Pen-name of a novelist about whom little is known for certain other than the fact that he spent time in Mexico where he died. Author of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', 1927, made into the 1948 film. Probably German.
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B. Traven
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Anarchists
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Died Weimar.
Sir Henry Rider Haggard
Novelist. Born at Wood Farm, West Bradenham, Norfolk. At the age of nineteen he was sent to Natal to serve the Lieutenant-Governor, as his father said he was only fit to be a greengrocer. He achiev...
White Hart Inn
Established in the medieval period and referenced by Shakespeare in 'Henry VI' and by Dickens in 'Pickwick Papers'. Not to be confused with the nearby White Hart at 22 Great Suffolk Street.
Joseph Conrad
Novelist, considered one of the greatest writers in English, despite it not being his mother-tongue. Born into a noble Polish family in what is now Ukraine. Working on ships he came to Britain in 1...
Mervyn Peake
Artist and writer. Born Mervyn Laurence Peake at Kuling in the province of Kiang-Hsi, China. His missionary parents returned to England in 1922. He attended Eltham College and then completed his e...