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  Considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature, Molière is considered the creator of modern French comedy. Many words or phrases first used in Molière's plays are still used in current French. One of his characters has become shorthand for a certain kind of person. Just as Dickens gave the world Scrooge for all tight-fisted misers and Shakespeare gave us Romeo as the name for all romantic male lovers, so Molière has given us Tartuffe, a person defined by the OED as a ‘hypocritical pretender to religion, or, by extension, to excellence of any kind’ (first cited in 1688). “Building Your Great Collection One Fine Book at a Time” BlindHorseBooks.com  

  The trilogy’s first book, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63, won the Pulitzer Prize and numerous other awards in 1989. Two successive volumes also gained critical and popular success: Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65, and At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968. Decades later, all three books remain in demand. Some reviewers have compared the King-era trilogy, which required more than twenty-four years of intensive research, with epic histories such as Shelby Foote’s The Civil War and Robert Caro’s multi-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson.   Building Great Collections, One Fine Book at a Time Visit us at BlindHorseBooks.com

  A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone A Few Did You Knows....     …….Jack London’s San Francisco home has a collection of some of the 600 rejections he received before he sold a single story. ……..He wrote an early dystopian novel ‘The Iron Heel’ which influenced George Orwell a nd is widely regarded as the first modern dystopian novel. …….He was the first author in the world to become a millionaire from his writing.   …….Nobody knows for sure whether he intended to kill himself or not. London died of a morphine overdose on 22 November 1916, aged forty (oddly enough, another author of a classic dystopian novel, Aldous Huxley would die exactly 47 years later on the same day.     Building Great Collections, One Fine Book at a Time Visit us at BlindHorseBooks.com