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Thomas Keightley (1789–1872) was an Irish writer mostly famous for his works on folklore and    mythology. His most notable works are Fairy Mythology (1850), and Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy, a work on Popular Tales and their transmission from one country to another. Among other...

Walter Crane was primarily a designer and book illustrator, specialising in children's books, who created the colorful and detailed images, that associate with famous characters nowadays. “The Frog Prince” is the illustrated story about beautiful, but spoiled princess, who once was playing with...

Walter Crane was an English artist and book illustrator. He, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, are considered the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the latter...

Walter Crane was primarily a designer and book illustrator, specialising in children's books, who created the colorful and detailed images, that associate with famous characters nowadays. “Aladdin” is a famous fairy tale, entered in “The Book of One Thousand and One Nights” ("The Arabian...

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford , also known as Horace Walpole, was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician.‪‬‬‬‬ He is now largely remembered for Strawberry Hill, the home he built in Twickenham, south-west London where he revived the Gothic style some...

Ivanhoe is a historical novel written by Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet Sir Walter Scott, published in 1820 and set in 12th-century England. It is appreciated for increasing interest in romance and medievalism. Ivanhoe is a story of one of the remaining Saxon noble families when...

John Milton (1608-1674) was an English poet and polemicist. Moreover, John Milton was a man of letters and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. His poetry and prose describe deep individual persuasions, an aspiration for freedom and self-determination, important points...

John Milton (1608-1674) was an English poet and polemicist. Moreover, John Milton was a man of letters and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. His poetry and prose describe deep individual persuasions, an aspiration for freedom and self-determination, important points...

Moliere was a pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-167), a French playwright who worked primarily in the comedy genre. He is considered to be the founding father of the classical comedy. He was an actor himself and also ran a theatre named 'Troupe de Moliere'. Jean-Baptiste was brought up in...

Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive...

Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive...

Washington Irving was one of the first romantics in the American literature. Irving stood at the origins of the new romantic genre in the American literature, and his essays were influenced by folklore, historical documents, sketches, legends, and national fairy tales. Being the employee of the American...

Don't think you'll get away from Huck and his friend Tom so easily! This time Huckleberry is the main character and he is determined to save his friend Jim from slavery. Tom is also here but he knows something others yet do not. The Afro-American Jim will suffer many hardships and strange adventures...

Arthur George Morrison was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End. That Brute Simmons explores the theme of family relation. This story begins with portraying an example of a good conscientious wife whose name is Mrs....