Mark Twain

Mark Twain is the legendary pen name of Samuel I. Clemens, whose central place in the American literary pantheon remains assured […]

Žemaitė

Žemaitė is the pen name of Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė, who was born to Lithuanian gentry in Samogitia, in the country’s northwest […]

O. Henry

O. Henry is the author of hundreds of short stories. He is renowned for his wordplay and “twist” endings, yet […]

Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and moved to Britain as a teenager. She is considered one of the […]

D H Lawrence

David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English writer and literary critic. Born poor in a mining town in Nottinghamshire, he began […]

Rūdolfs Blaumanis

Rūdolfs Blaumanis one of Latvia’s greatest writers, is noted especially for his numerous short stories and plays, and for his […]

Oscar Wilde

  Oscar Wilde  was born in Dublin and lived mainly in London and Paris. He remains one of the most […]

The Prophet

“To read it was to transcend ordinary levels of perception, to become aware … of a more intense level of being“
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