Five Little Peppers and How They Grew  |
| Margaret Sidney (1844 - 1924) |
1881 Best Seller.
The first of a series of books about the Pepper children.
The story of their impoverished lives with their widowed mother.
The book was part of a fantastically popular series of 12.
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| Looking Backward |
| Edward Bellamy (1850 - 1898) |
1888 Best Seller.
A utopian novel. Julian West falls into an hypnotic trance near the end of the 19th Century and awakens more than 100 years later
(right around now) to find America transformed into a socialist utopia. Bellamy uses the conceit to explore his ideas of how to improve society.
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| Humans and Other Monsters |
| Lewis Shiner ( - ) http://www.lewisshiner.com |
Lewis Shiner is a two-time finalist for the Nebula (Frontera, Deserted Cities of the Heart), a finalist for the Philip K. Dick (Frontera), and won the World Fantasy award for Glimpses.
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| Dracula |
| Bram Stoker (1847 - 1912) |
Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for scores of theatrical and film interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Three of the most famous are Nosferatu (1922), Dracula (1931), and Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). |
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| Middlemarch |
| George Eliot (1819 - 1880) |
Widely seen as Eliot's greatest work, it is almost unanimously acclaimed as one of the great Victorian era novels. George Eliot (aka Mary Anne Evans) interweaves the diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community to create a richly nuanced and moving drama. Hailed by Virginia Woolf in The Times Literary Supplement, 1919 as 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people'. |
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| Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ |
| Lew Wallace (1827 - 1905) |
Lewis "Lew" Wallace was a lawyer, governor, Union general in the American Civil War, and American statesman.
He is best remembered for Ben-Hur, an historical fiction set amongst the characters of the New Testament.
It was America's best selling novel for nearly sixty years after it's publication.
Follow the wikipedia link to see a great photo of the author.
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| The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse |
| Vincente Blasco Ibanez (1867 - 1928) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1919.
A short time before the outbreak of WWI the Desnoyers family move from Argentina to France. The family includes both French and German elements and the war only amplifies existing tensions.
Argentine son Julio must choose between his current dissolute lifestyle and stepping up to the responsibilities the war brings, and then live with the consequences...
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