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May Agnes Fleming (November 15, 1840 - March 24, 1880) was a Canadian novelist. She was "one of the first Canadians to pursue a highly successful career as a writer of popular fiction." In this ebook: A Mad Marriage. A Novel. One Night's Mystery. A Novel....

Frederick Merrick White (1859-1935) wrote a number of novels and short stories under the name "Fred M. White" including the six 'Doom of London' science-fiction stories, in which various catastrophes beset London. These include The Four Days' Night (1903), in which London is beset by a massive...

Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (Salto, 31 de diciembre de 1878 – Buenos Aires, 19 de febrero de 1937) fue un cuentista, dramaturgo y poeta uruguayo. Fue el maestro del cuento latinoamericano, de prosa vívida, naturalista y modernista. Sus relatos breves, que a menudo retratan a...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley - E. C. Bentley (10 July 1875 – 30 March 1956) was a popular English novelist and humorist of the early twentieth century, and the inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics. One of the best known is this (1905): His detective...

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, (January 15, 1622 – February 17, 1673) was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature.] Among Molière's best-known works are Le Misanthrope (The Misanthrope),...

Josephine Tey and Gordon Daviot,  were  de pseudonyms used by Elizabeth Mackintosh (25 July 1896–13 February 1952) a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels. She also wrote as Gordon Daviot, under which name she wrote plays with an historical theme. In 1990, The Daughter...

Bess Streeter Aldrich (February 17, 1881 – August 3, 1954) was an American author. Streeter was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She went on to become one of the highest-paid women writers. Her stories often concerned Midwestern pioneer history and were very popular with teenage girls and young women....

Ellis Parker Butler ( 1869 –  1937) was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story "Pigs Is Pigs", in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment...

Frederick John Niven,  (born March 31, 1878, Valparaíso, Chile—died Jan. 30, 1944, Vancouver, B.C., Can.), was a regional novelist who wrote more than 30 novels, many of them historical romances, set in Scotland and Canada. Three of his best-known novels—The Flying Years (1935), Mine...

Arthur Cecil Gask (10 July 1869—25 June 1951), dentist and novelist, was born on 10 July 1869 at St Marylebone, London, fourth of five children of Charles Gask, merchant, and his wife Fanny, née Edis. He began writing crime fiction while waiting for his patients and in 1921 paid for...

Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred. Benson's first book was Sketches from Marlborough. He started his novel writing career with the...

Este libro es una recopilación de mensajes de texto que Septiembre y yo nos enviamos con apasionada urgencia y anticipación en nuestra búsqueda hacia Ítaca. Es una pasión de amor entre dos mujeres que se ven por primera vez, pero que ya se esperaban. Necesitábamos reconocernos en lo que...

La ópera (del italiano opera, "obra musical") designa, desde aproximadamente el año 1650, un género de música teatral en el que una acción escénica es armonizada, cantada y tiene acompañamiento instrumental (en algunas ocasiones con pequeños...

La ópera (del italiano opera, "obra musical") designa, desde aproximadamente el año 1650, un género de música teatral en el que una acción escénica es armonizada, cantada y tiene acompañamiento instrumental (en algunas ocasiones con pequeños...