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Hesketh Vernon Prichard (1876-1922) was a British writer who became a significant sniper during the First World War. This man was talented in many fields of life: he was an explorer of places where no white man had ever been before, and was a profy in cricket. His first story was published in a newspaper...

Sir Arthur Doyle was a Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor...

James Augustine Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. As with many other Joyce stories and other stories by modernist writers, 'Araby' employs a close first-person narrator describing the world...

Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. In addition to the series of stories chronicling the activities of Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr John Watson for which he is well-known, Doyle wrote on a wide range of topics, both fictional and non-fictional. Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...

Jerome Klapka Jerome, an English writer who is mostly known for as the author of the novel 'Three Men In A Boat' and 'The Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow'. Jerome's stories are full of sardonic humour and often based on his own experience anf feelings. Danes and Saxons have been enemies for a long...

Thomas Keightley (1789–1872) was an Irish writer mostly famous for his works on folklore and    mythology. His most notable works are Fairy Mythology (1850), and Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy, a work on Popular Tales and their transmission from one country to another. Among other...

Once upon a time there was a brave little man, who called Little Lasse. He sailed around the world in a pea-shell boat. One day he went to a kailyard to steal a pea stalk. The gardener heard a noise in his territory. The gardener gave him the best pea beds. Then he opened the shells with a pin, split...

Robert Barr was a Scottish- Canadian short story writer and novelist. Robert BarrТs principal talent lay in the cleverness and ingenuity of his plots, particularly in his ability to devise ironic twists to otherwise straightforward situations. Mrs. Forder is a loyal wife, who loves her husband dearly....

Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was the daughter of Patrick Sellar,  factor to the first duke of Sutherland and lawyer.    Andrew Lang helped  Henry Rider Haggard publish his novel “King Solomon’s Mines”, and wrote with him some writings. Thanks to diversity of interests he...

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...

Andrew Lang was a Scottish prolific author, mostly known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. “Adventures of an Indian Brave” is a fairy tale entered in “The Orange Fairy Book”, that was published in 1906. In the west of America once lives an old man who has a son. The country is covered...

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 Gifts of the Magician is a kind short fairy tale by Andrew Lang that focuses on the main figure who is a son of an old widower....

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist, who wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. The Kipling’s writer masterpiece characterized by portrayals of people, history, and culture of his time, so Kipling was one of the most...

Horatio Alger Jr. was a prolific 19th-century American author of boy’s adventure stories whose heroes strive to succeed through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. “Helping Himself; Or, Grant Thornton's Ambition” is a novel, first published in 1886. This book, a true rags-to-riches...