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Alfred Richard Allinson
Alfred Richard Allinson (1852–1929) was a British academic, author, and voluminous translator of continental European literature (mostly French, but occasionally Latin, German and Russian) into English. His translations were often published as by A.R. Allinson, Alfred R. Allinson, or Alfred Allinson. He was described as "an elusive literary figure about whom next to nothing is known; the title-pages of his published works are really all we have to go on." Life Allinson was born in December 1852 in Newcastle upon Tyne. He attended Lincoln College, Oxford, beginning in 1872, from which he took a Bachelor of Arts degree on 14 June 1877, and a Master of Arts degree in 1882. After graduation he worked as an assistant school master and a librarian. He was also a meteorological hobbyist. He was living in Newcastle, Northumberland in 1901, and in St Thomas, Exeter in Devon in 1911.UK Census, 1911. He died in December 1929 in the London Borough of Hackney. Career His early works as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Dumas may refer to: Places *Dumas, Arkansas, United States, a city *Dumas, Mississippi, United States, a town * Dumas, Missouri, United States, an unincorporated community *Dumas, Texas, United States, a city * Mount Dumas, a mountain on Campbell Island, New Zealand *Dumas Beach, a beach southwest of Surat, Gujarat, India * 9059 Dumas, an asteroid People * Dumas (surname) * Dumas (musician) (born 1979), Canadian singer born Steve Dumas * Dumas Malone (1892–1986), Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian, biographer, and editor * Dumas or Dumarsais Simeus (born 1939), Haitian-born American businessman who ran for president of Haiti * Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French author and aristocrat. Fictional characters * Dumas (''Kiba''), a character in the Japanese anime ''Kiba'' *Duke Dumas, ruler of the vampires in the video game ''Lunar Knights'' * Dumas, a DC Comics character in the Manhunter comics Other uses *Dumas High School, a high school in Arkansas *Dumas Brothel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Lemonnier
Antoine Louis Camille Lemonnier (24 March 1844 – 13 June 1913) was a Belgian writer, poet and journalist. He was a member of the Symbolist ''La Jeune Belgique'' group, but his best known works are realist. His first work was ''Salon de Bruxelles'' (1863), a collection of art criticism. His best known novel is ''Un Mâle'' (1881). Biography Lemonnier was born in Ixelles, Brussels. He studied law, and then took a clerkship in a government office, which he resigned after three years. Lemonnier inherited Flemish blood from both parents, and with it the animal force and pictorial energy of the Flemish temperament. He published a ''Salon de Bruxelles'' in 1863, and again in 1866. His early friendships were chiefly with artists; and he wrote art criticisms with recognized discernment. In 1868 he was a founding member of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts, an avant-gardist group whose ideals he championed. Taking a house in the hills near Namur, he devoted himself to sport, and develop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Souvestre
Pierre Souvestre (1 June 1874 – 26 February 1914) was a French lawyer, journalist, writer and organizer of motor races. He is mostly remembered today for his co-creation with Marcel Allain of the fictional arch-villain and master criminal Fantômas. Early life He was born in Plomelin, a commune in Finistère, Brittany, the son of a prefect of Brittany who resigned from his post to settle in Paris. Souvestre studied law at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly. Career He became a lawyer, then a journalist, and a businessman. He owned a garage in Liverpool from 1898, then a second in Paris from 1905. A ''delegate'' of the ''Automobile Club de France'' (fr), he organized motor races, contributed to the newspaper ''L'Auto'' (fr), and wrote technical books, including the 1907 book, ''A.C.F. History of the Automobile'', and the ''French-English Automobile Dictionary'' in 1910. In 1909, already a published author, Souvestre co-wrote, with his friend and assistant Allain, their first n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Allain
Marcel Allain (15 September 1885 – 25 August 1969) was a French writer mostly remembered today for his co-creation with Pierre Souvestre of the fictional arch-villain and master criminal Fantômas. Career The son of a bourgeois family, Allain studied law before becoming a journalist. He then became the assistant of Souvestre, who was already a well-known figure in literary circles. In 1909, the two men published their first novel, ''Le Rour''. Investigating Magistrate Germain Fuselier, later to become a recurring character in the Fantômas series, appears in the novel. Then, in February 1911, Allain and Souvestre embarked upon the ''Fantômas'' book series at the request of publisher Arthème Fayard, who wanted to create a new monthly pulp magazine. The success was immediate and lasting. After Souvestre’s death in February 1914, Allain continued the ''Fantômas'' saga alone, then launched several other series, such as ''Tigris The Tigris () is the easternmost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gods Are Athirst
''The Gods Are Athirst'' (french: Les dieux ont soif, also translated as ''The Gods Are Thirsty'' or ''The Gods Will Have Blood'') is a 1912 novel by Anatole France. It is set in Paris in 1793–1794, closely tied to specific events of the French Revolution. Plot The story of the rise of Évariste Gamelin, a young Parisian painter, involved in the local government for his neighborhood of Pont-Neuf, ''The Gods Are Athirst'' describes the dark years of the Reign of Terror in Paris, from Year II to Year III. Fiercely Jacobin, Marat and Robespierre's most faithful adherent, Évariste Gamelin becomes a juror on the Revolutionary Tribunal. The long, blind train of speedy trials drags this idealist into a madness that cuts off the heads of his nearest and dearest, and hastens his own fall as well as that of his mentor Robespierre in the aftermath of the Thermidorian Reaction. His love affair with the young watercolor-seller Élodie Blaise heightens the terrible contrast between t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crime Of Sylvestre Bonnard
''The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard'' (french: Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard) is the first novel by Anatole France, published in 1881. With this work, one of his first written entirely in prose, he made himself known as a novelist; he had been primarily known as a poet affiliated with Parnassianism because of his book of poetry, Poèmes dorés, which imitated Parnassian type verse. The novel received the Académie française prize. In 1929 it was adapted into a French silent film of the same title. Summary The novel contains two stories. In the first, "La Buche,"Sylvestre Bonnard, a member of the Institut de France, is a historian and philologist, gifted with great erudition. He lives among books, and launches himself into the research, in Sicily and Paris, of the precious manuscript of the French version of the ''Golden Legend The ''Golden Legend'' (Latin: ''Legenda aurea'' or ''Legenda sanctorum'') is a collection of hagiographies by Jacobus de Voragine that was widely rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wolf Leader
''The Wolf Leader'' is an English translation by Alfred Allinson of ''Le Meneur de loups'', an 1857 fantasy novel by Alexandre Dumas. Allinson's translation was first published in London by Methuen in 1904 under the title ''The Wolf-Leader''; the first American edition, edited and somewhat cut by L. Sprague de Camp and illustrated by Mahlon Blaine, was issued under the present title by Prime Press in 1950. The text was also serialized in eight parts in the pulp magazine ''Weird Tales'' in the issues for August 1931 to March 1932. Plot summary ''Le Meneur de Loups'' is set around 1780 in Dumas' native town of Villers-Cotterêts, and is supposedly based on a local folk-tale Dumas heard as a child. The story concerns Thibault, a shoe-maker, who is beaten by the gamekeeper of the Lord of Vez for interfering with the lord's hunting. Afterwards he encounters a huge wolf, walking on its hind legs like a man, who offers him vengeance; Thibault may wish harm on any person in return for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ten Years Later
''The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later'' (french: link=no, Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard ) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is the third and last of ''The d'Artagnan Romances'', following ''The Three Musketeers'' and ''Twenty Years After''. It appeared first in serial form between 1847 and 1850. In the English translations, the 268 chapters of this large volume are usually subdivided into three, but sometimes four or even six individual books. In three-volume English editions the volumes are entitled ''The Vicomte de Bragelonne'', ''Louise de la Vallière'', and ''The Man in the Iron Mask''. Each volume is roughly the length of the original ''The Three Musketeers'' (1844). In four-volume editions volume names remain except that ''Louise de la Vallière'' and ''The Man in the Iron Mask'' move from second and third volumes to third and fourth, with ''Ten Years Later'' becoming the second volume. Set in the 1660s and concerned with the early reign of Louis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Two Dianas
''The Two Dianas'' (french: Les Deux Diane) is a historical novel published in 1846-47 under the name of Alexandre Dumas but mostly or entirely written by his friend and collaborator Paul Meurice. The "two Dianas" of the title are Diane de Poitiers (the mistress of Henry II) and her supposed daughter Diana de Castro. The novel's setting is earlier than Dumas's better known "Valois trilogy". The principal character is Gabriel, comte de Montgomery; other characters include Martin Guerre, Catherine de Médicis and Ambroise Paré Ambroise Paré (c. 1510 – 20 December 1590) was a French barber surgeon who served in that role for kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III. He is considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology and a p .... When Meurice later published a dramatisation of the novel, a letter supposedly written by Dumas was attached as a preface, stating that he had never even read the book and that Meurice was the real author. Neve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twenty Years After
''Twenty Years After'' (french: Vingt ans après) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized from January to August 1845. A book of ''The d'Artagnan Romances'', it is a sequel to ''The Three Musketeers'' (1844) and precedes the 1847–1850 novel ''The Vicomte de Bragelonne'' (which includes the sub-plot ''Man in the Iron Mask''). The novel follows events in France during the Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in England near the end of the English Civil War, leading up to the victory of Oliver Cromwell and the execution of King Charles I. Through the words of the main characters, particularly Athos, Dumas comes out on the side of the monarchy in general, or at least the text often praises the ''idea'' of benevolent royalty. His musketeers are valiant and just in their efforts to protect young Louis XIV and the doomed Charles I from their attackers. Synopsis D'Artagnan and Mazarin The action begins during the regency of Queen Anne of Austria (term 1643–16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Three Musketeers
''The Three Musketeers'' (french: Les Trois Mousquetaires, links=no, ) is a French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is in the swashbuckler genre, which has heroic, chivalrous swordsmen who fight for justice. Set between 1625 and 1628, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (a character based on Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan, Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, hoping to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although d'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he is befriended by three of the most formidable musketeers of the age – Athos (character), Athos, Porthos and Aramis, "the three musketeers" or "the three inseparables" – and becomes involved in affairs of state and at court. ''The Three Musketeers'' is primarily a historical and adventure novel. However, Dumas frequently portrays various injustices, abuses and absurdities of the Anci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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