John Millington Synge

John Millington Synge (1871-1909)

Edmund John Millington Synge (16 April 1871 24 March 1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore. He was one of the cofounders of the Abbey Theatre. He is best known for his play The Playboy of the Western World, which caused riots during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre. Synge suffered from Hodgkin's disease, a form of cancer at the time untreatable. He died just weeks short of his 38th birthday and was at the time trying to complete his last play, The Last Black Supper.

J Synge's Books:

[Deirdre Of The Sorrows | In Shadow Of The Glen | In Wicklow And West Kerry | Riders To The Sea | The Aran Islands | The Playboy Of The Western World]

Benjamin Thorpe

Benjamin Thorpe

Benjamin Thorpe (1782 - 19 July 1870) was an English Anglo-Saxon scholar.

Benjamin Thorpe's Books:

[The Edda Of Saemund The Learned]

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.

Edgar Rice Burroughs's Books:

[A Fighting Man Of Mars | A Princess Of Mars | Apache Devil | At The Earths Core | Back To The Stone Age | Beyond The Farthest Star | Carson Of Venus | Escape On Venus | John Carter And The Giant Of Mars | Jungle Tales Of Tarzan | Land Of Terror | Llana Of Gathol | Lost On Venus | Pellucidar | Pirates Of Venus | Savage Pellucidar | Skeleton Men Of Jupiter | Swords Of Mars | Synthetic Men Of Mars | Tanar Of Pellucidar | Tarzan And The Ant Men | Tarzan And The Castaways | Tarzan And The City Of Gold | Tarzan And The Forbidden City | Tarzan And The Foreign Legion | Tarzan And The Golden Lion | Tarzan And The Jewels Of Opar | Tarzan And The Leopard Men | Tarzan And The Lion Man | Tarzan And The Lost Empire | Tarzan At The Earths Core | Tarzan Lord Of The Jungle | Tarzan Of The Apes | Tarzan The Invincible | Tarzan The Magnificent | Tarzan The Terrible | Tarzan The Untamed | Tarzan Triumphant | Tarzans Quest | The Bandit Of Hells Bend | The Beasts Of Tarzan | The Cave Girl | The Chessmen Of Mars | The Deputy Sheriff Of Comanche County | The Efficiency Expert | The Girl From Farriss | The Girl From Hollywood | The Gods Of Mars | The Lad And The Lion | The Land Of Hidden Men | The Land That Time Forgot | The Mad King | The Master Mind Of Mars | The Monster Men | The Moon Maid | The Moon Men | The Mucker | The Oakdale Affair | The Outlaw Of Torn | The Red Hawk | The Resurrection Of Jimber Jaw | The Return Of Tarzan | The Son Of Tarzan | The Tarzan Twins | The War Chief | The Warlord Of Mars | Thuvia Maid Of Mars | At The Earth Core | Beasts Of Tarzan | Cave Girl | Ce La Koro De La Tero | Out Of Time Abyss | The Bandit Of Hell Bend | The Girl From Farris | The Return Of The Mucker | The Eternal Savage | The People That Time Forgot]

Daniel Kidder

Daniel Kidder

Daniel is the central protagonist of the Book of Daniel. According to the biblical book, at a young age Daniel was carried off to Babylon where he became famous for interpreting dreams and rose to become one of the most important figures in the court.

Daniel Kidder's Books:

[The Five Giants]

Donald Wandrei

Donald Wandrei (1908-1987)

Donald Albert Wandrei (April 20, 1908-October 15, 1987) was an American science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction writer, poet and editor. He wrote as Donald Wandrei. He was the older brother of science fiction writer and artist Howard Wandrei. He had fourteen stories in Weird Tales, another sixteen in Astounding Stories, plus a few in other magazines including Esquire.

Donald Wandrei's Books:

[Raiders Of The Universes]

Harry Graham

Harry Graham

Jocelyn Henry Clive 'Harry' Graham (23 December 1874 30 October 1936) was an English writer. He was a successful journalist and later, after distinguished military service, a leading lyricist for operettas and musical comedies, but he is now best remembered as a writer of humorous verse in the tradition of grotesquerie and black humour exemplified by the verses of W. S. Gilbert and Hilaire Belloc.

Harry Graham's Books:

[Perverted Proverbs]

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Philip Mansel

Philip Mansel (1951-now)

Philip Mansel is a historian and the author of a number of books about revolutionary and post-revolutionary France and the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire. He was born in London in 1951 and educated at Eton College, Balliol College, Oxford, and University College London.

H Mansel's Books:

[The Philosophy Of The Conditioned]

Hannah Wolley

Hannah Wolley

Hannah Woolley, sometimes spelled Wolley, (born 1622, England - died circa 1675, England) was a writer who published early books on household management and was probably the first to earn their living doing this.

Hannah Wolley's Books:

[The Queen Like Closet Or Rich Cabinet]

Augusta Braxton Baker

Augusta Braxton Baker (1911-1998)

Augusta Braxton Baker was an African-American librarian and storyteller, renowned for her contributions to childrens literature.

Augusta De Wit's Books:

[Natuur En Menschen In Indie]

Horace Holden

Horace Holden

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Venusia, December 8, 65 BC Rome, November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.

Horace Holden's Books:

[A Narrative Of The Shipwreck]

Johannes Semper

Johannes Semper

Johannes Semper (near Viljandi, 10 March 1892 - Tallinn, February 2, 1970) was an Estonian writer and translator. A student and later a prominent scholar at the University of Tartu, he was briefly nominated as Minister for Education of the Estonian SSR when the country was a republic of the Soviet Union in 1940. He wrote the lyrics of the Anthem of Estonian SSR.

C Semper's Books:

[Die Philippinen Und Ihre Bewohner]

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Guerra Junqueiro

Guerra Junqueiro

Abilio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro (September 17, 1850-July 7, 1923) was a Portuguese, bachelor in law at the University of Coimbra, a top civil servant, member of the Portuguese House of Representatives, journalist, author, and poet. His work help inspire the creation of the Portuguese First Republic. Junqueiro wrote highly satiric poems criticizing conservatism, romanticism, and the Church leading up to the Portuguese Revolution of 1910.

Guerra Junqueiro's Books:

[Contos Para A Infncia | Duas Paginas Dos Quatorze Annos | Os Simples]

Peter Quennell

Peter Quennell

Peter Courtney Quennell was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic. Quennell was the son of architect C. H. B. Quennell, and his wife, Marjorie Quennell who wrote extensively on social history. Educated at Berkhamsted Grammar School and at Balliol College, Oxford, he first practised journalism in London. While still at school some of his poems were selected by Richard Hughes for the anthology Public School Verse, which brought him to the attention of writers such as Edith Sitwell. In 1922 he published his first book, Masques and Poems. This was followed by many other volumes, particularly his Four Portraits of 1945, books on London and works on Baudelaire (1929), Byron (1934-35), Pope (1949), Ruskin (1949), Hogarth (1955), Shakespeare (1963), Proust (1971) and Dr Johnson (1972). In 1930 he taught at the University of Tokyo. In 1944-51, he was editor of the Cornhill Magazine and from 1951 to 1979 founder-editor of History Today. He published two volume of autobiography, The Marble Foot (1976) and Wanton Chase (1980). He was married five times, and had two children, a daughter Sarah, from his third marriage and Alexander from his fifth. He received the CBE and was later knighted.

C B Quennell's Books:

[Bell Cathedrals The Cathedral Church Of Norwich]

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Leigh Brackett

Leigh Brackett (1915-1978)

Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 - March 18, 1978) was an American author, particularly of science fiction. She was also a screenwriter, known for her work on famous films such as The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo, The Long Goodbye and The Empire Strikes Back.

Leigh Brackett's Books:

[A World Is Born | Black Amazon Of Mars]

Frances Brooke

Frances Brooke

Frances Moore Brooke (12 January 1724 - 23 January 1789) was an English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator. Brooke was born in, Claypole, Lincolnshire, the daughter of a clergyman. By the late 1740s, she had moved to London, where she embarked on her career as a poet and playwright. As well, under the pseudonym of "Mary Singleton, Spinster," she edited thirty-seven issues of her own weekly periodical, "Old Maid" (17551756). In 1756 she married Rev. Dr.

Frances Brooke's Books:

[Emily Montague | The History Of Emily Montague | The History Of Lady Julia Mandeville]

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Daniel La France

Daniel La France

Daniel is the central protagonist of the Book of Daniel. According to the biblical book, at a young age Daniel was carried off to Babylon where he became famous for interpreting dreams and rose to become one of the most important figures in the court.

Daniel La France's Books:

[An Indian Boy Story]

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Alexander Wylie

Alexander Wylie (1815-1887)

Alexander Wylie (April 6, 1815 - February 10, 1887), British Protestant Christian missionary to China. He is known for his translation work and scholarship during the late Qing Dynasty. He was born in London, and went to school at Drumlithie, Kincardineshire, and at Chelsea. While apprenticed to a cabinet-maker he picked up a Chinese grammar written in Latin, and after mastering the latter tongue made such good progress with the former, that in 1846 James Legge engaged him to superintend the London Missionary Society's press at Shanghai. In this position he acquired a wide knowledge of Chinese religion and civilization, and especially of their mathematics, so that he was able to show that Sir George Horner's method (1819) of solving equations of all orders had been known to the Chinese mathematicians of the 14th century. He made several journeys into the interior, notably in 1858 with Lord Elgin on a British Navy gunboat up the Yangtze and to Nanking, where he served as one member of delegate of three to meet with officials of the Taiping, and in 1868 with Griffith John to the capital of Szechuen and the source of the Han. He completed the distribution of the 1 million Chinese New Testaments provided by the British and Foreign Bible Society's special fund of 1855. From 1863 he was an agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society. He was succeeded by Samuel Dyer, Junior, the son of Samuel Dyer and brother-in-law of Hudson Taylor. He settled in London in 1877. In Chinese he translated books on arithmetic, calculus, algebra, mechanics, astronomy, in colloboration with Li Shanlan,and The Marine Steam Engine (TJ Main and T Brown), as well as translations of the Gospel According to Matthew and the Gospel According to Mark. In English his chief works were Memorials of Protestant Missionaries (1867), Notes on Chinese Literature (Shanghai, 1867), Jottings on the Science of Chinese Mathematics and collection of articles published under the title Chinese Researches by Alexander Wylie (Shanghai, 1897). He also published an article on the Nestorian Tablet in Xian.

I R Wylie's Books:

[Rogues Company]

Arnold J Toynbee

Arnold J Toynbee (1889-1975)

Arnold Joseph Toynbee CH (April 14, 1889 - October 22, 1975) was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations, A Study of History, 19341961, was a synthesis of world history, a metahistory based on universal rhythms of rise, flowering and decline, which examined history from a global perspective. A religious outlook permeates the Study and made it especially popular in the United States, for Toynbee rejected Greek humanism, the Enlightenment belief in humanity's essential goodness, and what he considered the "false god" of modern nationalism. Toynbee in the 1918-1950 period was a leading British consultant to the government on international affairs, especially regarding the Middle East.

Arnold Toynbee's Books:

[Lectures On The Industrial Revolution In England]

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Charles Dudley Warner

Charles Dudley Warner

Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 - October 20, 1900) was an American essayist and novelist.

Charles Dudley Warner's Books:

[As We Go | As We Were Saying | Backlog Studies | Baddeck And That Sort Of Thing | Being A Boy | Captain John Smith | Causes Of Discontent | Diversities Of American Life | Education Of The Negro | England | Fashions In Literature | How Spring Came In New England | In The Wilderness | Indeterminate Sentence | Literary Copyright | Modern Fiction | My Summer In A Garden | Nine Short Essays | On Horseback | Our Italy | Saunterings | The American Newspaper | The Complete Writings Vol 2 | The Complete Writings Vol 4 | The Golden House | The Novel And The Common School | The People For Whom Shakespeare Wrote | The Pilgrim And The American Of Today | Library Of The World Best Literature Ancient And Modern Vol 1 | Library Of The World Best Literature Ancient And Modern Vol 12 | Library Of The World Best Literature Ancient And Modern Vol 2 | Library Of The World Best Literature Ancient And Modern Vol 4 | Library Of The World Best Literature Ancient And Modern Volume 11 | Little Journey In The World | Mr Froude Progress | Novel And The Common School | Pilgrim And American | Relation Of Literature To Life | Some Causes Of The Prevailing Discontent | That Fortune | The Indeterminate Sentence What Shall Be Done With The Criminal Class | The Story Of Pocahantas | Their Pilgrimage | Washington Irving | What Is Your Culture To Me | The Gilded Age Illustrated Volume 1 | The Gilded Age Illustrated Volume 2 | The Gilded Age Illustrated Volume 3 | The Gilded Age Illustrated Volume 4 | The Gilded Age Illustrated Volume 5 | The Gilded Age Illustrated Volume 6 | The Gilded Age Illustrated Volume 7 | The Gilded Age]

Theo Marzials

Theo Marzials (1850-1920)

Thophile-Jules-Henri "Theo" Marzials (20 December 1850 - 2 February 1920) was a British composer, singer and poet. Marzials was described in 1894 as a "poet and eccentric" by parodist Max Beerbohm, and, after writing and performing several popular songs, vanished into obscurity. His poetry is seen as an example of 19th-century aestheticism.

Ada Marzials's Books:

[More Tales In The Land Of Nursery Rhyme]

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Arthur Train

Arthur Train

Arthur Cheney Train (6 September 1875 - 22 December 1945) was an American lawyer and legal thriller writer, particularly known for his novels of courtroom intrigue and the creation of the fictional lawyer Mr Ephraim Tutt.

Arthur Train's Books:

[A Flight Into Texas | The Goldfish | True Stories Of Crime From The District Attorney Office | Tutt And Mr Tutt]

Edward Potts Cheyney

Edward Potts Cheyney

Edward Potts Cheyney, A.M., LL.D. (1861-1947) was an American historical and economic writer, born at Wallingford, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1883. He visited German universities and studied at the British Museum. The University of Pennsylvania conferred the degree of LL.D.

Edward Potts Cheyney's Books:

[An Introduction To The Industrial And Social History Of England]

Arthur Symons

Arthur Symons

Arthur William Symons (28 February 1865 - 22 January 1945), was a British poet, critic and magazine editor.

Arthur Symons's Books:

[An Introduction To The Study Of Browning | Figures Of Several Centuries | Plays Acting And Music | Silhouettes]

Reginald Bretnor

Reginald Bretnor

Reginald Bretnor (born Alfred Reginald Kahn; July 30, 1911, Vladivostok, Russia July 22, 1992, Medford, Oregon) was a science fiction author who flourished between the 1950s and 1980s. Most of his fiction was in short story form, and usually featured a whimsical story line or ironic plot twist. He also wrote on military theory and public affairs, and edited some of the earliest books to consider SF from a literary theory and criticism perspective. It has been alleged that he was an early associate of Anton Szandor LaVey in the days before the founding of the Church of Satan, and that Bretnor and other science fiction authors were members of LaVey's "Order of the Trapezoid" in the early 1950s.

Reginald Bretnor's Books:

[Sugar Plum]

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Vernor Vinge

Vernor Vinge (1944-now)

Vernor Steffen Vinge is a retired San Diego State University (SDSU) Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning novels and novellas A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999), Rainbows End (2006), Fast Times at Fairmont High (2002) and The Cookie Monster (2004), as well as for his 1984 novel The Peace War and his 1993 essay "The Coming Technological Singularity", in which he argues that exponential growth in technology will reach a point beyond which we cannot even speculate about the consequences. Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. - "The Coming Technological Singularity" by Vernor Vinge, 1993

Vernor Vinge's Books:

[The Coming Technological Singularity]

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George Barr Mccutcheon

George Barr Mccutcheon

George Barr McCutcheon (July 26, 18661928) was an American popular novelist and playwright. His best known works include the series of novels set in Graustark, a fictional East European country, Brewster's Millions, a play and several films. Born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, McCutcheon's father, despite not receiving formal education, stressed the value of literature and encouraged his sons to write. During McCutcheon's childhood, his father had a number of jobs that required travel around the county in Indiana. McCutcheon studied at Purdue University and was a roommate of future humorist George Ade. During his college years, he was editor of the Lafayette Daily Courier and wrote a serial novel of satire about Wabash River life. Although McCutcheon became famous for the Graustark series (the first novel was published in 1901), he hated the characterization of being a Romantic and preferred to be identified with his playwriting. He was the older brother of noted cartoonist John T. McCutcheon.

George Barr Mccutcheon's Books:

[Anderson Crow Detective | Beverly Of Graustark | Graustark | The Prince Of Graustark | Truxton King | West Wind Drift | A Fool And His Money | Brewster Millions | Castle Craneycrow | Green Fancy | Her Weight In Gold | Jane Cable | Mr Bingle | Quiddlers Three | Quill Window | The Daughter Of Anderson Crow | The Flyers | The Hollow Of Her Hand | The Husbands Of Edith | The Man From Brodney | The Purple Parasol | The Rose In The Ring | Viola Gwyn | What His Name | Yollop | Nedra | The City Of Masks]

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Ellis Wynne

Ellis Wynne

Ellis Wynne (March 7, 1671 July 13, 1734) was a Welsh clergyman and author of one of the most important and influential pieces of Welsh language literature. Born in Lasynys Fawr near Harlech, Gwynedd, Wynne excelled at school and entered Jesus College, Oxford on 1 March 1692.

Ellis Wynne's Books:

[The Sleeping Bard | The Visions Of The Sleeping Bard]

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Arthur Murphy

Arthur Murphy

Arthur Murphy (December 27, 1727 June 18, 1805), also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger, was an Irish writer. He was born at Clooniquin, County Roscommon, Ireland, the son of Richard Murphy and Jane French. A barrister, journalist, actor, and playwright, he edited Gray Inn Journal between 1752 and 1754. As Henry Thrale's oldest and dearest friend, he introduced Samuel Johnson to the Thrales in January 1765. He was appointed Commissioner of Bankruptcy in 1803. Murphy is best known for three biographies: his 1792 An Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson, his 1762 Fielding's Works and his 1801 Life of David Garrick. Murphy is thought to have coined the legal term "wilful misconstruction" whilst representing the Donaldson v. Becket appeal to the House of Lords in 1774 against the perpetual possession of copyright. He died at Knightsbridge, London, and was buried at Hammersmith, London. A biography was written in 1811 by Dr. Jesse Foote. Nathaniel Dance painted his portrait which is thought to now be in the Irish National Portrait Collection.

Arthur Murphy's Books:

[The Grecian Daughter]

Carrie Best

Carrie Best

Carrie M. Best, OC, ONS (March 4, 1903 - July 24, 2001) was a Black Canadian journalist. Born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, a daughter to James and Georgina Ashe Prevoe, she married Albert T. Best in 1925. In 1946 she founded The Clarion, the first black-owned and published Nova Scotia newspaper. In 1952 she started a radio show, The Quiet Corner, which was aired for 12 years. From 1968 to 1975 she was a columnist for The Pictou Advocate, a newspaper based in Pictou, Nova Scotia.

Carrie De Voe's Books:

[Legends Of The Kaw]

Stanley G Weinbaum

Stanley G Weinbaum (1902-1935)

Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (April 4, 1902 December 14, 1935) was an American science fiction author. His career in science fiction was short but influential. His first story, "A Martian Odyssey", was published to great (and enduring) acclaim in July 1934, but he would be dead from lung cancer within eighteen months.

Stanley Grauman Weinbaum's Books:

[A Martian Odyssey | Dawn Of Flame | Parasite Planet | Proteus Island | Pygmalions Spectacles | Redemption Cairn | Shifting Seas | The Adaptive Ultimate | The Brink Of Infinity | The Circle Of Zero | The Ideal | The Lotus Eaters | The Mad Moon | The Worlds Of If | Tidal Moon | Valley Of Dreams]

Henry De Vere Stacpoole

Henry De Vere Stacpoole

Henry De Vere Stacpoole (9 April 1863 12 April 1951) was an Irish century author, born in Kingstown. His best known work is the 1908 romance novel The Blue Lagoon, which has thrice been adapted into a feature film. He also wrote under the pseudonym Tyler De Saix. A ship's doctor for more than forty years, Stacpoole was also an expert on the South Pacific islands. His books frequently contained detailed descriptions of the natural life and civilizations with which he had become familiar on those islands. Having moved to the Isle of Wight in the 1920s, and having lived there until his death, he was buried at Bonchurch in 1951.

Henry De Vere Stacpoole's Books:

[The Beach Of Dreams | The Blue Lagoon | The Man Who Lost Himself | The Pools Of Silence]

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