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Marley's Ghost by John Leech, an 1843 illustration
for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Thomas More (1478; died July 6, 1535) English author and statesman;
Utopia;
History of King Richard III
Charles Dickens (1812; died June 9, 1870) English writer;
The Pickwick Papers;
Oliver Twist;
A Christmas Carol;
David Copperfield;
Bleak House;
Hard Times;
Little Dorrit;
A Tale of Two Cities;
Great Expectations
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867; died February 10, 1957) American author;
Little House on the Prairie and its sequels
G. H. Hardy (1877; died December 1, 1947) English mathematician;
A Mathematician's Apology;
A Course of Pure Mathematics
Sinclair Lewis (1885; died January 10, 1951) American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright;
Main Street;
Babbitt;
Arrowsmith;
Elmer Gantry; Nobel Prize in Literature (1930)
Bonus Classic:
Menander (342/341-290 BCE) Greek comic playwright who wrote
Dyskolos; other fragments
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