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Bret Harte is best known for his stories about pioneering life in California. Harte moved to California in 1853 where he worked as a miner, journalist, teacher and messenger. In this California tale Jeff Briggs is a tall handsome 25 year old. He is a landlord for a roadside inn on the route to California. The inn is not much more than a run down shamble of a place. Harte does a wonderful job of developing his characters and the atmosphere of t...

Mark Overton wrote The American Boys Sports Series. These books touched on almost every sport of interest to boys. The books cover baseball, football, skating, rowing, hockey, ice-boating, sailing, camping, and fishing. Jack was the new boy in town. He appeared to be a born leader. An excerpt reads, " Jack Winters was really something of a newcomer in Chester, but he had hardly landed in the old town than something seemed to awaken, for Jack m...

Graham Wallas (1858 - 1932) was an English socialist, social psychologist, educationalist, and a leader of the Fabian Society. While at Oxford Wallas abandoned his religion. His works include Property Under Socialism (1889), Human Nature in Politics (1908), The Great Society (1914), Our Social Heritage (1921), and The Art of Thought (1926). An excerpt reads from Human Nature in Politics reads, "Any examination of human nature in politics must ...

Johanna Spyri is best known as being the author of the children's story Heidi. Spyri lost her husband and son in 1884. After their deaths she devoted her life to charitable work and writing 50 books for children. Gritli's Children is the story of Nora a little maiden who is ill. The Physician thinks a change of air would be good for her so she travels to Switzerland.

Rev. Dr. Charles William Gordon used the pen name Ralph Connor when writing his novels in order to preserve his status as a church leader. At the beginning of the First World War, in 1915 he became Chaplain of the 43rd (Cameron Highlanders) Battalion. He later became Senior Chaplain for the Canadian forces in England and then in France. Some of his books include Black Rock, The Man from Glengarry and Glengarry School Days. Through a fictionali...

Ben Ames Williams (1889 -1953) was an American writer who published over thirty novels, including All the Brothers Were Valiant (1919), The Strange Woman (1945), House Divided (1947), Leave Her to Heaven (1944), and Come Spring (1940). All the Brothers Were Valiant was his first novel and has been adapted too film three times. Joel Shore was appointed captain of the whaling ship following his brother's apparent demise when captain of the same ...

Richard Davis was a turn of the century reporter known for his romance novels, plays and short stories. His years of experience as a war correspondent influenced much of his writing. His most noted works were Gallegher and Other Stories (1891), Van Bibber and Others (1892), and Ranson's Folly (1902). My Buried Treasure begins, "This is a true story of a search for buried treasure. The only part hat is not true is the name of the man with whom ...

Ernest Scott worked as a journalist on the London Globe before migrating to Australia in 1892, where he joined the staff of The Herald newspaper in Melbourne. The publication of Terre Napoleon (1910) and Laperouse (1912) established his reputation as a historian. La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de (1741-1788) was a French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania. He studied in a Jesuit college and entered the n...

Do you love reading antique cookbooks? If so A Poetical Cook-Book first published in 1864 would make an excellent addition to your collection. The book begins with a section on the proper role of the mistress of the home. Each set of recipes is accompanied by a poem. Chicken broth begins "The chicken broth was brought at nine, He then arose to ham and wine, And, with a philosophic air, Decided on the bill of fare." Turtle soup begins, "The day...

Honora de Balzac is considered the founder of social realism. Balzac was the first writer to write about all social levels of the social scene in France. His vast collection of works encompasses the Restoration period and the July Monarchy. La Comedie Humaine was written between 1799 and 1850. This collection contains 95 novels, stories, and essays. Farewell (Adieu, 1832) is located in the Philosophical studies (Études philosophiques) of the L...

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 Émile Zola. Because of his willingness to tackle such issues as prostitution, ext...

Mrs. Oliphant was a 19th century Scottish novelist, biographer and historian. She is best known for her depiction of small town life. After the death of her husband she began writing over 100 books as a means of supporting her children and those of her brother. A Little Pilgrim: Stories of the Seen and the Unseen Oliphant says, "The sympathetic reader will easily understand that the following pages were never meant to be connected with any aut...

James Lane Allen (1849 - 1925) was an American writer whose work often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work has been described as late 19th century local color era writing. A Kentucky Cardinal, set in 1850, features a romance between a naturalist and a society girl. Aftermath is the sequel to A Kentucky Cardinal.

Sergeevich Turgenev was a major 19th century Russian novelist. His novel Fathers and Sons is his best-known work. The author has written a number of critical essays, plays, poems, and several novelettes. Stories in this collection include A desperate character.--A strange story.--Punin and Baburin.--Old portraits.--The brigadier.-Pyetushkov.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was educated as a teacher. She became a professional lecturer, activist, suffragette, poet, essayist, novelist, and the author of the first published short story written by an African-American woman. Her work spanned more than sixty years. She joined the American Anti-Slavery Society as a traveling lecturer. First serialized in The Christian Recorder Trial and Triumph was first written for African-Ameri...

Leo Tolstoy had a profound influence on people through out the Western world. Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher. Tolstoy was a member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. He was known as an educational reformer, pacifist and Christian anarchist. His masterpiece War and Peace made him one of the world's greatest novelists. His ability to depict life in 19th century Russia made him a leader in realist fiction...

Franklin Pierce Adams (1881 -1960) was an American columnist who used the pen name F.P.A. He was best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower". FPA often included parodies in his column. During World War I, Adams was in the U.S. Army, assigned to the military newspaper Stars and Stripes. His books include Tobogganning on Parnassus (1911), Answer This One (a 1927 trivia book with Harry Hansen) and The Melancholy Lute (1936). A few of...

Sketches of Young Couples is Dickens at his best. 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. Dickens begins with a letter to the Queen c...

Sextus Empiricus (c. 160-210 AD), was a physician and philosopher, and has been v reported to have lived in Alexandria, Rome, or Athens. Sextus believed in Pyrrhonean skepticism which said that we should suspend judgment about virtually all beliefs, that is, we should neither affirm any belief as true nor deny any belief as false. Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism is a thesis for the PhD program at the University of Bern written in 1897. M...

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