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Anne Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. Her novels, have become classics of English literature. Agnes Grey, based upon her experiences as a governess. Agnes Grey is dutiful and loyal, the impoverished daughter of a minister. When her...

“Human All-Too-Human” is the name of book, that was Nietzsche's first work in the aphoristic style that became dominant in his writings. The work marked for Nietzsche a new "positivism" and skepticism with which he challenged his previous metaphysical and psychological assumptions. “Human,...

Aesop was a legendary  Ancient Greek fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.  The life of Aesop is a bit of a mystery. There is even some debate if Aesop was an actual person or just a name used by another writer. Many of the tales...

Aesop was a legendary  Ancient Greek fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.  The life of Aesop is a bit of a mystery. There is even some debate if Aesop was an actual person or just a name used by another writer. Many of the tales...

Aesop was a legendary  Ancient Greek fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.  The life of Aesop is a bit of a mystery. There is even some debate if Aesop was an actual person or just a name used by another writer. Many of the tales...

Aeschylus (525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian. He is one of those tragedians whose plays still survive. Most part of critics consider and describe that he is the father of such theater phenomenon as tragedy. He is also the first whose plays still survive. He is often described...

Jerome Klapka Jerome was a renowned English writer and humorist, best known for his humorous and comic masterpiece “Three Men in a Boat”, apart from his other notable works of literature. He was born on 2nd May, 1859 in Caldmore, Walsall, England, and was raised amidst poverty in London. His other...

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 – 1863) was a famous English novelist of the 19th century. Best known for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society. During his literary life Thackeray was considered to be the best realistic and comic authors satirizing...

E.D.E.N Southworth (1819-1899) was an American novelist whose literary legacy counted up to more than sixty novels. She began writing stories in order to support herself and her children financially. She is best known for her novel 'The Hidden Hand' that tells us about a girl who behaves like a boy...

"Jennie Gerhardt" by Theodore Dreiser - one of the most beautiful love stories. Critics have called it "the best American novels that they have ever read." Tragic love of a romantic girl and rich man shocked contemporaries and will touch the hearts of readers at all times. The...

“History of the Caliph Vathek” was a Gothic novel. Once upon a time one merchant delivered several numbers of shiny sabers with incomprehensible inscriptions on it. In order not to be blinded by the glitter, Vatek examined inscriptions through colored glass, couldn’t understand its meaning....

  Stendhal's orginal descriptions of war were an inspration to Tolstoy who developed them in War and Peace. The way Stendhal treats war is higly recognizable because of it's bitter irony about war and its resuts. The main hero Fabrice del Longo is ready to join Napoleon's army during...

Stanley J. Weyman (August 7, 1855 – April 10, 1928) was an English novelist, who is well-known by his work “Under the Red Robe”. Sometimes he was referred to as a “Prince of Romance”. His works had a great influence on a lot of writers. Graham Green was a great admirer of Weyman, whom he...

“The Vampire's Fourth Story. Of A Woman Who Told The Truth” is a tale, included in “Vikram and The Vampire” - a group of tales, translated and adapted by Sir Richard Burton. The story turns chiefly on a great king named Vikram, the King Arthur of the East, who in pursuance of his promise to...