"Mystery Island" – 49 rezultate
0.01 secundeMeilisearchJoseph Louis Vance
Louis Joseph Vance was born on September 19, 1879 in New York, New York (although some sources say Washington, DC). He was an American fiction writer of short stories, novels and screenplays. Vance was the son of Wilson and Lillie Beall Vance. Originally, Vance wanted to become an artist and illustrator and attended the Art Students League and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. Vance married Nance Elizabeth Hodges in 1898. They had one son, Wilson Beall Vance who was born the following year. Vance was 26 years old when his first book,Terence O\'Rourke,Gentlema Adventurer was published in 1905. Vance was a \"hack\" writer for many years producing hundreds of short stories and some adventure novels until he published a group of three mystery novels which promoted him to best-selling author status. The novels were: The Brass Bowl (1907) about a beautiful young girl, who in order to help her grieving father,becomes a burglar and meets a professional burglar who resembles the identical twin...
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KKKenneth Koch
Poetul, romancierul și scenaristul Kenneth Jay Koch s-a născut la 27 februarie 1925 în Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. După ce își face stagiul militar, în 1943, își începe studiile la Universitatea Harward, continuându-le la Columbia University. Timp de trei ani e rezident în Franța și Italia. În anii 1968 și 1969, Kenneth Koch inițiază un curs experimental în cadrul căruia încearcă să-i învețe pe copii să scrie poezie, inițiativă care se bucură de mult succes. Dintre volumele sale amintim: Days and Nights (1982) From the Air (1979) Ko: or, A Season on Earth (1959) On the Edge (1986) On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950–1988 (1994) One Train (1994) Permanently (1961) Poems (1953) Bertha, & other plays (1966) Poems from 1952 and 1953 (1968) Seasons on Earth (1987) Sleeping with Women (1969) Straits (1998) Thank You and Other Poems (1962) The Art of Love (1975) The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951 (1979) The Duplications (1977) The Pleasures of Peace and Other Poems (1969) When the...
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DHDashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammett; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), the newspaper comic strip Secret Agent X-9 and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse). In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time" and was called, in his obituary in The New York Times, "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction". Time magazine included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest on a list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 to 2005. Hammett was born on a farm called "Hopewell and Aim" off Great Mills Road, St. Mary's County, in southern Maryland, United States. His parents were Richard Thomas Hammett and Anne Bond Dashiell. (The Dashiells are an old Maryland...
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PMPhilip MacDonald
Philip MacDonald (November 5, 1900, London — December 10, 1980, Woodland Hills, California) was an English author of thrillers. MacDonald was the grandson of the writer George MacDonald and son of the author Ronald MacDonald and the actress Constance Robertson. During World War I he served with the British cavalry in Mesopotamia, later trained horses for the army, and was a show jumper. He also raised Great Danes. After marrying the writer F. Ruth Howard, he moved to Hollywood in 1931. He was one of the most popular mystery writers of the 1930s, and between 1931 and 1963 wrote many screenplays along with a few radio and television scripts. His detective novels, particularly those featuring his series detective Anthony Gethryn, are primarily "whodunnits" with the occasional locked room mystery. His novel X v. Rex (1933), aka The Mystery of The Dead Police, is an early example of what has become known as a serial killer novel (before the term "serial killer' was coined), in which an...
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The Mystery of Pain
de Emily Dickinson
Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. It has no future but itself, Its infinite realms contain Its past, enlightened to perceive New...
Taina - The Mystery
de Maria-Eugenia Olaru
Pâine ca o ninsoare ce tainic în inimi ne doare sărutul tău de limpede rouă. Iubire ce adoarme pruncii la Sân, născând din iubire, Iubire mai mare, de raze din soare ninsoare și limpede semn pe...
Sinagoga
de Mircea URIAN
Mircea URIAN SINAGOGA To Simon Marsden, the Photographer of the Mystery http://www.marsdenarchive.com/images/library/MA-C-122_t.jpg «Nebun am fost când m-am decis — cu frenezie — să plonjez în...
Dorul de casă al efemeridei eu
de carmen mihaela visalon
Motto: My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable\" (Rene Magritte) Mâine, am să te condamn la...
Maniac
de cantece celebre
Just a still town girl on a saturday night Lookin\' for the fight of her life In the real-time world no one sees her at all They all say she\'s crazy Locking rhythms to the beat of her heart Changing...
Dracula
de Bram Stoker
Chapter 16 - Dr. Seward\'s Diary It was just a quarter before twelve o\'clock when we got into the churchyard over the low wall. The night was dark, with occasional gleams of moonlight between the...
Gnomic Verses
de William Blake
i Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street. ii To God If you have form\'d a circle to go into, Go into it yourself, and see how you would do. iii...
Raining
de Mihaela Malaky
The sadness is coming Cover my heart with your shadow My heart is broken by an arrow My words are drawn in the sea It’s raining, what a melancholy! I’m wild among the tears I start get dizzy when I...
Sinucigasul
de Nikolai Erdman
Young man, do you think -- or I should say what do you think -- please don\'t interrupt me, just listen -- imagine that tomorrow at twelve noon you are going to take a revolver in your hand -- please...
Albert Einstein\'s Words on Spirituality and Religion
de Albert Einstein
(The following quotes are taken from The Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press unless otherwise noted) \"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who...
The Afternoon of a Faun
de Stéphane Mallarmé
These nymphs I would perpetuate. So clear Their light carnation, that it floats in the air Heavy with tufted slumbers. Was it a dream I loved? My doubt, a heap of ancient night, is finishing In many...
Apariție editorială
de Marin Mihalache
Marin Mihalache La Țărmul Marilor Lacuri, poezii Mirco Publishing, 2020 Chicago, USA 200 pagini, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Lulu, Ingram La țărmul Marilor Lacuri un emigrant își reamintește meleagurile...
Dar mai e..
de Corlan Alexandru
Introducere: Al grav de supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Super- "above" Cali- "beauty" Fragilistic- "delicate" Expiali- "to atone" Docious- "educable" Mie mereu mi-a placut jocul. Ma ajuta sa...
Mystere
de Radu Tudor Ciornei
Învătasem că o nemișcare se poate înlocui cu o alta deasupra mea era aceeași carte verde deschisă la o pagină fără sens un acrobat cu ochii închiși își repeta pe umerii mei dansul triplu salt triplu...
iubitul meu misterios
de BUCUR-SABAU LAURA
My Mistery Man În deșert însetată , O picătură de apă Pe buze ,tu te-ai prelins. Adusă de ISIS -iubirea ta Focul din mine l-a aprins Și ard incălzită de razele lunii . O picătură de apă În marea...
Sunt foarte tristă , iubite!
de BUCUR-SABAU LAURA
To My Mistery Man Sunt foarte tristă ,iubitule, Simt cum plouă în sufletul meu cu picături mari de argint topit mă doare absența ta; este o durere fizică profundă pe care o simt în fiecare celulă a...