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Robert Browning was a 19th century English poet and playwright. His mastery of the dramatic dialogue made him a leading author of the Victorian age. In 1846 he secretly married Elizabeth Barrett. Elizabeth Barrett Browning is considered one of the great English poets. Browning is able to represent EuripidesZ play in his own interpretation, within the framework of another speaker's consciousness. The story is set just after the defeat of the At...

William Bellamy has collected many riddles. There are three books in this series. This is the first. This is an excellent gift for anyone wanting a way to test their mental powers. Here is an example "A product of coniferous trees. A hardy toiler of the seas. These make when joined and matched, A Russian scratched.. I make this statement wholly on, The authority of Napoleon." The author has provided the answers allowing the reader can check hi...

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born English novelist. His success is even more amazing since he did not learn to speak English until he was in his 20's. Conrad's narrative style places him at the beginning of the Modernist period of literature. This collection contains six action /adventure stories including Gaspar Ruiz -- The informer -- The brute -- An anarchist -- The duel -- Il conde.

Marcel Allain (1885 - 1969) was a French writer remembered for his co-creation with Pierre Souvestre of the fictional arch-villain and master criminal Fant"mas. Allain studied law before becoming a journalist. In February 1911, Allain and Souvestre began the Fant"mas book series at the request of publisher Arthsme Fayard, who wanted to create a new monthly pulp magazine. The series was an immediate success. Pierre Souvestre (1874- 1914) was a ...

Richard Wagner was a 19th century German composer known for his operas. Wagner wrote both the music and libretto for every one of his works. A Pilgrimage to Beethoven was written in 1850, while Wagner was in Paris. In this work Wagner emphasized Germanic qualities in his music and defined his opposition to the music of France and Italy.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809 -1894) was an American physician, professor, lecturer and author. Holmes wrote his first book of essays entitled "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table in 1831. Holmes used the true story of a middle-aged man, who assured him that he could never pass by a tall hall clock without an indefinable terror. While an infant in his mother's arms the heavy weight of one of these tall clocks had fallen with aloud crash and ...

George Moore was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. He came from a Roman Catholic landed family and originally wanted to be a painter studying in Paris in the 1870's. As a naturalistic writer, he was among the first English-language authors to study the French realists, and was particularly influenced by the works of ¿mile Zola. Because of his willingness to tackle such issues as prostitution, ext...

Austin Flint (1812 -1886) was an American physician. He was educated at Amherst and Harvard and began his practice in Boston. A Manual Of Percussion And Auscultation: Of The Physical Diagnosis Of Diseases Of The Lungs And Heart And Of Thoracic Aneurism was first published in 1876. Subjects covered include Percussion in health, Percussion in disease, auscultation in health, auscultation in disease, diagnosis of diseases of the respiratory syste...

William Howells was an American realist author and literary critic. In 1904 he was one of the first seven members chosen for the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Howells wrote plays, criticism, and essays about contemporary literary figures such as Ibsen, Zola, Verga, and, Tolstoy. These writings helped to establish their reputations in the United States. Perhaps his greatest influence came from his writing critically in support of many A...

Robert Louis Stevenson was a 19th century Scottish essayist, poet, novelist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Kidnapped, Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Treasure Island. An excerpt from this speech on the human condition reads, "The idealism of serious people in this age of ours is of a noble character. It never seems to them that they have served enough, they have a fine impatience of their virtues. It were perhaps more modest to be s...

The Commerce was a Connecticut-based American merchant sailing ship that ran aground in 1815 at Cape Bojador, off the coast of what is now Western Sahara. This is the story of one of the crew who survived the shipwreck and who went on to become a slave in one of the local tribes who captured them. Captain James Riley and crew were attacked and ransacked on shore by Sahrawi natives. The crew escaped by rowboat but when their supplies ran low th...

Frederick Boyle was born in 1841. He was educated at Oxford and was called to the bar. His travels included Borneo, Australia, and Central America. He was a newspaper correspondent in several wars. A Good Hater was published in 1885. A sergeant wills his money away from his wife to his benefactor his Major. The sergeant tells of his wife's guilt and why he has left home. The wife has become quite rich and the Major falls in love with her. Ther...

Edgar Fawcett (1847 - 1904) was an American novelist and poet. His best known novels, such as 1873's Purple and Fine Linen and 1898's New York, were satirical studies of New York high society. A Gentleman of Leisure was published in 1881. The novel shows the American desire for all things British. This is especially true in the upper classes of the larger cities such as New York.

A Synopsis of Jewish History from the Return of the Jews from the Babylonish Captivity, to the Days of Herod the Great was designed as an overview suitable for all denominations. The first part of the book begins with the return of the Jews from captivity in Babylon to the time of Herod. The second section covers the various sects that developed before and after the time of the Macabees. The origin of prayer, schools, synagogues, and Talmud is...

Merrick Leonard (1864 - 1935) was a British dramatist, actor, and novelist. A Daughter of the Philistines gives a glimpse into the society of New York as well as the dealings of New York's Wall Street. Merrick portrays the demoralizations of Wall Street and how it eroded domestic life. The Philistines are those with new money. The daughter falls in love with a man of quality and that will save her.

William Otter Woodall was an attorney who collected a few of the more infamous trials in this collection. At this point in history trials were not easy to research. Woodall prepared this book for professionals in order that they could refer to them in their research. Trials included are The trial of Abraham Thornton for the murder of Mary Ashford, The appeal of murder and wager of Battle, William Ashford vs Abraham Thornton, The trial of Josia...

Charles Dickens is considered one of the greatest English authors of all time. Dickens often used the pen name Boz. Much of his work first appeared in periodicals and magazines in serialized form. Unlike many writers of his time Dickens wrote the entire novel before serializing it. He made frequent use of the cliffhanger to keep the public interested. A Christmas Carol is a traditional favorite about the conversion of Ebenezer Scrooge from a g...

William Cecil Duncan (1824 - 1864) was an American clergyman. In 1847 he moved to New Orleans and established Southwestern Baptist Chronicle, a religious weekly. Among his works are "Life of John the Baptist, " based on a monograph by Von Rohden (New York, 1853), "History of the Baptists for the First Two Centuries of the Christian Era" (1857), and "The Tears of Jesus" (1859). A Brief History of the Baptists and Their Distinctive Principles an...

Every school age child knows the story of Abraham Lincoln's life. His development from a back woods boy to lawyer to President is a wonderful story. He is also known for his writing. His style is that of a man of the people. He was President during one of the most influential times in U. S. history. Carl Schurz (1829 -1906) was a German revolutionary, American statesman, and Union Army General in the American Civil War. Schurz published a numb...

Thomas Paine at age 37 immigrated to the American colonies. He was an English pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, inventor, and intellectual. His principle works were the pamphlet Common Sense (1776), advocating colonial America's independence from Great Britain, and The American Crisis (1776-1783), a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series. The original work in French, by the Abbe Raynal discussed the Revolution of North America. Because Abbe was ...