Guy de Mauspassant
Works by Guy de Mauspassant: Guy de Maupassant’s Tales of Revenge – A Collection of Short Stories Book by Guy de Mauspassant
Guy de Maupassant’s Tales of Revenge – A Collection of Short Stories
Originally published in the 1880’s. As a collection of short stories, this represents Maupassant’s tales of revenge, and includes ‘A Vendetta’, ‘Father Milon’, ‘Mother Sauvage’, ‘The Corsican Bandit’, ‘The Hand’, and ‘The Lancer’s Wife’. Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil, near Dieppe, France
The Complete Cosmicomics
2009 book that collects almost all of the Cosmicomic stories by Italian postmodern writer Italo Calvino
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Book by the journalist William L. Shirer, in which the author chronicles the rise and fall of Nazi Germany from the birth of Adolf Hitler in 1889 to the end of World War II in Europe in 1945. It was first published in 1960, by Simon & Schuster in the United States
The Mabinogion
Stories compiled in Middle Welsh in the 12th–13th centuries from earlier oral traditions
David Shenk
American writer, lecturer, and filmmaker
A Happy Boy
Novel of peasant life, by the Nobel laureate Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature “as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit”. The first Norwegian Nobel laureate, he was a prolific polemicist and extremely influential in Norwegian public life and Scandinavian cultural debate
Forrest Carter
American Western and Children’s novelist with a dubious background.
Yuval Noah Harari
Israeli public intellectual, historian and a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem