Prose

Prose: biographies of writers, poets and literary figures, their major works, creative ideas and influence on literature and culture.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Russian writer, orientalist

Writer, classicist and one of the creators of shoujo manga

Thomas Mayne Reid

Arturo Perez-Reverte

Spanish writer, author of detective stories and historical novels

Charles Montague

English journalist, author of novels and essays

Alain-Ren Lesage

French writer, author of the classic morality novel Gil Blas.

Ogust Le Breton

French writer and screenwriter

Vilhelms Vilis Knorins

Soviet party and government figure, historian and publicist

English novelist and playwright of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras

Leopold Sacher-Masoch

Austrian writer

Hans Grimmelshausen

Jens Christian Grondahl

Danish novelist

Jean-Christophe Grange

American poet, beatnik

Pierre Vidal-Naquet

French historian and publicist.

English creator of the Paddington Bear children's stories

Harriet Beecher Stowe

American abolitionist and writer

American writer - disciple of the devil. The writer disappeared without a trace during the Mexican Revolution

German writer, novelist

Pio Baroja -i-Nessi

Spanish novelist

American writer, author of a number of detective stories, screenwriter, actor, criminal

Lou Andreas-Salome

Henri-Frederic Amiel

Swiss writer, poet, thinker and essayist

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi

Nigerian writer, singer

American writer and screenwriter.

American detective writer