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1. The world of romance in the novel by R. L. Stevenson “Treasure Island” Robert Lewis Stevenson is an English writer, a native Scotsman, son and grandson of Scottish engineers, famous lighthouse builders. Already in these facts the biography of the writer is something mysterious, romantic. The most famous work of Stevenson is the novel “Treasure Island”. One day an old seaman came to the “Admiral Benbow” tavern. He […]...
2. Biography Beks Joseph Henry Rony (Rosny) [pseudonym; real names and surnames – Joseph Henri Bex; Woeh (17.2.1856, Brussels, – 15.2.1940, Paris) and Sulfur Fenster Justin Francois Becks (21.7.1859, Brussels, – 15.6.1948 Plubazlánek, Department of Côte du Nord), brothers, French writers. Until 1909 they wrote together, then separately under pseudonyms: R. Senior and R. Junior. Adjoined to the naturalistic school […]...
3. Biography Defoe Daniel (circa 1660, Criplegate, on 26.4.1731, Murfields), an English writer and publicist. He graduated from dissenter college. Participated in the uprising of the Duke of Montmouth against James II, sympathized with the coup d’état 1688-89 (the so-called “Glorious Revolution”). Literary activity began as the author of the “Experience of Projects” (1697), which implied economic and public […]...
4. Summary “Stevenson’s Treasure Island” The novel takes place in the 18th century. Not far from the English city of Bristol in the tavern “Admiral Benbow” settles mysterious stranger. This is Billy Bons, an elderly man with a noticeable saber scar on his cheek. He asks Jim, the son of the owners of the inn, to watch closely whether a […]...
5. Summary Treasure Island Stevenson RL Stevenson Treasure Island XVIII century. In the Admiral Benbow inn, located near the English city of Bristol, a mysterious stranger settles in, a heavy old man with a saber scar on his cheek. His name is Billy Bones. Rough and unbridled, he is at the same time obviously afraid of someone and even asks […]...
6. Biography Danilevsky Grigory Petrovich (1829 – 1890) Danilevsky Grigory Petrovich (1829 – 1890), prose writer, publicist. Born April 14 (26 N. s.) In the village of Danilovka Kharkov province in the family of a rich Ukrainian landowner. Early lost his father, was brought up by his mother, Ekaterina Kupchinova, an educated woman, a talented musician. At the age of […]...
7. Biography Aldridge James Aldridge (Aldridge) James (born 10.7.1918, White Hills, Victoria, Australia), an English writer and public figure. He studied at the Melbourne College of Commerce. In 1938 he moved to England. The work of a journalist and military correspondent who visited many fronts of the Second World War of 1939-45 became for O. the school of life […]...
8. Biography Lewis Carroll English writer, professor of mathematics at Oxford University. Charles Ludwidge Dodgson (this is the real name of Carroll) was born in a small village of Dersbury in the Cheshire emblem. He was the eldest son of the modest parish priest Charles Dodgson and Francis Jane Lutwidge. At baptism, as it often happened in those days […]...
9. Biography of Robert Oppenheimer Robert Oppenheimer is known as the “father of the atomic bomb”. He was also one of the leaders of the Manhattan project. Childhood and early years Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born in the family of Julius Oppenheimer, a wealthy importer of fabrics, and the artist Ella Friedman. His parents were Jews who immigrated in 1888 […]...
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11. “Stevenson’s Treasure Island” in summary XVIII century. In the Admiral Benbow inn, located near the English city of Bristol, a mysterious stranger settles in, a heavy old man with a saber scar on his cheek. His name is Billy Bones. Rough and unbridled, he is at the same time obviously afraid of someone and even asks the son of the […]...
12. Biography Kozhinov Vadim Valerianovich (1930 – 2001) Kozhinov Vadim Valerianovich (1930 – 2001), Russian critic, literary critic, philosopher, historian. The main works are devoted to the theory of literature, Russian literature of the XIX century, the modern literary process (primarily poetry). Books: “Kinds of art” (1960), “The origin of the novel” (1963), “The book about Russian lyrical poetry of […]...
13. Biography of Robert Pattinson Robert Pattinson is an actor who starred in the movie Twilight, a model, a musician. Robert was born in London on May 13, 1986. In addition to his family were brought up two more children. His mother worked in a modeling agency, which may have affected the biography of Robert Pattinson. At the age of […]...
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15. Biography Maeterlinck Maurice Maeterlinck (Maeterlinck) Maurice (29. 8.1862, Gent, – 5.5.1949, Nice, France), a Belgian writer. I wrote in French. He was born in the family of a notary. He studied law in Paris. Since 1896 he lived in France. The idealistic symbolist views of early M (set forth in the book The Treasure of the Humble, 1896) […]...
16. Biography of Lennox Lewis Lennox Lewis – British-Canadian boxer, was born in London, England. Lewis’ parents were from Jamaica. The childhood of Lennox Lewis was heavy. Following his mother, he moved to Canada at the age of 12. Having occupied boxing, he became world champion at the age of 17 years. And in 1984, 1988, the athlete represented Canada […]...
17. C. Dickens and Ukraine Ukrainian fans of verbal art first got acquainted with the work of Charles Dickens in Russian translations. In 1838, the journal Otechestvennye Zapiski (The Notes of the Fatherland) published the full translation of the novel The Posthumous Notes of the Pickwin Club. This novel immediately captivated the Ukrainian reader with its democratism, the incomparable satirical […]...
18. Biography of Robert Bligh Robert Bligh – American writer, translator, editor and publisher, was born in Madison, Minnesota. He graduated from Harvard University in 1950. His poems, personal and very observant, tell of American landscapes. Among his collections of poetry are “Light around the body,” “Sleepers Joining Hands,” “The Man in the Black Coat Turns,” and “Favorite woman in […]...
19. Biography Shackley Robert Robert Shackley was born in 1928 in New York. After the service in the army he graduated from New York University. He started writing early, and from 1951 he became a professional writer. It is considered one of the leading representatives of satirical and humorous NF USA. The first publication is dated 1952 – “The […]...
20. Biography Rozhdestvensky Robert Ivanovich (1932-1994) Rozhdestvensky Robert Ivanovich (1932 – 1994), the poet. He was born on June 20 in the village of Kosikha in the Altai Territory in the family of a serviceman. At the age of nine he was in an orphanage – his parents went to the front. After graduation, he entered Petrozavodsk University, where he […]...
21. Biography of Robert de Niro Robert Mario de Niro Jr. is a talented actor, director and producer of American cinema. Born in 1943, grew up in the Italian neighborhoods of New York. Father Robert de Niro was a creative person: an artist and a sculptor. Since childhood, Robert dreamed of the future artist. Then he graduated from acting school and […]...
22. Biography of Agatha Christie Agatha Christie is a writer. Agatha was born on September 15, 1890 in the English city of Torquay. Growing up in a wealthy family, in the biography of Agatha Christie, the first education was received at home. Then Agatha married Lieutenant Archibald Christie, from whom she gave birth to a daughter. Relations with her husband […]...
23. Biography of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler is an English author. He was the son and grandson of eminent priests. In 1859, after giving up his spiritual life, he went to New Zealand, where he founded a farm and began to raise sheep, after a few years earning a small fortune on it. He returned to England in 1864 and […]...
24. Biography of Robert Kampen Robert Kampen is a Flemish painter who, together with van Eyck, is considered the founder of the Dutch school. Kampen’s biography is identified with the Flemish master because of the three flaps of the altar in Frankfurt am Main. Earlier it was mistakenly believed that these paintings came from the city of Liege. Kampen was […]...
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