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Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was an English writer and the author of the acclaimed novel Frankenstein. In 1814 she married Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley, before publishing Frankenstein anonymously two years later. Frankenstein remains one of literatures timeless classics and has inspired countless films, plays, and novels.
Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was an English writer and the author of the acclaimed novel Frankenstein. In 1814 she married Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley, before publishing Frankenstein anonymously two years later. Frankenstein remains one of literatures timeless classics and has inspired countless films, plays, and novels.
D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert (D. H.) Lawrence was a prolific English novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, literary critic and painter. His most notable works include Lady Chatterley’s Lover, The Rainbow, Sons and Lovers and Women in Love.
Anthony Trollope
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.
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.
Zona Gale
"I donno," said Mary, thoughtfully, "but what, when folks stop chasing after Christmas and driving it before them, Christmas may turn around and come to find them.""Why," said Simeon, "everybody in town's talking that they ain't going to give anybody anything for Christmas. Some means it and some don't. Some'll do it and some'll back out. But the churches has decided to omit Christmas exercises altogether this year. Some thought to have speaking pieces, but everybody concluded if they had exercises without oranges and candy the children'd go home disappointed, so they've left the whole thing slide" - [Christmas, Zona Gale]
Charles W. Chesnutt
Charles Waddell Chesnutt was an African-American author, essayist, political activist and lawyer, known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South of America. He worked with W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington in the cause of emancipation and equality for African Americans.
Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Norris is the award-winning poet, writer, and author of the New York Times bestselling books The Cloister Walk, Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, The Virgin of Bennington, and several volumes of poetry. Exploring the spiritual life, her work is at once intimate and historical, rich in poetry and meditations, brimming with exasperation and reverence, deeply grounded in both nature and spirit, sometimes funny, and often provocative.
Widowed in 2003, Kathleen Norris now divides her time between South Dakota and Honolulu, Hawaii, where she is a member of an Episcopal church. She travels to the mainland regularly to speak to students, medical professionals, social workers, and chaplains at colleges and universities, as well as churches and teaching hospitals. For many years she was the poetry editor of Spirituality & Health magazine. She serves as an editorial advisor for the monthly Give Us This Day from Liturgical Press, and writes for a weekly e-newsletter, Soul Telegram: Movies & Meaning with her friend Irish storyteller Gareth Higgins.
Kathleen Norris is the award-winning poet, writer, and author of the New York Times bestselling books The Cloister Walk, Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, The Virgin of Bennington, and several volumes of poetry. Exploring the spiritual life, her work is at once intimate and historical, rich in poetry and meditations, brimming with exasperation and reverence, deeply grounded in both nature and spirit, sometimes funny, and often provocative.
Widowed in 2003, Kathleen Norris now divides her time between South Dakota and Honolulu, Hawaii, where she is a member of an Episcopal church. She travels to the mainland regularly to speak to students, medical professionals, social workers, and chaplains at colleges and universities, as well as churches and teaching hospitals. For many years she was the poetry editor of Spirituality & Health magazine. She serves as an editorial advisor for the monthly Give Us This Day from Liturgical Press, and writes for a weekly e-newsletter, Soul Telegram: Movies & Meaning with her friend Irish storyteller Gareth Higgins.
Stanley G. Weinbaum
Stanley G. Weinbaum (1902-1935) war ein US-Science-Fiction-Autor. Er schuf sympathische und intelligente Aliens, z.B. in "A Martian Odyssey" (1934). Er starb jung an Kehlkopfkrebs, aber seine Werke beeinflussten das Genre.
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) est tour à tour éditeur, imprimeur, journaliste, et l’un des plus grands écrivains français. Il est l’auteur de La Comédie humaine, une œuvre immense qui comprend plus de 2000 personnages dans 91 ouvrages, dans laquelle il peint la société de son époque.
M. R. James
Montague Rhodes James was born in 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage, Kent, where his father was a curate, but the family moved soon afterwards to Great Livermere in Suffolk. James attended Eton College and later King's College Cambridge where he won many awards and scholarships. From 1894 to 1908 he was Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and from 1905 to 1918 was Provost of King's College. In 1913, he became Vice-Chancellor of the University for two years. In 1918 he was installed as Provost of Eton. A distinguished medievalist and scholar of international status, James published many works on biblical and historical antiquarian subjects. He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1930. His ghost story writing began almost as a divertissement from his academic work and as a form of entertainment for his colleagues. His first collection, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary was published in 1904. He never married and died in 1936.
Bret Harte
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.
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.
Henry Lawson
Jean-Marcel Morlat est né à Paris et réside au Québec. Angliciste et traducteur de formation, il enseigne le Français Langue Étrangère. Il a vécu dans divers pays (Angleterre,
Amérique du Nord, Japon, Turquie, Tanzanie et Émirats Arabes Unis), avant de s’installer au Canada en 2010.
L. Frank BAUM
Lyman Frank Baum (1856–1919) was an American children’s book author, best known for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and several other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings).
O. Henry
O. Henry (1862 - 1910) is the pen-name of William Sidney Porter, the American writer born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was known for a style of writing that featured surprise endings and showed the grim and often humorous effect of coincidence on the lives of his subjects. A keen observer of the lives of Americans from New York to Texas in the early 20th century, his works have been adapted many times for the stage and screen.
O. Henry (1862 - 1910) is the pen-name of William Sidney Porter, the American writer born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was known for a style of writing that featured surprise endings and showed the grim and often humorous effect of coincidence on the lives of his subjects. A keen observer of the lives of Americans from New York to Texas in the early 20th century, his works have been adapted many times for the stage and screen.
Sherwood ANDERSON
Sherwood Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio. Following a brief stint in the Spanish American War, he started a family and founded a business -- both of which he abruptly abandoned at the age of 36 to pursue his life-long dream of writing. His simple and direct writing style, with which he portrayed important moments in the lives of his characters, influenced both Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. His other notable works include Triumph of the Egg; Horses and Men; and A Story Teller's Story.
Sherwood Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio. Following a brief stint in the Spanish American War, he started a family and founded a business -- both of which he abruptly abandoned at the age of 36 to pursue his life-long dream of writing. His simple and direct writing style, with which he portrayed important moments in the lives of his characters, influenced both Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. His other notable works include Triumph of the Egg; Horses and Men; and A Story Teller's Story.
Robert Barr
Robert Barr had careers in civil and military flying. Militarily, he completed 309 combat missions in Vietnam, with awards of the DFC and fourteen Air Medals. As a civilian, he became the chief pilot for a Fortune 500 company and flew Dick Cheney to many international destinations while Cheney was a CEO.
Robert Barr had careers in civil and military flying. Militarily, he completed 309 combat missions in Vietnam, with awards of the DFC and fourteen Air Medals. As a civilian, he became the chief pilot for a Fortune 500 company and flew Dick Cheney to many international destinations while Cheney was a CEO.
Lafcadio HEARN
Lafcadio Hearn, 1850 als Sohn einer Griechin und eines Iren auf Lefkas geboren, wuchs bei Verwandten in England auf, ehe er als junger Mann mittellos nach Amerika geschickt wurde. Er lebte als Journalist und Autor in Cincinnati und New Orleans, später in New York, dazwischen länger auf den französischen Antillen. 1890 wurde er als Korrespondent nach Japan entsandt. Er heiratete eine Japanerin, nahm die japanische Staatsbürgerschaft an und arbeitete zunächst als Lehrer, später als Professor für englische Literatur in Tokio, wo er 1904 starb.
Giovanni Verga
Giovanni Vergan on yksi 1800-luvun merkittävimmistä italialaisista kirjailijoista ja häntä pidetään italialaisen verismin isänä. Vergan teokset tarjoavat kiehtovan matkan Sisilian köyhälistön elämään, joissa hän kuvaa realistisesti ja tunteikkaasti oman aikansa yhteiskuntaa.
Giovanni Vergan tuotantoa on toistaiseksi suomennettu vähän. Vergan pääteoksena pidetty romaania Malavoglian suku suomennettiin v. 1953. Sen lisäksi, Impromptu Kustannus suomensi v. 2019 Vergan novellikokoelman Cavalleria rusticana ja muita sisilialaisnovelleja.
Émile Zola
Émile Zola est un écrivain et journaliste français né le 2 avril 1840 à Paris et mort le 29 septembre 1902 dans la même ville. Considéré comme le chef de file du naturalisme, c'est l'un des romanciers français les plus populaires et l'un des plus publiés, traduits et commentés dans le monde entier.
Émile Zola est un écrivain et journaliste français né le 2 avril 1840 à Paris et mort le 29 septembre 1902 dans la même ville. Considéré comme le chef de file du naturalisme, c'est l'un des romanciers français les plus populaires et l'un des plus publiés, traduits et commentés dans le monde entier.
Willa Cather
Born in 1873, Willa Cather was raised in Virginia and Nebraska. After graduating from the University of Nebraska she established herself as a theatre critic, journalist and teacher in Pittsburgh whilst also writing short stories and poems. She then moved to New York where she took a job as an investigative journalist before becoming a full-time writer. Cather enjoyed great literary success and won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel One of Ours. She’s now best known for her Prairie trilogy: O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia. She travelled extensively and died in New York in 1947.
Robert W. Chambers
Robert W. Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933) was a prolific American artist and author, best known for his influential collection of weird fiction stories, The King in Yellow (1895). While he achieved immense popularity during his lifetime for his romantic and historical novels, his reputation today rests largely on his early contributions to the horror and fantasy genres.
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson (* 8. Dezember 1832 in Kvikne (fylke Hedmark); Gestorben 26. April 1910 in Paris) war ein norwegischer Dichter, Literaturnobelpreisträger und Politiker. Bjørnson verfasste unter anderem die norwegische Nationalhymne Ja, vi elsker dette landet und war der Begründer des Riksmålsforbundet. Der Dichter
Bjørnson wurde auf dem Hof Bjørgan nahe Kvikne geboren, einem abgelegenen Dorf in der Landschaft Østerdalen, wo sein Vater Peder Bjørnson als Pfarrer tätig war. 1837 wurde der Vater in die Pfarrei Nesset versetzt, unweit von Molde in der Provinz Møre og Romsdal.
Bjørnson besuchte die Schule in Molde und 1850 bis 1852 ein privates Gymnasium in Christiania (heute Oslo). Nachdem er sein Studium abgebrochen hatte, arbeitete er einige Zeit als Journalist. In dieser Zeit lernte er auch Henrik Ibsen kennen.
Haupthaus in Aulestad
Zwischen 1857 und 1859 wirkte er als Leiter des Theaters in Bergen. 1859 trat er in die Redaktion von Aftenbladet ein. Aber wegen des Widerstandes in der öffentlichen Meinung musste er die Redaktion wieder verlassen. Ein Jahr später bereiste er für drei Jahre Deutschland und Italien. Nach seiner Rückkehr 1865 bekam er eine Anstellung am königlichen Theater in Christiania. Dieses Amt bekleidete er bis 1867 und später nochmals zwei Jahre, zwischen 1870 und 1872. Danach lebte er bis 1875 wieder in Deutschland und Italien. Vor seiner Abreise erwarb er 1874 das Anwesen Aulestad. Dieser Landsitz entwickelte sich mit der Zeit zu einem geistigen Zentrum Norwegens.
Von 1880 bis 1881 bereiste Bjørnson die USA. Nach seiner Rückkehr 1882 lebte er bis 1887 in Paris. Auch als er sich auf sein Gut zurückzog, blieb er das geistige Zentrum Norwegens. Beeinflusst durch die französischen Realisten, aber auch durch Georg Brandes, fand Bjørnson seinen Realismus und wurde zum Erneuerer der norwegischen Literatur.
1903 erhielt Bjørnson als erster Skandinavier den Nobelpreis für Literatur "als ein Beweis der Anerkennung für seine edle, großartige und vielseitige Wirksamkeit als Dichter, die immer durch einmalige Frische der Eingebung und durch eine seltene Seelenreinheit ausgezeichnet war"
Lord Dunsany
Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, the 18th Baron of Dunsany, was one of the foremost fantasy writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lord Dunsany, and particularly his Book of Wonder, is widely recognized as a major influence on many of the best known fantasy writers, including J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, and C.S. Lewis. Holding one of the oldest titles in the Irish peerage, Lord Dunsany lived much of his life at Dunsany Castle, one of Ireland’s longest-inhabited homes. He died in 1957, leaving an indelible mark on modern fantasy writing.
Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, the 18th Baron of Dunsany, was one of the foremost fantasy writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lord Dunsany, and particularly his Book of Wonder, is widely recognized as a major influence on many of the best known fantasy writers, including J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, and C.S. Lewis. Holding one of the oldest titles in the Irish peerage, Lord Dunsany lived much of his life at Dunsany Castle, one of Ireland’s longest-inhabited homes. He died in 1957, leaving an indelible mark on modern fantasy writing.
George Gissing
George Gissing nació en Wakefield en 1857, hijo de un farmacéutico. Huérfano de padre a los trece años, y pese a los apuros económicos de la familia, consiguió acceder al Owens College de Manchester. Truncó, sin embargo, una prometedora carrera aca-démica cuando en 1876 fue despedido por haber robado dinero para ayudar a empezar una nueva vida a una prostituta con la que emigró a Estados Unidos y con la que aca-baría casándose. Un año después volvería a Inglaterra, donde trabajaría como tutor. Sus comienzos en la literatura fueron muy duros y publicó una serie de novelas sin éxito: workers in the Dawn (1880), The Unclassed (1884), Demos (1886), y The Nether World (1889). Gissing recoge la tradición de las condition of England novels (Gaskell, Di-ckens), de contenido social y propósito reformista, aunque sin sentimentalismos ni concesiones, y en algún sentido se ha dicho de él que es el Zola inglés. Con New Grub Street (1891), la más famosa de sus obras, una negra visión de la bohemia londinense, obtuvo finalmente reconocimiento y prestigio. A ella siguieron, entre otras, Denzil Quarrier (1892), Born in Exile (1892), Mujeres sin pareja (1893), sobre la cuestión del feminismo, In the year of jubilee (1894) y The Crown of Life (1899). Gissing murió en San Juan de Luz en 1903.
Théophile Gautier
(1811-1872). Théophile Gautier débute dans la peinture, puis se fait poète par admiration pour Victor Hugo. Parti du romantisme flamboyant, il va devenir l'un des chefs de file de la jeune poésie parnassienne des années 1860. Poète, romancier, journaliste, grand voyageur à la curiosité insatiable, il a marqué la vie littéraire de son temps.
(1811-1872). Théophile Gautier débute dans la peinture, puis se fait poète par admiration pour Victor Hugo. Parti du romantisme flamboyant, il va devenir l'un des chefs de file de la jeune poésie parnassienne des années 1860. Poète, romancier, journaliste, grand voyageur à la curiosité insatiable, il a marqué la vie littéraire de son temps.
Paul Heyse
Paul Heyse (1830-1914) ist ein Mitglied der Riege deutscher Literaturnobelpreisträger. Er bekam den Preis 1910 als erster deutscher Dichter überhaupt verliehen – Mommsen (1902) war Historiker. Theodor Fontane glaubte 1890, dass Heyse seiner Epoche »den Namen geben« und ein »Heysesches Zeitalter« dem Goetheschen folgen werde. Heyse war Schriftsteller, Dramatiker und Übersetzer. Er pflegte zahlreiche Freundschaften und war auch als Gastgeber berühmt. Viele seiner Novellen siedelte Heyse in seiner Wahlheimat Italien an.
Selma Lagerlöf
Die schwedische Schriftstellerin Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) verfasste zahlreiche Romane und Erzählungen, darunter Gösta Berling und Nils Holgerssons wunderbare Reise zu den Wildgänsen. Als erste Frau erhielt sie 1909 den Nobelpreis für Literatur.
Thomas Burke
THOMAS BURKE (1886 1945) was a British author. He was born in Eltham, London (back then still part of Kent). His first successful publication was Limehouse Nights (1916), a collection of stories centred on life in the poverty-stricken Limehouse district of London. Many of Burke's books feature the Chinese character Quong Lee as narrator.
Edith Nesbit
Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later connected to the Labour Party.Edith Nesbit was born in Kennington, Surrey, the daughter of agricultural chemist and schoolmaster John Collis Nesbit. The death of her father when she was four and the continuing ill health of her sister meant that Nesbit had a transitory childhood, her family moving across Europe in search of healthy climates only to return to England for financial reasons. Nesbit therefore spent her childhood attaining an education from whatever sources were available - local grammars, the occasional boarding school but mainly through reading.
Arthur Morrison
Arthur Morrison (1863–1945) was an English novelist and journalist best known for his depictions of the British working class in the slums of London’s East End. After working his way up from clerk to contributor, his first serious journalism appeared in the Globe. Hewitt’s popular detective stories featuring private investigator Martin Hewitt are considered the most successful of the numerous rivals to Arthur Conan Doyle’s tales of Sherlock Holmes.
Stacy Aumonier
Stacy Aumonier (31 March 1877 – 21 December 1928 ) was a British author and stage performer, known best for his short stories.
John Galsworthy
Né en 1867, avocat de profession,
John Galsworthy se fait connaître en littérature avec
Les Pharisiens de l'île (1904), une satire des classes possédantes qui caractérise également son chef-d'oeuvre,
La Dynastie des Forsyte, publié de 1906 à 1928. Défini par son ami Joseph Conrad comme un " moraliste humanitaire ", il meurt en 1933 à Hampstead, un an après avoir reçu le prix Nobel de Littérature.
Ernest Bramah
ERNEST BRAMAH (Londres, 1868-1942), autor de gran éxito en su época, legó a la literatura, junto con Max Carrados, otro personaje inmortal: el narrador chino Kai Lung, protagonista de una larga serie de historias. Además, su obra de ciencia ficción What Might Have Been influyó decisivamente a George Orwell en la composición de su mítica 1984.
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