#classicbooks — Public Fediverse posts
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📅 This Day in Literature — September 15
Born on this day: Agatha Christie (1890)
Best-selling fiction writer of all time. Over two billion copies sold.
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📅 This Day in Literature — September 15
Born on this day: Agatha Christie (1890)
Best-selling fiction writer of all time. Over two billion copies sold.
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📅 This Day in Literature — September 15
Born on this day: Agatha Christie (1890)
Best-selling fiction writer of all time. Over two billion copies sold.
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📅 This Day in Literature — September 15
Born on this day: Agatha Christie (1890)
Best-selling fiction writer of all time. Over two billion copies sold.
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📅 This Day in Literature — September 15
Born on this day: Agatha Christie (1890)
Best-selling fiction writer of all time. Over two billion copies sold.
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📅 This Day in Literature — September 9
Born on this day: Leo Tolstoy (1828)
War and Peace took six years to write. Anna Karenina another four.
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📅 This Day in Literature — September 9
Born on this day: Leo Tolstoy (1828)
War and Peace took six years to write. Anna Karenina another four.
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📅 This Day in Literature — September 9
Born on this day: Leo Tolstoy (1828)
War and Peace took six years to write. Anna Karenina another four.
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📅 This Day in Literature — September 9
Born on this day: Leo Tolstoy (1828)
War and Peace took six years to write. Anna Karenina another four.
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📅 This Day in Literature — September 9
Born on this day: Leo Tolstoy (1828)
War and Peace took six years to write. Anna Karenina another four.
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📅 This Day in Literature — August 25
Published on this day: Don Quixote Part 2 (1615)
Cervantes wrote the sequel partly because someone else published a fake Part 2 first.
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📅 This Day in Literature — August 25
Published on this day: Don Quixote Part 2 (1615)
Cervantes wrote the sequel partly because someone else published a fake Part 2 first.
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📅 This Day in Literature — August 25
Published on this day: Don Quixote Part 2 (1615)
Cervantes wrote the sequel partly because someone else published a fake Part 2 first.
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📅 This Day in Literature — August 25
Published on this day: Don Quixote Part 2 (1615)
Cervantes wrote the sequel partly because someone else published a fake Part 2 first.
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📅 This Day in Literature — August 25
Published on this day: Don Quixote Part 2 (1615)
Cervantes wrote the sequel partly because someone else published a fake Part 2 first.
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This made me giggle this morning. (Garrison Keillor - Lake Wobegone Days. Yes. I read #Classicbooks. Just to be clear: I support #teachers!)
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This made me giggle this morning. (Garrison Keillor - Lake Wobegone Days. Yes. I read #Classicbooks. Just to be clear: I support #teachers!)
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This made me giggle this morning. (Garrison Keillor - Lake Wobegone Days. Yes. I read #Classicbooks. Just to be clear: I support #teachers!)
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This made me giggle this morning. (Garrison Keillor - Lake Wobegone Days. Yes. I read #Classicbooks. Just to be clear: I support #teachers!)
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This made me giggle this morning. (Garrison Keillor - Lake Wobegone Days. Yes. I read #Classicbooks. Just to be clear: I support #teachers!)
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📅 This Day in Literature — August 11
Born on this day: Enid Blyton (1897)
The most translated British author after Shakespeare. Over 700 books.
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📅 This Day in Literature — August 11
Born on this day: Enid Blyton (1897)
The most translated British author after Shakespeare. Over 700 books.
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📅 This Day in Literature — August 11
Born on this day: Enid Blyton (1897)
The most translated British author after Shakespeare. Over 700 books.
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📅 This Day in Literature — August 11
Born on this day: Enid Blyton (1897)
The most translated British author after Shakespeare. Over 700 books.
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📅 This Day in Literature — August 11
Born on this day: Enid Blyton (1897)
The most translated British author after Shakespeare. Over 700 books.
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📅 This Day in Literature — August 9
Born on this day: P. L. Travers (1899)
Creator of Mary Poppins. She famously disliked the Disney film.
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📅 This Day in Literature — August 9
Born on this day: P. L. Travers (1899)
Creator of Mary Poppins. She famously disliked the Disney film.
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📅 This Day in Literature — August 9
Born on this day: P. L. Travers (1899)
Creator of Mary Poppins. She famously disliked the Disney film.
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📅 This Day in Literature — August 9
Born on this day: P. L. Travers (1899)
Creator of Mary Poppins. She famously disliked the Disney film.
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📅 This Day in Literature — August 9
Born on this day: P. L. Travers (1899)
Creator of Mary Poppins. She famously disliked the Disney film.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 30
Born on this day: Emily Brontë (1818)
Wrote one novel — Wuthering Heights — and changed literature forever.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 30
Born on this day: Emily Brontë (1818)
Wrote one novel — Wuthering Heights — and changed literature forever.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 30
Born on this day: Emily Brontë (1818)
Wrote one novel — Wuthering Heights — and changed literature forever.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 30
Born on this day: Emily Brontë (1818)
Wrote one novel — Wuthering Heights — and changed literature forever.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 30
Born on this day: Emily Brontë (1818)
Wrote one novel — Wuthering Heights — and changed literature forever.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 26
Born on this day: George Bernard Shaw (1856)
Won both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar. Only person to achieve both.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 26
Born on this day: George Bernard Shaw (1856)
Won both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar. Only person to achieve both.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 26
Born on this day: George Bernard Shaw (1856)
Won both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar. Only person to achieve both.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 26
Born on this day: George Bernard Shaw (1856)
Won both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar. Only person to achieve both.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 26
Born on this day: George Bernard Shaw (1856)
Won both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar. Only person to achieve both.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 21
Born on this day: Ernest Hemingway (1899)
Six-word story: 'For sale: baby shoes, never worn.' Master of less is more.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 21
Born on this day: Ernest Hemingway (1899)
Six-word story: 'For sale: baby shoes, never worn.' Master of less is more.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 21
Born on this day: Ernest Hemingway (1899)
Six-word story: 'For sale: baby shoes, never worn.' Master of less is more.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 21
Born on this day: Ernest Hemingway (1899)
Six-word story: 'For sale: baby shoes, never worn.' Master of less is more.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 21
Born on this day: Ernest Hemingway (1899)
Six-word story: 'For sale: baby shoes, never worn.' Master of less is more.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 12
Born on this day: Henry David Thoreau (1817)
Lived deliberately at Walden Pond. Still teaching us to simplify.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 12
Born on this day: Henry David Thoreau (1817)
Lived deliberately at Walden Pond. Still teaching us to simplify.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 12
Born on this day: Henry David Thoreau (1817)
Lived deliberately at Walden Pond. Still teaching us to simplify.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 12
Born on this day: Henry David Thoreau (1817)
Lived deliberately at Walden Pond. Still teaching us to simplify.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 12
Born on this day: Henry David Thoreau (1817)
Lived deliberately at Walden Pond. Still teaching us to simplify.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 11
Born on this day: E. B. White (1899)
Charlotte's Web and The Elements of Style — one book for the heart, one for the mind.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 11
Born on this day: E. B. White (1899)
Charlotte's Web and The Elements of Style — one book for the heart, one for the mind.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 11
Born on this day: E. B. White (1899)
Charlotte's Web and The Elements of Style — one book for the heart, one for the mind.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 11
Born on this day: E. B. White (1899)
Charlotte's Web and The Elements of Style — one book for the heart, one for the mind.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 11
Born on this day: E. B. White (1899)
Charlotte's Web and The Elements of Style — one book for the heart, one for the mind.
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#storygraphchallenge #translatedbooks #classicbooks #books
Classic Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Anderson
Beowulf - Unknown
The tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
The ARt of War - Sun Tzu
The Prince - Niccollo Machiavelli
Fairy Tales - Brothers Grimm -
#storygraphchallenge #translatedbooks #classicbooks #books
Classic Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Anderson
Beowulf - Unknown
The tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
The ARt of War - Sun Tzu
The Prince - Niccollo Machiavelli
Fairy Tales - Brothers Grimm -
#storygraphchallenge #translatedbooks #classicbooks #books
Classic Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Anderson
Beowulf - Unknown
The tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
The ARt of War - Sun Tzu
The Prince - Niccollo Machiavelli
Fairy Tales - Brothers Grimm -
#storygraphchallenge #translatedbooks #classicbooks #books
Classic Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Anderson
Beowulf - Unknown
The tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
The ARt of War - Sun Tzu
The Prince - Niccollo Machiavelli
Fairy Tales - Brothers Grimm -
#storygraphchallenge #translatedbooks #classicbooks #books
Classic Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Anderson
Beowulf - Unknown
The tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
The ARt of War - Sun Tzu
The Prince - Niccollo Machiavelli
Fairy Tales - Brothers Grimm