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Borges' full name was Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges. The Argentine writer was born on August 24, 1899. Borges already knew how...

Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta, India on 7 May 1961. Rabindranath Tagore was the first writer from Asia to win the Nobel Priz...

The word 'divine' was first added to the 1555 edition of The Divine Comedy; the original title was simply The Comedy. Dante Aligh...

It was in Alcalá de Henares where Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, known as the prince of ingenuity , was born. The ingenious nobleman Don Q...

    Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel of terror by the English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, published in 1818. I...

   George Gascoigne was an English writer. Born Cardington, England, about 1525. Died Stamford, England, Oct. 7, 1577.    Gascoigne was ...

   Rómulo Gallegos was a Venezuelan novelist, educator, and statesman. Born Caracas, Venezuela, Aug. 2, 1884 - April 7, 1969.    Gallego...

   Theophile Gautier (1811-1872), was a French poet, and one of the most influential prose writers of the middle of the 19th century, was ...

   Thomas De Quincey was an English essayist and critic. Born Manchester, England, Aug. 15, 1785. Died Edinburgh, Scotland, Dec. 8, 1859. ...

   Pierre Corneille was a French dramatist. Born Rouen, France, June 6, 1606. Died Paris, France, Oct. 1, 1684.    Corneille was the firs...

    The Count of Monte Cristo , or Le Comte de Monte-Cristo , a romantic novel by the French author Alexandre Dumas père. The hero of the ...

   John Collier (1901-1980) was an English writer. Collier's novels and short stories are famous for their imaginative and ironic plots....

Roy Alton Blount, Jr. (born October 4, 1941) is an American writer. Best known as a humorist, Blount is also a reporter, actor, and musician...

Tarık Günersel (27 June 1953 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish aphorist, poet, playwright, and translator. Life is words in action, lite...

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in y...

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. The secret to happiness is ...

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. We are near waking when we ...

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and...

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. If th...

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and o...