Sunday, November 29, 2009

Andrea Oreilly

Andrea Oreilly (1961-now)

Andrea O'Reilly Ph.D. (born 1961) is a writer on women's issues and currently an Associate Professor in the School of Women's Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is the author and editor of several books on motherhood. O'Reilly is also the founder and director of the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM). She is founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering.



[Alvira]

Friday, November 27, 2009

William Lee Bradley

William Lee Bradley

The Reverend Doctor William Lee Bradley (September 6, 1918-April 29, 2007, born in Oakland, California), was a scholar of comparative religion, ethics, and theology, as well as a philanthropist.



[Junior Achievement]


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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Arthur B Reeve

Arthur B Reeve

Arthur B Reeve

Arthur Benjamin Reeve (October 15, 1880 - August 9, 1936) was an American mystery writer. He is best known for creating the series character Professor Craig Kennedy, sometimes called "The American Sherlock Holmes," and his Dr Watson-like sidekick Walter Jameson, a newspaper reporter, in eighteen detective novels. The bulk of Reeve's fame is based on the 82 Craig Kennedy stories, published in Cosmopolitan magazine between 1910 and 1918. These were collected in book form; with the third collection, the short stories were stitched together into pseudo-novels. The 12-volume Craig Kennedy Stories came out in 1918; it reissued Reeve's books-to-date as a matched set. Starting with The Exploits of Elaine (1914), Reeve began authoring screenplays. His film career reached its peak in 1919-20, when his name appeared on seven films, most of them serials, three of them starring Harry Houdini. After thatprobably because of the migration to Hollywood of the film industry, and Reeve's desire to remain in the eastReeve worked more sporadically in film. His career is marked by fiction originally published in newspapers, and a variety of magazines including Country Gentleman, Boys' Life, and Everybody's. Eventually, he was found only in pulps like Detective Story Magazine and Detective Fiction Weekly. In 1927, Reeve entered into a contract (with John S. Lopez) to write a series of film scenarios for notorious millionaire-murderer, Harry K. Thaw, on the subject of fake spiritualists. The deal resulted in a lawsuit when Thaw refused to pay. In late 1928, Reeve declared bankruptcy. In the 1930s, Reeve rejuvenated his career by becoming an anti-rackets crusader. He had a national radio show from July 1930 to March 1931; he published a history of the rackets titled The Golden Age of Crime; and the focus of his Craig Kennedy stories completed the transition from "scientific detective" work to a racket-busting milieu. During his career, Reeve covered many celebrated crime cases for various newspapers, including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, and the trial of Lindbergh baby kidnapper, Bruno Hauptmann. He graduated from Princeton and attended New York Law School. He worked as an editor and journalist before Craig Kennedy propelled him to national fame in 1911. Raised in Brooklyn, he lived most of his professional life at various addresses near the Long Island Sound. In 1932, he moved to Trenton to be nearer his alma mater, Princeton. The most complete biographical and bibliographical information on Reeve is available in the books From Ghouls to Gangsters: The Career of Arthur B. Reeve: Volume 1



[Constance Dunlap | Guy Garrick | The Ear In The Wall | The Exploits Of Elaine | The Film Mystery | The Gold Of The Gods | The Master Mystery | The Romance Of Elaine | The Campaign Grafter | The Dream Doctor | The Invisible Ray | The Mystery Mind | The Panama Plot | The Problem Of The Steel Door | The Silent Bullet | The Treasure Train | The War Terror | The White Slave]


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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Pauline Johnson

Pauline Johnson (1861-1913)

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Emily Pauline Johnson (10 March 1861 - 7 March 1913), commonly known as E. Pauline Johnson or just Pauline Johnson, was a Canadian writer and performer popular in the late 19th century. Johnson was notable for her poems and performances that celebrated her First Nations heritage; she also had half English ancestry. One such poem is the frequently anthologized "The Song My Paddle Sings". Her poetry was published in Canada, the United States and Great Britain. Johnson was one of a generation of widely read writers who began to define a Canadian literature.



[Flint And Feather | Legends Of Vancouver | The Moccasin Maker | The Shagganappi]

Abel J Jones

Abel J Jones

Abel John Jones (26 May 1878 - 8 May 1949), was a Welsh writer.


B Jones's Books:


[The Peanut Plant]

Monday, November 23, 2009

Anonymous Boy

Anonymous Boy


[Persian Literature Volume 1 Comprising The Shah Nameh The Rubaiyat The Divan And The Gulistan]


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Chancellor Olcott

Chancellor Olcott (1858-1932)

Chancellor "Chauncey" Olcott (July 21, 1858 March 18, 1932) was an American stage actor, songwriter and singer. Born in Buffalo, New York, in the early years of his career Olcott sang in minstrel shows and Lillian Russell played a major role in helping make him a Broadway star. Amongst his songwriting accomplishments, Olcott wrote and composed the song "My Wild Irish Rose" for his production of A Romance of Athlone in 1899. Olcott also wrote the lyrics to "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" for his production of The Isle O' Dreams in 1912. He retired to Monte Carlo and died there in 1932. His body was brought home and interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx. His life story was told in the 1947 Warner Bros. motion picture My Wild Irish Rose starring Dennis Morgan as Olcott. In 1970, Olcott was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.


H Olcott's Books:


[The Buddhist Catechism | The Life Of Buddha And Its Lessons]


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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Ethel Lilian Voynich

Ethel Lilian Voynich (1864-1960)

Ethel Lilian Voynich (1864-1960)

Ethel Lilian Voynich, ne Boole (May 11, 1864July 27, 1960) was an English novelist and musician, and a supporter of several revolutionary causes. Her father was the famous mathematician George Boole. Her mother was feminist philosopher Mary Everest, niece of George Everest and an author for the early-20th-century periodical Crank. In 1893 she married Wilfrid Michael Voynich, revolutionary, antiquarian and bibliophile, the eponym of the Voynich manuscript.



[The Gadfly]


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Friday, November 20, 2009

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)

Luigi Pirandello (28 June 1867 - 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934, for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage. " Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Typical for Pirandello is to show how art or illusion mixes with reality and how people see things in a very different way words are unreliable and reality is at the same time true and false. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners for Theatre of the Absurd. "A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! And to be able to live for ever you don't need to have extraordinary gifts or be able to do miracles. Who was Sancho Panza Who was Prospero But they will live for ever because living seeds they had the luck to find a fruitful soil, an imagination which knew how to grow them and feed them, so that they will live for ever. " (from Six Characters in Search of an Author, 1921)



[Feu Mathias Pascal | Henri Iv | Six Personnages En Quete Dauteur]


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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Dhan Gopal Mukerji

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Dhan Gopal Mukerji (July 6, 1890 -July 14, 1936) was the first successful Indian man of letters in the United States and winner of Newbery Medal 1928. He studied at Duff School (now known as Scottish Church Collegiate School, a constituent unit of Scottish Church College, Calcutta), the University of Calcutta, in India, Tokyo University in Japan and at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University in the U.S.



[Kari The Elephant | Sandhya]

Eliza Lee Follen

Eliza Lee Follen

Eliza (Buckminster) Lee (1792-1864) was an American author, the daughter of Joseph Buckminster. She was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; was well educated by her father and brother, Joseph Stevens Buckminster; married a Thomas Lee of Boston; became a writer; and was unusually felicitous in her descriptions of New England life. She wrote, notably: Sketches of New England Life (1837); Naomi, or Boston Two Hundred Years Ago (1848); and memoirs of her father and brother (1849). She translated from the German, wrote a life of Richter (1842), and published an historical novel, Parthenia, the Last Days of Paganism (1858).



[Hymns Songs And Fables For Young People | Little Songs | Piccolissima | The Pedler Of Dust Sticks | The Talkative Wig | Travellers Stories | True Stories About Dogs And Cats | Two Festivals | What The Animals Do And Say | Who Spoke Next]

Monday, November 16, 2009

Edward Plunkett 18th Baron Of Dunsany

Edward Plunkett 18th Baron Of Dunsany (1878-1957)

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 - 25 October 1957) was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays. Born to one of the oldest titles in the Irish peerage, Dunsany lived much of his life at perhaps Ireland's longest-inhabited home, Dunsany Castle near Tara, worked with W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, was chess and pistol-shooting champion of Ireland, and travelled and hunted extensively. He died in Dublin after an attack of appendicitis.



[If]


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Charles Williams

Charles Williams (1909-1975)

Charles Williams (August 13, 1909 - ca. April 7, 1975) was an American writer of hardboiled crime fiction. He is regarded by critics as one of the finest suspense novelists of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1951 debut, the pulp paperback novel Hill Girl, sold over a million copies. A dozen of his books have been adapted for the screen, most popularly Dead Calm.



[Descent Into Hell | Many Dimensions | The Place Of The Lion | Nothing In Her Way | River Girl]


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Sunday, November 15, 2009

Frank Harris Patterson

Frank Harris Patterson

Frank Harris Patterson (1890 - 1976) was a Nova Scotian lawyer, jurist and historian. Born in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, Patterson was called to the Bar of Nova Scotia in 1916. In 1958 he was appointed to the Supreme Court bench, retiring in 1965. A well-known Nova Scotia historian, Patterson wrote many books and articles, including A History of Tatamagouche and Acadian Tatamagouche and Fort Franklin. He lived most of his life in Truro, Nova Scotia, and died there in 1976.



[A Modern Idyll | Eatin Crow And The Best Man In Garotte | Elder Conklin | Gulmore The Boss | Montes The Matador | Oscar Wilde Volume 1 | Oscar Wilde Volume 2 | The Bomb | Elder Conklin And Other Stories | Magic Glasses | Oscar Wilde His Life And Confessions | The Man Shakespeare | The Sheriff And His Partner]


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Saturday, November 14, 2009

William Combe

William Combe

William Combe (1741 19 June 1823) was a British miscellaneous writer. His early life was that of an adventurer, his later was passed chiefly within the "rules" of the King's Bench Prison. He is chiefly remembered as the author of The Three Tours of Dr. Syntax, a comic poem. His cleverest piece of work was a series of imaginary letters, supposed to have been written by the second, or "wicked" Lord Lyttelton. Of a similar kind were his letters between Swift and "Stella". He also wrote the letterpress for various illustrated books, and was a general hack.



[An Heroic Epistle To The Right Honourable The Lord Craven | The First Of April]

Charles Goddard

Charles Goddard

Charles William Goddard (November 26, 1879 January 11, 1951) was a playwright and screenwriter. Goddard began writing Broadway plays before turning to film, adapting a number of his stage works to film. He wrote the script for the Path Freres film The Exploits of Elaine, which has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Today he is interred in Evergreen Cemetery in Portland, Maine. He was born in Portland, Maine and died in Miami, Florida.



[The Perils Of Pauline | The Ghost Breaker]

Friday, November 13, 2009

Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch (1856-1940)

Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch (1856-1940)

Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch (January 20, 1856 November 20, 1940) was an American writer and suffragist and the daughter of pioneering women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.



[Mobilizing Woman Power]


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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Leopoldo Alas

Leopoldo Alas (1852-1901)

Leopoldo Alas (1852-1901) title=

Leopoldo Garca-Alas y Urea (25 April 1852 13 June 1901), also known as Clarn, was a Spanish realist novelist born in Zamora. He died in Oviedo. Alas spent his childhood living in Len and Guadalajara, until he moved to Oviedo in 1865. There he studied Bachillerato (high school) and began his law studies. He lived in Madrid from 1871 to 1878, where he began his career as a journalist (adopting the pen-name "Clarn" in 1875) and he graduated with the thesis El Derecho y la Moralidad (Law and Morality) in 1878. He taught in Zaragoza from 1882 to 1883. In 1883 he returned to Oviedo to take up a position as professor of Roman law. Above all, Clarn is the author of La Regenta, his masterpiece and one of the best novels of the 19th century. It is a long work, similar to Flaubert's Madame Bovary, one of its influences. Other influences included Naturalism and Kraussism, a philosophical current which promoted the cultural and ethical regeneration of Spain. La Regenta is special for its great wealth of characters and secondary stories, while the main character's description is left slightly unfocused and vague. On the other hand, the downfall of the provincial lady has place amidst two very diverse suitors: the most handsome man in the city and the cathedral's priest. The depiction of this priest is a key part of the book. For the description of the provincial atmosphere and the city's collective life, Clarn used techniques such as the internal monologue or the free indirect style, which makes the story be narrated by the characters themselves and allows the reader to penetrate in their intimacy. In 1890, he published a new novel, Su nico hijo. Even though most critics consider it as a lesser novel in comparison with La Regenta, it is equal to the former in the skill with which the technical resources are used. Su nico hijo was originally meant to be the introduction to a trilogy, but aside from an outline and a few fragments of the two sequels, Su nico hijo was Clarn's last full-length novel. Apart from these works, Clarn is also the author of magnificent stories and of a large number of journalistic articles. He also wrote an essay, "La Literatura en 1881" (1882), in collaboration with Armando Palacio Valdes. Leopoldo Alas remains a rather enigmatic figure in the Spanish literary world, leaving a legacy that encouraged the search for God and humanism simultaneously. This aberrant confluence has facilitated the presence of various interpretations regarding the author's writings, most noticeably of his masterpiece, La Regenta.



[Dona Berta | La Regenta]

Frank Allen

Frank Allen

Frank Allen is a Dublin born playwright, screenwriter, director and teacher. His latest work, Twelve Days in May was shown at the Liberty Hall Dublin during November 2009. The play is about the last twelve days of James Connolly. Allen has completed a screenplay for a movie about the life of James Connolly with film producer Tom Stokes.



[Autobiography Of Frank G Allen Minister Of The Gospel]


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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Sonya Dorman

Sonya Dorman

Sonya Dorman (1924 - February 14, 2005) was the working name of Sonya Dorman Hess. She was born in New York City in 1924 and died in Taos, New Mexico on February 14, 2005 at the age of 80. She is perhaps best known outside of the world of science fiction as a poet. One of her poems, however, Corruption of Metals, received honors within science fiction circles by winning the Rhysling Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Her best-known work of science fiction is the story "When I Was Miss Dow", which has been reprinted numerous times and received a James Tiptree, Jr. retrospective award nomination. She also appeared in Harlan Ellison's anthology Dangerous Visions, with the story "Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird."



[The Putnam Tradition]


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David Hume Of Godscroft

David Hume Of Godscroft

David Hume (or Home) (15581629) was a Scottish historian and political theorist, poet and controversialist, a major intellectual figure in Jacobean Scotland. He also spent a decade as pastor of a Protestant congregation in France.



[An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | An Enquiry Concerning The Principles Of Morals | Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | A Treatise Of Human Nature V1 | A Treatise Of Human Nature | Essays On Suicide And The Immortality Of The Soul | Idea Of A Perfect Commonwealth | Of Civil Liberty | Of Parties In General | Of The Dignity Or Meanness Of Human Nature | Of The Independency Of Parliament | Of The Liberty Of The Press | Of The Origin Of Government | Of The Original Contract | Of The Parties Of Great Britain | The History Of England In Three Volumes Vol I Part A | The History Of England In Three Volumes Vol I Part B | The History Of England In Three Volumes Vol I Part C | The History Of England In Three Volumes Vol I Part D | The History Of England In Three Volumes Vol I Part E | The History Of England In Three Volumes Vol I Part F | The History Of England Volume I | The Natural History Of Religion | Whether The British Government Inclines More To Absolute Monarchy Or To A Republic]


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Monday, November 9, 2009

William Cotton

William Cotton

William Henry 'Will' Cotton (July 22, 1880 January 5, 1958) was an American portrait painter, caricaturist, and playwright. Cotton was born in Newport, Rhode Island in 1880. He studied painting with Joseph DeCamp and Andreas Anderson at the Cowles Art School in Boston, and then at the Acadmie Julian in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens. He was a founder of the National Association of Portrait Painters and a member of the Newport Art Association.



[Everybody Guide To Money Matters]


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Christopher Hare

Christopher Hare

Christopher Harvie (born September 21, 1944, Motherwell) is a Scottish historian and a Scottish National Party politician. He is currently a Member of the Scottish Parliament for Mid Scotland and Fife. Before his election, he was Professor of British and Irish Studies at the University of Tbingen, Germany. Harvie grew up in the Borders village of St Boswells and was educated at Kelso High School and the Royal High School. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1966 with a First Class Honours M.A. in History. He received his PhD from Edinburgh in 1972 for a thesis on university liberalism and democracy, 1860-1886. As a historian, Harvie was the Shaw-Macfie Lang Fellow and a tutor at Edinburgh University 1966-1969. He joined the Open University in 1969 as a history lecturer, and from 1978 he was a senior lecturer in history. In 1980, Harvie was appointed Professor of British and Irish Studies at the University of Tbingen. He is the author of several books on topics including Scottish history, nationalism, North Sea oil, the British political novel and European regionalisation. Harvie was formerly a member of the Labour Party. He co-wrote a pamphlet in favour of the Scottish Assembly along with Gordon Brown in 1979, and co-edited a history of Labour politics in Scotland. In 1988 he left the Labour Party for the SNP. He is Honorary President of the Scottish Association for Public Transport and holds honorary chairs at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and the University of Strathclyde. He also writes for Guardian Unlimited's online 'comment is free' site, and he is a contributor to the Scottish Review of Books. He was elected during the 2007 election for the Mid Scotland and Fife region. He serves on the Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee. http://www. scottish. parliament. uk/s3/committees/eet/index. htm Harvie won the Free Spirit of the Year award at The Herald (Glasgow) newspaper's 2008 Scottish Politician of the Year awards. Chris Harvie has announced he plans to retire as an MSP at the 2011 election.



[Bayard The Good Knight Without Fear And Without Reproach]


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Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)

Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 1759 - 9 May 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (17881805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works he left as sketches. This relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. They also worked together on Die Xenien, a collection of short satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe challenge opponents to their philosophical vision.



[Wilhelm Tell | Demetrius | Der Parasit Oder Die Kunst Sein Glueck Zu Machen | Die Braut Von Messina | Die Huldigung Der Knste | Die Jungfrau Von Orleans | Don Carlos | Einige Gedichte | Love And Intrigue | Maid Of Orleans | Poems First Period | Poems Second Period | Poems Supressed Poems | Poems Third Period | Schiller Philosophical Letters | The Bride Of Messina | The Death Of Wallenstein | The Ghost Seer Or The Apparitionist | The Piccolomini | The Revolt Of The Netherlands Book 1 | The Revolt Of The Netherlands Book 2 | The Revolt Of The Netherlands Book 3 | The Revolt Of The Netherlands Book 4]

Saturday, November 7, 2009

David James Davies

David James Davies (1893-1956)

Dr. D.J. (David James) Davies (2 June 1893 - 11 October 1956), was a Welsh economist, industrialist, prize winning essayist, author, political activist, pilot, and an internationalist. Davies was a world traveller before returning home to Wales. Initially a founding member of the Welsh Labour Party in the Ammanford district, in 1925 he left Labour becoming a founding member of Plaid Cymru, the nationalist party of Wales. According to historian Professor John Davies, it was D.J. Davies' ideas which were more influential in shaping long-term Plaid Cymru ideology following the Second World War, and Davies was as "equally [a a] significant figure" as Saunders Lewis in Welsh nationalism history, but it was Lewis' "brilliance and charismatic appeal" which was firmly associated with Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru of the 1930s.



[Rubber Buggy Bump Off]

Eliza Haywood

Eliza Haywood

Eliza Haywood title=

Eliza Haywood (1693 25 February 1756), born Elizabeth Fowler, was an English writer, actress and publisher. Since the 1980s, Eliza Haywoods literary works have been gaining in recognition and interest. Described as prolific even by the standards of a prolific age (Blouch, intro 7), Haywood wrote and published over seventy works during her lifetime including fiction, drama, translations, poetry, conduct literature and periodicals. Haywood is a significant figure of the 18th century as one of the important founders of the novel in English. Today she is studied primarily as a novelist.



[Fantomina | Life Progress Through The Passions | The Fatal Secret | The Fortunate Foundlings]


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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Frederico De Roberto

Frederico De Roberto

Federico De Roberto (January 16, 1861 Naples July 26, 1927 Catania) was an Italian writer, who became well-known for his novel I Vicer (1894). He began his writing career as a journalist for national newspapers, where he met Giovanni Verga and Luigi Capuana, the most prominent writers of the Verismo style. Verga introduced him into the literary circles of Milan. De Roberto authored two books of short stories: La Sorte (1887), Documenti umani (1888). His first novel, Ermanno Raeli, (1889) is largely autobiographical; deeper in psychological analysis is the second, L'illusione (1891). In 1894 his novel I Vicer was published. It was the result of years of hard work, but obtained little success upon its release. Disillusionment and nervous disorders induced De Roberto to resume journalistic work: he became a writer for the Corriere della Sera and the Giornale d'Italia. Only later, after some experience as an playwright, he returned to the novel, with L'Impero, sequel to I Vicer (19081913, unfinished).



[La Messa Di Nozze Un Sogno La Bella Morte]

Monday, November 2, 2009

Jean De La Fontaine

Jean De La Fontaine (1621-1695)

Jean de La Fontaine (July 8, 1621, Chteau-Thierry April 13, 1695) was the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. According to Flaubert, he was the only French poet to understand and master the texture of the French language before Hugo. A set of postage stamps celebrating La Fontaine and the Fables was issued by France in 1995. A film of his life was released in France in April 2007 (Jean de La Fontaine - le dfi starring Laurent Deutsch).



[Fables Livre I | Fables Livre Ii]


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Alexandre Dumas Pre

Alexandre Dumas Pre (1802-1870)

Alexandre Dumas Pre (1802-1870) title=

Alexandre Dumas, pre, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (24 July 1802 5 December 1870) was a French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were originally serialized. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent.



[Acte | Ali Pacha | Ange Pitou Tome I Les Memoires Dun Medecin | Ange Pitou Tome Ii Les Memoires Dun Medecin | Aventures De Lyderic | Catherine Blum | Countess De Saint Geran | Derues | Divers Contes | Fernande | Georges | Histoire Dun Casse Noisette | Joan Of Naples | Joseph Balsamo Tome I Les Memoires Dun Medecin | Joseph Balsamo Tome Ii Les Memoires Dun Medecin | Joseph Balsamo Tome Iii Les Memoires Dun Medecin | Joseph Balsamo Tome Iv Les Memoires Dun Medecin | Karl Ludwig Sand | La Comtesse De Charny Tome I Les Memoires Dun Medecin | La Comtesse De Charny Tome Ii Les Memoires Dun Medecin | La Comtesse De Charny Tome Iii Les Memoires Dun Medecin | La Comtesse De Charny Tome Iv Les Memoires Dun Medecin | La Comtesse De Charny Tome V Les Memoires Dun Medecin | La Constantin | La Dame De Monsoreau Tome I | La Dame De Monsoreau Tome Ii | La Dame De Monsoreau Tome Iii | La Derniere Annee De Marie Dorval | La Femme Au Collier De Velours | La Jeunesse De Pierrot | La Princesse Flora | La Reine Margot | La San Felice Tome I | La San Felice Tome Ii | La San Felice Tome Iii | La San Felice Tome Iv | La San Felice Tome V | La Tulipe Noire | Le Capitaine Pamphile | Le Capitaine Paul | Le Chevalier De Maison Rouge | Le Chevalier Dharmental | Le Collier De La Reine Tome I Les Memoires Dun Medecin | Le Collier De La Reine Tome Ii Les Memoires Dun Medecin | Le Comte De Monte Cristo Tome I | Le Comte De Monte Cristo Tome Ii | Le Comte De Monte Cristo Tome Iii | Le Comte De Monte Cristo Tome Iv | Le Fils Du Forcat | Le Maitre Darmes | Le Meneur De Loups | Le Vicomte De Bragelonne Tome I | Le Vicomte De Bragelonne Tome Ii | Le Vicomte De Bragelonne Tome Iii | Le Vicomte De Bragelonne Tome Iv | Les Aventures De John Davys | Les Blancs Et Les Bleus Tome I | Les Blancs Et Les Bleus Tome Ii | Les Compagnons De Jehu | Les Freres Corses | Les Louves De Machecoul Tome I | Les Louves De Machecoul Tome Ii | Les Quarante Cinq Tome I | Les Quarante Cinq Tome Ii | Les Quarante Cinq Tome Iii | Les Trois Mousquetaires | Louise De La Valliere | Marquise Brinvillier | Martin Guerre | Murat | Nisida | Othon Larcher | Robin Hood Le Prince Des Voleurs Tome I | Robin Hood Le Proscrit Tome Ii | Ten Years Later | The Black Tulip | The Borgias | The Cenci | The Count Of Monte Cristo | The Man In The Iron Mask | The Marquise De Ganges | The Three Musketeers | The Vicomte Of Bragelonne | Twenty Years After | Une Fille Du Regent | Urbain Grandier | Vaninka | Vingt Ans Apres | Act | Amaury | Bric A Brac | Chicot The Jester | Cration Et Rdemption | Henri Iii Et Sa Cour | La Dame De Monsoreau Vol 1 | La Dame De Monsoreau Vol 2 | La Dame De Monsoreau Vol 3 | La Reine Margot Tome I | La Reine Margot Tome Ii | La San Felice Tome 8 | La San Felice Tome Vi | La San Felice | Le Capitaine Arena Vol 1 | Le Capitaine Arena Vol 2 | Le Collier De La Reine Tome I | Le Collier De La Reine Tome Ii | Le Corricolo | Le Speronare | Les Compagnons De Jhu | Les Femmes Qui Tuent Et Les Femmes Qui Votent | Les Mille Et Un Fantomes | Les Quarante Cinq Vol 1 | Les Quarante Cinq Vol 2 | Les Quarante Cinq Vol 3 | Man In The Iron Mask essay | Marguerite De Valois | Marquise De Ganges | Mary Stuart | Massacres Of The South | The Companions Of Jehu | The Complete Celebrated Crimes | The Conspirators | The Corsican Brothers | The Forty Five Guardsmen | The Queen Necklace | The Regent Daughter | Ange Pitou | Creation Et Redemption | Joseph Balsamo | La Dame De Monsoreau V 1 | La Dame De Monsoreau V 2 | La Dame De Monsoreau V 3 | La San Felice V 9 | Les Quarante Cinq | Memoirs Of A Physician | Taking The Bastille | The Chevalier De Maison Rouge | The Countess De Charny | The Twin Lieutenants | The Vicomte De Bragelonne]