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William Congreve was an English playwright and poet. He wrote the most popular English plays and comedies of the late 17th century called “restoration” period. His career wasn’t long. After the period when he was poet, Congreve's career shifted to the political sector, where he held various...

John Francis Campbell was a Scottish author, mostly known as a collector of folklore. Inspired by the work of the Grimm brothers and by Scandinavian scholars, John Campbell used his fluent Gaelic to study the Gaelic oral tradition. He spent years in the field eliciting these stories from people in...

Wilkie Collins was an English writer, a founder of the “sensational” novel that divided to adventure and detective genre. He was an admitted master of intrigue and exciting plot with a comprehensive description of the character’s psychology. In his novels Wilkie kept up the gothic way of narration:...

“Hide and Seek” is the third published novel of Wilkie Collins. The plot is twisted and falls into two parts: the story of Madonna and the story of Matthew and his discovery of her. The book mainly tells us a story of Madonna Grice whose mother died while the birth of Mary (Madonna). She hasn’t...

“A Terribly Strange Bed” is a story that tells us about the luck and how deceptive and dangerous it can be. The narrator works as a traveling portrait-painter. The pursuit of his calling has led him all through England, has taken him twice to Scotland and once to Ireland. This way of life brings...

“Blind love” was an unfinished novel because of the death of the author. It was completed by Walter Besant. It was published in 1890. This novel had an action-packed plot. It was based on the classical aspects - a romantic love, a secret intrigue and an unexpected revelation. This novel would...

Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (tradicionalmente llamado Lope de Vega, Lope; 25/11/1562, Madrid - 08/27/1635 Madrid) - dramaturgo español, poeta, novelista, el mayor representante de la protorealizma humanista en España. El autor de 3000 sonetos, tres novelas, cuatro novelas cortas,...

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! ...

Manly Palmer Hall (1901 – 1990) was a Canadian author which became sufficiently known and respected as a lecture and interpreter of the ancient writings. Have you ever heard about Tarot cards? The tarot cards is a pack of playing cards (most commonly numbering 78) used from the mid-15th century...

Emperor Julian was the last pagan Roman emperor, rhetorician, and philosopher. He is also sometimes referred to as Julian II. He was a supporter of the restoration of pagan traditions, based on neo-Platonism, the enemy of Christianity. The center of the religious outlook is the cult of the sun, created...

Desiderius Erasmus was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian. Erasmus was a classical erudite who wrote in a pure Latin style. He was critical of the abuses within the Church. The author remained a member of the Roman Catholic Church during all his life....

Frances Burney was one of the most popular English novelists of the late 18th century and an important chronicler of English manners, morals, and society. At age 16, she began the diary that would chronicle personal and public events from the early reign of George III to the dawn of the Victorian...

“Stories of Great Men” is a volume of biographies of 26 great men, in alphabetical order, written by a wonderful writer Faye Huntington. The author speaks of the Christian aspect of these men. Depicting the different persons, in particular the tyrants and dictators, the author tells of some of...

Johann Wilhelm Wolf war ein deutscher Germanist und Schriftsteller.  Das goldene Königreich ist ein bekanntes Märchen von Johann Wilhelm Wolf. In dem Märchen ist die Rede von einem reichen Herr, der nur einen einzigen Sohn hat. Einmal hat sein Sohn gesagt, dass er eine Reise machen...