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Sherwood Anderson was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Anderson's most notable work is his collection of interrelated short stories. In his memoir, he wrote that "Hands", the opening story, was the first "real" story he...

Sherwood Anderson was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Anderson's most notable work is his collection of interrelated short stories. In his memoir, he wrote that "Hands", the opening story, was the first "real" story he...

Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) is well-known as collector of british folk and fairy tales, he was Victorian poet, novelist, academic and critic too. His poem had success, he became famous published Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors – series of twelve different colored collections...

Andrew Lang (1844 – 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. Lang was also a prolific author of works both...

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...

Robert Barr was born born in Scotland but when he was four his family moved to Canada. There he got brilliant education, and as he became interested in this field he decided to become a teacher. Most of his works were written during his teaching career, but eventually he quit his position to become...

The following series of texts was recorded by Waldemar Bogoras during the years 1900 and 1901 in various villages on the Pacific Coast of the Chukchee Peninsula, between Mariinsky Post and Uñi´sak. A number of tales are here given with interlinear translation and free translation. The...

Shikibu Izumi (和泉式部) Japanese poet and lady-in-waiting; year of her death is unknown, with the last Imperial correspondence from her being in 1033. Izumi's talent was recognized in her lifetime, but her reputation continued to grow after her death, and now she is considered one of the greatest...

The school was assembled for evening prayers, some threescore boys representing, for the most part, the well-to-do middle class of a manufacturing county. Humplebee was thin, a red-headed boy of sixteen, whose plain, freckled face denoted good-humour and a certain intelligence. He looked confused....

«George Robert Gissing (1857 - 1903) was a famous English novelist. Throughout his life also worked as a teacher, tutor. Best known in the literary world for his first novel "Workers in the Dawn" in the 1880. Great recognition achieved due to his novels which are published in modern...

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...