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.
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.
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), fue un reconocido y prolífico escritor francés, autor de la extensa y valiosa Comedia Humana que empezó a escribir en 1829, cuando tenía treinta años
Esta obra monumental consta de noventa y siete novelas concebidas en tres grandes partes: Estudios de costumbres, Estudios de filosofía y Estudios Analíticos. En ellas se insertan Eugenia Grandet, Papa Goriot, La piel del onagro, Ilusiones perdidas. La prima Bette y El primo Pons, algunas de sus creaciones más conocidas.
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), a major Italian poet of the late Middle Ages, has been called the father of the Italian language. His classic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is widely considered to be the greatest literary work ever composed in Italian, and his writing has inspired a wide range of artists including sculptor Auguste Rodin, composer Franz Liszt, and numerous authors, such as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton, and T.S. Eliot.
Título : 30 Masterpieces you have to read in your life Vol : 1 (A to Z Classics)
EAN : 9788827522905
Editorial : A to Z Classics
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