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Charles Dickens Last Will and Testament
Enjoy reading this copy of the Last Will of the great English novelist, Charles Dickens (1812-1870).
- Charles Dickens was responsible for creating some of English literature's most iconic characters, including Ebenezer Scrooge, Oliver Twist, Fagin, David Copperfield, and Tiny Tim. He was the most popular writer of his day and remains one of the most popular of all time.
- Dickens' work touched upon many of the problems of Victorian London and often carried a message of social reform. Many of his novels were serialized in magazines.
- Unlike other authors who would complete an entire novel before serializing it, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialized. He would often end the episode with a cliffhanger situation which created an air of anticipation from his public as they awaited the next instalment.
- His work is still popular today, and his novels and short stories have never been out of print.
Source: Wikipedia.org.
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Ernest Hemingway Last Will and Testament
Download a free copy of the Last Will of American novelist Ernest (Papa) Hemingway (1899-1961).
- The works of Ernest Miller Hemingway are considered classics of American literature. His writing style, known as the iceberg theory, was characterized by economy and understatement, and it influenced many other 20th century writers. His characters exuded authenticity, which reverberated with his public.
- In his younger years Hemingway worked as a reporter until World War I when he became an ambulance driver in Italy. This experience formed the basis for A Farewell to Arms.
- After the war he worked in Paris as a foreign correspondence, which led to him covering the Spanish Civil War, after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls. During World War II he was present at D-Day and the liberation of Paris. In the midst of all this, he found time to get married four times.
- Hemingway's public persona was that of a hard drinking, hard living adventure seeker. After publishing The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway went on safari to Africa and was almost killed in a plane crash, which left him in ill health for most of the rest of his life.
- He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
- Hemingway committed suicide at his home in 1961.
Source: Wikipedia.org
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Jane Austen Last Will
This is a copy of the Last Will of English novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817).
- The will is handwritten, in Austen's distinctive hand.
- Jane Austen's romantic fiction has been so popular over the years, it has earned her a place as one of the most widely read and beloved writers in English literary history, even among scholars and critics, who admire her realism and biting social commentary.
- Austen's most well known novels include Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma.
- Her works are concerned with moral issues and highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure their financial security and their place in society.
Source: Wikipedia.org
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L. Ron Hubbard Last Will and Testament
Download a free copy of the Last Will and Testament of L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986).
- Lafayette Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer who introduced his ideas to the general public in Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (1950), and spawned the birth of the Church of Scientology.
- Hubbard was an officer in the Navy during WWII, where he briefly commanded two ships but was removed from command both times. The last few months of his active service were spent in a hospital, being treated for a variety of complaints.
- In the 1970s Hubbard and his followers tried unsuccessfully to take over the town of Clearwater, Florida. In 1978 he was convicted of fraud in France.
- That same year, certain high-ranking Scientologists were indicted on numerous charges for their part in a program of systematic espionage against the U.S. Government.
Biographical information found on Wikipedia.
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William Shakespeare Last Will and Testament
Download a free copy of the Last Will and Testament of William Shakespeare (1564-1616).
- William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often referred to as England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard").
- Shakespeare's surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems.
- His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
The foregoing biographical information on Shakespeare is quoted from Wikipedia.
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