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1 day ago · William Shakespeare (c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [4][5][6] He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " (or simply "the Bard").
3 hours ago · Maus, [ a ] often published as Maus: A Survivor's Tale, is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work employs postmodern techniques, and represents Jews as mice and other Germans and ...
- Art Spiegelman
- 1991
1 day ago · Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry[3] (29 June 1900 – c. 31 July 1944), known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (UK: / ˌsæ̃tɪɡˈzuːpəri /, [4] US: /- ɡzuːpeɪˈriː /, [5] French: [ɑ̃twan də sɛ̃t‿ɛɡzypeʁi] ⓘ), was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator. He received several prestigious ...
1 day ago · Signature. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [ 1 ] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [ 2 ] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." [ 3 ]
3 hours ago · In his book "The Western Canon", literary critic Harold Bloom includes Brave New World, Stanisław Lem's Solaris, Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, and The Left Hand of Darkness as culturally and aesthetically significant works of western literature, though Lem actively spurned the Western label of "science fiction" [242] while Vonnegut was more commonly classified as a postmodernist or satirist.
1 day ago · Oxford, Bacon, Derby, and Marlowe (clockwise from top left, Shakespeare centre) have each been proposed as the true author. The Shakespeare authorship question is the argument that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works attributed to him. Anti-Stratfordians—a collective term for adherents of the various ...
1 day ago · Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as St Mary Bethlehem, Bethlehem Hospitaland Bedlam, is a psychiatric hospitalin Bromley, London. Its famous history has inspired several horror books, films, and TV series, most notably Bedlam, a 1946 film with Boris Karloff. The hospital is part of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
