nearly every language. His pilot’s memoir, Wind, Sand and Stars, won the National Book Award and was named the #1 adventure book of all time by Outside magazine and was ranked #3 on National Geographic Adventure’s list of all-time-best exploration books. His other books include Night Flight; Southern Mail; and Airman's Odyssey. A pilot at twenty-six, he was a pioneer of commercial aviation and flew in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. In 1944, while flying a reconnaissance mission for his French air squadron, he disappeared over the Mediterranean.
Stacy Schiff is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of several bestselling biographies and historical works including, most recently, The Witches: Salem, 1692. In 2018 she was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. Awarded a 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she was inducted into the Academy in 2019. Schiff has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Los Angeles Times, among many other publications. She lives in New York City.
1828 - 1905. Sa série des Voyages extraordinaires, destinée à l'adolescence, inaugure le genre du roman scientifique d'anticipation (Cinq Semaines en ballon, 1863 ; Voyage au centre de la Terre, 1864 ; De la Terre à la Lune, 1865 ; Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers, 1870 ; [...] Michel Strogoff, 1876).
Romancière américaine, Edith Wharton (née Newbold Jones) est née le 23 janvier 1862 à New York (Etats-Unis). À partir de 1906, la plus grande partie de sa vie s'écoule en France. On lui doit plusieurs best-sellers tels Chez les heureux du monde, Ethan Frome et Le Temps de l'innocence pour lequel elle obtient le prix Pulitzer. Elle meurt à Saint-Brice sous Forêt en août 1937.
Title : 100 Clásicos de la Literatura
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