Серия "Essential Novelists"

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Gertrude Atherton which are Black Oxen and Tower of Ivory. Gertrude Atherton was an American author. Her bestseller Black Oxen was made into a silent movie of the same name. In addition to novels, she wrote short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on such issues...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of William MacLeod Raine which are A Texas Ranger and The Sheriff's Son. William MacLeod Raine was a British-born American novelist who wrote fictional adventure stories about the American Old West. Raine's novel Men in the Raw appeared in The Argosy in 1915. In 1959, he...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Ernest Haycox which are Chaffee of Roaring Horse and Son of the West.. Ernest Haycox was an American author of Western fiction. He published two dozen novels and about 300 short stories, many of which appeared first in pulp magazines in the early 1920s. Fans of his work included...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of John Fox Jr. which are The Trail of the Lonesome Pine and A Cumberland Vendetta. John Fox Jr. was an American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. Many of his works reflected the naturalist style, his childhood in Kentucky's Bluegrass region, and his life among the coal...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Owen Wister which are The Virginian and Lady Baltimore. Owen Wister was an American writer and historian, considered the «father» of western fiction. His most famous work remains the 1902 novel The Virginian, a complex mixture of persons, places and events dramatized from...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Andy Adams which are The Log of a Cowboy and Wells Brothers.Andy Adams was an American writer of western fiction. Although the book is fiction, it is based on Adams's own experiences, and it is considered by many to be literature's best account of cowboy life. Adams was...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Agatha Christie which are The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Murder on the Links. Agatha Christie, was a British writer who acted as a novelist, short story writer, dramaturge and poet. She stood out in the subgenre of detective novels, having popularly won the nicknames...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Rex Beach which are Heart of the Sunset and The Iron Trail. Rex Beach was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player. His adventure novels, influenced by Jack London, were immensely popular throughout the early 1900s. Novels selected for this book: Heart of...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Booth Tarkington which are The Magnificent Ambersons and The Turmoil. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered America's greatest...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Hamlin Garland which are A Son of the Middle Border and A Daughter of the Middle Border.Hamlin Garland was an American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer and psychical researcher. A prolific writer, Garland continued to publish novels, short fiction, and essays. In 1917, he...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Jackson Gregory which are The Short Cut and Daughter of the Sun.Jackson Gregory was a prolific writer of western and detective stories. He authored more than 40 fiction novels and a number of short stories. Several of his tales were used as the basis of films released between 1916 and...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Alice Duer Miller which are Come Out of the Kitchen! and The Beauty and the Bolshevist. Alice Duer Miller was a writer from the U.S. whose poetry actively influenced political opinion. She became known as a campaigner for women's suffrage and published a brilliant series of...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Charles Alden Seltzer which are The Trail Horde and The Boss of the Lazy Y. Charles Alden Seltzer was an American writer. He was a prolific author of western novels, had writing credits for more than a dozen film titles, and authored numerous stories published in magazines, most...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Bram Stokerwhich areDracula and The Lair of the White Worm Bram Stokerpaved the way for vampire lore in popular culture. Stoker's stories are today included in the categories of «horror fiction», «romanticized Gothic» stories, and «melodrama.» They are classified alongside other «works of popular fiction» such...