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Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin (1855–88) was a Russian writer of short stories. After university, he went into the army at the start of the Russian-Turkish War in 1877 as an ordinary...

William Schwenk Gilbert is better known today as W. S. Gilbert. His seventy-five plays and his light poetry have been forgotten, but his reputation lives on as the man who...

W. W. Jacobs was born in London in 1863. Although his family never had much money, his father sent him to a private school. He studied at university and then...