Louisa May Alcott was an American writer. She was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, U. S.
Little Women (1868), Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1971), and Jo's Boys (1886) are Louisa May Alcott's famous novels.
These books have been translated into other languages. Also, there are movies and cartoons based on these stories.
Louisa May Alcott died on March 6, 1888, in Boston, Massachusetts, U. S.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Mallowan, Lady Mallowan was born on September 1890, in Torquay, England.
She was known as a detective story writer.
Murder on the Orient Express (1934), Death on the Nile (1937), The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) are famous novels written by Agatha Christie. Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple are main characters of these detective stories.
There are many different movies based on these books.
Agatha Christie died on January 12, 1976, in Winterbrook House, England.
Agatha Christie.
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“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.”
“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
“Time is the best killer.”
“If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”
“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”
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The Golden Age (χρυσή εποχή ) (chrysí epokhí) means the best time of humanity. Perhaps it was so in the past or it will be so in the future.
These words come from Ancient Greece. In Greek mythology there are five ages of humanity (χρύσεον γένος) (chrýseon génos): Gold, Silver, Bronze, Heroic, and Iron.
Also, other myths and legends have their own Golden Age.
Writers wrote books about it, and artists drew images.
Sometimes the Golden Age is called the dawn of civilization.
This is actually a utopia.
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron was born on January 22, 1788, in London, England.
He was an English writer. Lord Byron wrote in Romanticism style.
Hours of Idleness (1807), The Giaour (1813), and Lara, A Tale (1814) were his notable works.
Byron had wife and children.
He died on April 19, 1824, in Aetolia, Greece.
Retrofuturism is a genre of art. People from the past imagine the future. There are many assumptions about what the world will look like in many years.
Writers wrote books about the next century and describe inventions of mankind. Artists paint buildings of the city of the future and its changes.
But these expectations don't always correspond to reality.
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Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann was a German writer. He was born on January 24, 1776, in Königsberg, Prussia.
Hoffmann wrote with different genres.
His literary movement was Romanticism.
"The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (1816) was Hofmann's famous work.
He died on June 25, 1822, in Berlin.
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
He was a writer. Stevenson studied in University of Edinburgh.
Treasure Island (1883), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), and Kidnapped (1886) were his notable works.
Robert Louis Stevenson had a wife.
He died on December 3, 1894, in Vailima, Upolu, Samoa.
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, was an English writer. She was born on May 13, 1907, in London, England. Daphne du Maurier had two sisters.
Jamaica Inn (1936), Rebecca (1938), and "The Birds" (1952) were her famous works.
Lady Browning had husband and children.
She died on April 19, 1989, in Par, Cornwall, England.
Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston Massachusetts, U.S. He was an American writer.
Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827) was his famous book.
Edgar Allan Poe had a wife and siblings.
He died on October 7, 1849, in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865, Bombay Presidency, India. He was a writer.
The Jungle Book (1894) was one of Kipling's works.
Also, he had Nobel Prize in Literature (1907).
Rudyard Kipling was married and had children.
He died on January 18, 1936, in London, England.
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
He was a writer. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote novels about characters, like Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Also, he wrote The Lost World (1912).
Arthur Conan Doyle was married and had children.
He died on July 7, 1930, in Crowborough, Sussex, England.
Daphne du Maurier.
“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
“Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.”
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Wilhelm Hauff was a German writer. He was born on November 29, 1802, in Stuttgart.
The Story of Little Muck (1826), Heart of stone (1827), and Dwarf Nose (1826) were his famous works.
Wilhelm Hauff died on November 18, 1827, in Stuttgart.
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer. He was born on February 7, 1812, in Hampshire, England.
Dickens wrote his famous books during the Victorian era. Oliver Twist, or, The Parish Boy’s Progress (1838), David Copperfield (1849), and Great Expectations (1861) were Charles Dickens’ famous novels.
He was married and had children.
Charles Dickens died on June 9, 1870, in Kent, England.
Edgar Allan Poe.
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“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
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