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Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) and Catherine (Merle Oberon)
in the 1939 film adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Italo Svevo (1861; died September 13, 1928) Italian novelist, playwright, and short story writer who wrote
The Confession of Zeno and
As a Man Grows Older
Oliver La Farge (1901; died August 2, 1963) American novelist and anthropologist;
Laughing Boy; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, (1929)
Jean Genet (1910; died April 15, 1986) French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist; novels
Our Lady of the Flowers,
The Thief's Journal; play
The Balcony
Died this on day:
Al-Ghazali (1111; born Unknown Date, 1058) Persian mystic and philosopher;
Tahafut al-Falasifa (
Incoherence of the Philosophers);
Kimiya-yi Sa'adat (
Alchemy of Happiness);
Munqidh min al-dalal (
Deliverance from Error--autobiography);
Ihya' Ulum al-Din or Ihya'u Ulumiddin (
The Revival of Religious Sciences)
Emily Bronte (1848; born July 30, 1818) English novelist and poet;
Wuthering Heights
J. M. W. Turner (1851; born April 23, 1775) English painter;
Dido building Carthage;
Snow Storm;
The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons;
Modern Rome-Campo Vaccino;
Agrippina Landing with the Ashes of Germanicus;
Sunrise with Sea Monsters
Bonus Classic:
Wen Kang, pen name Yanbei Xianren (flourished 1821-1850) Chinese novelist;
Ernu Yingxiong Zhuan (
The Story of Hero Boys and Hero Girls; also called
Thirteenth Sister)
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