Stefan Zweig

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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10 Captivating Contemporary Novels Set in the British Isles

Scene from "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, 1843. The irascible, curmudgeonly Ebenezer Scrooge with the Ghost of Christmas Present, the third of the four apparitions that visit him on Christmjas Eve. From "A Christmas Carol" by...

Diagnosing 9 of Charles Dickens’s Most Famous Characters

poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).

World Poetry Day

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9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

What's the Difference Between a Solstice and an Equinox?

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Why Does Cilantro Taste Like Soap to Some People?

Four year old boy with grandfather and father lighting Hanukkah menorah. Photo taken on: December 21st, 2009

Which Is Correct: Hanukkah or Chanukah?

Saint Lucia Day. Young girl wears Lucia crown (tinsel halo) with candles. Holds Saint Lucia Day currant laced saffron buns (lussekatter or Lucia's cats). Observed December 13 honor virgin martyr Santa Lucia (St. Lucy). Luciadagen, Christmas, Sweden

7 Winter Solstice Celebrations From Around the World

Entrants falling and tumbling over while chasing the cheese at the 2016 'Cheese Rolling' held at Cooper's Hill, in the Cotswolds, Brockworth England

7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Festivals

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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Born	November 28, 1881 • Vienna
Found Dead	February 23, 1942 • Petrópolis • Brazil
Notable Works	“Beware of Pity” • “Master Builders” • “The Tide of Fortune” • “Three Masters”

Ilse Aichinger

Austrian author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Arno Schmidt

German author

Paul Auster

American author

Ha Jin

Chinese American writer

Uwe Johnson

German author

Louis Auchincloss

American author

Herta Müller

Romanian-born German writer

Micah Joseph Berdichevsky

Russian author

Muriel Spark

British writer

Carl Spitteler

Swiss poet

Nick Joaquin

Filipino author

Max Brod

German-language novelist and essayist

Elizabeth Hardwick

American writer

Gert Hofmann

German author

Sigurdur Jóhannesson Nordal

Icelandic philologist and writer

Paul Ernst

German writer

V.S. Pritchett

British writer

Stuart Cloete

South African writer

Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian author

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