Ethel Lilian Voynich

Ethel Lilian Voynich (1864-1960)

Ethel Lilian Voynich, ne Boole (May 11, 1864July 27, 1960) was an English novelist and musician, and a supporter of several revolutionary causes. Her father was the famous mathematician George Boole. Her mother was feminist philosopher Mary Everest, niece of George Everest and an author for the early-20th-century periodical Crank. In 1893 she married Wilfrid Michael Voynich, revolutionary, antiquarian and bibliophile, the eponym of the Voynich manuscript.

E Voynich's Books:

[The Gadfly]

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Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)

Luigi Pirandello (28 June 1867 - 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934, for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage. " Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Typical for Pirandello is to show how art or illusion mixes with reality and how people see things in a very different way words are unreliable and reality is at the same time true and false. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners for Theatre of the Absurd. "A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! And to be able to live for ever you don't need to have extraordinary gifts or be able to do miracles. Who was Sancho Panza Who was Prospero But they will live for ever because living seeds they had the luck to find a fruitful soil, an imagination which knew how to grow them and feed them, so that they will live for ever. " (from Six Characters in Search of an Author, 1921)

Luigi Pirandello's Books:

[Feu Mathias Pascal | Henri Iv | Six Personnages En Quete Dauteur]

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Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Dhan Gopal Mukerji (July 6, 1890 -July 14, 1936) was the first successful Indian man of letters in the United States and winner of Newbery Medal 1928. He studied at Duff School (now known as Scottish Church Collegiate School, a constituent unit of Scottish Church College, Calcutta), the University of Calcutta, in India, Tokyo University in Japan and at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University in the U.S.

Dhan Gopal Mukerji's Books:

[Kari The Elephant | Sandhya]

Eliza Lee Follen

Eliza Lee Follen

Eliza (Buckminster) Lee (1792-1864) was an American author, the daughter of Joseph Buckminster. She was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; was well educated by her father and brother, Joseph Stevens Buckminster; married a Thomas Lee of Boston; became a writer; and was unusually felicitous in her descriptions of New England life. She wrote, notably: Sketches of New England Life (1837); Naomi, or Boston Two Hundred Years Ago (1848); and memoirs of her father and brother (1849). She translated from the German, wrote a life of Richter (1842), and published an historical novel, Parthenia, the Last Days of Paganism (1858).

Eliza Lee Follen's Books:

[Hymns Songs And Fables For Young People | Little Songs | Piccolissima | The Pedler Of Dust Sticks | The Talkative Wig | Travellers Stories | True Stories About Dogs And Cats | Two Festivals | What The Animals Do And Say | Who Spoke Next]

Eugene Field

Eugene Field (1850-1895)

Eugene Field, Sr. (September 2, 1850 November 4, 1895) was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays.

Eugene Field's Books:

[A Little Book Of Profitable Tales | A Little Book Of Western Verse | Christmas Tales And Christmas Verse | Echoes From The Sabine Farm | John Smith U S A | Love Songs Of Childhood | Second Book Of Tales | Second Book Of Verse | The Holy Cross And Other Tales | The House | The Love Affairs Of A Bibliomaniac | The Mouse And The Moonbeam | Songs And Other Verse]

Edward Plunkett 18th Baron Of Dunsany

Edward Plunkett 18th Baron Of Dunsany (1878-1957)

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 - 25 October 1957) was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays. Born to one of the oldest titles in the Irish peerage, Dunsany lived much of his life at perhaps Ireland's longest-inhabited home, Dunsany Castle near Tara, worked with W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, was chess and pistol-shooting champion of Ireland, and travelled and hunted extensively. He died in Dublin after an attack of appendicitis.

Edward John Plunkett's Books:

[If]

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Charles Williams

Charles Williams (1909-1975)

Charles Williams (August 13, 1909 - ca. April 7, 1975) was an American writer of hardboiled crime fiction. He is regarded by critics as one of the finest suspense novelists of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1951 debut, the pulp paperback novel Hill Girl, sold over a million copies. A dozen of his books have been adapted for the screen, most popularly Dead Calm.

Charles Williams's Books:

[Descent Into Hell | Many Dimensions | The Place Of The Lion | Nothing In Her Way | River Girl]

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