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Frederick Merrick White (1859-1935) wrote a number of novels and short stories under the name "Fred M. White" including the six 'Doom of London' science-fiction stories, in which various catastrophes beset London. These include The Four Days' Night (1903), in which London is beset by a massive...

Frederick Merrick White (1859-1935) wrote a number of novels and short stories under the name "Fred M. White" including the six 'Doom of London' science-fiction stories, in which various catastrophes beset London. These include The Four Days' Night (1903), in which London is beset by a massive...

Henry René Albert Guy de Maupassant (Dieppe, 5 de agosto de 1850 -París, 6 de julio de 1893) fue un escritor francés, autor principalmente de cuentos, aunque escribió seis novelas. Fue autor de más de 300 cuentos. Sus temas favoritos fueron los campesinos...

Arthur John Rees (1872–1942), was an Australian mystery writer. Born in Melbourne, he was for a short time on the staff of the Melbourne Age and later joined the staff of the New Zealand Herald. In his early twenties he went to England. His proficiency as a writer of crime-mystery stories is attested...

Richard Austin Freeman (1862- 1943) — known as R. Austin Freeman — was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He claimed to have invented the inverted detective story (a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is...

Anthologie de la poésie française *** Aux pages d’anthologie de la poésie française se rencontrent les cinquante-deux meilleurs poètes de l’histoire de la literature française. Les poétes: Eustache Deschamps (1346-1406)...

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (Mrs. Fordyce Coburn) (September 22, 1872 – June 4, 1958), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was a nationally recognized American author. She was a frequent contributor to The Ladies' Home Journal. She went on to publish seventy-five short stories and fourteen romantic novels....

Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (12 April 1823, Moscow, 14 June Russian Empire) was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period. The author of 47 original plays, Ostrovsky "almost single-handedly created a Russian national repertoire."]...

Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev (1871 – 1919) was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer. He is one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period in Russian history. Andreyev's style combines elements of realist, naturalist and symbolist schools in literature....

Burton Egbert Stevenson (1872–1962) was an American author. In this ebook: The Gloved Hand That Affair at Elizabeth The Mystery Of The Boule Cabinet The Holladay Case The Charm of Ireland American Men of Action The Destroyer: A Tale of International Intrigue American Men of Mind The Girl from Alsace A Soldier of Virginia Affairs of State  

Israel Zangwill (1864 – 1926) was a British humorist and writer. Zangwill's work earned him the nickname "the Dickens of the Ghetto". He wrote a very influential novel Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People (). The use of the metaphorical phrase "melting pot" to...

John Arthur Barry (1850 – 23 September 1911) was a journalist and author. Barry was born in Torquay, Devonshire, England, in 1850. Barry came to Australia in the 1870s, and after working in Queensland at the gold diggings, spent some years as a drover, boundary rider and station manager. He returned...

Platón (Atenas o Egina- 427-347 a. C.) fue un filósofo griego seguidor de Sócrates y maestro de Aristóteles. En 387 fundó la Academia, institución que continuaría su marcha a lo largo de más de novecientos años y a la que Aristóteles...

Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards (1831– 1892) was an English novelist, journalist, traveler and Egyptologist. A night on the borders of the Black Forest, 1890 In the days of my youth. A novel, 1874 Monsieur Maurice, and other tales, 1876 The Phantom Coach and other stories