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Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. He wrote many short stories and novels based on his early adventurous canoe voyages, which were serialized in Cavalier, Western Story Magazine, Argosy, Munsey’s and Mystery and then published as novels....

Meredith Nicholson (December 9, 1866 – December 22, 1947) was a best-selling author from Indiana, United States, a politician, and a diplomat. He wrote Short Flights in 1891, and continued to publish extensively, both poetry and prose until 1928. During the first quarter of the 20th century, Nicholson,...

Maria Thompson Daviess (November 25, 1872 - September 3, 1924) was an American novelist and artist, best known for her popular novels written with a "Pollyanna" outlook. Daviess was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky in 1872. After her father died when she was eight, her family relocated...

Frederick Philip Grove (February 14, 1879 – September 9, 1948) was a German-born Canadian novelist and translator. He was a prolific translator in Germany, working under his original name Felix Paul Greve and posing as a dandy, before he left Berlin to start a new life in North America in late July...

Sara Ware Bassett (1872–1968) was a prolific American author of fiction and nonfiction. Her novels primarily deal with New England characters, and most of them are set in two fictional Cape Cod villages she created, Belleport and Wilton. Her first novel, "Mrs. Christy's Bridge Party",...

El libro Cuentos de Chéjov, reúne 101 grandes relatos del famoso escritor ruso Antón Pávlovich Chéjov (1860 ― 1904.) Encuadrable en la corriente naturalista, fue el gran maestro del relato corto, siendo considerado como uno de los más importantes...

Neil Munro (1863 – 1930) was a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author and literary critic. He is now mainly known for his humorous short stories, originally written under the pen name Hugh Foulis. The best known were about the fictional Clyde puffer the Vital Spark and her captain Para Handy,...

Herman Whitaker (1867–1919) was a Californian writer. His books include: 'The Probationer' (1905), 'The Settler' (1906), 'The Planter' (1909), and 'The Mystery of the Barranca' (1913) among many others. In this ebook: The Settler Over the Border The Mystery of The Barranca

Alexandre Dumas (Villers-Cotterêts, 1802 - Puys, cerca de Dieppe, 1870), conocido como Alejandro Dumas, fue un novelista y dramaturgo francés. Su hijo, Alexandre Dumas fue también un escritor conocido. Dumas escribió las clásicas novelas Los Tres Mosqueteros (1844),...

Henry James (Nueva York, 15 de abril de 1843 – Londres, 28 de febrero de 1916) fue un escritor y crítico literario estadounidense de finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX, conocido por sus novelas y relatos basados en la técnica del punto de vista, que le permite el análisis...

Heinrich Mann (* 27. März 1871 in Lübeck; † 11. März 1950 in Santa Monica, Kalifornien) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller und der ältere Bruder von Thomas Mann, in dessen Schatten er stets stand. Ab 1930 war er Präsident der Preußischen Akademie der Künste,...

Richard Marsh ( 1857 – 1915) was the pseudonym of the British author born Richard Bernard Heldmann. A best-selling and prolific author of the Victorian fin de siècle and the early Edwardian period, Marsh's success rivalled that of contemporary writers of popular fiction such as Marie Corelli....

Hector Malot (20 May 1830 - 17 July 1907) was a French writer born in La Bouille, Seine-Maritime. He studied law in Rouen and Paris, but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic critic for Lloyd Francais and as a literary critic for L'Opinion Nationale.   His first book,...

Rhoda Broughton (29 November 1840 – 5 June 1920) was a novelist and short story writer.  Rhoda Broughton was born in Denbigh in North Wales on 29 November 1840. She was the daughter of the Rev. Delves Broughton, youngest son of the Rev. Sir Henry Delves-Broughton, 8th baronet. She developed...