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The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe.

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Edgar Allan Poe. Image taken from: https://www.newhistorian.com.  Edgar Allan Poe, (Boston, January 19, 1809 - Baltimore, October 7, 1849). He was a literature writer and a romantic journalist, he wrote different kinds of stories, poems, and critics. He is considered not just to be a master in the short story, but also the creator of the detective style, and helped to give origin to the science fiction genre. He recreated the Gothic novel, and he is admired for horror stories. He was also one of the first authors who tried to live from the art of writing, however, this idea did not work.  The Masque of the Red Death. Image taken from: https://www.moma.org/ The Masque of the Red Death could be described as a short gothic story. It has been described as an allegory about the inevitability of death since no one can escape it, rich or poor, famous people or just one of the crowds, everyone, sooner or later, will feel its slow or rapid last kiss. The first publication of this story dates fr
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24 th , 1896, and died in Hollywood, California, on December 21, 1940 . He was part of a middle-class family, and his parents were of Irish origin. As her parents had incomes enough encouraged him to study at Princeton University. However, He left it to Join the Army when the U.S. decided to take part in the First World War. A conflict, in which he did not take part, at least he was not on the front. He was a modernist. Remember that modernism was a literary movement that took place between the first world war and the second.  It looked for new ways of expression and writers tried to incorporate new genres, as a result of mixtures or improvements of the previous ones. Writers also wanted to reflect in their creations on how the world was changing, an emerging industrial world.  They tried to leave the traditional forms of writing. “Make it New" was the premise of the moment, not only for literature
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Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

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[1] Mark Twain is the pen name of author Samuel Langhorne Clemmons. Twain was born in Florida, Missouri. However, he grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, near the banks of the Mississippi River, which landscapes seem to be another character in his stories.  Twain spent eighteen months on the Mississippi River training as a riverboat pilot, from this job he took the name “Mark Twain”, which is a reference to the nautical term, two fathoms deep). Berke, Amy; Bleil, Robert R; Cofer, P, Jordan; Doug, Davis; (n.d). He had the capacity to work in different fields and do it well as a writer, journalist, humorist, memoirist, novelist, and public speaker. Since he is considered one of the most important American writers of all time, an influential and important figure of American Literary Realism, a literary movement that took place during the second half of the 19th century, it was characterized for representing life as it is, its characters were common people, living a common life, so their mai
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WASHINGTON IRVING, THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM

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  WASHINGTON IRVING [1] Washington Irving was born on April 3, 1783, in New York and died on November 28, 1859, in Tarrytown , New York .  He was an American historian, biographer, and essayist. He was an American ambassador in Spain from 1842 to 1846. Irving was the first American author to achieve international literary renown. Therefore, he is considered the “first American man of letters.” Although, He is best known for his short stories “The  Legend  of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle” , this article is intended to analyze the story “The Spectre Bridegroom” which is Part of “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM About Irving's stories, it is said that they were written to entertain rather than allow people to think about the historical movement their society was living or reflect on their role in that society, which from my point of view is part of the objective of good literature. In fact, the Spectre bridegroom starts to be told by a narr
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Ernest Hemingway

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                                                                            Ernest Hemingway Levis Leonardo Lozano Hoyos. Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 and died in 1961. Due to his literary style, he belongs to the period of literature called modernism. According to Berke, Amy; Bleil, Robert R; Cofer, P, Jordan and Doug, Davis; (n.d). Ernest Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, an affluent suburb of Chicago. He was the second son of the marriage of Clarence Edmonds and Grace Hall. Hemingways’ father was a doctor, a physician, who liked hunting and fishing . His mother was a singer and also a teacher, she was ambitious and independent, and his father was deeply religious. (Maybe, his most famous character and book “The Old Man and the Sea were inspired by his father).   The Hemingway family spent many of their summers in northern Michigan, which is a recurring scenery in Ernest’s short fiction stories.   Talking about his personal life, it could be
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