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Ernest Hemingway Photograph

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Hemingway wrote his first novel in Paris in 1922, then headed to Lausanne to cover the peace conference. He wrote his new wife, Hadley, urging her to join him. She packed, thoughtfully including his current manuscripts. On the train, she left her…

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Sir Richard Francis Burton was a British explorer and scholar. Several of his English translations of Eastern classics have become standards: (The Arabian Nights and The Kama Sutra, for example). For this reason it is especially sad that his…

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Begun ten years before while Pepys was at Cambridge, this work (which Pepys called a “romance”) did not displease him when he re-read it in 1664, and indeed, he doubted he could do as well in the present. Nevertheless, to make “...all things even and…

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Kit Marlowe’s magical comedy about a young lady’s visit to her grandparents’ country house and what she found in the gardens there. The play was registered by Humphrey Moseley for printing sixty years after Marlowe’s death. It resurfaced again fifty…

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Pageants were large entertainments, full of color, music, dance, poetry, movement, and spectacle. They were scripted and had very carefully designed emblematic meaning, especially when the Queen was involved. The scripts for Spenser’s royal pageants,…

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Love’s Labours Won was written before 1598, the sequel to Love’s Labour’s Lost. It continues the tale of the King of Navarre and his three friends, young sports whose marriages were delayed at the end of the first play for a year of probation, until…

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One of the most celebrated couples of all time: he was a French philosopher, a forerunner to empiricism, she was one of the earliest contributors to modern feminist thought. Their story of passion and tragedy is intensely felt in these poems.
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