Sample of authors
Zangwill, Israel
Israel Zangwill was a British Jewish author. His father had emigrated from Lithuania and his mother was a Polish refugee. He grew up in London’s East End where he attended the Jew’s Free School. His talents soon came to the attention of his teachers, and when he was fourteen he began to teach younger pupils. When he was eighteen, after he had won a best comic story competition in a magazine, he go...
Literary figures
Bunny (Harry) Manders
Gender: Male
At school, Harry (Bunny) Manders got to know A.J. Raffles, and as adults they became very good friends, E.W. Hornung tells us. To his amazement, Manders discovers that his friend is a clever master thief, and reluctantly agrees to help him – which ends up with Manders being forced to serve a prison sentence. He is otherwise a sensible, friendly and basically honest gentleman, a bachelor just l...