Charlotte Bates

Charlotte Fiske Bates Rogé: pen name: Mme. Rogé; (November 30, 1838 – September 1, 1916) American writer, critic, and educator. The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.  

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler: (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902). English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh).… Lees verder Samuel Butler

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn: (Kislovodsk, 11 December 1918 – Moscow, 3 August 2008). Russian writer who was regarded as a dissident in the 1970s. You only have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s… Lees verder Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Also spelt as (von) Leibnitz. (Leipzig, 1 July 1646 – Hanover, 14 November 1716). Versatile German mathematician, philosopher, logician, physicist, historian, jurist and diplomat, considered one of the greatest thinkers of the 17th century. He developed more or less simultaneously with, but independently of, Isaac Newton a branch of mathematics known as… Lees verder Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Remy de Gourmont

Remy de Gourmont: (Bazoches-au-Houlme, 4 April 1858 – Paris, 27 September 1915). French writer, poet and critic. He is mainly counted among the movement of Symbolism. Herfst is zo vreugdevol en zoet als een voortijdig einde.

George Eliot

Mary Anne Evans: (Nuneaton, 22 November 1819 – London, 22 December 1880), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English writer and poet. She was also a journalist and translator. She is counted among the most important writers of the Victorian era. Evans wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the… Lees verder George Eliot

John Donne

John Donne: (born 1571 or 1572 died – 31 March 1631). English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England. Under Royal Patronage, he was made Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral in London (1621–1631). He is considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical… Lees verder John Donne

Herman Melville

Herman Melville: (New York, 1 August 1819 – there, 28 September 1891). American writer of novels, novellas, and poems. His best-known works are the novels Typee (1846) and Moby-Dick (1851) and the novellas Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853) and Benito Cereno (1855). In his time, South Sea adventures were a popular literary genre in the United… Lees verder Herman Melville