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Voltaire's Candide and his servant Cacambo meet a slave
disfigured by an accident--and an attempted escape. |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Voltaire (1694; died May 30, 1778) French philosopher and satirist;
Candide;
Lettres Philosophiques (
Letters Concerning the English Nation);
Micromégas; Zadig; Songe de Platon (
Plato's Dream)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902; died July 24, 1991) Polish-born American author in Yiddish;
The Magician of Lublin;
A Day of Pleasure;
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories; Nobel Prize in Literature,
(1978)
Bonus Classic:
Wolfram von Eschenbach (1160 or 1180 to 1220) German knight and poet;
Parzival;
Titurel ("fragmentary");
Willehalm ("unfinished"); lyric poetry
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