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James Baldwin (1841-1925) was an American editor and author. Gained the world popularity as one of the most prolific authors of school books for children at the end of the last century and the beginning of this. Became famous and widely published textbook editor and children's author in the subjects...

James Baldwin (1841 – 1925) was born in United States, in Indiana. For eighteen years he served as the superintendent of Indiana's school system. Afterwards, he went on to become a well-known and widely published textbook editor and children's author. Main subjects of his writings were mythology,...

James Baldwin (1841-1925) was an American editor and author. Gained the world popularity as one of the most prolific authors of school books for children at the end of the last century and the beginning of this. Became famous and widely published textbook editor and children's author in the subjects...

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was one of the representatives of the so-called lost generation in the literature.This Side Of Paradise is the first novel written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. The main character Amory Blaine comes from a rich American family with European roots. Blaine is extraordinary beautiful...

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. The story «The Christmas Goblins» revolves around Gabriel Grub, a surly, ill-humored sexton...

Robert Louis Stevenson, was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. "The Bottle Imp" is a short story. Offering an engrossing spin on a time-honored theme - the risky business of making a pact with the devil - his...

Charles Dickens was english writer, novelist and essayist. The classic of the world literature. The Dickens' creations are reffered to heights of realism, but in his novels he reflects sentimental and fabulous origins. The novel "Great Expectations" tells a story of a boy Pip. His parents...

Charles Dickens was an English writer, social critic, author of numerous short stories, novels, plays. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. “What Christmas is as we Grow Older” is the Christmas essay, written...

O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) is a great American writer. His stories are usually humorous with surprising endings. He was born in 1862 in Greensboro. O. Henry spent several years in prison, where wrote his first story. In 1902 he moved to New-York and started writing for magazines. His first book...

Daniel Deronda is a novel written by Mary Ann Evans, known by her pseudonym George Eliot, an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. The novel was first published in 1876 and was her last completed novel and set in the contemporary Victorian society...

Emma is a novel about young arrogance and misconstrued romance written by English novelist Jane Austen and published in year 1815. It is one of her most popular works of romantic fiction. Her realism, biting irony and social commentary as well as her acclaimed plots have gained her historical importance...

George Webbe Dasent (1817-1896) was a folklorist and translator of legends and fairy-tales into English. Dasent was acquainted with Jacob Grimm who advised him to study mythology. Eventually George Dasent became a professor of English literature. This story tells us about a man who had a meadow....

Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist,literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology.    Andrew was born in Selkirk. The writer's  family was big, he was eldest of eight children. Andrew's mother named Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was...

George Webbe Dasent (1817-1896) was a folklorist and translator of legends and fairy-tales into English. Dasent was acquainted with Jacob Grimm who advised him to study mythology. Eventually George Dasent became a professor of English literature. The beginning of this fairy-tale may remind...