(1850–1894) Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson Works: • Aarresaari (Finnish) • A Child’s Garden of Verses (English) • A Christmas Sermon (English) • A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (English) • A Lowden Sabbath Morn (English) •…
(1811–1863) The artist’s works: Self-Portrait c.1844 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Thackeray the Humourist and the Man of Letters 1864 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Lady Writing s.d. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Works: • A Little Dinner at Timmins’s (English) • Ballads (English) •…
(1868–1918) Edmond Eugène Joseph Alexis Rostand Works: • L’Aiglon (English) • Chantecler (English) • Cyrano de Bergerac (English) • Cyrano de Bergerac (French) • Cyrano de Bergerac (Finnish) • Συρανό δε Μπερζεράκ (Greek) • La dernière nuit de Don Juan (French)…
(1741–1803) Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos Works: • Les liaisons dangereuses (French) ◊ Dangerous Connections (English) Filmography as Writer: Dangerous Liaisons 1988 Director: Stephen Frears Starring: Glenn Close, John Malkovich Born October 18 1741 Amiens (France) Died November 5 1803 Taranto (Italia)…
(1828–1905) Jules-Gabriel Verne Works: • Abandoned (English) • All Around the Moon (English) • Around the World in Eighty Days (English) • Autour de la lune (French) • In Search of the Castaways (English) • Les enfants du capitaine Grant (French)…
(1875–1955) Paul Thomas Mann Works: • Der Tod in Venedig (German) Filmography as Writer: Morte a Venezia 1971 Director: Luchino Visconti Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Silvana Mangano Born June 6 1875 Lübeck (Germany) Died August 12 1955 Zürich (Switzerland) Cause of…
Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) The Lady of Shalott 1888 Oil on canvas, 153 x 200 cm Tate Britain, London The picture illustrates the following lines from part IV of Tennyson’s ‘The Lady of Shalott’: And down the river’s dim expanse…
(1811–1872) Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier “Le bon Théo” Works: • Émaux et camées (1852) ◊ Enamels and Cameos (English) • La Comédie de la mort (1838) • Le Capitaine Fracasse (1863) ◊ Captain Fracasse (English) • Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835) • Ménagerie intime (1869) ◊ My Private Menagerie (English)…
(1821–1889) Jules François Félix Husson Works: • Les chats (1869) • Richard Wagner (1860) Champfleury in Art: Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Hommage à Delacroix 1864 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Musique aux Tuileries 1862 National Gallery, London Born September 17 1821…
(1854–1900) Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde Works: • A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane (1894) • A House of Pomegranates (1891) • A Woman of No Importance (1893) • An Ideal Husband (1895) • De profundis (1897) • Essays and Lectures • For Love of the King,…