William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor. He was born on 26 April 1564 in Stratford-upon- Avon. His father was a successful local businessman and his mother was the daughter of a landowner. Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and nicknamed the Bard of Avon. He wrote about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, of which the authors

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while

Henri Pirenne; 23 December 1862 – 24 October 1935) was a Belgian historian. A medievalist of Walloon descent, he wrote a multivolume history of Belgium in French and became a prominent public intellectual. Pirenne made lasting contribution to the study of cities that was a controversial interpretation of the end of Roman civilization and the rebirth of medieval urban culture. He also became prominent in the nonviolent resistance to the Germans who occupied Belgium in World War I. Henri Pirenne's reputation

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor. He was born on 26 April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. His father was a successful local businessman and his mother was the daughter of a landowner. Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and nicknamed the Bard of Avon. He wrote about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, of which the authorsh

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while

Jack London was an American author and journalist who became one of the first authors to become famous and wealthy from his fiction alone. He was born John Griffith Chaney on January 12th, 1876 in San Francisco, California to Flora Wellman, a music teacher and spiritualist, and William Chaney, an attorney and pioneer in the field ofastrology. His parents were not married so when his mother later married John London, Jack took on his last name. Jack grew tıp in a vorking-class family, and foıınd various jobs

Jane Austen was an English novelist who is known for her iconic romantic literatüre. Born in Hampshire, England on the 16th December 1775, Jane Austen was educated through her childhood at home by her father and older siblings. She began writing in her teenage years, experimenting with various literatüre forms, including an epistolary novel. Jane Austen is regarded as one of the most read and prized authors of ali time. She is known particularly for her novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Ma

George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, one of the leading English novelists of the 19th century. Eler novels, most famously 'Middlemarch', are celebrated for their realism and psychological insights. George Eliot was born on 22 November 1819 in rııral Wamickshire. When her mother died in 1836, Eliot left school to help run herfather's household. In 1841, she moved vith herfather to Coventry and lived vith him ııntil his death in 1849 Eliot then travelled in Europe, eventııally settling in London.

James F. Cooper was a 19th century American novelist, best-known far the ‘Leatherstocking Tales' including ‘The Last of the Mohicans', vvhich is extensively regarded as his masterwork. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days fashioned an inimitable type of American literatüre. Before he took to nriting, he functioned as a Midshipman in the U.S. Navy; the experiences of which were seen in a number of his works and novels. Although many of his works were enjoyed by a num

This book is not complete yet! You and me, we are going to be the writers of this book together. I finished the writing part, and drawing part is on you! I hope you like. I underlined the important parts on each page, so you can use them as clues while drawing. When all the drawings are completed, our book will be completed, too! Draw as you like. At the end of the book, instead of fill in the gaps and writing exercises, you will find enjoyable surprise activities.

Henry James was born on 15 April 1843 in New York City, New York State, United States, the second of five children born to theologian Henry James Sr. (1811-1882) and Maty Robertson nee Walsh. Henry James Sr. was one of the most wealthy intellectuals of the time, connected with noted philosophers and transcendentalists as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, as well as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Carlyle, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; fellow friends and influential thinkers of the time who would ha

Anne Bronte was born on January 17, 1820, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, the sister of fellow writers Charlotte and Emily Bronte. Said to be the meeker and less talented Bronte sister, Anne was raised in a strict Anglican home by her clergyman father and a religious aunt after her mother and two eldest siblings died. Anne was largely educated at home and worked as a governess for a several years before working on a book of poetry with her sisters, Charlotte and Emily, in 1846 Anne contributed 21 poems to

Abraham 'Bram' Stoker was bom 8 November 1847 in Dublin, Ireland to a civil servant father and charity worker and writer mother. He was a sickly child and spent lots of time in bed being told horror stories by his mother. He entered Trinity College Dublin in 1864 and while he studied he also worked as a civil servant, turning his hand to journalism and drama criticism on a part-time basis. A fan of the romantic movement in literature, Stoker corresponded with Walt Whitman and was a friend of Oscar Wilde. A

Jane Austen was an English novelist who is krıown for her iconic romantic literature. Born in Hampshire, Englarıd on t he 16th December 1775, Jane Austen was educated through her childhood at home by her father and older siblings. She began writing in her teenage years, experimenting with various literature forms, including an epistolaiy novel. Jane Austen is regarded as one of the most read and prized authors of ali time. She is known particularly for her novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice,

You have asked me, Lucilius, why, if the world be ruled by providence, so many evils befall good men? The answer to this would be more conveniently given in the course of this work, after we have proved that providence governs the universe, and that God is amongst us: but, since you wish me to deal with one point apart from the whole, and to answer one replication before the main action has been decided, I will do what is not difficult, and plead the cause of the gods. At the present time it is superfluous

Elizabeth Stevenson was born in London on 29 September 1810, the daughter of a Unitarian minister. After her mother's early death, she was raised by an aunt who lived in Knutsford in Cheshire. In 1832, she married William Gaskell, also a Unitarian minister, and they settled in the industrial city of Manchester. Motherhood and the obligations of a minister's wife kept her busy. However, the death of her only son inspired her to write her first novel, 'Mary Barton', which was published anonymously in 1848 It

Thomas Hardy was born at Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, on June 2, 1840, where his father worked as a master mason and builder. From his father he gained an appreciation of music, and from his mother an appetite for learning and the delights of the countryside about his rural home. Hardy was frail as a child, and did not start at the village school until he was eight years old. One year later he transferred to a new school in the county town of Dorchester. At the age of 16 Hardy helped his father with the arch

President Roosevelt in his address to the Governors at the White House, prophetically remarked that "The conservation of our national resources is only preliminary to the larger question of national efficiency." The whole country at once recognized the importance of conserving our material resources and a large movement has been started which will be effective in accomplishing this object. As yet, however, we have but vaguely appreciated the importance of "the larger question of increasing our national effi

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor. He was born on 26 April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. His father was a successful local businessman and his mother was the daughter of a landowner. Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and nicknamed the Bard of Avon. He wrote about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, of which the authorsh

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