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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The Wind in the Willows
Written by Kenneth Grahame, much of it based on a series of letters to he wrote to his son. First published October 1908.
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Brendan Behan
Poet, writer, playwright. Born Dublin. Irish republican and, aged 16 - 23, volunteer in the IRA. He once described himself as a "a drinker with a writing problem". Collapsed in a Dublin bar and die...
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Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Poet and writer. Born Anna Letitia Aikin at Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire. She had a successful career at a time when women rarely were professional writers. Her writing includes essays, poems ...
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Jane Austen Society
Formed initially to preserve Jane's cottage in the village of Chawton, Hampshire. This was purchased in 1947 and is now open to the public.
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Voltaire Foundation
The Voltaire Foundation is a research department in the University of Oxford, publishing in the area of the Eighteenth century, especially the French Enlightenment.
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