Hall Caine

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Beschreibung

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Autor

Hall Caine was a British novelist, dramatist, short story writer, poet, and critic in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Caine enjoyed exceptional fame throughout his lifetime. He published fifteen novels on infidelity, divorce, domestic abuse, illegitimacy, infanticide, religious prejudice, and women's rights, becoming a worldwide literary celebrity and selling 10 million copies. Caine was the highest-paid novelist of his day. The Eternal City is the first novel to sell more than one million copies globally. Caine moved to the Isle of Man in 1895 and served in the Manx House of Keys, the island's lower house of parliament, from 1901 to 1908. Caine was elected President of the Manx National change League in 1903 and chaired the Keys' Committee, which drafted the 1907 constitutional change petition. Caine received the Freedom of the Borough of Douglas on the Isle of Man in 1929. Caine traveled to Russia in 1892 on behalf of the persecuted Jews. Caine traveled to the United States and Canada in 1895, representing the Society of Authors, where he successfully negotiated and obtained significant international copyright concessions from the Dominion Parliament.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 198g
• ISBN-13: 9781417921164
• ISBN-10: 1417921161
• Artikelnr.: 21554359