Tuesday, December 28, 2010

A B C Whipple

A B C Whipple (1918-now)

Addison Beecher Colvin Whipple (born 1918) is a historian and author who has written largely about oceanic subjects since the mid-1950s. He was an executive editor at Time-Life Books, and worked as a reporter for Life during the 1950s.



[Five Sermons]


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Sunday, December 26, 2010

William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells (1837-1920)

William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 May 11, 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He was known for the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day" and the novel The Rise of Silas Lapham.



[The Rise Of Silas Lapham | A Belated Guest | A Boy Town | A Chance Acquaintance | A Fearful Responsibility And Other Stories | A Foregone Conclusion | A Likely Story | A Little Swiss Sojourn | A Pair Of Patient Lovers | A Psychological Counter Current In Recent Fiction | American Literary Centers | An Open Eyed Conspiracy | Annie Kilburn | Anomalies Of The Short Story | Boy Life | Bride Roses | Buying A Horse | Cambridge Neighbors | Christmas Every Day | Confessions Of Summer Colonist | Criticism And Fiction | Dr Breen Practice | Emile Zola | Evening Dress | Fennel And Rue | Five Oclock Tea | Henry James Jr | Last Days In A Dutch Hotel | Literary Boston As I Knew It | London Films | My Literary Passions | My Mark Twain | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Quaint Courtships | Questionable Shapes | Roundabout To Boston | Seven English Cities | The Albany Depot | The Coast Of Bohemia | The Daughter Of The Storage | The Elevator | The Flight Of Pony Baker | The Garotters | The Kentons | The Lady Of The Aroostook | The Leatherwood God | The Man Of Letters As A Man Of Business | The Parlor Car | The Register]

Brooks Adams

Brooks Adams

Peter Chardon Brooks Adams (June 24, 1848, Quincy, Massachusetts - February 13, 1927, Boston), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He graduated from Harvard University in 1870 and studied at Harvard Law School in 1870 and 1871. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in predictable cycles. First, masses of people draw together in large population centers and engage in commercial activities. As their desire for wealth grows, they discard spiritual and creative values. Their greed leads to distrust and dishonesty, and eventually the society crumbles. In The Law of Civilization and Decay (1895), Adams noted that as new population centers emerged in the west, centers of world trade shifted from Constantinople to Venice to Amsterdam to London. He predicted in America's Economic Supremacy (1900) that New York would become the world trade center. Adams was a great-grandson of John Adams, a grandson of John Quincy Adams, the youngest son of U.S. diplomat Charles Francis Adams, and brother to Henry Brooks Adams, philosopher, historian, and novelist, whose theories of history were influenced by his work. His maternal grandfather was Peter Chardon Brooks, the wealthiest man in Boston at the time of his death. The 1900 US Census shows Brooks Adams as living in Quincy, Mass. The Census report also shows he married Evelyn Davis around 1890. The census does not show the couple having any children.



[The Emancipation Of Massachusetts | The Theory Of Social Revolutions]


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Saturday, December 25, 2010

A V Williams Jackson

A V Williams Jackson

Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson, L.H.D., Ph.D., LL.D. (February 9, 1862 August 8, 1937) was an American specialist on Indo-Iranian languages, born in New York City. He graduated from Columbia in 1883 and taught at Columbia University from 1895 to 1935. His grammar of Avestan, the language used in the Zoroastrian scriptures, is still considered to be the seminal work on the topic. He traveled in India, Persia, and Central Asia between 1901 and 1918.



[Free As In Freedom]


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Avram Davidson

Avram Davidson (1923-1993)

Avram Davidson (April 23, 1923 May 8, 1993) was an American Jewish writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche. He won a Hugo Award and three World Fantasy Awards in the science fiction and fantasy genre, a World Fantasy Life Achievement award, and a Queen's Award and an Edgar Award in the mystery genre. Davidson edited The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from 1962 to 1964. His last novel The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil was completed by Grania Davis and was a Nebula Award finalist in 1998. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says "he is perhaps sf's most explicitly literary author".



[Kings Evil | King Evil]

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Herman Melville

Herman Melville (1819-1891)

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Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet, whose work is often classified as part of the genre of dark romanticism. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd. His first three books gained much attention, the first becoming a bestseller, but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime. When he died in 1891, he was almost completely forgotten. It was not until the "Melville Revival" in the early 20th century that his work won recognition, especially Moby-Dick which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. He was the first writer to have his works collected and published by the Library of America.



[Bartleby El Escribiente | Bartleby The Scrivener | Benito Cereno | Moby Dick | Redburn | Typee | Battle Pieces And Aspects Of The War | Billy Budd | I And My Chimney | Israel Potter | John Marr And Other Poems | The Piazza Tales]

Adelbert Von Chamisso

Adelbert Von Chamisso

Adelbert Von Chamisso

Adelbert von Chamisso (January 30, 1781 - August 21, 1838) was a German poet and botanist.



[Peter Schlemihl Wundersame Geschichte | The Marvellous History Of The Shadowless Man And The Cold Heart]


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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

William Canton

William Canton

William Canton (27 October 1845 2 May 1926) was a British poet, journalist and writer, now best known for his contributions to children's literature. These include his series of three books, beginning with The Invisible Playmate, written for his daughter Winifred Vida (1891-1901). In his lifetime he was known for his use of recent archeological evidence of prehistory in his poetry.



[A Child Book Of Saints]

Constantin Virgil Banescu

Constantin Virgil Banescu

Virgil">Constantin Virgil Banescu (born May 26, 1982 in Trgovite, Romania - died August 12, 2009), notable Romanian poet of the 2000 generation, also known for his translation activity.


Virgil's Books:


[Georgiques | The Aeneid Of Virgil I Vi | Bucolica | The Aeneid | The Bucolics And Ecloges english | The Bucolics And Ecloges | The Georgics english | The Georgics in Latin]

Emilia Pardo Bazn

Emilia Pardo Bazn (1851-1921)

Emilia Pardo Bazn (16 September 1851 12 May 1921) (also known as Emilia, countess de Pardo Bazn) was a Galician author and scholar.



[Los Pazos De Ulloa]

Alejandro Aura

Alejandro Aura

Alejandro Aura was a Mexican writer, essayist, poet, playwright and actor, as well as a culture promoter and television host.


Aura's Books:


[Vuosisatojen Perinto 1 | Vuosisatojen Perinto 2]

Monday, December 20, 2010

George Wood Wingate

George Wood Wingate (1840-1928)

George Wood Wingate (18401928) was an American lawyer and organizer of rifle practice. During the Civil War he served in a New York regiment, and later supervised the construction of elevated railways in Brooklyn. In 1867 Wingate drew up rules for systematic rifle practice by Company A, 22d regiment, New York National Guard, of which he was then captain. The publication of these rules (the first of the kind to be formulated in the United States) led to the organization (in 1871) of the National Rifle Association of America



[A Report On The Feasibility And Advisability Of Some Policy | The Last Campaign Of The Twenty Second Regiment N G S N Y]


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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Caroline Lee Hentz

Caroline Lee Hentz

Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz (1800-1856) was an American novelist and author, most noted for her opposition to the abolitionist movement and her widely-read rebuttal to the popular anti-slavery book Uncle Tom's Cabin. She was a major literary figure in her day, and helped advance women's fiction.



[Ernest Linwood | Helen And Arthur | The Planter Northern Bride]


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Daniel Robinson Hundley

Daniel Robinson Hundley

Daniel is the central protagonist of the Book of Daniel. According to the biblical book, at a young age Daniel was carried off to Babylon where he became famous for interpreting dreams and rose to become one of the most important figures in the court.



[Social Relations In Our Southern States]

Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941)

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Evelyn Underhill (6 December 1875 15 June 1941) was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism. In the English-speaking world, she was one of the most widely read writers on such matters in the first half of the twentieth century. No other book of its type-until the appearance in 1946 of Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy-met with success to match that of her best-known work, Mysticism, published in 1911.



[Practical Mysticism | The Life Of The Spirit And The Life Of To Day]

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Laurence Janifer

Laurence Janifer

Mark Phillips was the joint pseudonym used by science fiction writers Laurence Mark Janifer and Randall Philip Garrett in the early 1960s. Together they authored several humorous short novels in the so-called "Psi-Power" series: Brain Twister, The Impossibles, and Supermind. For Brain Twister they were nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1960 (under the novel's original title, "That Sweet Little Old Lady"). They also co-authored the novel Pagan Passions with Garrett using his own name and Janifer using his Larry M. Harris pseudonym.



[Charley De Milo | Sight Gag | The Man Who Played To Lose | Wizard]


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Friday, December 17, 2010

Adam Asnyk

Adam Asnyk

Adam Asnyk

Adam Asnyk (1838-1897), was a Polish poet and dramatist. Born September 11, 1838 in Kalisz to a szlachta family, he was educated for an heir of his family's estate. As such he received education at the Institute of Agriculture and Forestry in Marymont and then the Medical Surgeon School in Warsaw. He continued his studies abroad in Breslau, Paris and Heidelberg. In 1862 he returned to Congress Poland and took part in the January Uprising against Russia. Because of that he had to flee the country and settled in Heidelberg, where in 1866 he received a doctorate of philosophy. Soon afterwards he returned to Poland and settled in the Austrian-held part of the country, initially in Lww and then in Krakw. In 1875 he married Zofia ne Kaczorowska and around that time started his career as a journalist. An editor of a Krakw-based Reforma daily, in 1884 he was also chosen to the city council of Krakw. Five years later he was elected to the Galician Sejm. Around that time he became one of the most prominent men of culture in partitioned Poland. Among his initiatives was the creation of the Society of Popular Schools and bringing the ashes of Adam Mickiewicz to Poland. He was also among the first members of the Tatra Society. He died August 2, 1897 in Krakw and was buried at the Skaka church.



[Pobudka]


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Emile Verhaeren

Emile Verhaeren

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Emile Verhaeren (21 May 1855 27 November 1916) was a Belgian poet who wrote in the French language, and one of the chief founders of the school of Symbolism. He was born in a Flemish, but French-speaking, middle-class family in Sint-Amands. Nevertheless Emile Verhaeren also spoke the local dialect (Dutch was not taught at school at that time). At the age of eleven, he was sent to a strict boarding school in Ghent run by Jesuits - The Jesuit College of Sainte Barbe, where he became completely Frenchified. He then went to study law at the University of Leuven. Here he produced his first literary efforts in a student paper. During those years, he became acquainted with like-minded students. They would later become his collaborators on the revolutionary artistic magazine "La Jeune Belgique". Having gained his PhD in Law, he became a trainee (18811884) with Edmond Picard, a renowned criminal lawyer, who also played a pivotal role on the Brussels artistic scene. Emile Verhaeren came in frequent contact with young, radical writers and artists at a time of artistic renewal. He tried only two cases before a court before deciding to dedicate his life to poetry and literature. He soon became the mouthpiece for the artistic revival at the turn of the century. Fascinated by the works of the painters of the artistic circle "Les XX", he wrote many articles in La Jeune Belgique and L'Art Moderne, with flamboyant criticism on the artistic-literary works of the Brussels art world. His articles brought many promising young talents, such as James Ensor, to the attention of the public. Through these articles, he became a lifelong friend of the Neo-impressionist Belgian painter Tho van Rysselberghe, resulting in a vast body of letters. In one of these letters, he was described by Maria van Rysselberghe, as "a unique personality, a whirlwind with an indomitable character, who didn't bother himself about bourgeois rules and who provoked or overwhelmed everybody by his straightforward directness". He was one of the most prolific poets of his era. His first collection of poems "Les Flamandes" was published in 1883. Inspired by the paintings of Jacob Jordaens, David Teniers and Jan Steen, Verhaeren described in a direct and often provocative, naturalistic way his country and the Flemish people. It was an immediate success in avant-garde milieus, but caused a great deal of controversy in Catholic circles. His next book "Les Moines" (1886) was not the success he had hoped for. This, and his health problems, led to a deep crisis. In this period he published Les Soirs (1888), Les Dbcles (1888) and Les Flambeaux noirs (1891). On 24 August 1891 he married Marthe Massin, a talented artist from Lige. His new-found happiness found expression in three poetry books : Les Heures Claires (1896), Les Heures dAprs-midi (1905) and Les Heures du Soir (1911). He wrote his first play "Les Aubes" in 1898. Here he waged a fight against social injustice and the decline of life in the countryside. In 1898 he moved to Saint-Cloud, near Paris. By the turn of the century, he had become world-famous. His works were translated into more than twenty languages. He travelled, giving lectures, throughout Europe. The outbreak of World War I had a devastating effect on the poet's deep pacifist feelings. When Emile Verhaeren died on 27 November 1916 at Rouen station (by falling under a train), it was Tho van Rysselberghe and his friend, the famous French writer (and later Nobel Prize winner) Andr Gide who had to inform Marthe Verhaeren of the death of her husband. His vast body of work shows him as one of the most prominent figures in Belgian literature. He narrowly missed the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911 (awarded to his friend Maurice Maeterlinck). St. Amands, his native city, has dedicated a museum to this giant of Belgian literature, showing many original manuscripts of his works and letters and also works of his artistic friends Tho van Rysselberghe, Leon Spilliaert, Constantin Meunier, Paul Signac and Ossip Zadkine.



[Poems Of Emile Verhaeren | Pomes | Les Heures Claires]

Carly Milne

Carly Milne

Carly Milne is a Canadian writer. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Milne started writing professionally at age 14. Two years later, she was hired by The Calgary Herald, as a columnist for "20 Below", which was geared to discussing teen issues. She contributed to several Canadian teen magazines; and at 19, she became the entertainment editor for Canada's first teen e-zine Spank! Youth Culture Online. She then created and edited the e-zine Can. Say for Molson Breweries. Can.


A Milne's Books:


[Belinda | First Plays | Happy Days | If I May | Mr Pim Passes By | Not That It Matters | Once A Week | Once On A Time | The Holiday Round | Second Plays]


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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Will Shetterly

Will Shetterly (1955-now)

Will Shetterly (1955-now)

Will Shetterly (born 1955) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction best-known for his novel Dogland (1997). The novel is inspired by his childhood at the tourist attraction Dog Land owned by his parents. He won the Minnesota Book Award for Fantasy & Science Fiction for his novel Elsewhere (1991), and was a finalist with Nevernever (1993); both books are set in Terri Windling's The Borderland Series shared universe. He has also written short stories for various Borderland anthologies.



[Dogland | Midnight Girl | The Gospel Of The Knife]


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Charles Davis Tillman

Charles Davis Tillman

Charles Davis Tillman

Charles Davis Tillman (1861 March 20, Tallassee, Alabama 1943 September 2, Atlanta, Georgia)also known as Charlie D. Tillman, Charles Tillman, Charlie Tillman, and C. D. Tillmanwas a popularizer of the gospel song. He had a knack for adopting material from eclectic sources and flowing it into the mix now known as southern gospel, becoming one of the formative influences on that genre. File:Tillman REVIVAL 2 title page. jpg Print of Tillman's photograph on the title page of Revival No.



[The Excavations Of Roman Baths At Bath]


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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Gustav Kobb

Gustav Kobb

Gustav Kobb M.A. was an American music critic and author, best known for his guide to the operas, The Complete Opera Book, first published (posthumously) in the United States in 1919 and the United Kingdom in 1922.



[How To Appreciate Music | The Loves Of Great Composers | The Pianolist]


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George Fielding Eliot

George Fielding Eliot

George Fielding Eliot (June 22, 1894 April 21, 1971) was a Second Lieutenant in the Australian army in World War I. He became a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and later a Major in the Military Intelligence Reserve of the United States Army. He was the author of 15 books on military and political matters in the 1930s through the 1960s, wrote a syndicated column on military affairs and was the military analyst on radio and on television for CBS News during World War II.



[Adam Bede | Brother Jacob | Daniel Deronda | Middlemarch | Romola | Silas Marner | The Lifted Veil | The Mill On The Floss | How Lisa Loved The King | Impressions Of Theophrastus Such | O May I Join The Choir Invisible]

Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 15 July 1904) was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practised as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress. " Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896; but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Uncle Vanya and premiered Chekhovs last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a "theatre of mood" and a "submerged life in the text. " Chekhov had at first written stories only for financial gain, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. His originality consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, later adopted by James Joyce and other modernists, combined with a disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure. He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them.



[The Murder]

Monday, December 13, 2010

Friedrich De La Motte Fouque

Friedrich De La Motte Fouque

Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqu (12 February 1777 23 January 1843) was a German writer of the romantic style.



[Aslauga Knight | Sintram And His Companions | Undine]

Charles Willeford

Charles Willeford (1919-1988)

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Charles Ray Willeford III (January 2, 1919 March 27, 1988) was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, Willeford is best known for his series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. The first Hoke Moseley book, Miami Blues (1984), is considered one of its era's most influential works of crime fiction. Film adaptations have been made of three of Willeford's novels: Cockfighter, Miami Blues, and The Woman Chaser.



[High Priest Of California | Cockfighter | Honey Gal | Pick Up | The Woman Chaser | Wild Wives]


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Sunday, December 12, 2010

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano title=

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano Basilio (1834 13 February 1893) was a Mexican writer, journalist, teacher and politician. Altamirano was born in Tixtla, Guerrero, of pure indigenous Nahua heritage. His father was the mayor of Tixtla, this allowed Ignacio to attend school there. He later studied in Toluca thanks to a scholarship that was granted him by Ignacio Ramrez, of whom he was a disciple. He founded several newspapers and magazines including El Correo de Mxico ("The Mexico Post"), El Renacimiento ("The Renaissance"), El Federalista ("The Federalist"), La Tribuna ("The Tribune") and La Repblica ("The Republic"). Altamirano was president of the Sociedad Mexicana de Geografa y Estadstica (Mexican Society for Geography and Statistics) from 1881 to 1889. He was also public prosecutor, magistrate and president of the Supreme Court, as well as senior officer of the Ministry of Public Works and the Economy.



[Clemencia | Cuentos De Invierno | El Zarco | Navidad En Las Montanas | La Navidad En Las Montanas]

Charles Allen

Charles Allen (1940-now)

Charles Allen (born 1940) is a British writer and historian. He was born in India, where several generations of his family served under the British Raj. His work focuses on India and South Asia in general. In the book Kipling Sahib, Allen paints a more sympathetic picture of Rudyard Kipling than other authors have.



[The House Of Weird Sleep]


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