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From the cover of the Penguin Classics
edition (2006) of Samuel Butler's Erewhon |
Here are today's milestones:
Died on this day:
Andrew Russell Forsyth (1858; died June 2, 1942) British mathematician known for lecture "Mathematics, in Life and Thought"; mammoth six-volume
Theory of Differential Equations, among many other sleep-inducing tomes
Samuel Butler (1902; born December 4, 1835) English author;
Erewhon;
The Way of All Flesh
Maxim Gorky (1936; born March 28, 1868) Russian novelist, dramatist, short story writer, and poet; short story Twenty-six Men and a Girl; poem "The Song of the Stormy Petrel"; novel
The Mother; plays
The Lower Depths,
Summerfolk and
Children of the Sun
John Cheever (1982; born May 27, 1912) American novelist and short story writer; stories "The Enormous Radio"; "Goodbye, My Brother"; "The Five-Forty-Eight"; "The Country Husband"; "The Swimmer"; novel
The Wapshot Chronicle
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