{"product_id":"2940190927719","title":"The Passing of Edward: A poignant story about an uncle coming back to visit","description":"Richard Barham Middleton was born on the 28th October 1882 in Staines, Middlesex.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis education was primarily at Cranbrook School in Kent before he began work as a clerk, in 1901, at the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation in London.  There he struggled with constraints and boundaries and by night he took to a bohemian lifestyle.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiddleton moved into rooms in Blackfriars and joined the New Bohemians club where his literary contacts grew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe became an editor at Vanity Fair where he told a fellow editor, the notorious Frank Harris, that he wanted to pursue a career as a poet.  Shortly afterwards Harris published Middleton's poem `The Bathing Boy'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an author he is most remembered for his short ghost stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Middleton died on 1st December 1911.  He was 29.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIvan Vazov\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIvan Minchov Vazov was born on the 9th July 1850 (although that date is disputed) in the town of Sopot, in Bulgaria, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter primary education at the local school he was sent to Kalofer to continue his studies and work as an assistant teacher.  He later spent a short time in Plodiv where he began to write poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFascinated by literature he abandoned work as an apprentice to move to Br¿ila, in Romania, where he lived with exiled revolutionaries and befriended the poet Hristo Botev.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 1874, he had joined the struggle for independence from the Ottomans and returned to Sopot. After the failure of the 1876 uprising he had to flee the country, going back to Gala¿i, in Romania, where most of the surviving revolutionaries were exiled. There he was appointed a secretary of the committee.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1876 he published his first work, `Priaporetz and Gusla', followed by `Bulgaria's Sorrows' in 1877.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBulgaria regained its independence in 1878 as a result of the Russo-Turkish War and Vazov wrote the famous `Epic of the Forgotten'.  He now became the editor of the political reviews Science and Dawn. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExile was forced upon him once again due to the persecution of the Russophile political faction. Later he returned to Bulgaria with his mother's help, and started teaching and then became a civil servant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe moved to Sofia in 1889 where he started publishing the review Dennitsa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis 1888 novel `Under the Yoke', depicting Ottoman oppression, is his most famous work and has been translated into over 30 languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring his life he became a prominent and widely respected figure in the social and cultural life of Bulgaria. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1917, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIvan Vazov died on September 22nd, 1921.  He was 71.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Copyright Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46497624948977,"sku":"2940190927719","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940190927719_p0.jpg?v=1764893984","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940190927719","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}