Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer, journalist, poet, and American Civil War veteran
The Devil’s Dictionary
“Dictionary, n: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.” Bierce’s groundbreaking Devil’s Dictionary had a complex publication history. Started in the mid-1800s as an irregular column in Californian newspapers under various titles, he gradually refined the new-at-the-time …
Fathers and Sons
One of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev’s finest work
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West
Edmond Rostand
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (UK: , US: ,French: [ɛdmɔ̃ ʁɔstɑ̃]; 1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918), a French poet and dramatist associated with neo-romanticism, became best-known for his 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand’s romantic plays contrasted with the naturalistic theatre popular during the late-nineteenth century. Another of Rostand’s works, Les Romanesques (1894), was …
Cyrano de Bergerac
French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist
Erik Larson
American journalist and author of mostly nonfiction books
The Splendid and the Vile
History of the bombing of London during WWII, by Erik Larson
Last Hope Island
History of WWII Europe in exile by Lynn Olson
Lynne Olson
American author, historian and journalist