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May 20, 2024 · 1. Yiddish. 1. 1 Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize in Literature 1913) wrote in Bengali and English, Samuel Beckett (Nobel Prize in Literature 1969) wrote in French and English and Joseph Brodsky (Nobel Prize in Literature 1987) wrote poetry in Russian and prose in English.
1 day ago · Among significant writers in this genre in the early 20th century were Erskine Childers' The Riddle of the Sands (1903), who wrote spy novels, Emma Orczy (Baroness Orczy) author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, an historical romance which recounted the adventures of a member of the English gentry in the French Revolutionary period.
5 days ago · 1903 Romance by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford; The Ambassadors by Henry James; The Pit by Frank Norris (US) In Wonderland by Knut Hamsun (Norway) Genre fiction. The Call of the Wild by Jack London (US) The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (England, Ireland) 1904 The Golden Bowl by Henry James; Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
2 days ago · His notable works include McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (1899), The Octopus: A Story of California (1901) and The Pit (1903). Norris along with Hamlin Garland (1860–1940) wrote about the problems of American farmers and other social issues from a naturalist perspective.
1 day ago · In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. [3] [4] Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment, and can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role.
2 days ago · In the 1930s Socialist realism became the predominant trend in Russia. Its leading figures were Nikolay Ostrovsky, Alexander Fadeyev and other writers, who laid the foundations of this style. Ostrovsky's novel How the Steel Was Tempered has been among the most popular works of Russian Socrealist literature.
5 days ago · Calamity Jane (born May 1, 1852?, near Princeton, Mo.?, U.S.—died Aug. 1, 1903, Terry, near Deadwood, S.D.) was a legendary American frontierswoman whose name was often linked with that of Wild Bill Hickok.
