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.
Honoré de Balzac est un écrivain français du XIXème siècle. Auteur de la Comédie Humaine, Balzac est considéré comme l’un des plus grands romanciers de son siècle. Il a abordé plusieurs genres littéraires, du roman philosophique au roman fantastique.
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.
Romancier, dramaturge et surtout nouvelliste, Sherwood Anderson est né en 1876 et mort en 1941 aux États-Unis. Ses nombreuses nouvelles mettent en scène la vie des petites gens dans l'Amérique et à travers le monde de la première moitié du XXe siècle. L'auteur y pose un regard critique sur les tabous et les mythes de la société américaine puritaine. Sherwood Anderson a influencé l'œuvre de grands romanciers américains comme Hemingway, Faulkner ou Steinbeck.
Lord Dunsany (1878-1957)
Born in London of an Anglo-Irish family that could trace its roots back to the twelfth century, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, was a globetrotter, sportsman, hunter, poet, playwright and chessplayer. He wrote The Gods of Pegana in 1904, which became an unexpected succès d'estime and was followed by several collections which have been an inspiration for modern fantasy writers.
(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.
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Título : Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 2
EAN : 9783968587172
Editorial : Tacet Books
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