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May 19, 2024 · Henrik Ibsen was a major Norwegian playwright of the late 19th century who introduced to the European stage realistic contemporary plays that set out to expose social evils. He wrote plays about ordinary people, but from them he elicited insights of devastating directness, great subtlety, and occasional flashes of rare beauty.
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez ( Latin American Spanish: [ɡaˈβɾjel ɣaɾˈsi.a ˈmaɾ.kes] ⓘ; [a] 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo ( [ˈɡaβo]) or Gabito ( [ɡaˈβito]) throughout Latin America. Considered one of the ...
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Henrik Ibsen was born March 20, 1828, to a wealthy family in the small Norwegian coastal town of Skien. When Ibsen was seven, his father declared bankruptcy, and although the family's circumstances had changed, Ibsen still enjoyed a comfortable life. The well-to-do bourgeois class, which formed the background of Ibsen's youth, would provide the ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Exiled Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote 'A Doll's House' and 'Hedda Gabler,' the latter of which featured one of theater's most notorious characters. Updated: Nov 6, 2019 (1828-1906)
Apr 22, 2019 · In 1843, Charles Dickens wrote what is probably the most famous ghost story of all time, A Christmas Carol, which follows the journey of Ebeneezer Scrooge from miserly money-lender to a kind and loving man.
Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu was one of the most influential writers of ghost stories. Le Fanu's collections, such as In a Glass Darkly (1872) and The Purcell Papers (1880), helped popularise the short story as a medium for ghost fiction. [24]
The first Russian author whose work has been described as gothic fiction is considered to be Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin. While many of his works feature gothic elements, the first to belong purely under the gothic fiction label is Ostrov Borngolm (Island of Bornholm) from 1793.
