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Henry Adams (1838-1918) American historian & novelist. Democracy 1880, Esther 1884,

James Agee (1909-1955) American novelist, film-critic & film-writer. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1909. The most brilliant film-critic and poet of his age. Died on May 16, 1955.

 

 

 

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Permit Me Voyage 1934, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Three Tenant Families 1941, The Morning Watch 1951, Film script: The African Queen, A Death in the Family 1957, Letters of James Agee to Father Flye 1962,

United Artists (1952)
S.Y.Agnon (1888-1970) Jewish novelist & short story-writer. Born in Galicia and went to Palestine in 1908. Nobel Prize in 1966. The Bridal Canopy 1922, In the Heart of the Seas 1948, Twenty-One Stories 1970,
Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) American poet, novelist & story-writer. Blue Voyage 1927, Great Circle 1933, King Coffin 1935,
William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882) English novelist. Rockwood 1834, The Tower of London 1840,
Alain-Fournier (Henri-Alban Fournier) (1886-1914) French novelist. Killed in World War I. Three-Cornered Hat 1874, The Infant with the Globe 1880,

Louisa May Alcott, (A. N. Barnard, Flora Fairfield) (1832 -1888) Second of four daughters, born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and raised in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts. Deeply influenced by her father's transcendentalist thoughts, experimental educational philosophies. Amos Bronson Alcott founded several schools, but all of them failed, forcing Abigail and her daughters to undertake the financial support of the family. Later, Alcott often remarked that her entire career was inspired by her desire to compensate for her family's early discomfort. Alcott taught school, took in sewing, and worked briefly as a domestic servant. At age sixteen she began writing, convinced that she could earn enough money to overcome the family's poverty. In 1851, her first poem was published in Peterson's Magazine under her pseudonym Flora Fairfield. The turning point of her career was Little Women. An autobiographical account of 19th century family life. From 1875 onward, her health deteriorated. Louisa May Alcott never married. She died on March 6, 1888.

Links to more information Biographical Information-from Susan L.Tolbert /The Life and Legend of Louisa May-from Hannah L. Day / Orchard House / Alcottweb.com / L.M.Alcott, List of Works-from Susan L.Tolbert

Flower Fables, George W. Briggs, Boston 1855. Hospital Sketches, James Redpath, Boston 1863. The Rose Family: A Fairy Tale, James Redpath, 1864. On Picket Duty, and Other Tales, James Redpath 1864. Moods, American Women Writers Series 1865. Moods, Notable American Authors Series - Part I. Nelly's Hospital, U.S. Sanitary Commission 1865. The Mysterious Key, and What It Opened, Elliott, Thomes & Talbot, Boston 1867. Morning-Glories, and Other Stories, Horace B. Fuller, Boston 1868. Kitty's Class Day . A. K. Loring 1868. Aunt Kipp, A. K. Loring 1868. Psyche's Art, A. K. Loring 1868. Louisa M. Alcott's Proverb Stories; contains Kitty's Class Day, Aunt Kipp, and Psyche's Art, A. K. Loring 1868. Little Women: or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy , two volumes, Roberts Brothers 1868-69; volume 2 republished as Little Women Wedded, Low, London 1872, as Little Women Married, Routledge, London 1873, and as Nice Wives, Weldon, London 1875; both volumes republished as Little Women and Good Wives, Nisbet, London 1895. Hospital Sketches, Camp and Fireside Stories, Roberts Brothers, 1869. An Old-Fashioned Girl , Roberts Brothers, 1870. Will's Wonder Book, Horace B. Fuller, 1870. (Under pseudonym A. M. Barnard) V.V; or, Plots and Counterplots , Thomes & Talbot, Boston, c. 1870. Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys, Roberts Brothers, 1871. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag , Roberts Brothers, Volume 1 1872, Volume 2 1872, Volume 3 1874, Volume 4 1878, Volume 5, 1879, Volume 6 1882. Work: A Story of Experience, Roberts Brothers 1873. Something to Do (contains Proverb Stories), Ward, Lock & Tyler, London 1873. Eight Cousins; or, The Aunt-Hill, Roberts Brothers 1875. Silver Pitchers, Independence, a Centennial Love Story , Roberts Brothers 1876. Silver Pitchers And Other Stories (Notable American Authors Series - Part I) Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to "Eight Cousins," Roberts Brothers 1876. (Published anonymously) A Modern Mephistopheles, Roberts Brothers 1877. Under the Lilacs, Roberts Brothers 1878. Meadow Blossoms, Crowell 1879. Water Cresses, Crowell 1879. Sparkles for Bright Eyes, Crowell 1879. Jack and Jill: A Village Story , Roberts Brothers 1880. Spinning-Wheel Stories, Roberts Brothers 1884. Lulu's Library, Roberts Brothers, Volume 1: A Christmas Dream 1886, Volume 2: The Frost King 1887, Volume 3: Recollections 1889. Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out:A Sequel to "Little Men," Roberts Brothers 1886. A Garland for Girls, Roberts Brothers 1887. A Modern Mephistopheles, A Whisper in the Dark, Roberts Brothers 1889. Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals, edit. Ednah D. Cheney, Roberts Brothers, 1889. Comic Tragedies Written by "Jo" and "Meg" and Acted by the Little Women, Roberts Brothers, 1893.

H & S (1934) L. M. Alcott
Richard Aldington (1892-1962) English poet & novelist. Death of a Hero 1929, All Men are Enemies 1933,
Mateo Aleman (1547-1614) Spanish novelist. Guzman de Alfarache 1599-1604,
Sholom Aleichem (Solomon Rabinovitz) (1859-1916) Born in Russia in 1859. Sholom Aleichem was influential in establishing Yiddish as a literary language. The sketches collected in "Tevye's Daughters" 1894, formed the basis for the successful Broadway musical "Fiddler on the Roof" in 1964. He died in New York in 1916.Links to more information Sholom Aleichem

55 short stories - Favorite Tales of Sholom Aleichem 1983,

Avenel (1983)

Nelson Algren (1909-) American novelist. Never Come Morning 1942, The Man with the Golden Arm 1949, A Walk on the Wild Side 1956,
Ted Allbeury (1917-) English spy novelist. The Man with the President's Mind, The Lantern Network 1978, The Alpha List 1979,
Hervey Allen (1889-1949) American novelist. Anthony Adverse 1933, Action at Aquila 1938,
Walter Allen (1911- ) English novelist. Innocence is Drowned 1938, Rogue Elephant 1946, Dead Man Over All 1950, All in a Lifetime 1959,

Margery Allingham (1904-1966) English crime novelist.

M.Allingha m 		Blackerchief Dick 1921, Death of a Ghost 1934, Flowers for the Judge 1936, Coroner's Pidgin 1945, More Work for the Undertaker 1948, The Tiger in the Smoke 1952, The Beckoning Lady 1955,
Timothy Aluko (1918-) Nigerian novelist. One Mann, One Wife 1959, His Worshipful Majesty 1973,
Jorge Amado (1912-). Brazilian novelist. Born in 1912 in Pirangi, Bahia. Jorge Amado has written over 25 novels. His novels reflect a continuing sense of social injustice. He was imprisoned early 1935 for his leftist activities. Periodically exiled from Brazil. He maintained a career in radical politics. Sea of Death 1936, Captains of the Sands 1937, The Violent Land 1942, The War of the Saints 1942, The Golden Harvest 1944, Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon 1958, The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell 1961, Home is the Sailor 1961, Shepherds of the Night 1964, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands: A Moral and Amorous Tale 1966, The Tent of Miracles 1969, Tereza Batista: Home from the Wars 1972, The Swallow and the Tom Cat: a Love Story 1976, Tieta 1978, The Great Ambush 1984,
Eric Ambler (1909-1998) English novelist. Published 19 novels under his own name and collaborated on four novels with Charles Rodda under the pseudonym Eliot Reed.

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 The Mask of Dimitrios 1939, The Dark Frontier 1936, Uncommon Danger 1937, Epitaph for a Spy 1938, Cause for Alarm 1938, The Mask of Dimitrios 1939, The Intrusions of Dr. Czissar, Journey into Fear 1940, Skytip 1950, Judgement on Deltchev 1951, Tender to Danger 1951, The Maras Affair 1953, The Schirmer Inheritance 1953, Charter to Danger 1954, The Night Comers 1956, Passage of Arms 1959, The Light of Day 1962, The Ability to Kill and Other Pieces 1963, A Kind of Anger 1964, To Catch a Spy 1964, Dirty Story 1964, The Intercom Conspiracy 1969, The Levanter 1972, Doctor Frigo 1974, Send No More Roses 1977, The Care of Time 1981, Here Lies 1985,

Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) English writer. Born at Clapham in 1922, educated in London and Oxford,

 

"They made a silly mistake, though," the Professor of History said, and his smile, as Dixon watched, gradually sank beneath the surface of his features at the memory. "After the interval we did a little piece by Dowland," he went on; "for recorder and keyboard, you know. I played the recorder, of course, and young Johns..." He paused, and his trunk grew rigid as he walked; it was as if some entirely different man, some imposter who couldn't copy his voice, had momentarily taken his place; the he went on again; "... young Johns played the piano. Lucky Jim (1954)

 

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Bright November 1947, A Frame of Mind 1953, Poems: Fantasy Portraits 1954, Lucky Jim 1954, That Uncertain Feeling 1955, A Case of Samples: Poems 1946-1956, 1956, I Like it Here 1958, Take a Girl Like You 1960, New Maps of Hell 1960, Spectrum 1961, My Enemy's Eenemy 1962, The Evans County 1962, One Fat Englisman 1963, The Egyptologist 1965, The James Bond Dossier 1965, The Anti-Death League 1966, A Look Around the Estate 1967, I Want it Now 1968, Colonel Sun 1968, The Green Man 1969, What Became of Jane Austen And Other Qestions 1970, Girl 20, 1971, On Drink 1972, G.K.ed.: Chesterton's Selected Stories 1972, ed.: Tennyson's Poems 1973, The Riverside Villas Murders 1973, Ending Up 1974, Rudyard Kipling And His World 1975, The Alteration 1976, ed.: Harold's Years 1977, ed.: The Faber Popular Reciter 1978, ed.: The New Oxford Book of Light Verse 1978, Jake's Thing 1978, Collected Poems 1944-78, 1979, Collected Short Stories 1980, Russian Hide And Seek 1980, ed.: The Golden Age of Science Fiction 1981, Every Day Drinking 1983, How's Your Glass? 1984, Stanley And The Women 1984, The Old Devils 1986, ed.: The Great British Songbook 1986, Difficulties With Girls 1988, The Folks That Live on The Hill 1990, The Amis Collection 1990, Memoiers 1991, Mr Barrett's Secret And Other Stories 1993, The Russian Girl 1994, You Can't do Both 1994, The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage 1998

Kingsley Amis

Mulk Raj Anand (1905-) Indian novelist. Born in a family of coppersmith in Peshawar. He was educated at the universities of Lahore, London and Cambridge. He became politically active in India's struggle for independenceand. Lived in England for many years, finally settling in a village in Western India after the war. Mulk Raj is known for his realistic and sympathetic portrayal of the poor in India.

 

Gandhi

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Persian Painting 1930, Curries and Other Indian Dishes 1932, The Hindu View of Art 1933, The Golden Breath 1933, The Lost Child and Other Stories 1934, Untouchable 1935, Coolie 1936, Two Leaves and a Bud 1937, Lament on the Death of a Master of the Arts 1938, Marx and Engels on India 1939, The Village 1939, Across the Black Waters 1940, Letters on India 1942, The Sword and the Sickle 1942, India Speaks 1943, The Barber's Trade Union and Other Stories 1944, The Big Heart 1945, Apology for Heroism 1946, Homageto Tagore 1946, Indian Fairy Tales 1946, The Tractor and the Corn Goddess and Other Stories 1947, The Bride's Book of Beauty 1947, On Education 1947, Indian Short Stories 1947, The King-Emperor's English 1948, The Story of India 1948, Letters Written to Indian Air 1949, The Indian Theatre 1950, Seven Sumers 1951, The Story of Man 1952, The Private Life of an Indian Prince 1953, Selected Stories 1954, The Story of Man 1954, The Dancing Foot 1957, The Hindu View of Art 1957, India in Colour 1958, Kama Kala 1958, The Power of Darkness, and Other Stories 1959, Aesop's Fables 1960, The Old Woman and the Cow 1960, Homage to Khajuraho 1960, The Road 1961, More Indian Fairy Tales 1961, Homage to Khajuraho 1962, Is There a Contemporary Indian Civilization? 1963, Death of a Hero 1963, The Third Eye 1963, The Story of Chacha Nehru 1965, Bombay 1965, Lajwanti and Other Stories 1966, The Volcano 1967, The Humanism of M.K. Gandhi 1967, Morning Face 1968, Annals of Childhood 1968, Contemporary World Sculpture 1968, Experiments 1968, Grassroots 1968, Delhi, Agra, Sikri 1968, Konorak 1968, Indian Ivories 1970, Ajanta 1970, Roots and Flowers 1972, Author to Critic: The Letters of Mulk Raj Anand to Saros Cowasjee 1973, Between Tears and Laughter 1973, Album of Indian Paintings 1973, Folk Tales of Punjab 1974, Apology for Heroism: a Brief Autobiography of Ideas 1975, Roots and Flowers 1975, Confessions of a Lover 1976, Homage to Amritsar 1977, Homage to Jaipur 1977, Selected Short Stories 1977, Alampur 1978, Seven Little Known Birds of the Inner Eye 1978, Tales from Tolstoy 1978, Tantra Magic 1978, The Humanism of Jawaharlal Nehru 1978, Only Connect: Letters to Indian Friends - E.M. Forster, a Profile 1979, Homage to Kalamkari 1979, The Humanism of Rabindranath Tagore 1979, Golden Goa 1980, Splendours of Tamil Nadu 1980, Splendours of the Vijayanagara 1980, Maya of Mohenjo-Daro 1980, Conversations in Bloomsbury 1981, Maharaga Ranit Singh as Patron of the Arts 1981, Treausres of Everyday Art 1981, Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana 1982, Ellora 1984, Madhubani Painting 1984, The Bibble 1984, Pilpali Sahib: the Story of a Childhood under the Raj 1985, Poet-Paintwer: Paintings by Rabindranath Tagore 1985, Panorama 1986, Ajanta 1988, Three Eminent Personalities on the Ram Janambhoomi 1989, Amrita Sher-Gil 1989, Pilpali Sahib: The Story of a Big Ego in a Small Boy 1990, Old Myth and New Myth: Letters from Mulk Raj Anand to K.V.S. Murti Anand 1991, Little Plays of Mahatma Gandhi 1991, Caliban and Gandhi: Letters to 'Bapu* from Bombay 1991, Splendours of Himachal Heritage 1997,
Hans Christian Anderson (1805-1875) Danish writer. Born on April 2, 1805, best known for his fairy-tale stories. Anderson wrote as many as 350 stories. His six novels are hardly known. He died on August 4, 1875.

Links to more information Immortal Storyteller / Hans Christian Anderson H.C.A, Picture Page

 The Improvisatore 1834, O.T. 1836, under construction
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) American novelist & story-writer. Winesburg, Ohio 1919, Poor White 1920, Kit Brandon 1936, Short Stories 1962,
Ivo Andric (1892-1975) Serbian novelist & story-writer. Born in Travnik ( Bosnia) October 10, 1892. Studied philosophy in Vienna, Krakow and Graz. Nobel Prize in 1961. Died March 13, 1975 in Belgrade. The Bridge on the Drina 1945, Bosnian Story 1945, The Women from Sarajevo 1945, The Vizier's Elephant 1948,
Jerzy Andrzejewski (1909-1983) Polish novelist, short-story writer, and political dissident. Ashes and Diamonds 1948, The Inquisitors 1957, He Cometh Leaping on the Mountain 1963,
Evelyn ( Bridget Patricia Ward-Thomas) Anthony (1928-) English romantic & suspense novelist. Born July 3, 1928 in London. The Rendezvous 1967, The Legend 1969, The Assassin 1970, The Tamarind Seed 1971, The Poellenberg Inheritance 1972, The Occupying Power (US Title: Stranger at the Gates) 1973, The Malaspiga Exit (US Title: Mission to Malaspiga) 1974, The Persian Ransom (US Title: The Persian Price) 1975, The Silver Falcon 1977, The Return 1978, The Grave of Truth (US Title: The Janus Imperative) 1979, The Defector 1980, The Avenue of the Dead 1981, Albatross 1982, The Company of Saints 1983, Voices in the Wind 1985, Far Fly the Eagles 1986, No Enemy But Time (US Title: A Place to Hide) 1987, The House of Vandekar 1988, A Scarlet Thread 1989,
Michael Arlen (1895-1956) English novelist. The Green Hat 1924, Hell! Said the Duchess 1934,
Charlotte Armstrong (1906-1969) American poet, playwright and story-writer. The Unsuspected 1946, Lemon in the Basket 1967,
Sholem Asch 1880- 1957) Polish-Jewish novelist and story-writer. Three Cities 1933, The Nazarene 1939, East River 1946,
Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1908-1978) New Zealand novelist. Spinster 1958, Three 1970,
Miguel Asturias (1899-1974) Guatemalan novelist. The President 1946, The Cyclone 1950, The Mulatta and Mr.Fly 1960,
Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948) American novelist. The Conqueror 1922, The Black Oxen 1923, The Californians 1935,
Louis Auchincloss (1917-) American novelist and story-writer. Portrait in Bownstone 1962, The Rector of Justin 1965, A World of Profit 1968,
Jane Austen (1775-1817). Born December 16, 1775 at Steventon Parish, Hampshire, England. Seventh child and second daughter of the Rev. George Austen and Cassandra Leigh-Austen. She lived with her family until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. She kept a close contact with Cassandra, her sister, her entire life. Jane Austen never married. In 1817, her health deteriorated. She died July 28, 1817.

Links to more information Jane Austen Society of Australia / Jane Austen Society of North America / Jane Austen House / The Works of Jane Austen / A Pride & Prejudice Photo Album

The Three Sisters 1792. Sense and Sensibility 1811, Pride and Prejudice 1813, Mansfield Park 1814, Emma 1815. Two novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published posthumously in 1817. Lady Susan 1871. The Watsons 1871. Sanditon 1871. Juvenilia ((Includes: The Beautifull Cassandra, Amelia Webster, The Visit, The Adventures of Mr. Harley, The History of England (excerpts), The female philosopher,The sad story of the beautiful Rose, Letters.

Jane Austen
Marcel Ayme (1902-1967) French novelist and story-writer, The Green Mare 1933, The Miraculous Barber 1941, The Conscience of Love 1960,
Isaak Babel (1894-1941) Russian-Jewish story-writer. Collected Stories 1957,
Riccardo Bacchelli (1891-?) Italian novelist.

Links to more information Libri

 The Devil at Long Bridge 1927, The Mill on the Po 1038, The Son of Stalin 1953,

Enid Bagnold (1889-1981) English playwright and novelist. Born in Rochester, Kent. Educated in England and Switzerland. Married to Sir Roderick Jones in 1920. Died 1981.

Enid Bagnold		 Diary Without Dates 1917, The Happy Foreigner 1920, The Difficulty of Getting Married 1924, Serena Blandish 1925, National Velvet 1935, The Squire 1937, Lottie Dundass 1943, The Loved and Envied 1951, The Chalk Garden 1951, The Chinese Prime Minister 1964, A Matter of Gravity 1975,
H.C.Bailey (1878-1961) English detective story-writer.

Links to more information The Bailey School / H.C.Bailey / H.C.Bailey Page

 Call Mr Fortune (Stories) 1920, The Red Castle 1932, Black Land, White Land 1937,
Dorothy Baker (1907-1968) American novelist. Born in Missoula, Montana. Married Howard Baker (novelist & poet) in 1930. She died 1968. Young Man with a Horn 1938, Trio 1943, Our Gifted Son 1948, Cassandra at the Wedding 1962,
Howard Baker (1905 - 1990) American novelist and poet. Born in Philadelphia. 1928 received his Masters in English from Stanford University. Co-editor of the literary magazine Gyroscope (1929-1930). Married Dorothy Baker in 1930. He died in 1990. Orange Valley 1931, Letter from the Country 1941, Ode to the Sea 1954,
Nigel Balchin (1908-1970) English novelist. The Small Back Room 1943, Mine Own Executioner 1945, In The Absence of Mrs Petersen 1966,

James (Arthur) Baldwin (1924-1984) American novelist and story-writer. Born in Harlem, New York City. Baldwin's first novel, "Go Tell It On The Mountain", appeared in 1953. He died on November 30, 1987.

Links to more information The Life and Work of James Baldwin / Biography

Go Tell It On The Mountain 1953, Notes Of A Native Son, 1955, Giovanni's Room, 1956, Nobody Knows My Name 1962, Another Country 1962 , The Fire Next Time 1963, Blues For Mister Charlie 1964, Going To Meet The Man 1965, Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone 1968, A Rap On Race 1971 (with Margaret Mead), If Beale Street Could Talk 1974, Just Above My Head, 1979, The Evidence Of Things Not Seen 1985, The Price Of The Ticket: Collected Non-Fiction 1948-1985, Perspectives: Angles On African Art 1987, Conversations With James Baldwin 1989, Early Novels And Stories 1998, Collected Essays 1998,
John (Dudley)Ball (1911- American detective story-writer. Born July 8. 1911. Best known for his 13 novels featuring the series characters "Jack Tallon" and "Virgil Tibbs". In The Heat Of The Night 1965, Five Pieces Of Jade 1972,
R.M. Ballantyne, Robert Michael - (Comus) (1825-1894). Born in Edinburgh. Scottish writer for boys. Son of Alexander Thomson Ballantyne a newspaper editor and nephew of the Ballantyne brothers. Between the ages of 16 and 22 he worked in Canada at the Hudson Bay Company, trading with local Indians. 1847 return to Scotland. Working as a clerk at the North British Railway Company in Edinburgh for two years, and then for the paper-makers Alexander Cowan and Company. From 1849 to 1855 junior partner of Thomas Constable & Company, printing house. Hudson's Bay, or, The Life in the Wilds of North America, appeared in 1848. In 1866 he married Jane Dickson Grant. R.M.Ballantyne wrote over 80 books. He remained in Edinburgh until 1875, then lived in France, England and Italy. Ballantyne died in Rome, Italy, on February 8, 1894.

Nelson (1910)

 Hudson's Bay, Every-day Life in the Wilds of North Amenca 1848, Mabel Grant 1854, The Young Fur Traders 1856, The Life of a Ship 1857. Ungara 1857, Coral Island 1858, The Environs of Edinburgh 1859, How Not to Do It 1859, The Lakes of Killarney 1859, Martin Rattler 1859, Mee-a-ow: Good Advice to Little Kittens 1859, Mr Fox 1860, Three Little Kittens 1860, The Volunteer Force 1860, The Dog Crusoe 1861, The Golden Dream 1861, The Gorilla Hunters 1861, The Red Eric 1861, Away in the Wilderness 1862, Fast in the Ice 1862, Fighting the Whales 1863, Man of the Ocean 1863, The Wild Man of the West 1863, The World of Ice 1863, Gascoyne the Sandalwood Trader 1864, The Lifeboat 1864, Freaks on the Fells 1865, The Lighthouse 1865, Silver Lake 1867, Shifting Winds 1868, Chasing the Sun 1869, Erling the Bold 1869, Hunting the Lions 1869, Lost in the Forest 1869, Over the Rocky Mountains 1869, Photographs of Edinburgh 1869, Saved by the Lifeboat 1869, Sunk at Sea 1869, Up in the Clouds 1869, The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands 1870, The Iron Horse 1871, The Norsemen in the West 1871, Black Ivory 1873, Life in the Red Brigade 1873, Chit chat by a Penitent Cat 1874, The Ocean and its Wonders 1874, The Pirate City 1874, Rivers of Ice 1875, Under the Waves 1876, The Settler and the Savage 1877, In the Track of Troops 1878, Philosopher Jack 1879, The Pioneers 1879, Six Months at the Cape 1879, The Story of the Rock 1879, The Lonely Island 1880, Post Haste 1880, The Collected Works of Ensign Sopht 1881, My Doggie and I 1881, The Butterfly's Baland the Grasshopper's Feast 1882, The Giant of the North 1882, The Kitten Pilgrims 1882, The Battery and the Boiler 1883, Battles with the Sea 1883, The Madman and the Pirate 1883, The Thorogood Family 1883, Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished 1884, The Middy and the Moors 1884 The Young Trawler 1884, Fighting the Flames 1885, The Island Queen 1885, The Rover of the Andes 1885, Twice Bought 1885, The Lively Pal 1886, The Prairie Chief 1886, Red Rooney 1886, The Big Otter 1887, The Fugitives 1887, Blue Lights 1888, Blown to Bits 1889, The Crew of the Water Wagtail 1889, Charlie to the Rescue 1890, The Eagle Cliff 1890, The Garret and the Garden 1890, The Buffalo Runners 1891, The Coxswain's Bride 1891, The Hot Swamp 1892, Hunted and Harried 1892, Personal Reminiscences in Book-making 1893, The Walrus Hunters 1893, Wrecked But Not Ruined 1895, Reuben's Luck 1896, Deep Down 1912, The Jolly Kittens' Book 1926.
Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) French novelist.Honore de Balzac under construction
Lynne Reid Banks (1929- English novelist and playwright. The L-Shaped Room 1960, The Backward Shadow 1970, The Adventures of King Midas 1974,
Jules Barbey D' Aurevilly (1808-1889) French story-writer and novelist. Bewitched 1854, Les Diaboliques 1874, What Never Dies 1884,
John Franklin Bardin (1916-) American suspense writer. The Deadly Percheron 1946, The Last of Philip Banter 1947, Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly 1948,
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) English parson who wrote novels. Mehalah 1880, The Gaverocks 1888, The Broom-Squire 1896,
A.L.Barker (1918- English novelist and story-writer. Lost Upon The Roundabouts (Stories) 1964, The Middling 1967, A Heavy Feather 1979,

Djuna Barnes (1892-1882) American artist, novelist, poet and playwright. Freelance journalist and illustrator in New York in 1913. She lived in Europe from 1919 until 1939. In 1941 she moved to Greenwich Village, New York, where she lived for the remainder of her life.

 

Links to more information Shadows

A Book of Repulsive Women: Eight Rhythms And Five Drawings 1911, A Book 1925, Ryder 1928, Ladies Almanack 1928, A Night Among The Horses 1929, Nightwood 1936, The Antiphon 1958, Spillway 1962, Selected Works Of Djuna Barnes 1962, Vagaries Malicieux To Stories 1974, Creatures In An Alphabet 1982, Smoke And Other Early Stories 1982,

Djuna Barnes
Pio Baroja (1872-1956) Spanish novelist. The City of The Discreet 1905, Paradox King 1906, The Tree of Knowledge 1911,
Stan Barstow (1928- English novelist. under construction
Giorgio Bassani (1916- Italian novelist and story-writer. under construction
Hamilton Basso (1904-1964) American novelist. under construction

H.E.Bates (1905- 1974) English story-writer and novelist.

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Vicki Baum (1888-1960) American novelist.

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Nina Bawden (1925- English novelist and children's writer. under construction
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beamarchais (1732-99) under construction
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) French novelist. Born in Paris, January 9, 1908. A leading feminist and a proponent of existentialism. In 1945 she and Sartre founded "Le Temps modernes", a monthly review. Died April 14, 1986.

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900). Born in Longworth, Berkshire, England, where his father John Blackmore was Curate-in-charge of the parish. After his birth, his mother died of typhus, his father moved back to his native West Country and Richard was taken in charge by his aunt. In 1831 John Blackmore married again and Richard went to live with his father and stepmother in Devon. School in Tiverton and scholarship Oxford. After Oxford he entered the law. Bar in 1852. 1853 he married, and in 1854 published anonymously two volumes of poetry. 1857 his uncle died leaving his nephew a sum of money which enabled him to realise a long-held ambition - that of possessing a house in the country. Gomer House 1860. Blackmore died at Teddington, on January 20, 1900 after a long and painful illness. Links to more information

Poems by Melanter 1854, Epullia - a collection of poems 1854, The Bugle of the Black Sea - a patriotic poem inspired by the Crimean War 1855, The Farm and Fruit of Old 1862, Clara Vaughan - his first novel, published anonymously 1864. Cradock Newell - described by the author as a tale of the New Forest 1866, Lorna Doone - a romance of Exmoor 1869, The Maid of Sker 1872, Alice Lorraine 1875, Cripps the Carrier 1877, Christowell 1881, Tommy Upmore 1884, Springhaven 1887, Kit and Kitty 1889

Richard. D.Blackmore
Borrow, George (1803-1881). Born at East Dereham, Norfolk, son of a recruiting officer. Education in Edinburgh. Philologist, traveller and writer. In his late 30s he married and settled down in a house on Willow Lane in Norwich. He then started writing. He later moved to Oulton Broad where he died in July 26, 1881.

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Tales of the Wild and Wonderful 1825, The Talisman 1835, The Zincali, or the Gypsies in Spain 1841, The Bible in Spain 1843, Lavengro1851, sequel, Romany Rye 1857, Wild Wales 1862, other works: Targum, New Testament into Manchu.
James Boswell (1740-1795) under construction

Charlotte Brontė (Currer Bell) (1816-1855) Born April 21, third of the six children of Patrick Brontė and Maria Branwell Brontė

Anne Brontė (Acton Bell) (1820-1849) Born January 17 in Thornton, Yorkshire.

Emily Brontė (1818-1848) Born July 30.

Links to more information Biography of Emily Bronte /Anne Bronte / The Life of Charlotte Bronte / The Brontes

Charlotte

Charlotte: Jane Eyre 1847, Shirley 1849, Villette 1853, The Professor 1857Anne: Poems, by Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell 1846, Agnes Grey 1847, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 1848Emily: Wuthering Heights 1847

Mary Grant Bruce (1878-1959). Born May 23, at Sale, Gippsland, in Victoria. Dauther of Eyre Lewis Bruce, pioneer surveyor in Gippsland, part of Victoria. Her children fiction first appeared on her weekly children's page for the" Leader". In 1913 she sailed for England. 1914 married to Major George Evans Bruce. Lived in Ireland, England and Australia . Died on July 12, Bexhill-on-Sea, England.

 

 

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Little Bush Maid 1910, Mates at Billabong 1911, Timothy in Bushland 1912, Glen Eyre 1912, Norah of Billabong1913, Grays Hollow 1914, From Billabong to London 1915, Jim Wally 1916, Possum 1917, Dick 1918, Captain Jim 1919, Rossiters Farm1920, Dick Lester of Kurrajong1920, Back to Billabong 1921, Cousin from Town 1922, The Stone Axe of Burkamuka 1922 , Twins of Emu Plains 1923, Billabongs Daughter 1924, House of the Eagle1925, Robin 1926, Tower Rooms 1926, Billabong Adventures 1927, Andersons Jo 1927, Golden Fiddles 1928, The Happy Traveller 1929 , Bill of Billabong 1931, Road of Adventure 1932, Billabong Luck 1933, Seahawk 1934, Wings Above Billabong 1935, Circus Ring 1936, Billabong Gold 1937, Told by Peter 1938, Son of Billabong 1939, Peter & Co 1940, The Power Within 1040, Karalta 1941, Billabong Riders1942, Short Fiction, Poetry

.Ward, Lock (1923?) (1921?)
Robert Burns (1759-1796) under construction
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) American story writer & novelist. under construction

William S.Burroughs (1914-1997 ) American novelist. Born February 5, 1914 in St.Louis, Missouri. Graduated from Harvard 1936. Addicted to drugs 1944. 1953 "Junkie" published under pen name William Lee. He became for a time a leading avant garde writer. Died on August 2, 1997 in his hometown of Lawrence, Kansas.

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Penguin (1977) Panter (1968)

Junkie 1953, The Naked Lunch 1959, The Soft Machine 1961, The Ticket That Exploded 1962, Yage Letters 1963, Nova Express 1964, The Wild Boys 1971, Exterminator 1973, The Last Words of Dutch Schultz 1975,

Samuel Butler (Erewhon), (1825-1902). Born on December 4, at Langar, near Nottingham, England. Butler's father was a cleric, with whom he forever quarrelled. Education at St. John's College, Cambridge. 1859 Sheep farmer in New Zealand. 1864 return to England. He died on June 18, 1902.

 

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First Year in Canterbury Settlement 1863, Erewhon 1872, The Fair Haven 1873, Life and Habit 1877, Evolution, Old and New 1879, Alps and Sanctuaries 1881, Luck or Cunning 1887, Ex Voto 1888, The Authoress of the Odyssey 1897, The Iliad Rendered into English Prose 1898, On Line The Odyssey 1900, Translation from Greek. On Line Erewhon Revisited 1901, The Way of All Flesh 1903, On Line Note Books 1912.

Samuel Butler

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832 to 1898). Born on January 27, Daresbury, Cheshire, England. Educated at Richmond School in Yorkshire, Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford. From 1855 to 1881 mathematical lecturer at Oxford. He died of bronchitis in his sister's home in Guildford on July, 14 1898.

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Alice in Wonderland 1865, Phantasmagoria and Other Poems, an entertaining collection comprising thirteen humorous poems and thirteen serious ones 1869, Alice Through the Looking-Glass 1872, poem, The Hunting of the Snark 1876, A Tangled Tale 1885, Sylvie and Bruno 1889, sequel, Sylvie and Bruno 1893.

MacMillan (1898) Lewis

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (1725-1798) under construction
GeoffreyChaucer (1340?-1400) Historians are uncertain about his exact date of birth. Son of John Chaucer and Agnes Copton. 1357 page in the household of Elizabeth de Burgh, Countess of Ulster. 1365-1366 Chaucer married Philippa Roet. 1386 Member of Parliament for Kent. 1387 Geoffrey Chaucer's wife died. 1387-1392 Chaucer begins The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer died in October 1400 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

 

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Translates parts of Romaunt of the Rose 1367-1370, Book of the Duchess 1368, writes "Fragment A" of the Romaunt of the Rose 1368-1372, The Complaint unto Pity & The Complaint to His Lady 1368-1372, Second Nun's Tale and the Monk's Tale in The Canterbury Tales c. 1372-1377, Saint Cecelia, The House of Fame, Anelida and Arcite and Palamon and Arcite later adapted as the Knight's Tale c. 1378- 1381, The Parliament of Fowls 1380, Boece and Troilus and Criseyde 1381-86, The Legend of Good Women 1386, The Treatise of the Astrolabe 1391-1392, The Canterbury Tales 1387 and 1400, The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse 1400.

Dent (1958)

Agatha Christie (1890-1976). Born on September 15, in Torquay, England. 1914 she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. Agatha Christie wrote 79 novels, Plays and short storys. She died on January, 12 1976.

The Bodley Head (1924)

Agatha Christie

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 The Mysterious Affair at Styles 1920, The Secret Adversary 1922, The Murder on the Links 1923, The Man in the Brown Suit 1924, Poirot Investigates 1924, The Secret of Chimneys 1925, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 1926, The Big Four 1927, The Mystery of the Blue Train 1928, The Seven Dials Mystery 1929, Partners in Crime 1929, The Mysterious Mr. Quin 1930, The Murder at the Vicarage 1930, The Sittaford Mystery 1931, Peril at End House 1932, The Thirteen Problems 1932, Lord Edgware Dies 1933, The Hound of Death and Other Stories 1933, Murder on the Orient Express 1934, The Listerdale Mystery and Other Stories 1934, Why Didn't They Ask Evans? 1934, Parker Pyne Investigates 1934, Three-Act Tragedy 1934, Death in the Clouds 1935, The A.B.C. Murders 1936, Murder in Mesopotamia 1936, Cards on the Table 1936, Dumb Witness 1937, Death on the Nile 1937, Murder in the Mews 1937, Appointment With Death 1938, Hercule Poirot's Christmas 1938, Murder Is Easy 1939, And Then There Were None 1939, Regatta Mystery and Other Stories 1939, Sad Cypress 1940, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe 1940, Evil Under the Sun 1941, N or M? 1941, The Body in the Library 1942, The Moving Finger 1942, Five Little Pigs 1943, Towards Zero 1944, Death Comes As the End 1944, Sparkling Cyanide 1945, The Hollow 1946, The Labours of Hercules 1947, Taken at the Flood 1948, Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories 1948, Crooked House 1949, A Murder Is Announced 1950, Three Blind Mice and Other Stories 1950, They Came to Baghdad 1951, The Under Dog and Other Stories 1951, Mrs. McGinty's Dead 1952, They Do It with Mirrors 1952, After the Funeral 1953, A Pocket Full of Rye 1953, Destination Unknown 1954, Hickory Dickory Dock 1955, Dead Man's Folly 1956, 4.50 from Paddington 1957, Ordeal by Innocence 1958, Cat Among the Pigeons 1959, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding 1960, The Pale Horse 1961, Double Sin and Other Stories 1961, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side 1962, The Clocks 1963, A Caribbean Mystery 1964, At Bertram's Hotel 1965, Third Girl 1966, Endless Night 1967, By the Pricking of My Thumbs 1968, Hallowe'en Party 1969, Passenger to Frankfurt 1970, Nemesis 1971, The Golden Ball and Other Stories 1971, Elephants Can Remember 1972, Postern of Fate 1973, Poirot's Early Cases 1974, Curtain 1975, Sleeping Murder 1976, Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories 1979
Marcus Clarke (1846-1881) Born in Kensington, England. His father was a barrister. His mother died a few months after his birth. Education at a private school. 1863 emigrate to Melbourne, Australia. 1869 married to Marion Dunn. He wrote a number of plays and novels. Best known for his work " For the Term of his Natural Life". Marcus Clarke died on August 2, 1881.

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Long Odds 1868-69, Old Tales of a Young Country, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Pretty Dick, Cannabis Indica, The Cafe Lutetia, Holiday Peak, Human Repetends, La Beguine, For the Term of his Natural Life 1874, Sensational Tales 1886,

Marcus Clarke UQP (1976)
William Collins (1721-1759) under construction
William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889). Born January 8, at Marylebone, oldest son of the painter William Collins. 1843 The Last Stagecoachman appears in The Illuminated Magazine. 1844 journey to Paris. The publication of Wilkie's first book in 1848. He lived with a lady called Caroline Graves and her daughter by a previous marriage for most of his life, but never married her. He had three children with Martha Judd. But again never formally married her. He died 1889.

Links to more information The Wilkie Collins Website

 Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, R.A. 1848, Antonina, or the Fall of Rome 1850, Rambles beyond Railways: or Notes in Cornwall Taken A-foot 1851, Mr. Wray's Cash Box: or the Mask and the Mystery: a Christmas Sketch 1852, Basil: a Story of Modern Life 1852, Hide and Seek; or the Mystery of Mary Grice 1854, After Dark (six stories) 1856, A Rogue's Life 1856, The Dead Secret 1857, The Queen of Heart The Woman In White 1860, No Name 1862, My Miscellanies (articles) 1863, Armadale 1866, No Thoroughfare 1867 (with Dickens), The Moonstone: a Romance 1868, Man and Wife: a Novel 1870, Poor Miss Finch: a Domestic Story 1872, The New Magdalen: a Novel 1873, Miss or Mrs.: and Other Stories in Outline 1873, The Frozen Deep: and Other Tales 1874, The Law and the Lady: a Novel 1875, The Two Destinies: a Romance 1876, My Lady's Money 1877, The Haunted Hotel: a Mystery of Modern Venice; to which added My Lady's Money 1879, A Rogue's Life: from his Birth to his Marriage 1879, The Fallen Leaves: First Series 1879, Jezebel's Daughter 1880, The Black Robe 1881, Heart and Science 1883, I Say No 1884, The Evil Genius: a Domestic Story 1886, The Guilty River 1886, Little Novels (fourteen stories) 1887, The Legacy of Cain 1889, Blind Love 1890,
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). Born May 22, at Edinburgh, Scotland. Medical degree. First short story published 1879, The Mystery of the Sasassa Valley, to Chambers Journal. Doyle married Louise Hawkins in 1885. She died in 1900. Serving as a physician in the Boer War (1899-1902). The War in South Africa, earned him a knighthood in 1902 for his work with a field hospital in Bloemfontein, and for other activities concerning the South African (Boer) War. Doyle married again to Jean Leckie in 1907. Sherlock Holmes, Doyle's creation of the most famous of fictional detectives, was the world's first consulting detective, operating from his rooms at 221B Baker Street in London, which he shared with his friend and biographer, Dr. John Watson. Author of more than 50 books, he died July 7, 1930 at his home, Windlesham, in Crowborough.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

John Murray (1952)

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 A Study in Scarlet 1888, Micah Clarke 1889, The Mystery of Cloomber 1889, Mysteries and Adventures 1889, The Captain of the Polestar and other tales 1890, The Firm of Girdlestone 1890, The Sign of Four 1890, The White Company 1891, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1892, The Doings of Raffles Haw 1892, The Great Shadow 1892, Beyond the City 1892, Jane Annie: or, the Good Conduct prize (with J.M.Barrie) 1893, The Gully of Bluemansdyke 1893, (Reissue of Mysteries and Adventures), 1889 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, 1893 The Refugees 1893, The Parasite 1894, Round the Red Lamp 1894, The Stark Munro Letters 1895, The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard 1896, Rodney Stone 1896, Uncle Bernac 1896, The Tragedy of Korosko 1898, Songs of Action 1898, A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus 1899, The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport 1900, The Great Boer War 1900, The Hound of the Baskervilles 1902, The War in South Africa: its cause and conduct 1902, The Adventures of Gerard 1903, A Duet. A duologue 1903, The Return of Sherlock Holmes 1905, Sir Nigel 1906, +The Case of Mr. George Edalji 1907, Through the Magic Door 1907, Round the Fire Stories 1908, The Crime of the Congo 1909, The Last Galley 1911, Songs of the Road 1911, The Lost World 1912, A Pot of Caviare 1912, The Dramatic Works of Arthur Conan Doyle 1912, The Speckled Band 1912, The Poison Belt 1913, The German War 1914, +In Quest of Truth 1914, To Arms! 1914, The Valley of Fear 1915, A Visit to Three Fronts, June 1916, His Last Bow 1917, Danger! and Other Stories 1918, The New Revelation: or, What Is Spiritualism? 1918, Waterloo 1919, The Guards Came Through and Other Poems 1919, The British Campaign in France and Flanders (1914-1918) 1916-20, The Vital Message 1919, +Spiritualism and Rationalism 1920, The Wanderings of a Spiritualist 1921, +Tales of Long Ago 1922, +Tales of Pirates and Blue Water 1922, +Tales of Adventure and Medical Life 1922, +Tales of Terror and Mystery 1922, +Tales of Twilight and the Unseen 1922, The Poems of Arthur Conan Doyle 1922, Sherlock Holmes (with William Gillette) 1922, The Case for Spirit Photography. (with others) 1922, The Coming of the Fairies 1922, Our American Adventure 1923, Three of them. (Three children.) 1923, Memoirs and Adventures 1924, Our Second American Adventure 1924, +The Early Christian Church and Modern Spiritualism 1925, +Psychic Experiences (reprint) 1925, The Land of Mist 1926, The History of Spiritualism. 2 vol. 1926, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes 1927, Pheneas Speaks 1927, +What does Spiritualism actually Teach and Stand for? 1928, The Maracot Deep and Other Stories 1929, +An Open Letter to those of my Generation 1929, Our African Winter 1929, The Roman Catholic Church 1929, The Edge of the Unknown 1930, The Conan Doyle Historical Romances I (White Company+Sir Nigel+Micah Clarke+Refugees) 1931, The Conan Doyle Historical Romances II (Rodney Stone+Uncle Bernac+Exploits+Adventures of Gerard) 1932, +The Professor Challenger Stories 1952.
William Congreve (1670-1729) under construction
Joseph Conrad (Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) (1857-1924). Born in Berdichev, Russian Poland. School in Cracow and Switzerland. 1875 Apprentice on the Mont-Blanc a French vessel, bound for Martinique. In 1878 he joined an English merchant ship. In 1894 he left the sea and settled in Kent, England. Married to Jessie George. 1919 moves to Bishopbourne, near Canterbury, where he spends the last years of his life. He died August 3, 1924 in Bishopbourne/Kent.

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Almayer's Folly 1895, An Outcast of the Islands 1896, The Nigger of the Narcissus 1898, Lord Jim 1900, The Inheritors 1901,Youth 1902, Heart of Darkness 1902, Typhoon 1902, Romance 1903, Nostromo 1904, Mirror of the Sea 1906, The Secret Agent 1907, Under Western Eyes 1911, Chance 1914, Victory 1915, Within the Tides 1915, The Shadow-Line: A Confession 1917, The Arrow of Gold 1919, The Rescue 1920, The Rover 1923, The Nature of a Crime 1924,

Penguin (1957) Joseph Conrad
Susan Coolidge (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey) (1835-1905). Born January 29 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Private school in Cleveland and a boarding school in New Hampshire. 1855 she moved to New Haven, Connecticut for the next 15 years. 1871, Sarah Woolsey began writing for periodicals under the pseudonym "Susan Coolidge". She died in Newport, Rhode Island in 1905. She never married.

Links to more information A Celebration of Women Writers

The New Year's Bargain ?, Mischief's Thanksgiving 1874, What Katy Did 1872, What Katy Did at School 1873, Eyebright 1879, Verses 1880, A Little Country Girl 1885, What Katy Did Next, 1886. Clover 1888. A Few More Verses 1889, In the High Valley189,. Barberry Bush 1893, An Old Convent School In Paris 1895, Last Verses 1906.

Dakers (1950s) Lutterworth
William Cowper (1731-1800) under construction
Eleanor Dark (O'Reilly) (1901-1985). Born in Sydney, daughter of the writer Dowell O'Reilly. Most famous for her novel, A Timeless Land. Married to Eric Dark in 1922. She lived most of her life at Varuna - the house the couple shared in the Blue Mountains, near Sydney (Australia) for over half a century. Eleanor Dark died 1985.

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Prelude to Christopher 1934, Return to Coolami 1936, The Timeless land 1941, Sun Across the Sky, Poems, Short Stories.

Collins ( ?)

Daniel Defoe (1661?-1731). Born in London. Son of James Foe, a butcher of Stroke Newington. 1684 he married Mary Tuffley. Father of modern journalism, known for his work, Robinson Crusoe 1719-20. Defoe wrote over 500 books, pamphlets and journals. He died April 26, 1731 in Ropemaker's Alley, Moorfields.

Daniel Defoe

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An Essay Upon Projects 1697, The True-Born Englishman 1701, The Shortest-Way With The Dissenters 1702, Giving Alms no Charity 1704, The Consolidator 1705, True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal 1706, Pamphlets 1712-13, The Family Instructor 1715, Robinson Crusoe 1719, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe 1719, Memoirs of a Cavalier 1720, The Liefe, Adventures, and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton, 1720, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders 1722, A Journal of the Plague Year 1722, Colonel Jack 1722, Roxana 1724, Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain 1724-26, The Complete English Tradesman 1725-27, The Political History of the Devil 1726, The History and Reality of Apparitions1727

Dakers (1959)

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859). Born August 15 in Manchester, England. Son of a merchant. He studied at the University of Oxford. Addicted to Opium. Best known as author of Confessions of an English Opium Eater 1821, which was based on his own experiences. He died in Edinburgh, Scotland, December 8 1859.

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Confessions of a English Opium Eater

 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 1821, Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow 1821, 1822 ON THE KNOCKING AT THE GATE IN MACBETH, Letters to a Young Man 1823, Three Templars 1824, Walladmor 1826, Laocoön 1826, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts 1827, Klosterheim 1832, The English Mailcoach 1840, Logic of Political Economy 1844, Suspira de Profundis 1845, Joan of Arc 1847, and Autobiographic Sketches 1853, Selections Grave and Gay 1853-60.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870.) Born on February 7, at No. 1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, Portsmouth. His father, John Dickens, was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office. In 1814 the family moved to London. Attends day school in Hampstead Road. 1829 Charles became a free-lance reporter at Doctor's Commons Courts. 1833, his first published story, "Dinner at Poplar Walk," appears in Monthly Magazine. He married Catherine Hogarth on April 2, 1836. Wilkie Collins, John Forster, William Makepeace Thackeray, Edgar Allan Poe, close friends of Charles Dickens. In 1856 he bought the house called Gad's Hill Placeand lived there until his death . 1858 Catherine and Charles were legally separated. Dies on June 9, 1870 and is buried at Westminster Abbey.

Charles Dickens

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Sketches by Boz 1836, The Pickwick Papers 1836-7, Oliver Twist 1837-9, Nicholas Nickleby 1838-9, Master Humphrey's Clock(1840-1, The Old Curiosity Shop 1840-1, Barnaby Rudge 1841, American Notes 1842, Martin Chuzzlewit 1843-4, A Christmas Carol 1843, The Chimes 1844, Christmas Books 1843-49, Pictures from Italy 1844-45, The Cricket on the Hearth 1845, The Battle of Life 1846, Dombey and Son 1846-8, The Haunted Man 1848, David Copperfield 1849-50, A Child's History of England 1851-53, Bleak House 1852-3, Hard Times 1854, Little Dorrit 1855-7, Reprinted Pieces 1858, A Tale of Two Cities 1859, Christmas Stories 1859-67, The Uncommercial Traveller 1860, Great Expectations 1860-1, Our Mutual Friends 1864-5, The Mystery of Edwin Drood 1870,

Publicity Press (1938)

Night is generally my time for walking. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together, but saving in the country I seldom go out until after dark, though, Heaven be thanked, I love its light and feel the cheerfulness it sheds upon the earth, as much as any creature living..

I have fallen insensibly into this habit, both because it favours my infirmity and because it affords me greater opportunity of speculating on the characters and occupations of those who fill the streets. The glare and hurry of broad noon are not adapted to idle pursuits like mine: a glimpse of passing faces caught by the light of a street lamp or shop window is often better for my purpose than their full revelation in the daylight, and, if I must add the truth, night is kinder in this respect than day, which too often destroys an air-built castle at the moment of its completion, without the smallest ceremony or remorse. The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
Edward S. Ellis (1840-1916). Born April 11 in Geneva, Ohio. 1860 published his most successful book, Seth Jones, or the Captives of the Frontier. Married Anna M. Deane in 1862. After Anna’s death he married again in 1900 to Clara Spalding Brown. He wrote under dozens of pseudonyms. Ellis wrote over 100 novels. He died at Cliff Island, Maine, USA in 1916.

It was in the early part of 1899, that, while engaged in making a South American tour, I drifted into the little Bolivian town of Sucre. This town stands on the northern bank of the Pilcomayo, about a hundred miles from its source near Lake Autlapas, in a spur of the great Andean range, which forms the mighty western wall of South America, all the way from the Caribbean Sea to Cape Horn. I was sauntering in a dreamy mood through the half civilized collection of huts, flimsy dwellings and primitive streets, with the lazy negroes, mongrels, half breeds and original natives lolling lazily in the sun. Lost in the Forbidden Land (1908), Chapter I

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Seth Jones or the Captives of the Frontier 1860, The Phantom of the River, In the Days of the Pioneers, The Path in the Ravine, The Young Ranchers, The Great Cattle King, Ned in the Woods, Ned on the River, Ned in the Block House, The Lost Trail, Camp-Fire and Wigwam, Footprints in the Forest, Down the Mississippi, Lost in the Wilds, Up the Tapajos, The Hunters of the Ozark, The Camp in the Mountains 1897, The Last War Trail, Klondike Nuggets, Scouts and Comrades, Cowmen and Rustlers, A Strange Craft and a Wonderful Voyage, Pontiac Chief of the Ottawas, Lost in Samoa, Tad, Astray in the Forest 1897, Captured by Indians, Wolf-Ear the Indian, The Daughter of the Chieftain, The Boy Hunters of Kentucky, Red Feather, Bob Lovell's Career, River and Jungle, Hunt of the White Elephant, Fire Snow and Water, Lost in the Forbidden Land, Blazing Arrow, Lost Among the Red Men, The Red Indian Trails, The Mountain Star, The Cruise of the Deerfoot, A Princess of the Woods, The Lost River, River and Forest, Shod with Silence, Iron Heart, Red Jacket, The Great Struggle, Two Boys in Wyoming, Deerfoot in the Forest, Deerfoot on the Prairies, Deerfoot in the Mountains, River and Jungle, The Hunt of White Elephant, Fire Snow and Water, A Hunt of Snowshoes, The Young Ranchers, The Forest Messengers, The Rubber Hunters, Lost in the Rockies
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