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Erich von Stroheim
von STROHEIM, Erich Nationality:Austrian. Born:Erich Oswald Stroheim in Vienna, 22 September 1885; became U.S. citizen, 1926. Education:According to von Stroheim he attended Mariahilfe Military Academy, though several biographers doubt this. Military... Read more |
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short story
short story brief prose fiction. The term covers a wide variety of narratives—from stories in which the main focus is on the course of events to studies of character, from the "short short" story to extended and complex narratives such as Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. Most often the... Read more |
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National Theatres
National Theatres (Washington, D.C.). Shortly after a visit by Fanny Kemble, during which she complained about the shameful quality of playhouses in the nation's capital, several Washington civic leaders, led by William W. Corcoran, decided to erect a proper theatre. A site was selected on E... Read more |
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George Morland
George Morland 1763-1804, English genre, animal, and landscape painter. A pupil of his father, Henry Morland (1716-97), a London portrait painter, he left his father's studio when he was 21 and began a lifelong career of dissipation. He painted prolifically, producing more than 4,000 pictures in... Read more |
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John Clare
John Clare 1793-1864, English poet. A romantic poet who wrote shortly after the vogue for such verse, he had a profound and singular gift for capturing nature in exquisitely specific detail. The son of a farm laborer, Clare was dubbed "the peasant poet." He was probably the poorest major writer... Read more |
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Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey (Giles Lytton Strachey), 1880-1932, English biographer and critic, educated at Cambridge. He was one of the leading members of the Bloomsbury group . Strachey is credited with having revolutionized the art of writing biography. In reaction to the copious dull scholarship and the... Read more |
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Janet Frame
Janet Frame (Janet Paterson Frame Clutha) , 1924-2004, New Zealand novelist, b. Dunedin. Frame's complex, disturbing novels are marked by startling images and masterful language. Often drawn from her own experience of institutionalization in psychiatric hospitals for eight years (after a... Read more |
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