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James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was an American writer, educator and freedom fighter. He was the leader of the National Association of Colored People. ‘Behind A Georgia Mule’ is a short autobiographical piece of literary work that published as a part of ‘The Upward Path’ collection...

Ignac Kunos (1860–1945) was a Hungarian folklorist, linguist, turkologist. He was one of the most avowed scientists of Turkish dialectology and folk literature. He started his career focusing on the dialectology, phonological and morphological of the Hungarian language, and at university he started...

Andrew Lang was a Scottish prolific author, mostly known as a collector of folk and fairy tales.  “Allerleirauh; Or, The Many-Furred Creature” is a German tale, entered in “The Green Fairy Book” collection. The story narrates about one King, who has a beautiful wife with golden hair....

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was a British writer of the Victorian Era. In her works Elizabeth Gaskell portrayed the English society of those times, depicting different classes including the poorest. Her first novel, 'Mary Barton' is centered on the theme of poverty which can lead to rebellion. In...

Charles Kingsley was an English priest, historian and novelist, famous mostly for his works Hypatia, Hereward the Wake and Westward Ho! Seriously worried about modern social problems, Kingsley published his first novels Yeast and Alton Locke, comprising labour and social inequality issues. Due to...

Isaac D'Israeli (11 May 1766 – 19 January 1848) was an English scholar, writer and man of letters. He was born in Enfield, Middlesex, England, the only child of Benjamin D'Israeli (1730–1816), a Jewish merchant who had emigrated from Cento, Italy in 1748, and his second wife, Sarah Syprut de Gabay...

Enoch Arnold Bennett (May 27, 1867 – March 27, 1931) was an English writer and journalist. His most famous works are the “Clayhanger” trilogy and “The Old Wives' Tale”. These books draw on his experience of life in the Potteries, where he was born. Bennett won the 1923 James Tait Black Memorial...

Enoch Arnold Bennett (always known as Arnold Bennett) was one of the most remarkable literary figures of his time, a product of the English Potteries that he made famous as the Five Towns. Yet he could hardly wait to escape his home town, and he did so by the sheer force of his ambition to succeed...

Robert Burton (8 Feb 1577 – 25 Jan 1640) was an English scholar at Oxford University, best known for the classic The Anatomy of Melancholy. Burton was educated at Oxford, elected a student (life fellow) of Christ Church (one of the colleges of the university) in 1599, and lived there the rest of...

David Hume was a Scottish historian, philosopher, economist, diplomat and essayist known today especially for his radical philosophical empiricism and scepticism. Hume pioneers a naturalist account of the causes, effects, and historical development of religious belief. David Hume locates the origins...

This book contains David Hume’s discourses about religion and its history. In a question of knowledge, David Hume held the position of agnosticism and skepticism. His viewpoint based on the notion of experience. According to experience source, they can be of three types: different effects of emotions,...

Leonardo Da Vinci was an immensely popular Italian polymath, the epitome of the 'Renaissance Man', famous mostly for his paintings such as the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, the drawing of Vitruvian Man. Being a genius artist, sculptor and inventor, Da Vinci was greatly interested in the laws of science...

Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. “On the Question of Free Trade” is the Public Speech Delivered by Karl Marx before the Democratic Association of Brussels, fixed and translated by Friedrich Engels in the 1848. The main theme of...

Sigmund Freud war ein österreichischer Neurologe, Tiefenpsychologe, Kulturtheoretiker und Religionskritiker. Als Begründer der Psychoanalyse erlangte er weltweite Bekanntheit. Freud gilt als einer der einflussreichsten Denker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Seine Theorien und Methoden werden bis heute...