Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat (+Movie Clip)


Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 - 1927)
Born in Walsall, Staffordshire, England. He worked a clerk, schoolmaster, reporter, actor, journalist, and editor of a weekly. In 1889 he wrote the well-known novel Three Men in a Boat, in 1900 - Three Men on the Bummel and in 1902 - Paul Kelver.

A picture would have come home from the frame-maker’s, and be standing in the dining-room, waiting to be put up; and Aunt Podger would ask what was to be done with it, and Uncle Podger would say: “Oh, you leave that to me.  Don’t you, any of you, worry yourselves about that.  I’ll do all that.”

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe (+Movie Clip)


Daniel Defoe (1660 – 1731)
Born in London, England. He trained at a dissenting academy, traveled in Europe. In 1702 he was imprisoned for seditious libel, released in 1704. He wrote The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702), Robinson Crusoe (1719-1720), A Journal of the Plague Year and Moll Flanders (1722), Roxana (1724).

The wave that came upon me again buried me at once twenty or thirty feet deep in its own body, and I could feel myself carried with a mighty force and swiftness towards the shore — a very great way; but I held my breath, and assisted myself to swim still forward with all my might.  I was ready to burst with holding my breath, when, as I felt myself rising up, so, to my immediate relief, I found my head and hands shoot out above the surface of the water; and though it was not two seconds of time that I could keep myself so, yet it relieved me greatly, gave me breath, and new courage.  I was covered again with water a good while, but not so long but I held it out; and finding the water had spent itself, and began to return, I struck forward against the return of the waves, and felt ground again with my feet.  I stood still a few moments to recover breath, and till the waters went from me, and then took to my heels and ran with what strength I had further towards the shore.  But neither would this deliver me from the fury of the sea, which came pouring in after me again; and twice more I was lifted up by the waves and carried forward as before, the shore being very flat.

Eleonor Porter - Pollyanna (+ Movie Clip)


Eleanor Porter (1868 – 1920)
Born in Littleton, New Hampshire, USA. She studied music at the New England Conservatory, wrote Cross Currents (1907), Miss Billy (1911), Pollyanna (1913), Pollyanna Grows Up (1915), The Tangled Threads and Across the Years (1924).

Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning. Miss Polly did not usually make hurried movements; she specially prided herself on her repose of manner. But today she was hurrying—actually hurrying.
Nancy, washing dishes at the sink, looked up in surprise. Nancy had been working in Miss Polly’s kitchen only two months, but already she knew that her mistress did not usually hurry.
“Nancy!”

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels


Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
Born in Dublin, Ireland. He studied at Dublin, moved to England, wrote A Tale of a Tub (1704) and Gulliver’s Travels (1726), The Drapier’s Letter (1724), A Modest Proposal (1729).

I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes.  I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.  In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advancing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when, bending my eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back.

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray (+ Movie clip)


Oscar Wilde (Fingal O’Flahertie Wills) (1854 - 1900)

Born in Dublin, Ireland. He studied at Trinity College (Dublin) and at Oxford. He wrote Poems (1881), the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and several comic plays, such as Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). In 1888 he created the classic children's fairy stories The Happy Prince and Other Tales. He died an exile in Paris.

In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years ago caused, at the time, such public excitement and gave rise to so many strange conjectures.

Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland


Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832 - 1898)
Born in Daresbury, Chesire, England. He studied at Oxford and became a lecturer in mathematics. He wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1872).

Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole:  she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw.  How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway; `and even if my head would go through,’ thought poor Alice, `it would be of very little use without my shoulders.  Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope!  I think I could, if I only know how to begin.’  For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea (+ Movie Clip)

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
Born in Illinois,USA. American writer and journalist. He wrote 7 novels, among them: The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, 6 short story collections. In 1954 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Philip Chesterfield - Letters to his Son


Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th Earl of (1694 -1773)
Born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge, became a Member of Parliament in 1715, an Ambassador in 1726. Later he occupied various state positions, the latter was the post of state secretary in the period of 1746-1748. Letters to his Son were published in 1774.

I received, yesterday, your letter of the 16th.

George Grossmith - The Diary of a Nobody


 
GEORGE GROSSMITH (1847–1912)
Born in London. English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer. His performing career spanned more than four decades. As a writer and composer, he created 18 comic operas, nearly 100 musical sketches, some 600 songs and piano pieces, three books: A Society Clown: Reminiscences (1888), The Diary of a Nobody (1892), Piano and I: Further Reminiscences (1910) - and both serious and comic pieces for newspapers and magazines.

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