Henry Austin Dobson (18 January 1840 – 2 September 1921), commonly Austin Dobson, was an English poet and essayist. He was born at Plymouth, the eldest son of George...

The life of Romain Rolland, one of the well respected European intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century. Written by his student Stefan Zweig. The book describes...

Analyzing the career of Michael Jackson, Franck Vidiella questions the sensitive nature of the term "Genius." Based upon a study that confirms that the great geniuses are, nearly...

Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster,...

Henri Frédéric Amiel was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic. Born in Geneva in 1821, he was descended from a Huguenot family driven to Switzerland by the...

Sometimes when I remember a relative that I have been fond of, or a strange incident of the past, I wander here and there till I have somebody to talk to. Presently I notice that...

More than just famous people, the American TV Hosts are the ones that are with us on the moments we can stop and relax.Many times, their presence is almost like a therapy, they...

The novel follows the character David Copperfield, and is written in the first person, as a description of his life until middle age, with his own adventures and the web of...

George Moore wanted to be a painter. In 1873, he left London for Paris, where he intended to study painting. He enrolled in several studios, first at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and...

Boyhood is the second novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood which he completed at the age of twenty three, and which immediately propelled him into...