Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, considerado como uno de los más grandes novelistas de la literatura inglesa y más conocido como Joseph Conrad nació en Berdyczów, entonces Imperio ruso, actual Ucrania, el 3 de diciembre de 1857 y murió en Bishopsbourne, Inglaterra, el 3 de agosto de 1924. Fue un novelista que adoptó el inglés como lengua literaria de su extensa obra en la cual explora la vulnerabilidad y la inestabilidad moral del ser humano.
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.
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.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, in 1871. Considered a master of the genre of literary nonsense, he is renowned for his ingenious wordplay and sense of logic, and his highly original vision.
Willa Cather (1873-1947) was born in Virginia and raised on the Nebraska prairie. She worked as a newspaper writer, teacher, and managing editor of McClure's magazine. In addition to My Ántonia, her books include O Pioneers! (1913) and The Professor's House. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours.
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.
Alexandre Dumas (dit aussi Alexandre Dumas père) est un écrivainfrançais né le 24juillet1802 à Villers-Cotterêts (Aisne) et mort le 5décembre1870 à Puys, près de Dieppe (Seine-Maritime). On lui doit de très grands romans historiques telles que la trilogie Les Trois Mousquetaires, Vingt ans après et Le Vicomte de Bragelonne , ou encore Le Comte de Monte-Cristo et La Reine Margot.
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.
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Jerome, Jerome K.: "Three Men in a Boat"
Joyce, James: "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Joyce, James: "Ulysses"
Kingsley, Charles: "The Water-Babies"
Kipling, Rudyard: "Kim"
La Fayette, Madame de: "The Princess of Clèves"
Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: "Dangerous Liaisons"
Lawrence, D. H.: "Sons and Lovers"
Lawrence, D. H.: "The Rainbow"
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan: "In a Glass Darkly"
Lewis, Matthew Gregory: "The Monk"
Lewis, Sinclair: "Main Street"
London, Jack: "The Call of the Wild"
Lovecraft, H. P.: "At the Mountains of Madness"
Mann, Thomas: "Royal Highness"
Maugham, W. Somerset: "Of Human Bondage"
Maupassant, Guy de: "Bel-Ami"
Melville, Herman: "Moby-Dick"
Poe, Edgar Allan: "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Proust, Marcel: "Swann's Way"
Radcliffe, Ann: "The Mysteries of Udolpho"
Richardson, Samuel: "Clarissa"
Sand, George: "The Devil's Pool"
Scott, Walter: "Ivanhoe"
Shelley, Mary: "Frankenstein"
Sienkiewicz, Henryk: "Quo Vadis"
Sinclair, May: "Life and Death of Harriett Frean"
Sinclair, Upton: "The Jungle"
Stendhal: "The Red and the Black"
Stendhal: "The Chartreuse of Parma"
Sterne, Laurence: "Tristram Shandy"
Stevenson, Robert Louis: "Treasure Island"
Stoker, Bram: "Dracula"
Stowe, Harriet Beecher: "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Swift, Jonathan: "Gulliver's Travels"
Tagore, Rabindranath: "The Home and the World"
Thackeray, William Makepeace: "Vanity Fair"
Tolstoy, Leo: "War and Peace"
Tolstoy, Leo: "Anna Karenina"
Troloppe, Anthony: "The Way We Live Now"
Turgenev, Ivan: "Fathers and Sons"
Twain, Mark: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
Verne, Jules: "Journey to the Interior of the Earth"
Wallace, Lew: "Ben-Hur"
Wells, H. G.: "The Time Machine"
West, Rebecca: "The Return of the Soldier"
Wharton, Edith: "The Age of Innocence"
Wilde, Oscar: "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Xueqin, Cao: "The Dream of the Red Chamber"
Zola, Émile: "Germinal"
Título : 50 Masterpieces You Must Read Before You Die: Volume 2
EAN : 9782384231003
Editorial : Pocket Classic
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