William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)

William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.

William Cullen Bryant's Books:

[A Discourse On The Life | The Little People Of The Snow]

Horace Elisha Scudder

Horace Elisha Scudder

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Venusia, December 8, 65 BC Rome, November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.

Horace Elisha Scudder's Books:

[Noah Webster | Seven Little People And Their Friends]

George Bruce Malleson

George Bruce Malleson

George Bruce Malleson (8 May 1825 - 1 March 1898) was an English officer in India and an author, born in Wimbledon. Educated at Winchester, he obtained a cadetship in the Bengal infantry in 1842, and served through the second Burmese War. His subsequent appointments were in the civil line, the last being that of guardian to the young maharaja of Mysore. He retired with the rank of colonel in 1877, having been created C.S.I. in 1872.

George Bruce Malleson's Books:

[Rulers Of India Akbar | Rulers Of India Lord Clive]

Franklin Pierce Adams

Franklin Pierce Adams

Franklin Pierce Adams (November 15, 1881, Chicago, Illinois March 23, 1960, New York City, New York) was an American columnist (under the pen name F.P.A. ) and wit, best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please. He was a prolific writer of light verse, and a member of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s.

Franklin Pierce's Books:

[Federal Usurpation]

David Mark Chalmers

David Mark Chalmers

David Mark Chalmers is an American author and historian.

Amy V Chalmers's Books:

[Madge Morton Captain Of The Merry Maid | Madge Morton Secret | Madge Morton Trust | Madge Morton Victory]

Charles Mclean Andrews

Charles Mclean Andrews

Charles McLean Andrews (February 22, 1863 September 9, 1943) was one of the most distinguished American historians of his time and widely recognized as a leading authority on American colonial history. He is especially known as a leader of the "Imperial school" of historians who studied, and generally praised the British Empire in the 18th century.

Charles Mclean Andrews's Books:

[British Committees Commissions | The Fathers Of New England]

Bret Harte

Bret Harte

Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 - May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.

Bret Harte's Books:

[How Santa Claus Came To Simpsons Bar | Salomy Jane | A Drift From Redwood Camp | A First Family Of Tasajara | A Millionaire Of Rough And Ready | A Phyllis Of The Sierras | A Protge Of Jack Hamlin | A Sappho Of Green Springs | Bocetos Californianos | By Shore And Sedge | Clarence | Colonel Starbottle Client | Complete Poetical Works | Condensed Novels | Cressy | Devil Ford | Drift From Two Shores | East And West | Excelsior | Flip A California Romance | Found At Blazing Star | From Sand Hill To Pine | Her Letter | In A Hollow Of The Hills | In The Carquinez Woods | Jeff Briggs Love Story | Legends And Tales | Maruja | Mrs Skaggs Husbands | New Burlesques | On The Frontier | Openings In The Old Trail | Sally Dows | The Argonauts Of North Liberty | The Bell Ringer Of Angel | The Crusade Of The Excelsior | The Heritage Of Dedlow Marsh | The Queen Of The Pirate Isle | Dickens In Camp | Mr Jack Hamlin Mediation | Tarinoita Kalifornian Kultamailta | The Heritage Of Dedlow Marsh And Other Tales | Tri Noveloj De Usona Verkisto Bret Harte]

Robert W Chambers

Robert W Chambers (1865-1933)

Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 December 16, 1933) was an American artist and writer.

Robert William Chambers's Books:

[A Matter Of Interest | Ailsa Paige | Between Friends | In Search Of The Unknown | In Secret | In The Quarter | Police | The Common Law | The Danger Mark | The Dark Star | The Fighting Chance | The Firing Line | The Green Mouse | The Hidden Children | The King In Yellow | The Maid At Arms | The Messenger | The Slayer Of Souls | The Tracer Of Lost Persons | The Younger Set]

William Claxton

William Claxton

William Caxton (ca. 1415~1422 ca. March 1492) was an English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer. As far as is known, he was the first English person to work as a printer and the first to introduce a printing press into England. He was also the first English retailer of printed books (his London contemporaries in the same trade were all Dutch, German or French).

William Claxton's Books:

[The Mastery Of The Air]

Hermann Sudermann

Hermann Sudermann (1857-1928)

Hermann Sudermann (September 30, 1857 - November 21, 1928) was a German dramatist and novelist.

Hermann Sudermann's Books:

[Dame Care | El Deseo | El Molino Silencioso Las Bodas De Yolanda | Fires Of St John | Honor A Play In Four Acts | Iolanthe Wedding | John The Baptist A Play | Kissanporras | Magda | Morituri Three One Act Plays | Poet Lore A Quarterly Magazine Of Letters | Regina | Roses Four One Act Plays | The Indian Lily | The Joy Of Living es Lebe Das Leben]

George Bethune English

George Bethune English

George Bethune English (March 7, 1787 - Washington, D.C., September 20, 1828) was an American adventurer, diplomat, soldier, and convert to Islam. The oldest of four children, English was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was baptized at Trinity Church on April 1, 1787. He later attended Harvard College, where his dissertation won a Bowdoin Prize he received a Masters in theology in 1811. During his studies, however, English encountered doubts about Christian theology, and went on to publish his misgivings in a book entitled The Grounds of Christianity Examined, which earned him excommunication from the Church of Christ in 1814. English addressed some of the criticisms and controversies caused by his first book in a second tract, "A Letter to the Reverend Mr. Cary," as well as in published responses to Unitarian leader William Ellery Channing's (17801842) "Two Sermons on Infidelity. " Subsequently he edited a country newspaper, during which time he may have learned the Cherokee language. English was nominated by President James Madison on February 27, 1815 and commissioned on March 1, 1815 as a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps during the War of 1812 and assigned to Marine Corps headquarters. He then sailed to the Mediterranean, and was among the first citizens of the United States known to have visited Egypt. Shortly after arriving in Egypt he resigned his commission, converted to Islam and joined Isma'il Pasha in an expedition up the Nile River against Sennar 1820, winning distinction as an officer of artillery. He published his Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar (London 1822) regarding his exploits. A colleague from Harvard, Edward Everett, published a rejoinder to English's book "The Grounds of Christianity Examined," to which English responded with his 1824 book "Five Smooth Stones out of the Brook. " After his work for Isma'il Pasha, English worked in the Diplomatic Corps of the United States in the Levant, where he worked to secure a trade agreement between the United States and the Ottoman Empire, which had trade valued at nearly $800,000 in 1822. In 1827, he returned to the United States and died in Washington the next year.

George Bethune English's Books:

[A Letter To The Reverend Mr Channing | A Narrative Of The Expedition To Dongola And Sennaar | Five Pebbles From The Brook]

Arlo Bates

Arlo Bates (1850-1918)

Arlo Bates (December 16, 1850 August 25, 1918) was an American author, educator and newspaperman. Arlo BatesBorn December 16, 1850Died August 25, 1918Boston, MassachusettsAlma mater Bowdoin CollegeSpouse(s) Harriet L. Vose (d. 1886)Signature

Arlo Bates's Books:

[Princo Vanc | The Pagans]

Dicks

Dicks (1823-1891)

Edmond de la Fontaine (24 July 1823 24 June 1891), better known by his pen name of Dicks, was a Luxembourgian jurist, poet, and lyricist, known for his work in the Luxembourgish language. He is considered the national poet of Luxembourg, and, along with Michel Lentz and Michel Rodange, one of the most important figures in the history of Luxembourgian literature. In addition, his Luxemburger Sitten und Bruche was one of the most influential early ethnographies on the Luxembourgian people.

Edmond About's Books:

[Germaine | Germana | La Mre De La Marquise | La Nariz De Un Notario | Lhomme Loreille Casse | The Man With The Broken Ear | The Roman Question | La Mere De La Marquise]

Alexander George Craig

Alexander George Craig

Alexander George (Alec) Craig (18971973) was an author and poet, who wrote extensively about banned books. Craig was interested more generally in sexual behaviour and reform, and was also engaged with the socialist movement. He was involved with the Progressive League, reviewing books for their journal. His papers are in the archives of Senate House Library.

George Little's Books:

[A History Of Lumsden Battery C S A]

Charlotte Mary Yonge

Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901)

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

Charlotte Yonge's Books:

[A Book Of Golden Deeds | Beechcroft At Rockstone | Chantry House | Dynevor Terrace vol I | Dynevor Terrace vol Ii | Heartsease Or Brother Wife | Hopes And Fears | Lady Hester Or Ursula Narrative | Life Of John Coleridge Patteson | Love And Life | Magnum Bonum | My Young Alcides | Nuttie Father | Stray Pearls | That Stick | The Armourer Prentices | The Caged Lion | The Chaplet Of Pearls | The Daisy Chain Or Aspirations | The Dove In The Eagle Nest | The Long Vacation | The Pillars Of The House V1 | The Stokesley Secret | The Three Brides | The Two Sides Of The Shield | The Young Step Mother Or A Chronicle Of Mistakes | Two Penniless Princesses | Under The Storm Illustrated | Unknown To History A Story Of The Captivity Of Mary Of Scotland | Young Folks History Of England | Henrietta Wish | The Clever Woman Of The Family]

Rafael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950)

Rafael Sabatini (April 29, 1875 - February 13, 1950) was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure.

Rafael Sabatini's Books:

[Bardelys The Magnificent | Captain Blood | Casanovas Alibi | Love At Arms | Mistress Wilding | Scaramouche | St Martins Summer | The Chronicles Of Captain Blood | The Historical Nights Entertainment Second Series | The Historical Nights Entertainment | The Lions Skin | The Marquis Of Carabas | The Sea Hawk | The Shame Of Motley | The Snare | The Strolling Saint | The Suitors Of Yvonne | The Tavern Knight | The Trampling Of The Lilies]

Anthony Browne

Anthony Browne (1946-now)

Anthony Edward Tudor Browne (born 11 September 1946) is a British author and illustrator of children's books, with nearly forty titles to his name. He is the current Children's Laureate.

A Browne's Books:

[The Story Of The Kearsarge And Alabama]

E Temple Thurston

E Temple Thurston

Ernest Temple Thurston (September 23, 1879 - March 19, 1933) was an Anglo-Irish poet, playwright and author. He was born in Halesworth, Suffolk, England, and his family moved to Cork when he was aged ten. In 1901 he married the popular novelist, Katherine Cecil Madden, (1875-1911). The marriage did not last and they separated in 1907 and were formally divorced in 1910. E. Temple Thurston wrote forty books from which seventeen motion pictures were made. As well, he authored several theatrical plays, three of which were performed on Broadway and four were made into motion pictures. His best known work for the stage is The Wandering Jew, a play in four parts that was performed on Broadway in 1921 and made into a film in 1933. His third wife Emily published the play as a novel in 1934. His most successful books include The City of Beautiful Nonsense (1909) and The Flower of Gloster (1911) about a canal journey in England. E. Temple Thurston died from influenza and pneumonia in London

E Temple Thurston's Books:

[Sally Bishop]

Charles Timothy Brooks

Charles Timothy Brooks

Charles Timothy Brooks (June 20, 1813 June 14, 1883) was a noted American translator of German works, a poet, Transcendentalist and a Unitarian pastor.

Charles Brooks's Books:

[Chimney Pot Papers | Journeys To Bagdad | Wappin Wharf]

Douard Glissant

Douard Glissant

douard Glissant is a French writer, poet and literary critic. He is widely recognised as being one of the most influential figures in Caribbean thought and cultural commentary. He studied at the Lyce Schoelcher, named after the abolitionist Victor Schoelcher, where the poet Aim Csaire had studied and to which he returned as a teacher. Csaire had met Lon Damas there; later in Paris they would join with Lopold Senghor, a poet and the future first president of Senegal, to formulate and promote the concept of ngritude. Csaire did not teach Glissant, but did serve as an inspiration to him; another student at the school at that time was Frantz Fanon. Glissant left Martinique in 1946 for Paris, where he received his PhD, having studied ethnography at the Muse de l'Homme and History and philosophy at the Sorbonne. He established, with Paul Niger, the separatist Front Antillo-Guyanais pour l'Autonomie party in 1959, as a result of which Charles de Gaulle barred him from leaving France between 1961 and 1965. He returned to Martinique in 1965 and founded the Institut martiniquais d'tudes, as well as Acoma, a social sciences publication. He now divides his time between Martinique, Paris and New York, where he has been visiting professor of French Literature at CUNY since 1995. In January 2006, douard Glissant was asked by Jacques Chirac to take on the presidency of a new cultural centre devoted to the history of slave trade. An English translation of Chirac's speech can be found here

Edouard Le Roy's Books:

[A New Philosophy Henri Bergson]