Demóstenes -
He was one of the most relevant speakers in history and an important Athenian politician. He was born in Athens in 384 a. C. and died in Calauria, in 322 a. C.
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Classics
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Esopo -
Esopo was a famous former Greek fabulous who lived around the 7th and 6th centuries. C. Despite being a slave to a philosopher, he managed to become a writer recognized b...
Esquilo -
Greek Dramaturgo, the predecessor of Sophocles and Euripides, is considered the first great representative of the Greek tragedy.
Eurípides -
Euripides was one of the three great Greek tragic poets of ancient times, along with Esquilo and Sophocles. He was born in Salamina around 480 BC and wrote about 90 works...
Homero -
It is the name given to the aedo to which the authorship of the main Greek epic poems is traditionally attributed: the Iliad and the Odyssey. There is no single biography...
Leopoldo Alas Clarín
Spanish writer, his work is linked to the city of Oviedo. After his doctorate in law from 1871 to 1878, he returned to Asturias to occupy the chair of Roman law at the Un...
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was a prolific American writer. Daughter of an educator and philosopher, he grew up and lived in New England. His novel Mujercitas and his sequelas are ...
Mateo Alemán
Spanish writer of the Golden Century, author of "Guzmán de Alfarache." He began his studies in Seville; he continued his training in Salamanca and Alcalá de Henares where...
Dante Alighieri
He was an Italian poet and writer, known for writing the Divine comedy, one of the fundamental works of the transition from medieval to Renaissance thought and one of the...
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known for his pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an Anglican, logical, mathematician, photographer and British writer.
Miguel Cervantes Saavedra (de)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish soldier, novelist, poet and playwright. It is considered the highest figure in Spanish literature and is universally known for ...
Cayo Julio César
Roman political and military, he reached the highest magistratures of the Roman State and dominated the policy of the Republic after winning in the civil war that faced t...
Marco Tulio Cicerón
He was a jurist, politician, philosopher, writer and Roman speaker. It is considered one of the largest rhetorical and stylist of Latin prose of the Roman Republic
Alphonse Daudet
Louis Marie Alphonse Daudet was a French writer, author of Tartarín de Tarascón and Cartas from my mill.
Edmondo De Amicis
He was an Italian writer, novelist, journalist and author of travel books. He is more remembered, above all, for his novel Heart: Diario de un niño, of 1886.
Erasmo De Rotterdam
He was a Dutch Christian philosopher, philologist and theologian, considered one of the greatest scholars of the Nordic Renaissance.
René Descartes
Also called Renatus Cartesiu, he was a French philosopher, mathematician and physicist, considered the father of analytical geometry and modern philosophy, as well as one...
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and novelist, one of the best known in universal literature, and the most outstanding of the Victorian era.
Fiodor Mijaïlovich Dostoevskiï
Fiodor Mijáilovich Dostoyevski was one of the leading writers of Tsarist Russia, whose literature explores human psychology in the complex political, social and spiritual...
Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding was a novelist known for his great sense of humor and satirical skills, and as author of the novel Tom Jones.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dramaturgo, novelist, poet and German naturalist, a fundamental contributor to Romanticism, which he exercised a great influence and was one of the greatest exponents of ...
Baltasar Gracián
Baltasar Gracián and Morales was a Jesuit, a Spanish writer from the Golden Century who cultivated the didactic and philosophical prose. Among his works is El Criticón, w...
Robert Graves
Robert von Ranke Graves was a British writer and scholar, father of the writer and translator Lucía Graves.
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American writer and journalist, and one of the leading novelists and storytellers of the 20th century.
Victor Hugo
French Romantic poet, playwright, and writer, a leading reference in the French language. He was also a committed and influential politician and intellectual in his count...
Borís Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet and novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958.
Charles Perrault
He was a French writer, mainly recognized for having given literary form to classic children's stories such as Asno Skin, Pulgarcito, Blue Barba, Cinderella, Sleeping Bea...
Cayo Petronio Árbitro
Born at some point between the ages 14 and 27 in Massalia (now Marseilles) and died ca. of the year 65 and 66 in Cumas, he was a Roman writer and politician, who lived du...
Juan Ruiz, Archipreste de Hita
Juan Ruiz, known as the Arquitaréra de Hita, was the author of the Book of Good Love, a predominantly narrative work considered one of the most important of Spanish medie...
William Shakespeare
Dramaturgo, an English poet and actor. Sometimes known as the Bardo de Avon, he is considered the most important writer in English and one of the most famous of universal...
John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was an American writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of well-known novels such as Mice and Men, The grapes of anger and East ...
Henri Beyle Stendhal
He was a French writer, valued for his acute analysis of the psychology of his characters and for the concision of his style, he is considered one of the first and most i...
Robert Louis Stevenson
He was a Scottish novelist, poet and essayist. His legacy is a vast work that includes travel chronicles, adventure and historical novels, as well as lyrical and essays.
Lev Tolstói
Count Lev Nikoláievich Tolstói (León Tolstói), a Russian novelist, is one of the most important writers of world literature. His works "War and Peace" and "Ana Karenina,"...
Juan Valera
Juan Valera and Alcalá-Galiano was a Spanish writer, diplomat and politician, whose most famous novel is Pepita Jiménez.
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton, single Edith Newbold Jones (January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937), was an American writer and designer.
Virginia Woolf
She was a novelist, essayist, letter writer, editor, feminist and British story writer, considered one of the most prominent figures of literary modernism of the 20th cen...
Émile Zola
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola, better known as Émile Zola, was a French writer, considered the father and the largest representative of naturalism. He played a very ...