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Uilʹi͡am Genri Khadson - anglo-argentinskiĭ pisatelʹ, uchenyĭ-naturalist, ornitolog. Kak belletrist zavoeval izvestnostʹ neskolʹkimi samobytnymi, ostrosi͡uzhetnymi romanami i povesti͡ami, deĭstvie kotorykh proiskhodit v I͡Uzhnoĭ Amerike. Sredi khudozhestvennykh proizvedeniĭ Khadsona "Purpurnai͡a Zemli͡a" (1885) - priznannyĭ shedevr, kotoryĭ Dzhon Golsuorsi nazval luchshim plutovskim romanom v angliĭskoĭ literature za poslednie sto let, a Khorkhe Luis Borkhes sravnil s "Odisseeĭ". Borkhes otmechal, chto "vopreki obilʹno prolivaemoĭ krovi i razlukam geroev, „Purpurnai͡a Zemli͡a" - odna iz nemnogikh schastlivykh knig na svete".

William Henry Hudson is an Anglo—Argentine writer, naturalist, and ornithologist. As a fiction writer, he gained fame with several original, action-packed novels and novellas set in South America. Among Hudson's works of fiction, The Purple Earth (1885) is a recognized masterpiece, which John Galsworthy called the best picaresque novel in English literature over the past hundred years, and Jorge Luis Borges compared to The Odyssey. Borges noted that "despite the abundant bloodshed and the separation of the characters, The Purple Land is one of the few happy books in the world."