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A 1903 Saturday Evening Post cover illustration for the first
part of the serialized The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
George Eliot (1819; died December 22, 1880) English novelist;
Adam Bede;
The Mill on the Floss;
Silas Marner;
Middlemarch; and
Daniel Deronda
André Gide (1869; died February 19, 1951) French author;
L'immoraliste (
The Immoralist);
La porte étroite (
Strait Is the Gate);
Les caves du Vatican (
The Vatican Cellars);
La Symphonie Pastorale (
The Pastoral Symphony);
Les faux-monnayeurs (
The Counterfeiters); Nobel Prize in Literature,
(1947)
Ross Calvin (1889; died January 30, 1970) American writer;
Sky Determines
Hoagy Carmichael (1899; died December 27, 1981) American composer; "Stardust"; "Georgia on My Mind"; "The Nearness of You"; "Heart and Soul"
Died on this day:
Arthur Sullivan (1900; born May 13, 1842) English composer; with W. S. Gilbert
H.M.S. Pinafore;
Pirates of Penzance;
The Mikado.
Jack London (1916; born January 12, 1876) American novelist, short story writer, journalist, and activist; novels
The Call of the Wild;
White Fang;
The Sea Wolf;
stories "To Build a Fire"; "An Odyssey of the North"; "Love of Life"; "The Pearls of Parlay"; "The Heathen"; non-fiction
The People of the Abyss
Arthur Eddington (1944; born December 28, 1882) English astronomer, physicist, mathematician, philosopher and popularizer of science;
The Mathematical Theory of Relativity;
The Nature of the Physical World;
New Pathways in Science
Aldous Huxley (1963; born July 26, 1894) English short story writer, novelist and philosopher;
Brave New World;
Island;
Point Counter Point;
The Doors of Perception;
The Perennial Philosophy
C. S. Lewis (1963; born November 29, 1898) British novelist, poet, essayist, and lay theologian;
Allegory of Love;
The Chronicles of Narnia;
The Space Trilogy;
Mere Christianity;
The Screwtape Letters;
The Problem of Pain
Anthony Burgess (1993; born February 25, 1917) English writer and composer;
A Clockwork Orange; the
Enderby quartet;
Earthly Powers
Bonus Classic:
Wu Cheng'en (1500-1582 or 1505-1580) Chinese novelist and poet;
Journey to the West (
Xi You Ji), one of the "Four Great Classical Novels"
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