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Emily Sarah Holt (1836-1893) was an English novelist. Holt had written about fifty books, mainly for children. Most of Holt's work can be classified as historical novels. Holt's work has a Protestant religious theme. In this ebook: Under One Sceptre Red and White Lady...

José Martiniano de Alencar (1829 — 1877) foi um jornalista, político, advogado, orador, crítico, cronista, polemista, romancista e dramaturgo brasileiro. Uma característica marcante de sua obra é o nacionalismo, tanto nos temas quanto nas inovações...

Juliette Drouet, born Julienne Josephine Gauvain (10 April 1806 - 11 May 1883) was a French actress. She abandoned her career on the stage after becoming the mistress of Victor Hugo, to whom she acted as a secretary and travelling companion. Juliette accompanied Hugo in his exile to the Channel Islands,...

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1857 – 1948) was an American writer. She is best remembered for The Splendid, Idle Forties (1902); The Conqueror (1902) and her sensational, semi-autobiographical novel Black Oxen (1923), about an upper middle-age woman, who miraculously becomes young again after...

Bernhard Severin Ingemann (28 May 1789 – 24 February 1862) was a Danish novelist and poet. Ingemann was born in Torkilstrup, on the island of Falster, Denmark. The son of a vicar, he was left fatherless in his youth. While a student at the University of Copenhagen he published his first...

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (Valencia, 29 de enero de 1867 – Menton, Francia, 28 de enero de 1928) fue un escritor, periodista y político español. La araña negra, es una novela escrita en el año 1892 por Blasco Ibáñez. La obra es considerada una...

Frank Lucius Packard (1877 - 1942) was a Canadian novelist. As a young man he worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale. In...

Edmondo De Amicis (1846 – 1908) è stato uno scrittore e pedagogo italiano. È conosciuto per essere l'autore del romanzo Cuore, uno dei testi più popolari della letteratura italiana per ragazzi. Spagna (1872) Olanda (1874) Marocco (1876) Ricordi...

Margaret Deland (née Margaretta Wade Campbell) (February 23, 1857 – January 13, 1945) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She also wrote an autobiography in two volumes. She is generally considered part of the literary realism movement. Deland is known principally...

Robert James Campbell Stead (4 September 1880 - 1959) was born at Middleville, Ontario. His first book, The Empire Builders and Other Poems was published in 1908 and for the next 23 years, until 1931, he continued a steady flow of novels, short stories and books of verse, which enriched the portraiture...

Octave Feuillet, (1821-1 890), est un romancier et dramaturge français, surnommé le « Musset des familles ». Feuillet tient le milieu entre les romantiques et les réalistes. Sa réputation vient de sa façon de décrire la vie, à la...

Cuento de Navidad, Charles Dickens. El Cascanueces, Ernest Theodor Wilhelm (E.T.A.) Hoffmann. Rumpelstiltskin, hermanos Grimm. El gigante egoísta, Oscar Wilde. Hansel y Grethel, hermanos Grimm. La vendedora de fósforos, Hans Christian Andersen.

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo Villegas y Santibáñez Cevallos (Madrid, 14 de septiembre de 1580 – Villanueva de los Infantes, Ciudad Real, 8 de septiembre de 1645), conocido como Francisco de Quevedo, fue un escritor español del Siglo de Oro. Se trata de uno de los autores...

Theodore Goodridge Roberts (July 7, 1877 – February 24, 1953) was a Canadian novelist and poet. He was the author of thirty-four novels and over one hundred published stories and poems. He was the brother of poet Charles G.D. Roberts, and the father of painter Goodridge Roberts. The writing that...