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Patricia Aakhus (1952–2012), The Voyage of Mael Duin's Curragh Rachel Aaron, Fortune's Pawn Atia Abawi Edward Abbey (1927–1989), The Monkey Wrench Gang Lynn Abbey (born 1948), Daughter of the Bright Moon Laura Abbot, My Name is Nell Belle Kendrick Abbott (1842–1893), Leah Mordecai Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872–1958), poet, novelist and short story writer Hailey Abbott, Summer Boys ...
The Torrents of Spring front cover art. The Torrents of Spring is a novella written by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1926.Subtitled "A Romantic Novel in Honor of the Passing of a Great Race", Hemingway used the work as a spoof of the world of writers.
This is a list of novelists from England writing for adults and young adults.Please add only one novel title or comment on fiction per name. Other genres appear in other lists and on subject's page.
Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist and short story and sports writer. [1] Many of his works were adapted for motion pictures. He is perhaps best remembered for The Snow Goose, his most critically successful book, for the novel The Poseidon Adventure, primarily through the 1972 film adaptation, and for four novels about the beloved character of Mrs ...
The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, was the first full-length novel by the English author Henry Fielding to be published and among the early novels in the English language. Appearing in 1742 and defined by Fielding as a "comic epic poem in prose", it tells of a good-natured footman's adventures ...
Author Min. estimated sales Max. estimated sales Original language Genre and/or major works Number of books Nationality William Shakespeare: 2 billion [1] 4 billion [2] English: Plays and poetry, e.g. Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet: 42 British: Agatha Christie: 2 billion [3] 4 billion [2] English Whodunits, including the Miss Marple and ...
George Robert Gissing (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ s ɪ ŋ / GHISS-ing; 22 November 1857 – 28 December 1903) was an English novelist, who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903.In the 1890s he was considered one of the three greatest novelists in England, and by the 1940s he had been recognised as a literary genius.
Wolitzer's first novel for adults, Ending, was published in 1974. In his review of the novel, lead New York Times critic Anatole Broyard wrote, “After finishing Wolitzer’s book, I felt as if I had been on the brink of the abyss, pulled back by a last‐minute reprieve. My first impulse was to rush out and live, to grasp at existence as ...