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The Young Visiters or Mister Salteena's Plan is a 1919 novel by English writer Daisy Ashford (1881–1972). She wrote it in 1890 when she was nine years old and part of its appeal lies in its juvenile innocence, and its unconventional grammar and spelling.
Title page from L'Ami des Enfans (1782). Arnaud Berquin (September 1747 in Bordeaux – 21 December 1791) was a French children's author.. His most famous work was L'Ami des Enfants (1782-1783) which was first translated into English, albeit bowdlerised, by Mary Stockdale and published in London The Looking-glass for the Mind, Or, Intellectual Mirror: Being an Elegant Collection of the Most ...
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Alexandre Dumas implemented a similar plot for his 1851 story "La femme au collier de velours", or "The woman with the velvet necklace". Some later collections of Irving's work use Dumas's title for Irving's version of the story. [1] It is unknown whether Dumas was inspired by Irving's story, or whether they both drew inspiration from a common ...
On Germany (French: De l'Allemagne), also known in English as Germany, is a book about German culture and in particular German Romanticism, written by the French writer Germaine de Staël. It promotes Romantic literature, introducing that term to readers in France and other parts of Europe.
The Story of Mr Sommer (Die Geschichte von Herrn Sommer) is a novella in German by Patrick Süskind, published in 1991, dealing with memories of childhood in a village in Germany. The book was illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé .
Ida Laura Pfeiffer was born in Vienna on 14 October 1797 to a wealthy textile manufacturer named Aloys Reyer. She had five brothers and a younger sister. [2] As a child, she preferred boys' clothing, liked sports and exercise, and received the same education as her brothers under the encouragement of her father.
The Visitor is a 1993 play written by French-Belgian author Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, first published in France.It consists of seventeen acts of varying length. The play is set in Vienna in 1938, when Nazis were beginning to take control of the city ().