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Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson (born 1951)

journalist, autobiographer, science communicator, traveler

  • Drake University

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Shakespeare
I'm a stranger here myself
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
At Home
A short history of nearly everything
Notes from a small island
Made in America
A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
The Mother Tongue
A Walk in the Woods
Neither here nor there
The road to Little Dribbling
The Penguin dictionary of troublesome words
The Lost Continent
Wry Harvest
One Summer
The Body
Bill Bryson African Diary
Bryson's dictionary for writers and editors
McDougal Littell Literature
The Complete Notes
Seeing Further
Travel
Wild
Down Under (In a Sunburned Country)
Prentice Hall Literature -- The American Experience
Great Baseball Stories
Out of the Noosphere
Walk About
The Best American Travel Writing 2000
The English Landscape
Reading Pop Culture -- second edition
Wish You Weren't Here!
Stories of Manhood
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience, Volume 1
Notes from a Big Country
Testosterone planet
Journeys in English
The Best of Granta travel
Icons of England
The Babe didn't point
Bill Bryson Collector's Edition
The blook of bunders
Historias de un gran pais
The palace under the Alps
Pearson Literature--The American Experience, volume one
The General
The best American travel writing 2016
The Best of Granta Travel
Prentice Hall Literature - Georgia - The American Experience
Lost Continent / Neither Here Nor There
Motel blues
Today's best nonfiction--Volume 63
Pearson Literature California -- The American Experience -- Volume One
Bizarre world
50 essays -- second edition
Una muy breve historia de casi todo
Śniadanie z kangurami. Australijskie przygody
1927
Bill Bryson the Complete
The Compact Reader -- fourth edition
Pandora atlas Amerika
Terug in Amerika
Reading Pop Culture
Bill Bryson African Diary Kindle
Adapted Interactive Reader -- Grade 9
Notes from a Small Island (NHB Modern Plays) : (stage Version)
Really Short Journey Through the Body
Bill Bryson Series Collection : Troublesome Words, Mother Tongue
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry (born 1957)

actor, comedian, television presenter, autobiographer, director, television actor, stage actor, film actor, journalist, film director, improviser, performing artist, narrator

  • University of Cambridge, Uppingham School

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Moab Is My Washpot
Stephen Fry In America
The Fry Chronicles
More fool me
Welcome to Biscuit Land
The Ickabog
More About Paddington CD
Die allerneueste klassische Sau
The library book
Mythos
Revenge
Planet Word
Stephen Fry's imcomplete and utter history of classical music
Stars' Tennis Balls, The
Mrs Frys Diary
Paddington and the Tutti Frutti Rainbow
Paddington at the Fair
Troy
A bit more Fry and Laurie
Hippopotamus, The
Fry and Laurie bit no. 4
The liar
Making History (Airport Ed)
Art of Faith
Frys English Delight
Geschichte Machen
Heroes
The Ode Less Travelled CD
The History Of The World Through Twitter
Liar
Paperweight
QI
Gudernes kastebold
Fry's English Delight
Mental and behavioural state examination
General Ignorance
Dérapages incontrôlables
Tim to the Rescue
Girl from Arles
Columbus War Ein Englander
Boy Called Christmas
Der Sterne Tennisbälle
A Bit of Fry and Laurie (Canned Laughter)
Seeing Things
Paddington Goes for Gold (Read Aloud by Stephen Fry)
The Art of Missing Link
Mensonges mensonges
Fry's Ties
Amassed hysteria!
Haciendo Historia
Rescuing the Spectacled Bear
Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
How to Have an Almost Perfect Marriage
Oscar Wilde's Stories for All Ages
Political Correctness Gone Mad?
The Honest Ulsterman No 83
L'île du Dr Malo
Wirtschaft. Englisch.
Loose Canon
What Was Shakespeare Really Like?
Fry's English Delight
Untitled Novel Two
Tim All Alone
Langenscheidts Lilliput Berlinerisch.
Buller's Birds of New Zealand
El Mentiroso
Untitled Novel 1 (Aus/Nz)
Some Limericks
Héroes
La corrección política
Untitled Novel Two
Party Animals
Persephone : Book 7- Early Myths
English Heritage Guide to London's Blue Plaques
Standee
The Magic Way to Learn Your Tables
Tim's Friend Towser
Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain
Cancelled Stephen Fry
How to Have an Almost Perfect Marriage
Search for Spectacled Bear Blad
X18 Mixed Stephen Fry Rei Pack
Darling, fesselst du schon mal die Kinder?
Three bits of Fry and Laurie
3 Bits of Fry and Laurie
L'Hippopotame (French Edition)
Me and my girl
L'hippopotame
Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan (1918-2002)

comedian, journalist, stage actor, film actor, poet, actor, musician, television actor, playwright

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Mussolini
Peace Work
Puckoon
Milligan's War
Adolf Hitler
Goblins
The Bible
The Essential Spike Milligan
Depression and How to Survive It
Monty, His Part in My Victory
Silly Verse for Kids
Adolf Hitler: my part in his downfall
The book of the Goons
The Lost Goon Shows
Frankenstein
The Hound of the Baskervilles According to Spike Milligan
The Goon Show scripts
"Rommel?"-"Gunner who?"
Dr. Who
Box 18
Wuthering Heights According to Spike Milligan
The Q Annual
Milligan's ark
Frankenstein According to Spike Milligan (According To...)
The Spike Milligan letters
Goodbye soldier
Badjelly the witch
Bible, the Old Testament According to Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan, a celebration
The Murphy
Where have all the bullets gone?
Unspun socks froma chicken's laundry
Black Beauty
William McGonagall, the truth at last
Milligans Meaning of Life
Startling Verse for All the Family
Spike Milligan
William McGonagall
Classic Adventures According to Spike Milligan
More Goon cartoons
The Looney
A dustbin of Milligan
A Children's Treasury of Milligan
It Ends With Magic
Milligans Meaning of Life
Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan (According To...)
Goodbye Soldier (War Biography)
The Magical World of Milligan
Hidden Words
Scunthorpe revisited, added articles and instant relatives
D.H. Lawrence's John Thomas and Lady Jane according to Spike Milligan
That's Amazing
Classic Adventures
More Spike Milligan letters
Open Heart University
A potboiling dustbin full of bits
The Goon Show Classics
Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan
Treasure Island According to Spike Milligan
Indefinite articles
William McGonagall meets George Gershwin
Condensed animals
Dip the puppy , a fairy story ; with, The terrible monster jelly
The family album
The bald twit lion
A mad medley of Milligan
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Small dreams of a scorpion
More Goon Show scripts
The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems (Poetry)
Sir Nobonk and the terrible, awful, dreadful, naughty, nasty dragon
Rommel? Gunner Who? ; Monty
Two Tales of Wonder
The Goon Show Classics Volume 21 "The Missing Battleship"
A book of bits or a bit of a book
Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan (According To...)
Spike Milligan at the Beeb
The 101 best and only limericks of Spike Milligan
Monty
Badjelly the witch
Dip the puppy
The Lost "Goon" Shows
Spike Milligan'sfurther transports of delight
A Children's Treasury of Milligan
Spike Milligan's transports of delight
The little pot boiler
The Goon Show and More Guests, Vol. 18
There's a lot of it about!
The Compulsive Spike Milligan
Gunner Milligan, 954024
The Milligan book of records
The bedside Milligan
Fleas, Knees and Hidden Elephants
The mirror running
The Goon cartoons
A book of bits
Floored masterpieces with worse verse
Values
Spike's Poems
The mini Milligan collection
Lady Chatterley According to Spike Milligan
Silly verse for kids and animals
The great McGonagall scrap book
Spike Milligan's The melting pot
Black Beauty according to Spike Milligan
Poems
Spike Milligan Cut-Out
Mon rôle dans la chute d'Adolf Hitler
Ifonly I were bald
The hound of the hound of Baskervilles according to Spike Milligan
Get in the Q annual
Puckoon. Eine irische Dorfgeschichte
Chill air
Milligan's ark
The bedsitting room
Selected War Memoirs of Spike Milligan (Penguin Modern Authors)
Wolf Tales: Wolves, Witches & Giants
World of Beachcomber (Comedy Club S.)
There's lot of it about!
M25
A book of bits, or
"Rommel
Milligan's War and Peace Memoirs
Frankenstein according to Spike Milligan
Lady Chatterley's lover according to Spike Milligan
Theb edsitting room
Milligan Preserved
D.H.Lawrence's John Thomas and Lady Jane
A Book of Milliganimals
Rommel? Gunner Who? (Abridged - 2 Audio Cassettes)
For Lucy Gates
Esquimau
The Bible According to Spike Milligan
The Goon Again
He's Innocent of Watergate or Dick's Last Stand
Live at Cambridge University (Comedy Club S.)
Mussolini, his part in my downfall
In a jam
Twelve poems that made December colder
Monty His Part in My Victory and Rommel? Gunner Who?
The war memoirs
Monty (War Biography)
Sunday - midnight
The Goon Show Compendium
The bedside Milligan, or, Read yourself to insomnia
Tombstone Humour
A dustbin of Millgan
The Best of Milligan's Wake (Comedy Club S.)
The Bedside Milligan or Read Your Way to Insomnia
Teeth
My mother
Milligan's Meaning of Life
The dancer
Scunthorpe Revisited
Rommel? Gunner Who?
Help I'm a Prisoner in a Toothpaste Tube
Open Heart University
Giant Tales
The Completely Essential Spike Milligan
Box 18:The Unpublished Spike Milligan
A book of bits or a bit of a book
A Collection of Spikes
Help, I'm a Prisoner in a Toothpaste Factory
Mon rôle dans la chute d'Adolf Hitler
Spike Milligan's Peace
Vivat Milligna
Letters
Poems for Toni Savage
Witch Tales
The Goon Shows
Richard Beard
Richard Beard (born 1967)

teacher, sports journalist

  • University of Cambridge, Radley College

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Elke Heidenreich
Elke Heidenreich (born 1943)

television presenter, journalist, radio personality, literary critic, voice actor

  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Hamburg

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Jan Guillou
Jan Guillou (born 1944)

journalist, autobiographer, businessperson

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Fiendens fiende
Vägen till Jerusalem
The Road To Jerusalem
Riket vid vägens slut
Den enda segern
Vägen till Jerusalem
Den hedervärde mördaren
The Knight Templar
The Templar Knight
Ingen mans land
Häxornas försvarare
Men inte om det gäller din dotter
En medborgare höjd över varje misstanke
I nationens intresse
Birth of the Kingdom
Den demokratiske terroristen
The Road To Jerusalem
Ondskan
The Road To Jerusalem
Coq Rouge
Birth of the kingdom
The Templar knight
Tempelriddaren
I Hennes Majestäts tjänst
Tjuvarnas marknad
Arvet efter Arn
Trilogia De Las Cruzadas 1
El Espia Del Norte/the North Spy
Vendetta
El Caballero Templario
Die Krone von Götaland. Ein Roman aus der Zeit der Kreuzfahrer
Madame Terror
Feind des Feindes. Ein Coq- Rouge- Thriller
Ingen mans land
Irak--det nya Arabien
Fabrique de violence
Svenskarna, invandrarna och svartskallarna
Det stora avslöjandet
Brobyggarna
Trilogia De Las Cruzadas II
El Legado del Templario
Der demokratische Terrorist. Ein Coq- Rouge- Thriller
Artister
Men inte om det gäller din dotter
Madame Terror
Justitiemord
Birth of the kingdom
Camino A Jerusalen Trilogia de las Cruzadas I (Novela Historica)
Im Interesse der Nation. Ein Coq- Rouge- Thriller
Die Frauen von Götaland. Ein Roman aus der Zeit der Kreuzfahrer
Regreso al Norte
Der ehrenwerte Mörder. Ein Coq- Rouge- Thriller
Die Büßerin von Gudhem. Ein Roman aus der Zeit der Kreuzfahrer
Het kwaad
Trilogia De Las Cruzadas
Mellan rött och svart
Evil - das Böse
Kolumnisten
Vägen till Jerusalem
Den demokratiske terroristen
Journalistik 1967-1976
Fienden inom oss
Reporter
Ingen mans land
La badessa
Om kriget kommer
Att inte vilja se
Riket vid vägens slut
Krasnyĭ petukh
Dandy
Tempelriddaren
Trilogma de las Cruzadas II
Den enda segern
Den hedervärde mördaren
The Templar knight
Feind des Feindes
Arvet efter Arn
Berättelser
Unternehmen Vendetta
Les ingénieurs du bout du monde
Berättelser från det nya riket
Vendetta
Veien Til Jerusalem
Nya berättelser
Im Namen ihrer Majestät
Trilogia de Las Cruzadas III. Regreso Al Norte
Niemandsland
Der demokratische Terrorist
Fiendens fiende
En medborgare höjd över varje misstanke
De vijand van de vijand
Fienden inom oss
Entre rouge et noir
Trilogma de las Cruzadas I
Les dandys de Manningham
I nasjonens interesse
Ordets makt och vanmakt
I Hennes Majestäts tjänst
I nationens intresse
Los puentes del mañana
Tyvenes Marked
Konstantin Paustovsky
Konstantin Paustovsky (1892-1968)

journalist, playwright, opinion journalist

  • Moscow State University

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Povestʹ o zhizni
Золотая роза
The magic ringlet
Далёкие годы
Повесть о жизни (1-3)
Время больших ожиданий
Konstantin Paustovskiĭ o khudozhnikakh
Начало неведомого века
Бросок на юг
Беспокойная юность
Blizkie i dalekie
The Black Gulf
Isaak Levitan
Meshchorskai͡a︡ storona
Romantycy
Sozvezdie Gonchikh Psov
Selected stories [by] Konstantin Paustovskiǐ
Sobranie sochineniĭ v devi͡a︡ti tomakh
Kniga skitanii
Letnie dni
Zhilʹt͡s︡y starogo doma
Der letzte Teufel
Vo glubine Rossii
Chernoe more
Naedine s osen'iu
Rainy dawn
The flight of time
White rainbow and other romantic tales
Rodina
Sobranie sochineniĭ
In the heart of Russia and other stories
Rozhdenie rasskaza
Blistai͡u︡shchie oblaka
Povest' o lesakh
Povest' O Zhizni
Beg vremeni
Zolotoǐ lin'
Rasskazy
Ferne Jahre
Taras Shevchenko
Poruchik Lermontov
Vremi͡a︡ bol'shikh ozhidaniĭ
Izbrannye proizvedenii͡a︡ v trekh tomakh
Konstantin Paustovskiĭ o khudoznikakh
Zheltyĭ svet
Dozhdlivyĭ rassvet
Selected stories
Razlivy rek
Povesti i rasskazy
Novye rasskazy
Ilʹinskiĭ omut
Summer Days, 1937 (IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE) /
Izbrannai͡a︡ proza
The ruffled sparrow
A book about artists
Severnai︠a︡ povestʹ
Monisto
Rodnye prostory
Izbrannoe
Stalʹnoe kolechko
Kara-Bugaz
Au cœur de la Russie
Dym otechestva ; Rasskazy i ocherki
Dym otechestva
Книга скитаний
Povesti
Povesti, rasskazy, skazki
Severnye povesti
Poteriannye romany
Zolotoi Lin'
Childhood Dreams
Prostye serdtsa
Selected stories
Die Kolchis
Skazki
Rastrepannyǐ vorobeǐ
Brosok na iug
Повесть о жизни
Short stories
Zolotoi Lin, or the Golden Tench
Struna
Rasskazy o prirode
Kniga o khudozhnikakh
Prostye serdt︠s︡a
המערבולת
Sharl Lonseṿils shiḳzal
Povesti
Marshal Blyokher
Burzliwa młodość
Skazki ; Ocherki ; Literaturnye portrety
Poteri︠a︡nnye romany
Ḳolkhide
Begegnungen mit Dichtern
Dym otechestva
Pʹesy ; Teorii͡a︡ kapitana Gerneta
Ḳolkhide
Bình minh mưa
Severnye rasskazy
Teplyĭ khleb
Dos shṭernbild fun di yog-hint
Vremi︠a︡ bolʹshikh ozhidaniĭ
Ilʹinskiĭ omut
Povestʹ o lesakh
La Colchide
Poruchik Lermontov
ha-Shanim ha-reḥoḳot
Povesti i rasskazy
Kolkhida
Kolchida
Chernoe more
Neʻurim ḥasre manoaḥ
Vo glubine Rossii
The story of a life
Lavrovyĭ venok
Rodnye prostory
Povesti, rasskazy, skazki
Izbrannoe
Zolotoĭ linʹ
Kara-Bugaz
Giovanni Papini
Giovanni Papini (1881-1956)

poet, journalist, literary critic, biographer, philosopher

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Antología de la literatura fantástica
Watch For The Light
Un uomo finito
Selected works
Life of Christ
Life of Christ. Freely translated from the Italian by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Maschilità
Labourers in the vineyard
Storia di Cristo
Il crepuscolo dei filosofi
The Failure
Carteggio
Dante Vivo
Laborers in the vineyard
The failure (Un uomo finito)
L' altra meta
Dante vivo
Il non finito
Ritratti stranieri (1908-1921)
Testimonianze
La leggenda di Dante
Four and Twenty Minds
Il diavolo
Le memorie d'Iddio
L'uomo Carducci
Pagine scelte
Stroncature
The letters of pope Celestine VI to all mankind
Scritti postumi
Der heilige Augustinus
Saint Augustine
I nipoti d'Iddio
Storia di Cristo
Saint Augustine
El Libro Negro/the Black Book
Historia de Cristo
Chiudiamo le scuole!
Life of Christ
Poeti d'oggi (1900-1920)
Diario
The story of Christ
Giorni di festa
Il libro nero
Storia di Cristo
Giovanni Vailati, 1863-1909
Buffonate, Satire e fantasie
Le felicità dell'infelice
L' uomo Carducci
Carteggio Papini-Signorelli
Lettere domestiche agli amici della Valtiberina (1909-1951)
Italiener vor dem Jüngsten Gericht
The memoirs of God
Life and myself
Storia di Cristo
Histoire du Christ
Diavolo
24 cervelli
... Santi e poeti
Diario 1900
Il Diavolo
Eresie letterarie (1905-1928)
Sant' Agostino
Parole e sangue
Pragmatismo
A man--finished
Italia mia
L' esperienza futurista, 1913-1914
Buffonate
Concerto fantastico
Storia di Cristo
Histoire du Christ
Carteggio (1914-1941)
Jacopone da Todi
Un uomo finito
Danite vivo
Michelangiolo und sein Lebenskreis
Rapporto sugli uomini
Il tragico quotidiano
Passato remoto
Giovanni Papini, Giuseppe Prezzolini
La spia del mondo
Passato remoto, 1885-1914
Storia di Cristo
4 And 20 Minds
Gli operai della vigna
Svedkovia utrpenia
The story of Christ; transl. from the Italian by M.P. Agnetti.
Gog, El Libro Negro
Scrittori e artisti
Las Almas Cambiadas / The Changed Souls (Benteveo)
Un homme fini
Carteggio, 1904-1925
E Istoria tou Christou
Testimonianze
Storia di un'amicizia, 1900-1924
Dante vivant
Schegge
Grandezze di Carducci
Vita di Michelangiolo nella vita del suo tempo
Cento pagine di poesia
24 [Ventiquattro] Cervelli
Ritratti italiani (1904-1931)
Lettere agli uomini di Papa Celestino VI
Saint' Agostino. --
Strane storie
Un uomo finito
Figuras humanas
Opera prima
Sant'Agostino
Giorni di festa (1916-1918)
Lo specchio che fugge
[Historia de Cristo]
24 cervelli
La leggenda di Dante
L'imitazione del padre
Grandezza di Carducci
Figure umane
Vita de Michelangelo nella vita del suo tempo
The story of Christ
L' inquietudine di un secolo
Testimonianze
Il sacco dell' orco
Gog
Gli amanti di sofia (1902-1918)
Stroncature (1904-1931)
Giudizio universale
Io, Papini
Polemiche Religiose
Life of Christ
Poeti d'oggi (1900-1925)
Le memorie d'Iddio
Gog
Vecchio e nuovo nazionalismo
Diario (1916-1953)
Filosofia e letteratura
Poesia in prosa
Istoria tou Hristou
Foglie della foresta
Tutte le opere di Giovanni Papini
24 [ i.e. Venti quattro] cervelli
Poesia e fantasia
Świadkowie meki
La corona d'argento
Racconti di gioventù
I testimoni della Passione
Diario
Incontriamo Papini
Città Felicità: Firenze
Gog
Tutte le opere
Le crépuscule des philosophes
Maschilita
Das Wesen der Renaissance
La loggia dei busti
Storia di un'amicizia
Italia mia
Storia della letteratura italiana ..
L' uomo Carducci
The devil, notes for a future diabology
El Diablo
Giorni di festa
Lettres aux hommes du pape Célestin VI
La seconda nascita
A prayer for fools
The Story of Christ
L' Altra metà
Felicità di Giacomo Leopardi
Pane e vino
Michelangelo, his life and his era
Le livre noir
Modlitba ke Kristu
... Dante vivo
La spia del mondo
Memuarn fun Reboyne sheloylem
Prose morali
Le pazzie del poeta
Pragmatismo
Opera prima, venti poesie in rima e venti ragione in prosa
Dante vivo
Le disgrazie del libro in Italia
Poeti d'oggi
Sefer zikhronotaṿ shel ha-Elohim
Cento pagine di poesia
Storia di un'amicizia, 1900-1924
Poesia in prosa
Giovanni Papini
Giorni di festa
Diario, 1916-1953
Poesia in versi
Pagine scelte
Life of Christ
Giovanni Papini, 1881-1981
Historia de Cristo
Il crepuscolo dei filosofi
Laborers in the vineyard
Scritti postumi di Giovanni Papini
Maschilita
L'inquietudine di un secolo
Polemiche religiose (1908-1914)
Storia di Cristo
Saint Augustine
Città Felicità
Carteggio, 1939-1956
El libro negro. - 2. ed.
Le felicità dell'infelice
Ritratti italiani (1904-1931)
Ḥayāt al-Masīḥ
I racconti
Four and twenty minds
Life of Christ
24 [i.e. Ventiquattro] cervelli
Poesia e fantasia
I carteggi di Giovanni Papini
Le ombre di Parnaso
Carteggio, 1904-1925
... tutto il presente era da loro sacrificato a un futuro che a sua volta sarebbe diventato presente e sacrificato a sura volta a un altro futuro e cosi fino all'ultimo presente, fino alla morte
La oracion del buzo
... Il mio futurismo
Cento pagine di poesia
Lacerba