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Charles Dickens

(1812–1870) Charles John Huffam Dickens Works: • A Child’s Dream of a Star (1850) • A Child’s History of England (1853) • A Christmas Carol (1843) • A Christmas Carol. The original manuscript (English) ◊ Cantique de Noël (French) • A…

T. S. Eliot

(1888–1965) Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM Works: • Eeldrop and Appleplex (1934) • Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry (1917) • Pascal’s Pensées (1958) • Poems (1920) • Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) • The Waste Land (1922) Quotes: • T.…

Jane Austen

(1775–1817) Works: • Complete Works (English) • Emma (1815) • Lady Susan (1794) • Letters of Jane Austen (English) • Love and Freindship (1790) • Mansfield Park (1814) • Northanger Abbey (1803) • Persuasion (1818) ◊ Persuasion (French) • Pride and…

Friedrich Nietzsche

(1844–1900) Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Works: • Also sprach Zarathustra (German) ◊ Thus Spoke Zarathustra (English) ◊ Ainsi Parlait Zarathoustra (French) ◊ The Antichrist (English) ◊ The Case of Wagner (English) • Die Geburt der Tragödie (German) • Ecce Homo (German) • Götzen-Dämmerung (German) ◊ Homer…

Marcel Duchamp

(1887–1968) Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp The artist’s works: Nu assis dans une baignoire 1910 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Rotoreliefs 1935 / 1953 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Fresh Widow original 1920, fabricated 1964 National Gallery of Art, Washington 50 cc d’air de Paris 1949 Philadelphia Museum of…

John Keats

(1795–1821) Works: • Endymion: A Poetic Romance (English) • Lamia (English) • Letters of John Keats (English) • Poems 1817 (English) • Poems Published in 1820 (English) Quotes: • John Keats: Quotations   Born October 31 1795 London (England) Died February 23…

Stendhal

(1783–1842) Marie-Henri Beyle Works: • L’Abbesse De Castro (French) • Les Cenci (French) • La Chartreuse De Parme (French) • La Duchesse De Palliano (French) • La vie de Rossini, tome I (French) • La vie de Rossini, tome II…

Edmond-Victor Renoir

(1849–1944) Edmond Renoir in Art: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) La promenade 1870 Getty Center, Los Angeles     Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Le Pont Neuf à Paris 1872 National Gallery of Art, Washington     Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) La loge 1874 Courtauld Institute Galleries, London     Renoir,…

Jean Renoir

(1894–1979) Filmography as Director: Nana 1926 Director: Jean Renoir Starring: Jean Angelo, Catherine Hessling     Madame Bovary 1934 Director: Jean Renoir Starring: Valentine Tessier, Pierre Renoir     Le Carrosse d’or 1952 Director: Jean Renoir Starring: Anna Magnani, Duncan Lamont     French Cancan…

Paul Gauguin

(1848–1903) Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin The artist’s works: L’Homme à la toque c.1875–1877 Fogg Museum, Cambridge Nature morte aux huîtres 1876 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Au poulailler c.1878 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Portrait d’homme c.1880 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas La…