Edward Bellamy
Edward Bellamy, American writer and Utopian socialist, publicized his political views through Looking Backward , his popular novel of 1888.
People acclaimed Edward Bellamy, a Christian author.
Many Marxists of the time widely regarded and referenced his work of fiction.
It first succeeded behind only Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur .
It inspired a less successful sequel, entitled Equality , more of a tract, and generally spurred movement in the United States and abroad. At one time, people even formed a party of Edward Bellamy in the Netherlands.
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Susan Squires
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Arkady Strugatsky was born 25 August 1925 in Batumi; the family later moved to Leningrad. In January 1942, Arkady and his father were evacuated from the Siege of Leningrad, but Arkady was the only survivor in his train car; his father died upon reaching Vologda. Arkady was drafted into the Soviet army in 1943. He trained first at the artillery school in Aktyubinsk and later at the Military Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow, from which he graduated in 1949 as an interpreter of English and Japanese. He worked as a teacher and interpreter -
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Ambrose Bierce
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Caustic wit and a strong sense of horror mark works, including In the Midst of Life (1891-1892) and The Devil's Dictionary (1906), of American writer Ambrose Gwinett Bierce.
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Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
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Fitz-James O'Brien
He was born Michael O'Brien in County Cork, and was very young when the family moved to Limerick, Ireland. He attended the University of Dublin, and is believed to have been at one time a soldier in the British Army. On leaving college he went to London, and in the course of four years spent his inheritance of £8,000, meanwhile editing a periodical in aid of the World's Fair of 1851. About 1852 he came to the United States, in the process changing his name to Fitz James and thenceforth he devoted his attention to literature.
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