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Ada Leverson ( 1862 – 1933) was a British writer who is now known primarily for her work as a novelist. She began writing during the 1890s, as a contributor to Black and White, Punch, and The Yellow Book. She was a loyal friend to Oscar Wilde, who called her Sphinx. She was a wit, and a...

Maurice Baring (27 April 1874 – 14 December 1945) was an English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent. During World War I Baring served in the Intelligence Corps and Royal Air Force. In this ebook:...

Robert Lee Frost (1874 – 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life...

Cartas a Milena trata de la correspondencia que el escritor Franz Kafka dirigió a Milena Jesenská entre los años 1920 y 1922. La relación epistolar iniciada en un tono de simpatía amistosa y casi profesional, fue señalando las etapas de un amor torturado,...

Poul William Anderson (1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious...

El gran poeta nicaragüense Rubén Darío, nació en el año  en Metapa, Nicaragua.  En esos  años de su vida Rubén Darío se transformó en el centro de gravitación del modernismo hispanoamericano. En  a los doce años...

Lyman Frank Baum (1856 – 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems,...

Los piratas, desde Barbanegra hasta  Jack Sparrow, han dominado el imaginario humano tanto en tradiciones orales, libros y películas como los máximos representantes de las aventuras, el peligro y la lucha por la vida. En esta colección traemos una serie de novelas que han...

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (Edimburgo, Escocia, 13 de noviembre de 1850 - Vailima, cerca de Apia, Samoa, 3 de diciembre de 1894) fue un novelista, poeta y ensayista escocés. Stevenson, que padecía de tuberculosis, solo llegó a cumplir 44 años; sin embargo, su legado...

Rosalía de Castro (Santiago de Compostela, 24 de febrero de 1837 — Padrón, 15 de julio de 1885) fue una poetisa y novelista española que escribió tanto en lengua gallega como en lengua española. Considerada en la actualidad como un ente indispensable en el panorama...

El Amadís de Gaula es una obra maestra de la literatura medieval fantástica en castellano y el más famoso de los llamados libros de caballerías, que tuvieron una enorme aceptación durante el siglo XVI en la península Ibérica. El Amadís...

Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 – 1949) was an American writer. He was the author of more than forty children's books. Bailey's writing has been thus described by the Newark Evening News: "Mr. Bailey centered all his plots in the animal, bird and insect worlds, weaving natural history into the stories...

Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade (1860 – 1936) was an famous American writer, prolific author, particularly of children's fiction. •           Our little indian cousin, (1901) •          ...

Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner Lowndes, (1868 – 1947), was a prolific English novelist. Active from 1898 until her death, she had a literary reputation for combining exciting incident with psychological interest. Her most famous novel, The Lodger (1913), based on the Jack the Ripper...