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Hace 2 días · Signature. Herman Melville ( born Melvill; [a] August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published ...
20 de may. de 2024 · M.R. Mackenzie is the McIlvanney Prize-nominated author of Glasgow crime novels In the Silence, The Shadow Men and Women Who Kill.
Hace 2 días · Claire Clairmont (stepsister) Signature. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ( UK: / ˈwʊlstənkrɑːft /; née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who is best known for writing the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. [2]
Hace 6 días · novelist, short stories Bad Imaginings, Sitting Practice: Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler: horror Wrist, Ghost Lake: Marie-Célie Agnant: 1953 poet, novelist Le Silence comme le sang: Freda Ahenakew: 1932 2011 linguist, children's literature Jean Marc Ah-Sen: novelist, short stories Grand Menteur, In the Beggarly Style of Imitation, Disintegration ...
Hace 3 días · Gothic fiction is characterized by an environment of fear, the threat of supernatural events, and the intrusion of the past upon the present. [2] [3] The setting typically includes physical reminders of the past, especially through ruined buildings which stand as proof of a previously thriving world which is decaying in the present. [4]
Hace 1 día · James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune. He lived much of his boyhood and his last fifteen years in Cooperstown, New York ...
Hace 1 día · Leo Tolstoy at age 20, c. 1848. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, a family estate 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Tula, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) south of Moscow. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy (1794–1837), a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and Princess Mariya Tolstaya (née Volkonskaya; 1790 ...
