He was the main character in the literary world of England during the era of Queen Victoria, became the first master pen who lived on the money earned by writing work. And he turned out to be the first English celebrity in the modern sense of the word - he became a "star", which idolized admirers idolized. And at the same time, Dickens always led a double life - a public person and a person obsessed with excruciating complexes and passions....
Hannibal Hamlin Garland is an American novelist, poet, and essayist. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize of 1922. Known for his work on farmers in the Midwestern United States. The author of the trilogy about life in the Midwest "A Son of the Middle Border", 1917; "A Daughter of the Middle Border", 1921; "Back-trailers from the Middle Border", 1928....
John Smith is an English writer and sailor who stood at the origins of Jamestown, the first British settlement in the territory of the modern United States. In the imagination of the masses, the name of Captain John Smith is associated with a story he himself told about his "romantic relationship" with the daughter of an Indian chief named Pocahontas....
The childhood of Mark Twain passed in the town of Hannibal on the banks of the famous Mississippi, the love of which the great writer kept for life. After the death of his father in 1847, a teenager was forced to enter the typography as a typesetter, and at the age of twenty he sailed as a pilot on a steamboat. In 1883 Twain writes "Life on the Mississippi", in which one can already feel the loss of the inherent cheerfulness of the author. The free element of the river corresponds to the internal state of the hero, and it seems that man exists in unity with nature and civilization. But the...
The literary heritage of Mark Twain entered the treasury of world culture, becoming the property of working mankind. Over the fifty-year period of his literary work, Mark Twain, a satirist and humorist, created an amazing picture of the people's life in depth, breadth and dynamism. Despite the obstacles that the ruling class of the United States repaired for him, fighting and suffering, overcoming his own mistakes, Mark Twain courageously performed the duty of a citizen writer and defended the truth in works published after his death. All the best that was created by Mark Twain, reflects the...
Thomas Edison is one of those great minds who, appearing in known periods of time among mankind, mark a whole new era in the development of a particular branch of science and technology. It is impossible to apply to him the standard that is usually used in evaluating many outstanding personalities; in their special mental strength and almost superhuman talents, people like him stand apart, representing amazing phenomena that have not yet been sufficiently studied by science....
The author was inclined to abstract theorizing. Frank Harris, whose book “The Shakespeare Man and the Tragic Story of His Life” was published in 1909 and enthusiastically received by Arnold Bennett, believed that it contrasted sharply with the orthodox biographies of high academic authorities whom Harris dismissed as “Mr. Cracker and company. ”...
A book about the exploits of a group of Australian, American, and British hackers in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The first chapter talks about the reaction of the computer security community to a worm that attacked DEC VMS computers in DECnet in December 1989 and was allegedly managed by a hacker from Melbourne....
Ludwig van Beethoven is the greatest phenomenon in world music culture, a composer who became a legend during his lifetime. He was so incredibly talented and purposeful that, even having lost his hearing, he continued to create his own, unmatched, brilliant masterpieces. An outstanding maestro stood on the threshold of Romanticism in Western European music and was the direct founder of a new era, which replaced the exhausted Classicism. As a child, having learned music on the harpsichord with its characteristic lace sound, Beethoven subsequently popularized the piano by creating 5 concerts,...
Ronald Gower is a British lord, politician, sculptor and writer. The amazing life of Joan of Arc haunted him. The legendary liberator of France is devoted to books, works, films, performances and paintings. In France there is no city in which her name would not be immortalized. The phenomenon of memory and great reverence for Joan of Arc lies in her unique biography - at 17 she became the commander in chief of France. Lord Gower studied her biography in detail to learn more about the phenomenal warrior, and shared his discoveries with the world....
