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Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832 – 1899) was a prolific American author of the 19-th century. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age. Alger best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys...

James Otis Kaler (1848 — 1912), known under pen name James Otis, was an American journalist and author of children’s literature, published over the 150 books for young readers. The adventure, patriotic biographies and historical books that had great appeal for boy readers, were intended for classroom...

Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856 – 1923) was a famous American educator and author well known for children's stories. The highest rank of her literary experience became most notable classic children's novel named “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” which brought her the world recognition and popularity. “Penelope's...

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. “Mrs. Chinchilla, The Tale of the Cat” is a story about a lovely beautiful...

Maxim Gorky was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the Socialist realism literary method and a political activist. Around fifteen years before success as a writer, he frequently changed jobs and roamed across the Russian Empire; these experiences would later influence his writing. Gorky's most...

Andrew Lang was a Scottish prolific author, mostly known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. “The Blue Parrot” is a French fairy tale entered in “The Olive Fairy Book”, that was published in 1907. The story tells about the king of Arabia, named Lino, who is the young wise ruler. The...

Andrew Lang (1844 – 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology, best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. “The White Slippers” is a short kind story written by Andrew Lang about a king who loved hunting and it was his custom to spend...

Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817・896) little known folk tale's translator and contributor The Times newspaper. He was born 22 May 1817 at St. Vincent, west Indies, in family of John Roche Dasent who was attorney general. He was educated at Westminster School, King's College, London. And continued it...

Joseph Rudyard Kipling   was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Не was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children, and he also...

Fujiwara no Sadaie, (藤原定家; 1162 – 26 September 1241) better known as Fujiwara no Teika, was a the late Heian and early Kamakura period's Japanese poet, novelist, scribe, critic, anthologist, scholar, and calligrapher. His the most famous works are “Hyakunin issu” (百人一首; “Single...

Enoch Arnold Bennett (May 27, 1867 – March 27, 1931) was an English writer and journalist. His most famous works are the “Clayhanger” trilogy and “The Old Wives' Tale”. These books draw on his experience of life in the Potteries, where he was born. Bennett won the 1923 James Tait Black Memorial...

George Meredith is an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era, whose novels are noted for their wit, brilliant dialogue, and aphoristic quality of language. Meredith’s novels also contain his psychological studies of character and a highly subjective view of life that, far ahead of his time,...

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...