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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
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Thomas Mayne Reid
Thomas Mayne Reid (Mayne Reid), 1818-83, British novelist, b. Ireland. He emigrated to the United States in 1840 and after various adventures in the West served as a lieutenant in the Mexican War. He returned to England and began writing adventure stories that were especially popular with boys. The... Read more |
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Howard Pyle
Howard Pyle 1853-1911, American illustrator and writer, b. Wilmington, Del., studied at the Art Students League, New York City. His illustrations appeared regularly in Harper's Weekly, and in many other American magazines. He both wrote and illustrated tales of chivalry and adventure for young... Read more |
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Brendan
Brendan (c.484–578), Irish saint, the hero of a legendary voyage in the Atlantic. He is held by some to have been the first discoverer of America, on the basis of the text of Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis, of which many manuscript copies exist, at least three dating from the 11th... Read more |
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John Williams (United States)
John Williams 1664-1729, American clergyman, b. Roxbury, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1683. In 1686 he became the first minister at Deerfield, Mass. During the great Native American massacre at that frontier town in Feb., 1704, he and his family were taken captive. Two of his children were murdered, and... Read more |
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Langdon Elwyn Mitchell
Mitchell, Langdon [Elwyn] (1862–1935), playwright. The son of the famous Philadelphia physician and novelist, S. Weir Mitchell, he received much of his education abroad but returned to study law at Harvard and Columbia and in 1886 was admitted to the New York bar. A year later his first... Read more |
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Martin Flavin
Flavin, Martin [Archer] (1883–1967), California playwright and novelist, whose first Broadway play, Children of the Moon (1923), was followed by many others, the more successful including The Criminal Code (1929) and Broken Dishes (1929). His novels include Mr. Littlejohn (1940), a humorous... Read more |
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