John Ulrich Giesy was an American physician, novelist and author. He was one of the early writers in the Sword and Planet genre, with his Jason Croft series.He collaborated with Junius B. Smith on m……続きを見る
Mary Austin was a novelist and essayist who wrote about Native American culture and social problems. This book contains: - The Land Of Little Rain. - Water Trails Of The Ceriso. - The Scavengers. - ……続きを見る
Margaret Oliphant was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works encompass "domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatur……続きを見る
Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dunbar began to write stories and verse when still a child; he was president of his hig……続きを見る
R. Austin Freemanwas a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He claimed to have invented the inverted detective story (a crime f……続きを見る
E. Phillips Oppenheim published over 150 books and countless magazine stories. While most often identified as a mystery writer, Oppenheim's novels range from spy thrillers to romance. All of them ha……続きを見る
B. M. Bower, was an American author who wrote novels, fictional short stories, and screenplays about the American Old West. Her works, featuring cowboys and cows of the Flying U Ranch in Montana, re……続きを見る
Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and mean……続きを見る
T. S. Arthur had great importance in popularizing the temperance movement - which criticized the abusive consumption of alcohol and denounced its harmful effects on the individual and society. The a……続きを見る
Charlotte Riddell was one of the first women to write fiction about London City life and the world of business. She also wrote children's stories, tales of her native Ireland, and supernatural tales……続きを見る
Stephen Leacock sees the comic of social situations. His writing exposes the incongruity between appearance and reality in human conduct, and his work is characterized by the invention of lively com……続きを見る
Flaxman Low is a fictional character created by British authors Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard and his mother Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard, published under the pseudonyms "H. Heron" and "E. Heron". Low is ……続きを見る
La colección 7 mejores cuentos - selección especial trae lo mejor de la literatura mundial, organizada en antologías temáticas.En este volumen te traemos grandes nombres de la vibrante literatura cu……続きを見る
Sherwood Anderson's prose style was based on everyday speech. Anderson was also one of the first American authors to introduce new insights from psychology, based on Freudian Analysis. His writing h……続きを見る
Robert W. Chambers is best known for the King in Yellow Mythos. The strangeness and bleak horror of his universe inspired many after him, such as H. P. Lovecraft and the first season of TV series Tr……続きを見る
La serie de libros "7 mejores cuentos" presenta los grandes nombres de la literatura en lengua española.Regina Alcalde de Zafra fue una escritora española. A lo largo de su vida colaboró en la Revis……続きを見る
Packard's experiences working on the railroad led to his writing many railroad stories, then to a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale. The crit……続きを見る
Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and mean……続きを見る
Wilhelm Hauff was a German poet and novelist best known for his fairy tales. Considering his brief life, Hauff was an extraordinarily prolific writer. The freshness and originality of his talent, hi……続きを見る
W. C. Morrow was an American writer, now noted mainly for his short stories of horror and suspense. He is probably best known for the much-anthologised story "His Unconquerable Enemy", about the imp……続きを見る
Flora Annie Steel was interested in relating to all classes of Indian society. The birth of her daughter gave her a chance to interact with local women and learn their language. She encouraged the p……続きを見る
This book brings together seven of the best short stories by Leo Tolstoy, one of the greatest writers in world literature. In them, the Russian author masterfully portrays the complexity of human na……続きを見る
George Ade's greatest recognition came with Fables in Slang (1899), a national best-seller that was followed by a weekly syndicated fable and by 11 other books of fables. The fables, which contained……続きを見る
La serie de libros "7 mejores cuentos" presenta los grandes nombres de la literatura en lengua española. Aleksandr Nikoláyevich Afanásiev fue un destacado folclorista ruso de la época y el primero e……続きを見る
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford was one of the United States's most widely-published authors, her career spanned more than six decades and included many literary genres, such as short stories, p……続きを見る
Henry Handel Richardson, pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson, Australian novelist whose trilogy The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, combining description of an Australian immigrant's life and……続きを見る
Mór Jókai was a Hungarian novelist, dramatist and revolutionary. Jókai's romantic novels became very popular among the elite of Victorian era England; he was often compared to Dickens in the 19th ce……続きを見る
Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and mean……続きを見る
Selma Lagerlöf won the Nobel Prize "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination, and spiritual perception that characterize her writings". During her acceptance speech, she remained hum……続きを見る
Born in Sicily, Italy, Giovanni Verga was one of the creators of Verismo. Verismo is an Italian literary movement that emerged between 1875 and 1895, based on the works of writers and poets who cons……続きを見る
