by Joseph DiMercurio
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
Joseph Conrad was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1874 Conrad traveled to Marseilles, where he served in French merchant vessels before joining a British ship in 1878 as an apprentice. In 1886 he obtained British nationality. Eight years later he left the sea to devote himself to writing, publishing his first novel, Almayer's Folly, in 1895. The following year he settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924.
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by Miles Klein
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) was born in Scotland. He studied engineering and law at the University of Edinburgh and then began writing while traveling in France. The publication of Treasure Island in 1883 brought him fame and entered him on a course of romantic fiction beloved by young and old alike.
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by Janet Julian
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
ALEXANDRE DUMAS (1802–1870), French novelist and playwright, was born the son of an innkeeper’s daughter and one of Napoleon’s generals. He moved to Paris in 1823 to make his fortune in the theater, and at twenty-eight he was one of the leading literary figures of his day. His complete works were eventually to fill over three hundred volumes, and his stories made him the best-known Frenchman of his age.
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by Francine Levitov
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian novelist, social reformer and pacifist, whose classic novels include War and Peace and Anna Karenina, widely regarded as masterpieces for the scope, breadth and realism of their depiction of Russian life.
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