Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was the leading English novelist of the Victorian age. As a boy he worked in a blacking factory when his father was in de…
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Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) was a Danish author, born in Odense to a poor family. He wrote novels, plays, and travel books, but he is remembe…
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was an American novelist and short-story writer from Salem, Massachusetts. One of his ancestors had been a judge at t…
Mary Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist, the daughter of the philosopher William Godwin and the writer Mary Wollstonecraft. She began Franke…
Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837) was an Italian poet, philosopher, and scholar, born in the small town of Recanati. He studied in his father’s library un…
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) was a French novelist and playwright, and one of the most widely read authors in the world. He wrote The Count of Monte C…
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was the leading French Romantic writer, a poet, playwright, and novelist who also played a major part in French politics. He …
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a French novelist who set out to describe the whole of French society in a single series of books, La Comédie humain…
Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and prose writer, and is often called the founder of modern Russian literature. He wrot…
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824) was an English poet and one of the most famous figures of the Romantic age. He became celebrated for Childe Har…