Writers through the centuries
Writers through centuries is a category that comes to give a glimpse of some of the world’s greatest authors. Their work is immortal and still produces intellect, thoughts, and love for their literary work even to the present day.
Come in this journey to discover the lives of writers through the centuries.
Introduction
Let’s start this amazing journey with an introduction of Writers through centuries multiple episodes.
16th century authors
Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, the pioneers of transforming theatre into fiction literature.
17th century
Baroque, the lute, Johan Pachelbel, The Menuet comes to enrich the 17th century in culture.
17th century authors
John Milton, Charles Perrault, Daniel Defoe, Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve and Jonathan Swift are emblematic authors for 17th century literature.
18th century
Rococo, the Galant period, Bach, Mozart, Bethoven, Schubert. The 18th century booms in culture. Literature reaches new heights as well.
18th century authors part 1
Just too many great authors to cover in one episode.Horace Walpole, Walter Scott, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Brothers Grimm. The fairytale appears.
18th century authors part 2
The Gothic novel is born. J.Wolfgang von Goethe, Jane Austen, J.F.Cooper, Mary Shelley, Honore de Balzac. A century in which we fortunately see a more prominent feminine touch to literature.
19th century
The harmful effect of a flood of “enlightened philosopher” came to damage the human sensibility. Fortunately, in the 18th century we see Romanticism coming to enrich our brains, our culture, our life.
19th century authors part 1
Episode 1 with just a few of the more than 40 titan authors: Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville.
19th century authors part 2
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Carlo Collodi, Jules Verne, Leo Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll. We see Russian literature as its best as well.
19th century authors part 3
Mark Twain, Thomas Hardy, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Howard Pyle. Ireland, US, every country, every author just gives us treasures through their books.
19th century authors part 4
Oscar Wilde, Lyman Frank Baum, Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Herbert George Wells. Detective novels, novels with a profound social effect.
19th century authors part 5
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, Jack London, James Joyce, Franz Kafka. France, Germany and Ireland all have one thing in common: great authors.
19th century authors part 6
Agatha Christie, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, F. Scott Fitzgerald, C.S. Lewis, Ernest Hemingway. The "lost generation” labelled by Gertrude Stein, is one of the most fabulous writer generations.
20th century
Commercial fiction might have affected the literary side of great fiction work, yet there are still authors born in the 20th century that created tremendously beautifull fiction books. Hopefully, this is not an exhaustive list.