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Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film (font. Wikipedia) 続きを見る

The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th centur……続きを見る

Night and Day is a novel by Virginia Woolf first published on 20 October 1919. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives and romantic attachments of two acquaintances, Kathari……続きを見る

The Island of Sheep (1936) is a novel by John Buchan. It is the last of his novels to revolve around Richard Hannay and Sandy Arbuthnot.] The novel was published in the United States under the title……続きを見る

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book ……続きを見る

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol and one ye……続きを見る

Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901) was an English novelist known for her huge output, now mostly out of print. The story, published in 1884, is set during the reign of Henry VIII. Ambrose and Stephen ……続きを見る

The play Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among S……続きを見る

Silas Marner is one of the characters "suspicious whose whole life is guided by the need to find an external object to which to lean" suddenly robbed of the accumulated treasure, she becomes the obj……続きを見る

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second and final novel by the English author Anne Brontë It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Brontës' ……続きを見る

A los cincuenta y cinco años, Joseph Conrad recibió de su amigo y escritor Fox Madox Fox la propuesta de redactar sus memorias para la revista "English Review". El resultado es "Crónica personal", u……続きを見る

Richard Austin Freeman (11 April 1862 – 28 September 1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He claimed to have invent……続きを見る

American editor and author of works of fantastic fiction of some interest. Originally trained in law, he turned to journalism, first as a correspondent, and later as editor. In 1917, published his f……続きを見る

British novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement. He captured the epoch just before the railways and the industrial revolution changed the English countryside. His works are……続きを見る

The daughter of a Welsh gypsy and a crazy bee-keeper, Hazel Woodus is happiest living in her forest cottage in the remote Shropshire hills, at one with the winds and seasons, protector and friend of……続きを見る

English novelist, credited with writing the first mystery. Wilkie (William) Collins was born in London on January 8, 1824. His father (also called William) was a landscape painter, but it seems his ……続きを見る

**With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)** “NUMBER 1 in Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century” “Ulysses ……続きを見る

Beyond the City (1892) is a Novel by Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 続きを見る

The picture of Dorian Gray is a novel by Oscar Wilde. This work, as well as many others, is inspired by the legend of Faust. The novel is set in Victorian London of the 19th century, who at the time……続きを見る

The Captain's Doll is a short story or novella by the English author D. H. Lawrence. It was written in 1921 and first published by Martin Secker in March 1923 in a volume withThe Ladybird and The Fo……続きを見る

Thomas Penson De Quincey (15 August 1785 – 8 December 1859) was an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821).[ Many scholars suggest that in publishing this w……続きを見る

Charlotte Mary Yonge (11 August 1823 – 24 May 1901) was an English novelist known for her huge output, now mostly out of print. 続きを見る

“The Shah’s English Gardener” is a short dark novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell, the writer of the Victorian age. 続きを見る

American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton was friend and confidante to many gifted intellectuals of her time: Henry James, Sinclair Lewis, Jean Cocteau and André Gide were all gue……続きを見る

Guy Thorne was the pen name of Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull, a prolific English journalist and novelist best known for his novel When It Was Dark: The Story of A Great Conspiracy (1903). He also ……続きを見る

Morning-room in Algernon’s flat in Half-Moon Street. The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished. The sound of a piano is heard in the adjoining room. [Lane is arranging afternoon tea on the ……続きを見る

Castle Dangerous (1831) was the last of Walter Scott's novels published in his lifetime. It is part of Tales of My Landlord, 4th series. 続きを見る

The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is the story of Lily Bart, a well-born, but penniless woman of the high society of New York City, who was raised and educated to become wife to a rich ma……続きを見る

British novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement. He captured the epoch just before the railways and the industrial revolution changed the English countryside. His works are……続きを見る

“The moorland cottage” is a very moving and emotional story written by Elizabeth Gaskell in 1850. Mrs Browne and her children, Edward and Maggie, lives with their elderly servant, Nancy, in a cottag……続きを見る