Owen Wister was an American novelist whose novel The Virginian (1902) helped establish the cowboy as a folk hero in the United States and the western as a legitimate genre of literature.
Grey's novels however denigrated by critics as empurpled froths of 'virgins, villains and varmints' were only part of the allure that fixed his name in the hearts of millions of Americans.
Sea fiction a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.
"100 masterpieces of love" - a unique series of the publishing house Strelbitsky, which included the best works of all time and people about the most beautiful and exalted feeling - love.
Rasumow, der unglückliche Held dieser zum Teil auf historischen Vorkommnissen fußenden Geschichte, der nichts als Russe ist, muß selber zum Verstehenden werden; darauf weist bereits die Bedeutung seines Namens im Russischen und im Polnischen.
Jules Verne s classic science fiction fantasy carries its hero Professor Aronnax of the Museum of Parison a thrilling and dangerous journey far below the waves to see what creatures live in the ocean s depths.
