Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He wrote many political tracts and often was in trouble with the authorities, including prison time. The third book about Robinson Crousoe is a collection of Daniel...
A fallen woman would seem a less-than-ideal choice for a Victorian heroine. Elizabeth Gaskell courageously created just such a portrait in her Ruth. Overturning the conventional assumption that a woman once seduced is condemned to exclusion from...
Ernst Theodor Amadeus (E. T. A.) Hoffmann – berühmter deutscher Schriftsteller, in dessen Werken gehen die Geisterwelt, Kriminalgeschichten und ungewöhnliche Abenteuer unvermittelt ineinander über. „Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr“ ist der...
Alfred de Musset est un poète et dramaturge français du XIXe siècle qui a sa place au Panthéon des romantiques. «La Confession d’un enfant du siècle» est une de ses œuvres les plus connues; il y parle des maux de sa génération, blasée et...