Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) is the author of the beloved Little Women, which was based on her own experiences growing up in New England with her parents and three sisters. More than a century after her death, Louisa May Alcott's stories continue to delight readers of all ages.
Born in 1775, Jane Austen published four of her six novels anonymously. Her work was not widely read until the late nineteenth century, and her fame grew from then on. Known for her wit and sharp insight into social conventions, her novels about love, relationships, and society are more popular year after year. She has earned a place in history as one of the most cherished writers of English literature.
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.
James Joyce (1882-1941) est un romancier et poète irlandais expatrié, considéré comme l’un des écrivains les plus influents du 20e siècle. Parmi ses œuvres marquantes on compte «Les Gens de Dublin» (1914), «Portrait de l'artiste en jeune homme» (1916), «Ulysse» (1922) et «Finnegans Wake» (1939). Dès sa parution aux États-Unis, «Ulysse» suscite la controverse, puisque jugé obscène, et est interdit jusqu’en 1931. Joyce est décédé à Zurich en 1941.
Charles Dickens was born on 7th February 1812 in Portsmouth and grew up in London and Kent. His father was sent to a debtor's prison following financial difficulties and the young Dickens was sent temporarily to work in a boot blacking factory, until an inheritance allowed his return to school - however, he never forgot this formative experience. Dickens wrote many novels including A Tale of Two Cities, The Pickwick Papers, A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations. A leading celebrity of the Victorian Age, his short story The Signalman was likely based on a crash involving a train that Dickens was travelling on, with his mistress. Charles Dickens died in 1870.
Bram Stoker (1847–1912) grew up in Ireland listening to his mother's tales of blood-drinking fairies and vampires rising from their graves. He later managed the Lyceum Theatre in London and worked as a civil servant, newspaper editor, reporter, and theater critic. Dracula, his best-known work, was published in 1897 and is hailed as one of the founding pieces of Gothic literature.
Born in Ireland in 1856, Oscar Wilde was a noted essayist, playwright, fairy tale writer and poet, as well as an early leader of the Aesthetic Movement. His plays include: An Ideal Husband, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, and Lady Windermere's Fan. Among his best known stories are The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Canterville Ghost.
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.
Fille d'un pasteur anglican née en 1820, Anne Brontë passe sa jeunesse au presbytère de Haworth avec son frère et ses sœurs aînées Emily et Charlotte. Tous quatre font très tôt preuve d'une imagination hors du commun. Les trois sœurs publient ensemble un recueil de poèmes, avant d'écrire chacune des romans. Anne, marquée par son expérience de gouvernante (1835-1845), souligne dans Agnès Grey (1847) la responsabilité des parents dans le manque de valeurs morales des enfants de familles riches. Jeune femme réservée, elle masquait ses sentiments sous un « voile de nonne rarement soulevé », selon sa sœur Charlotte. Elle meurt en 1849 de la tuberculose, comme son frère et Emily, après avoir publié l'année précédente un second roman, La Dame du manoir de Wildfell Hall.
Née en 1816 dans le Yorkshire, Charlotte Brontë est la troisième fille d'un pasteur. Suite au décès de sa mère, Charlotte, ses quatre soeurs et son frère sont envoyés dans une pension aux conditions de vie difficiles, qui marquera la romancière à jamais. De retour chez leur père, les soeurs Brontë se passionnent pour la littérature. Malgré sa mort prématurée en 1855, Charlotte Brontë est devenue l'un des fleurons de la littérature britannique.
Né Charles Lutwidge Dogson, Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) est fils de pasteur. Il fait ses études à Oxford, où il devient professeur de mathématiques. Il étudie la médecine, mais s'intéresse aussi beaucoup au théâtre, au canotage et à la photographie. Il est l'auteur du célèbre récit Alice au pays des merveilles, suivi de À travers le miroir.
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.
Auteur de récits, d'essais, de pamphlets, Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) s'inspire, pour écrire Robinson Crusoé (1719), d'un fait divers réel. Ce roman de commande, oeuvre « alimentaire » entreprise pour doter ses filles, devait pourtant assurer l'immortalité de son auteur.
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.
1802 - 1885. Fils d'un général de l'Empire, il 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, ses cendres sont transférées au Panthéon. - Son oeuvre dessiné (sépia, encre de Chine) est celle d'un visionnaire. (Académie française.)
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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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