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Anna Maynard Barbour (died May 10, 1941) was an American author of best-selling fiction. A 1903 article in the The Atlantic Monthly stated that "A. Maynard Barbour has been generally hailed as the most successful of American writers of mystery.... Leer más

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 – 1942), called "Maud" by family and friends and publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Anne of Green... Leer más

Maria Antonietta Torriani (1840 – 1920) è stata una scrittrice italiana. Con lo pseudonimo di Marchesa Colombi entrò nella storia del romanzo popolare e del femminismo. • La cartella n.4 (1880) • Cara speranza (1888) • Senz'amore (1883) • Tempesta e... Leer más

Mark Clifton (1906–1963) was an American science fiction writer. Clifton began publishing during May 1952 with the widely anthologized story "What Have I Done?". Clifton's other most popular short story is "Star Bright," the... Leer más

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... Leer más

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... Leer más

Yei Theodora Ozaki (1871 – 1932) was an early 20th-century translator of Japanese short stories and fairy tales. Her translations were fairly liberal but have been popular, and were reprinted several times after her death. Ozaki came from an unusual... Leer más

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) better known as G.K. Chesterton, was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist.... Leer más

Otis Adelbert Kline (1891–1946) born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, was an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Much of his work first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. Kline was an amateur orientalist and a student of Arabic,... Leer más

In this ebooK: THE QUEEN OF SPADES A.S. Pushkin THE CLOAK N.V. Gogol THE DISTRICT DOCTOR I.S. Turgenev THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING F.M. Dostoyevsky GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS L.N. Tolstoy HOW A MUZHIK FED TWO OFFICIALS M.Y. Saltykov THE... Leer más

May Agnes Fleming (November 15, 1840 - March 24, 1880) was a Canadian novelist. She was "one of the first Canadians to pursue a highly successful career as a writer of popular fiction." In this ebook: A Mad Marriage. A Novel. One... Leer más

George Oliver Onions (13 November 1873 – 9 April 1961) was an English novelist who published over forty novels and story collections. Onions wrote detective fiction, social comedy and historical fiction; Poor Man's Tapestry (1946) and its prequel,... Leer más

Don Diego de Zama è un oscuro funzionario della corona spagnola di fine Settecento: relegato ad Asunción, in Paraguay, vive lontano dalla famiglia, appeso alla flebile speranza di una promozione per cui è disposto a tutto, ma che tarda ad arrivare.... Leer más

Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (April 4, 1902 – December 14, 1935) was an American science fiction author. His career in science fiction was short but influential. His first story, "A Martian Odyssey", was published to great (and enduring)... Leer más

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832) was a German writer and politician. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic... Leer más

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (17 april 1998 0 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian physician, dramaturge and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best... Leer más

Antonio Ghislanzoni (1824 – 1893) è stato un librettista, poeta e scrittore italiano. Il suo nome è legato soprattutto al libretto dell'Aida di Giuseppe Verdi, col quale collaborò anche alle revisioni della Forza del destino e di Don Carlos.... Leer más

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 – November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who portrayed the changing world of the contemporary south. Glasgow's first novel, The Descendant (1897) was written in secret and published anonymously.... Leer más

Frederick John Niven, (born March 31, 1878, Valparaíso, Chile—died Jan. 30, 1944, Vancouver, B.C., Can.), was a regional novelist who wrote more than 30 novels, many of them historical romances, set in Scotland and Canada. Three of his best-known... Leer más

James Branch Cabell (1879  – 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the... Leer más