Ross Rocklynne

Ross Rocklynne (1913-now)

Ross Rocklynne (February 21, 1913 - October 29, 1988) was the pen name used by Ross Louis Rocklin, an American science fiction author active in the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Born in 1913 in Ohio, Rocklynne was a regular contributor to the science fiction pulps. He was a professional guest at the first World Science Fiction Convention in 1939. Despite his numerous appearances and solid writing, Rocklynne never quite achieved the fame of his contemporaries Robert A. Heinlein, L.

Ross Rocklynne's Books:

[Sorry Wrong Dimension]

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Adela Rogers St Johns

Adela Rogers St Johns

Adela Rogers St. Johns (ne Adela Nora Rogers; May 20, 1894-August 10, 1988) was an American journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. She wrote a number of screenplays for silent movies and, late in life, appeared with other early twentieth-century figures as one of the 'witnesses' in Warren Beatty's Reds, but she is best remembered for her groundbreaking exploits as a "girl reporter" during the 1920s and 1930s.

C W Johns's Books:

[Babylonian And Assyrian Laws Contracts And Letters | The Oldest Code Of Laws In The World]

Alfred Noyes

Alfred Noyes

Alfred Noyes (16 September 1880 - 25/28 June 1958) was an English poet, best known for his ballads, The Highwayman and The Barrel-Organ.

Alfred Noyes's Books:

[Collected Poems | Rada A Drama Of War In One Act | The Lord Of Misrule | The New Morning | Rada | Watchers Of The Sky]

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William Black

William Black

William Black (13 November 1841 - 10 December 1898) was a novelist born in Glasgow, Scotland. During his own lifetime Black's novels were immensely popular, and were compared favourably with those of Anthony Trollope. However, his fame and popularity did not survive long into the twentieth century.

William Black's Books:

[Goldsmith]

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Charles Heber Clark

Charles Heber Clark

Charles Heber Clark (July 11, 1847 - August 10, 1915), was an American novelist and humorist. Most of his work was written under the pseudonym Max Adeler. Earlier, he used the "John Quill" pseudonym He was born in Berlin Md, the son of William J. Clark, an Episcopal clergyman whose abolitionist sympathies made his stay short in Southern parishes. Charles was educated at a school in Georgetown, D.C., and at the age of fifteen became an office boy in a Philadelphia commission house.

Charles Heber Clark's Books:

[Elbow Room | Frictional Electricity]

Raffaello Carboni

Raffaello Carboni (1456-1875)

Raffaello Carboni (December 15, 1817 October 24, 1875) was an Italian revolutionary and writer. He is primarily remembered now as the author of the main eyewitness account of events at the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat, Australia.

Carboni Raffaello's Books:

[The Eureka Stockade]

Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch (1796-1867)

Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) was an American writer, born in Newton, Massachusetts. Bulfinch belonged to a well educated Bostonian merchant family of modest means. His father was Charles Bulfinch, the architect of the Massachusetts State House in Boston and parts of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.. Bulfinch supported himself through his position at the Merchants' Bank of Boston.

Thomas Bulfinch's Books:

[Bulfinchs Mythology]

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Waldemar Bonsels

Waldemar Bonsels

Waldemar Bonsels (21 February 1880 in Ahrensburg - 31 July 1952 in Ambach) was a German writer of children's books. Waldemar Bonsels wrote only one children's book in the strict sense, Die Biene Maja. "People in the sky" (Himmelsvolk) is not a proper children's book but has a much deeper mystical layer showing the unity of all creation and its relationship to God. There are a number of novels and shorter stories dealing with love as Eros and on the higher level of divine love in the spirit of romanticism (Eros und die Evangelien, Menschenwege, Narren und Helden, etc. ), with the relationship between man and nature in a simple life unchanged by modern civilization (Anjekind, etc. ) and also including a historical novel from the time of Jesus (Der Grieche Dositos). He travelled extensively in Europe and Asia. Voyage in India (Indienfahrt) is the fruit of one of these travels. His famous work Die Biene Maja also served the basis for a Croatian opera for children written by Bruno Bjelinski, making Bonsels work known to even a great audience. The Opera was recently staged in Villach, Austria at the Carinthian Summer Music Festival.

Waldemar Bonsels's Books:

[Das Anjekind | Die Biene Maja | Eros Und Die Evangelien | Himmelsvolk | Indienfahrt | The Adventures Of Maya The Bee]

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Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

Joseph Conrad (born Jzef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 3 August 1924) was a Polish British novelist, who became a British subject in 1886. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and then always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical or seaboard setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honour. Conrad was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature. While some of his works have a strain of romanticism, he is viewed as a precursor of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors. Films have been adapted from or inspired by Conrad's Victory, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, An Outcast of the Islands, The Rover, The Shadow Line, The Duel, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew upon his experiences in the French and later the British Merchant Navy to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a worldwide empire while also plumbing the depths of the human soul.

Joseph Conrad's Books:

[A Personal Record | A Smile Of Fortune | Almayers Folly | An Anarchist | An Outcast Of The Islands | An Outpost Of Progress | Because Of The Dollars | Chance | El Corazon De Las Tinieblas | El Duelo | Falk | Freya Of The Seven Isles | Gaspar Ruiz | Heart Of Darkness | Il Conde | Karain A Memory | Le Frere De La Cote | Lord Jim | Nostromo A Tale Of The Seaboard | Prince Roman | Sous Les Yeux Doccident | The Black Mate | The Brute | The Duel | The End Of Tether | The Idiots | The Informer | The Inn Of The Two Witches | The Lagoon | The Nigger Of The Narcissus | The Partner | The Planter Of Malata | The Rescue | The Secret Agent | The Secret Sharer | The Shadow Line | The Tale | The Warriors Soul | Typhoon | Under Western Eyes | Victory]

Robert J Wicks

Robert J Wicks (1946-now)

Robert J. Wicks is a clinical psychologist and leading writer about the intersection of spirituality and psychology. Wicks is a well known speaker, therapist, and spiritual guide who for more than 30 years has been teaching at universities and professional schools of psychology, medicine, nursing, theology, and social work, currently at Loyola University Maryland. He is a recipient of the The Holy Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, the highest medal that can be awarded to the laity by the Papacy for distinguished service to the Roman Catholic Church. In the past several years. he has spoken on Capitol Hill to Members of Congress and their chiefs of staff, at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and at Harvards Childrens Hospital on his major area of expertise: the prevention of secondary stress (the pressures encountered in reaching out to others). He has also addressed 10,000 educators in the Air Canada Arena in Toronto, spoken at the FBI Academy, led a weeklong course in Paris, and addressed caregivers in Beijing, Hanoi, and Northern Ireland.

Robert Wicks's Books:

[The Quantum Jump]

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850-October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone". Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Books:

[An Ambitious Man | Custer | Hello Boys | Maurine And Other Poems | New Thought Pastels | Poems Of Cheer | Poems Of Experience | Poems Of Passion | Poems Of Power | Poems Of Progress | Poems Of Purpose | Poems Of Sentiment | The Englishman And Other Poems | The Heart Of The New Thought | The Kingdom Of Love | A Woman Of The World | Custer And Other Poems | Poems Of Optimism | Yesterdays]

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Ernest Thompson Seton

Ernest Thompson Seton

Ernest Thompson (born Richard Ernest Thompson; November 6, 1949) is an American writer, actor, and director.

Ernest Thompson Seton's Books:

[Monarch The Big Bear Of Tallac | Rolf In The Woods | The Arctic Prairies | The Biography Of A Grizzly | The Preacher Of Cedar Mountain | Two Little Savages | Wild Animals At Home | Wild Animals I Have Known]

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William Caxton

William Caxton

William Caxton (ca. 1415~1422 ca. March 1492) was an English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer. As far as is known, he was the first English person to work as a printer and the first to introduce a printing press into England. He was also the first English retailer of printed books (his London contemporaries in the same trade were all Dutch, German or French).

William Caxton's Books:

[Dialogues In French And English]

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Herman Van Veen

Herman Van Veen (1945-now)

Hermannus Jantinus "Herman" van Veen (born 14 March 1945) is a Dutch stage performer, actor, musician and singer/songwriter and author. He is most famous as the creator of the Dutch-Japanese cartoon Alfred J. Kwak, for which he also wrote, as well as composed and performed most of the music. He also performed the voice overs for the character Professor Paljas in the Dutch version of Alfred J. Kwak. During a tour in Eastern Berlin in 1989, Van Veen predicted the Berlin Wall would fall within a year.

H Van Der Veen's Books:

[Clipsrymkes]

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Eugene Oneill

Eugene Oneill (1888-1953)

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (16 October 1888 - 27 November 1953) was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature. His plays are among the first to introduce into American drama the techniques of realism, associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. His plays were among the first to include speeches in American vernacular and involve characters on the fringes of society, engaging in depraved behavior, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations, but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. O'Neill wrote only one well-known comedy. Nearly all of his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism.

Eugene Oneill's Books:

[The Straw]

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Sheridan Le Fanu

Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873)

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the premier ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and had a seminal influence on the development of this genre in the Victorian era.

J Sheridan Lefanu's Books:

[Room In The Dragon Volant]

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Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray (1934-now)

Alasdair Gray (born 28 December 1934) is a Scottish writer and artist. His most acclaimed work is his first novel Lanark, published in 1981 and written over a period of almost 30 years. It is now regarded as a classic, and was described by The Guardian as "one of the landmarks of 20th-century fiction. " His novel Poor Things (1992) won the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. He is a Scottish nationalist and a republican. Gray's works combine elements of realism, fantasy, and science fiction, plus clever use of typography and his own illustrations. He has also written on politics, in support of socialism and Scottish independence, and on the history of English literature. He has been described by author Will Self as "a creative polymath with an integrated politico-philosophic vision" and as "a great writer, perhaps the greatest living in this archipelago today", and by himself as "a fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glasgow pedestrian".

F Gray's Books:

[Tribute To A Good Man]

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Gerald W Page

Gerald W Page (1939-now)

Gerald W. Page (born August 12, 1939) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, mystery and horror. He was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on August 12, 1939. He sold his first story to the magazine Analog where it appeared in 1963. Page acquired Coven 13 magazine from Arthur H. Landis and retitled it Witchcraft and Sorcery that lasted for six issues. and became editor with Jerry Burge as art director. In 1969 he joined the editorial staff of TV Guide. He edited DAW Books's anthology series The Year's Best Horror Stories from 1976 to 1979.

Gerald Page's Books:

[The Happy Man]

Peter Of Vaux De Cernay

Peter Of Vaux De Cernay

Peter of Vaux de Cernay (floruit c.1215) was a Cistercian monk of Vaux de Cernay Abbey, in what is now Yvelines, northern France, and a chronicler of the Albigensian Crusade. His Historia Albigensis is one of the primary sources for the events of the Crusade. The chronicle is thought to have been written from 1212 to 1218, recounting events which were principally those 1203 to 1208, but also later events, at some of which Peter himself was present as eye-witness. His uncle Guy of Vaux-de-Cernay was his abbot, bishop of Carcassonne for some years from 1212, and a preacher brought in earlier to preach against Catharism by Simon IV de Montfort. Peter had also followed the early Fourth Crusade, with Guy, as far as Zara, Dalmatia. They joined Simon perhaps in 1210.. Peter knew Simon personally. His writing is generally considered partisan, taking the Catholic side; but also to be more objective in reporting Cathar beliefs and actions than some of the hunters of heresy. Steven Runciman gives examples in which Peter discussing Cathar theology is presumed fairly accurate, or exaggerating for propaganda effect. The chronicle was not written after 1218, and it is suggested that Peters death shortly after that year may be the reason.

F Vaux's Books:

[Domestic Pleasures]

Eduardo Zamacois

Eduardo Zamacois

Eduardo Zamacois (1873 - 1971) was a Spanish novelist. His uncle was the painter Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala. Born in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, his family lived briefly in Brussels and Paris before settling in Madrid. Leaving college to pursue journalism, he edited El Cuento Semanal and Los Contemporneos, and, from 1897, worked for the weekly Germinal. Later he moved to Barcelona to write for El Gato Negro and Ah Va! before founding Vida Galante. His first fiction was erotic, but realistic in its depictions of ordinary life. From 1905 it took a socialistic form as he grew to sympathise with the Republican cause. During World War I he lived in France, working as a correspondent for La Tribune. He returned to Spain and continued to write prolifically until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. He was a war correspondent in Madrid until 1937, and then in Valencia and Barcelona, where he published El asedio de Madrid ("The Siege of Madrid", 1938). After Barcelona's fall he fled to France, and thence to the US and Mexico, before settling in Argentina, where he eventually wrote his memoirs, Un hombre que se va... (1964). He died in Buenos Aires in 1971.

Eduardo Zamacois's Books:

[El Teatro Por Dentro | Their Son The Necklace]

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Alexander King

Alexander King

Alexander King (1899-1965), born Alexander Koenig in Vienna, was a bestselling humorist, memoirist and media personality of the early television era, based in the United States.

F King's Books:

[Farmers Of Forty Centuries]

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Eugene Jones Iii

Eugene Jones Iii (1987-now)

"Eugene Jones III" a.k.a. "Eugene Jones" (born May 9, 1987) is an African-American actor, poet, playwright and filmmaker. Since the age of 13, Jones has worked as an actor throughout New York City and is currently writing a one man show. Jones was born in New York City and credits a lot of his inspiration to growing up in the Big Apple. He was raised in Harlem and attended Professional Performing Arts High School and City-As-School High School. Before graduating, Eugene had already portrayed leading roles in main stage productions such as A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Laramie Project. Film credits to date include City Teacher, And Then Came Love, "College Road Trip" and most recently, Towelhead. Television appearances include guest spots on Law & Order, Law & Order Criminal Intent, and Without A Trace. Jones has worked alongside actors such as Vanessa Williams, Chuck D, Ben Vereen, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, George C. Wolfe, Jenifer Lewis, George Faison, Genovis Albright, and Toni Collette.

Eugene Jones's Books:

[The Ghost Whistle]

Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)

Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. (May 23, 1883 December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro. An astute businessman, Fairbanks was a founding member of United Artists. Fairbanks was also a founding member of The Motion Picture Academy and hosted the first Oscars Ceremony in 1929. With his marriage to Mary Pickford in 1920, the couple became Hollywood royalty with Fairbanks constantly referred to as "The King of Hollywood", a nickname later passed on to actor Clark Gable.

Douglas Fairbanks's Books:

[Laugh And Live]

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Alan E Nourse

Alan E Nourse (1928-1992)

Alan Edward Nourse (August 11, 1928 July 19, 1992) was an American science fiction (SF) author and physician. He wrote both juvenile and adult science fiction, as well as nonfiction works about medicine and science. His SF works generally focused on medicine and/or psionics.

Alan Nourse's Books:

[An Ounce Of Cure | Bear Trap | Circus | Contamination Crew | Derelict | Gold In The Sky | Image Of The Gods | Infinite Intruder | Letter Of The Law | Marley Chain | Marleys Chain | Martyr | Meeting Of The Board | My Friend Bobby | Problem | Second Sight | Star Surgeon | The Coffin Cure | The Dark Door | The Link | The Native Soil]

Anthony Stevens Jungian Analyst

Anthony Stevens Jungian Analyst (1934-now)

Anthony Stevens (born 1933 or 1934) is a well-known Jungian analyst and psychiatrist who has written extensively on psychotherapy and psychology. Stevens has two degrees in psychology and a Doctorate in Medicine from Oxford, and studied for a time under John Bowlby. He is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists. He lectures regularly in the UK, the USA, Switzerland and elsewhere.

H Stevens's Books:

[Death And Burial Of Poor Cock Robin]

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Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom Toussaint

Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom Toussaint

Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint (Alkmaar, September 16, 1812 The Hague, April 13, 1886) was a Dutch novelist.

Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom Toussaint's Books:

[Frits Millioen En Zijne Vrienden | Majoor Frans | Major Frank]

Alice Hale Burnett

Alice Hale Burnett

Alice Hale Burnett is an American author of children's books. She is best known for writing books set in a small town called Merryvale. Her books were originally published by The New York Book Company early in the Twentieth century.

Alice Hale Burnett's Books:

[Christmas Holidays At Merryvale | Halloween At Merryvale | A Day At The County Fair]

Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter (1844-1929)

Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 - 28 June 1929) was an English socialist poet, socialist philosopher, anthologist, and early gay activist. A leading figure in late 19th- and early 20th-century Britain, he was instrumental in the foundation of the Fabian Society and the Labour Party. A poet and writer, he was a close friend of Walt Whitman and Rabindranath Tagore, corresponding with many famous figures such as Annie Besant, Isadora Duncan, Havelock Ellis, Roger Fry, Mahatma Gandhi, James Keir Hardie, J. K. Kinney, Jack London, George Merrill, E D Morel, William Morris, E R Pease, John Ruskin, and Olive Schreiner. As a philosopher he is particularly known for his publication of Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure in which he proposes that civilisation is a form of disease that human societies pass through. Civilisations, he says, rarely last more than a thousand years before collapsing, and no society has ever passed through civilisation successfully. His 'cure' is a closer association with the land and greater development of our inner nature. Although derived from his experience of Hindu mysticism, and referred to as 'mystical socialism', his thoughts parallel those of several writers in the field of psychology and sociology at the start of the twentieth century, such as Boris Sidis, Sigmund Freud and Wilfred Trotter who all recognised that society puts ever increasing pressure on the individual that can result in mental and physical illnesses such as neurosis and the particular nervousness which was then described as neurasthenia. A strong advocate of sexual freedom, living in a gay community near Sheffield, he had a profound influence on both D. H. Lawrence and E. M. Forster.

Edward Carpenter's Books:

[Civilisation Its Cause And Cure | Iolus | Never Again | The Healing Of Nations And The Hidden Sources Of Their | The Intermediate Sex | Pagan And Christian Creeds Their Origin And Meaning | The Healing Of Nations And The Hidden Sources Of Their Strife]

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Arvid Jarnefelt

Arvid Jarnefelt

Arvid Jrnefelt was a Finnish judge and writer. Arvid's parents were general and governor August Aleksander Jrnefelt and Elisabeth Jrnefelt (ne Clodt von Jrgensburg). Arvid had nine siblings: Kasper, Erik, Ellida, Ellen, Armas, Aino, Hilja and Sigrid. Arvid Jrnefelt married Emilia Fredrika Parviainen at Jyvskyl on September 6, 1884. They had five children: Eero, Liisa, Anna, Maija, and Emmi. Jrnefelt became a famous author in the late 19th century. He wrote realistic, often tendentious but psychologically insightful novels, short stories and memoirs. In 1889 Arvid founded the newspaper Pivlehti with his friends Eero Erkko and Juhani Aho. Pivlehti was succeeded by Helsingin Sanomat in 1904. Arvid Jrnefelt became interested in Tolstoyanism, influenced by his mother Elisabeth. He had studied law and 1891 became a trainee lawyer in Vaasa. At the time, he read the writings of Russian author Leo Tolstoy and became fan of Tolstoyanism. Arvid quit his career as a lawyer and began to live as a Tolstoyan; he became farmer at Virkkala. He also helped the poor and prisoners. One of his plays, Kuolema (Death) (1903, revised 1911), had incidental music composed by his brother-in-law Jean Sibelius, which includes the famous Valse Triste.

Arvid Jarnefelt's Books:

[Veljekset | Venehojalaiset]

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William Smyth

William Smyth

William Smyth was a writer on mathematics and other subjects. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1822, then studied theology at Phillips Academy Andover. In 1825, he became a professor of mathematics at Bowdoin College, and in 1846 became an associate professor of natural philosophy. The Bowdoin College Department of Mathematics Smyth Prize is named in his honor.

William Smyth's Books:

[Mound Builders]

Thomas D Clark

Thomas D Clark

Thomas Dionysius Clark (July 14, 1903 - June 28, 2005) was perhaps Kentucky's most notable historian. Clark saved from destruction a large portion of Kentucky's printed history, which later become a core body of documents in the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Often referred to as the "Dean of Historians" Clark is best known for his 1937 work, A History of Kentucky. Clark was named Historian Laureate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1991 one of many honors he received.

Thomas Clark's Books:

[John Whopper The Newsboy]

Geoffrey Of Villehardouin

Geoffrey Of Villehardouin

Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1160 - c. 1212) was a knight and historian who participated in and chronicled the Fourth Crusade. He is considered one of the most important historians of the time period, best known for writing the eyewitness account De la Conqute de Constantinople (On the Conquest of Constantinople), about the battle for Constantinople between the Christians of the West and the Christians of the East on 13 April 1204. The Conquest is the earliest French historical prose narrative that has survived to modern times. is full title was: "Geoffrey of Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne and of Romania".

Geoffrey De Villehardouin's Books:

[Villehardouin Memoirs Or Chronicle Of The Fourth Crusade And The Conquest Of Constantinople]