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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

9 Obscure Literary Terms

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Periods of American Literature

The Catcher in the Rye By J.D. Salinger. Hardcover Book first sold: July 16, 1951. Current cover design dated 1991? Previous solid maroon book cover with gold font designed by J.D. Salinger in response to racey pulp paper back book cover. bad books

5 Good Books That Inspired Bad Deeds

9 American Countercultural Books

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Is Australia an Island?

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7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Festivals

Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and autodidact.

6 Interesting Facts about Srinivasa Ramanujan

Town of Sisimiut located on the coast of the Davis Strait on Kangerluarsunnguaq Bay, Greenland

The Largest Islands in the World

Indian hijras participate in a religious procession in Gandhinagar, India, some 30 kilometers from Ahmedabad, on March 22, 2017. Hijra is a term used in South Asia which refers to transgender individuals who are born male. (gender identity, gender expression)

6 Cultures That Recognize More than Two Genders

Facsimile of one of William Henry Ireland's forgeries, a primitive self-portrait of William Shakespeare(tinted engraving). Published for Samuel Ireland, Norfolk Street, Strand, December 1, 1795. (W.H. Ireland, forgery)

The Time a Law Clerk Successfully Forged a New Shakespeare Play to Impress His Dad

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10 Best Hockey Players of All Time

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Died	September 14, 1927 (aged 41) • Switzerland

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Bertolt Brecht

German dramatist

Georg Philipp Harsdörfer

German poet

Karl Kraus

Austrian writer

Hermann Bahr

Austrian writer

Niklaus Manuel

Swiss artist, author, and statesman

Rolf Hochhuth

German writer

Friedrich Schiller

German writer

Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

German author

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

Heinrich von Kleist

German author

Arno Schmidt

German author

Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin

Ludwig Tieck

German writer

Hebbel, detail of a lithograph by Fritz Kriehuber, 1858

Friedrich Hebbel

German dramatist

Peter Weiss

German writer

Immermann, engraving by Franz Stüber, after a painting by Karl Friedrich Lessing

Karl Leberecht Immermann

German author

Gustav Freytag

German writer

Carl Zuckmayer

German playwright

Frank Wedekind

German actor and dramatist

August von Kotzebue

German playwright

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