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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. Preferring romance over realism, he admired...

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were german folklorists who lived in the 18th-19th centuries. They are mostly famous for collecting and publishing fairy-tales. Nowadays it's hard to find a person who hasn't heard about Cinderella, Rapunzel or Snow White! The central figures of this story are Adam...

Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856 – 1923) was an American educator and author of children's stories. One of her most notable classic children's novel is Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm even now considered to be the most popular one. This brief story by Kate Douglas Wiggin describes a wonderful journey of a little...

Charles Kingsley was an English priest, historian and novelist, famous mostly for his works Hypatia, Hereward the Wake and Westward Ho! Due to his interest in history, Kingsley wrote several historical novels and achieved a great success after publishing his works Hereward the Wake and Westward Ho! ...

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...

Story of the Prince's Friend is a fairy tale included in Tibetan folk tales. AWAY, away up in the mountains was a village. In this village lived a very wise king, who had one son. Near village  flowed a river, up above was a big pond from which came the water that irrigated their fields. In a...

Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Остро́вский — русский драматург, творчество которого стало важнейшим этапом развития русского национального театра. Член-корреспондент...

Andrew Lang was a Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. Lang gave many of the tales their first appearance in English.  Andrew Lang's Fairy Books — are a series of twelve collections of fairy tales. Each volume is distinguished by...

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...

In a suburb of the city was a man, who was chemist by examination. He was 38 years old and he was unmarried. For some years, he had pondered matrimony, though without fixing his affections on any particular person. It was plain, indeed, that he ought to marry. Every tradesman is made more respectable...

George Gissing was an English author considered as one of the most important novelist and short story writer of the late Victorian period. His works are distinguished by naturalistic description of the urban poverty and underclass, the vulgarity of contemporary civilization and the commercialization...

George Gissing was an English author considered as one of the most important novelist and short story writer of the late Victorian period. “The Prize Lodger” is a short story, entered in the collection “Human Odds and Ends: Stories and Sketches”, published in 1898. Together with other Gissing's...

«George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English writer whose works belonged to the literary movement of naturalism. In his books George Gissing revealed the social topics and depicted the life of lower classes of the English society. His main characters often were poor people, drifters and prostitutes...

The author narrated a story of one young woman. She was about 28 years old, she finished studying in the university, she was clever, she knew a great number of important people, she had a quiet decision of speech and manner which was found very impressive in Wattleborough drawing-rooms. Every dweller...