Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Gabriel Snac De Meilhan

Gabriel Snac De Meilhan

Gabriel Snac de Meilhan (May 7, 1736 August 16, 1803) was a French writer.



[Lmigr]

Arthur Mee A Hammerton Eds

Arthur Mee A Hammerton Eds

Arthur Mee (21 July 1875 - 27 May 1943) was a British writer, journalist and educator. He is best known for The Harmsworth Self-Educator, The Children's Encyclopaedia, The Children's Newspaper, and The King's England. He produced other works, usually with a patriotic tone, especially on the subjects of history or the countryside.



[The World Greatest Books | The Worlds Greatest Books]


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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Abioseh Nicol

Abioseh Nicol (1924-1994)

Abioseh Davidson Nicol (14 September 1924 - 20 September 1994) was a Sierra Leonean academic, diplomat, physician, writer and poet. He has been considered as one of Sierra Leones most educated citizens of recent times, as he was able to secure degrees on the art, science and commercial disciplines.



[Trade And Travel In The Far East]


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Monday, August 2, 2010

Carmen Baroja

Carmen Baroja

Carmen Baroja Nessi (Pamplona, 1883 - 4 June 1950, Madrid), Spanish writer and ethnologist who wrote under the pseudonym Vera Alzate. She was the sister of the writers Ricardo and Pio Baroja, and mother of the anthropologist Julio Caro Baroja and film director Pio Caro Baroja.



[Zalacain El Aventurero]

Wace

Wace

Wace

Wace (c. 1115 - c. 1183) was an Anglo-Norman poet, who was born in Jersey and brought up in mainland Normandy (he tells us in the Roman de Rou that he was taken as a child to Caen), ending his career as Canon of Bayeux.


Wace's Books:


[Arthurian Chronicles Roman De Brut]


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Dan Andersson

Dan Andersson (1888-1920)

Daniel "Dan" Andersson (born 6 April 1888 in Skattlsberg, Grangrde parish, Dalarna, Sweden, died 16 September 1920 in Stockholm) was a Swedish author and poet. He also set some of his own poems to music. Andersson married primary school teacher Olga Turesson, the sister of artist Gunnar Turesson, in 1918. A nom de plume he sometimes used was Black Jim. Andersson is counted among the Swedish proletarian authors, but his works are not limited to that genre.



[David Ramms Arv]


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Sunday, August 1, 2010

Alexandre Dumas Pere

Alexandre Dumas Pere

Alexandre Dumas, pre, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (24 July 1802 5 December 1870) was a French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were originally serialized. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent.



[Ali Pacha The Countess Of Saint Geran Murat | Derues And La Constantin | Joan Of Naples The Man In The Iron Mask And Martin Guerre | Marquise De Brinvilliers Vaninka Marquise De Ganges | Mary Stuart 1587 | Massacres Of The South 1551 1815 | The Borgias And The Cenci | The Countess Of Saint Geran | The Son Of Monte Cristo Volume I | The Son Of Monte Cristo Volume Ii]