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Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman statesman, general and notable author of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.  A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events...

Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman statesman, general and notable author of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.  A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events...

Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman statesman, general and notable author of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.  A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events...

Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部, English: Lady Murasaki)  (c. 973 or 978 – c. 1014 or 1031) was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court during the Heian period. She is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012. Murasaki...

Margaret Moyes Black was a Scottish novelist and biographer. She wrote her first novel, under the pseudonym of M.B. Fife. “Robert Louis Stevenson” by Margaret Moyes Black is written during the 1910s in the special style that provides the reader a brief escape into the life and mind of...

Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) is well-known as a collector of British folk and fairy tales, but he was a Victorian poet, novelist, academic and critic too. His poem had success, but he became famous published Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors – series of twelve different colored...

George Webbe Dasent (1817-1896) was a folklorist and translator of legends and fairy-tales into English. Dasent was acquainted with Jacob Grimm who advised him to study mythology. Eventually George Dasent became a professor of English literature. ‘The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body’...

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. "The Lost Special" is a short story, first published as part of the Round...

To the Lighthouse is a novel written by English novelist, essayist and critic Virginia Woolf in 1927. The novel is regarded as landmark of high modernism. The story goes about Ramsays visiting to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. The philosophical introspection prevails over the...

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) known simply as Cicero was a great ancient philosopher and politician. Nowadays Cicero is considered perhaps the greatest orator ever, and his speeches are studied by law students all over the world. His writing style had a major influence not only on the Latin language,...

Sir Arthur Doyle was a Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor...

Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers. ‘The Last Day of a Condemned Man’ is a one of Hugo’s best-known works. The action takes place in 19th century and represents the...

Takasue's Daughter, or Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, (菅原孝標女, c.1008 - after 1059) was a Japanese author, who's real name is unknown. Translator Ivan Morris referred to her as Lady Sarashina. She is well-known by her classic Heian period travel diary, “The Sarashina Diary” (更級日記Sarashina...

«William Wells Brown (1814 – 1884) was a prominent African-American author, playwright and lecturer who is considered one of the first significant antislavery activists. An escaped slave, he dedicated his life to writing a truthful memoirs, essays, novels, biographies and finally became the...