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1775-1817
Jane Austen is the English novelist generally credited with first giving the novel its modern character through her treatment of the details of everyday life in provincial English middle-class society. She was born on December 16, 1775 at the parsonage of Steventon, in Hampshire, a village of which her father was rector. She was the youngest of seven children. In 1801, the family moved to Bath, where they lived until 1805 when, upon the death of her father, the family moved first to Southampton and then to Chawton in 1809. It was in Chawton that her major works were composed, although she had begun as a child to write for family amusement
Pride And Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
1772-1834
1789 - 1851
Born on February 7th, 1812, the son of John and Elizabeth Dickens, he experienced the happiest part of his childhood before the age of 12. While he was 12 years old, his father was placed in prison for outstanding debts. Charles, being the oldest male in the house, was forced into the role of head of the house. This forced him to quit school, and take up work at a boot-blacking factory to help support the family. Charles despised this job, and this became one of the experiences in his life that would in the future fuel his writings. His father was released after three months, and Charles attended school once again.
A Christmas Carol
A Tale of Two Cities
David Copperfield
A Christmas Tree
Nobody's Story
Doctor Marigold
Gad's Hill Place: Items of interest and Games
Born 1830 in Amhearst, Pennsylvania, Emily
Elizabeth Dickinson is recognized as one of the greatest 19th century American
poets. Her works talk about love, death, war, God and religious beliefs, humor,
nature, and the importance of art, music, and literature. Her works were influenced
by her Puritan upbringing and seventeenth century poets (John Keats and Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning in particular).
Dickinson’s main poetic form was the quatrain of three iambic feet. Her
use of off-rhymes broke new ground, and she tampered with sentence structure,
and putting common words in surprising and unusual contexts. Dickenson’s
works have had a substantial influence on modern poetry. She died in 1886 in
the home where she was born.
The Complete Poems
Arthur Conan Doyle was born in 1859. Conan Doyle made an immense contribution to the literature of the English language. His major historical novels, The White Company, Sir Nigel, Micah Clarke, Uncle Bernac, The Refugees, and The Great Shadow are less well known today than the remarkable number of short stories, written chiefly for the popular magazines of his time: Tales of Adventure and Medical Life, Tales of the Ring and Camp, Tales of Pirates and Blue Water and tales of horror and the supernatural. His major fictional creations, Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger, and Brigadier Gerard each have collections of stories of their own, each of which continue to be enjoyed by successive generations of readers.
The Adventures of Sherlock Homles
The Lost World
The Valley of Fear
The Vital Message
The Great Boer War
Gaston Leroux (1868-1927), French mystery novelist, playwright and journalist best known for his Le Fantôme de l'opéra (1910, The Phantom of the Opera), in which a criminally insane recluse haunts a Paris opera house, and abducts a young and beautiful singer to his cellar retreat. The novel has been a source for several films and stage adaptations, including Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version, first produced in 1987.
The Phantom of the Opera
The Secret of the Night
The Yellow Room
Some of Poes Works:
The Raven
The Conqueror Worm
Evening Star
The Masque of the Red Death
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Assignation
The Gold-Bug
The Murders In The Rue Morgue
The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym Of Nantucket
Criticism
The Daguerreotype
Marginalia
The Purloined Letter
The Oblong Box
The Fall Of The House Of Usher
Morella
Mary Wollestonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), English Romantic novelist, biographer and editor, best known as the writer of Frankenstein (1818). Mary Shelley was 21 when the book was published.
Frankenstien
The False Rhyme
The Last Man
The Mourner
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Stevenson studied engineering, then switched to law and became a lawyer in 1875. Rather than focusing himself on law, however, Stevenson spent most of his time traveling, reading and writing. It has been said that one way to become a good writer is to read books and Stevenson read thousands of books. In 1888, he settled in Samoa and spent the last five years of his life there. Stevenson is best remembered for his stories, such as Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and Kidnapped. He wrote fictional adventure, essays, and poetry too.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Black Arrow
Treasure IslandMore on Treasure Island
Requiem
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings:
(The Fellowship of the Ring,
The Two Towers, and
The Return of the King.)The Silmarillion
Unfinished Tales: The Lost Lore of Middle-earth
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Tolkien Reader
Smith of Wootton Major
Farmer Giles of Ham
Letters from Father Christmas
Jules Gabriel Verne was born on February 8, 1828, in Nantes, France. His parents were of a seafaring tradition, a factor which influenced his writings. As a boy, Jules Verne ran off to be a cabin boy on a merchant ship, but he was caught and returned to his parents. In 1847 Jules was sent to study law in Paris. While there, however, his passion for the theatre grew. Later in 1850, Jules Verne's first play was published. His father was outraged when he heard that Jules was not going to continue law, so he discontinued the money he was giving him to pay for his expenses in Paris. This forced Verne to make money by selling his stories. After spending many hours in Paris libraries studying geology, engineering, and astronomy, Jules Verne published his first novel Five Weeks in a Balloon(1863). Soon he started writing novels such as Journey to the Center of the Earth(1864), From the Earth to the Moon(1866), and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea(1873). Because of the popularity of these and other novels, Verne became a very rich man. In 1876, he bought a large yacht and sailed to various European countries. His last novel The Invasion of the Sea appeared in 1905.Jules Verne died in the city of Amines on March 24, 1905.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Around The World In Eighty Days
Journey to The Center of the Earth
From The Earth to the Moon
British poet, born on April 17, 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, credited with ushering in the English Romantic Movement with the publication of Lyrical Ballads(1798) in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Encouraged by Coleridge and stimulated by the close contact with nature, Wordsworth composed his first masterwork, Lyrical Ballads, which opened with Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner." In 1843 he succeeded Robert Southey (1774-1843) as England's poet laureate. Wordsworth died on April 23, 1850.
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
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