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A 1923 production of Luigi Pirandello's
Six Characters in Search of an Author |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
George MacDonald (1824; died September 18, 1905) Scottish writer and cleric known for
Lilith;
Phantastes;
David Elginbrod;
The Princess and the Goblin;
At the Back of the North Wind
Emily Dickinson (1830; died May 15, 1886) American poet; short pieces numbering close to 1800; "There is no frigate like a book"; "Because I could not stop for death"; "I taste a liquor never brewed"; "I'm Nobody! Who are you?"; "I like to see it lap the Miles"; etc.
Died on this day:
Averroes (1198 ; born April 14, 1126) Andalusian polymath;
Tahafut al-tahafut (
The Incoherence of the Incoherence);
Kitab fasl al-maqal (
The Harmony of Religion and Philosophy)
Luigi Pirandello (1936; born June 28, 1867) Italian dramatist, novelist, poet and short story writer;
The Late Mattia Pascal;
Six Characters in Search of an Author;
Henry IV;
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand; Nobel Prize in Literature (1934)
Karl Barth (1968; born May 10, 1886) Swiss theologian;
The Epistle to the Romans;
Church Dogmatics
Thomas Merton (1968; born January 31, 1915) American Catholic writer and mystic;
The Seven Storey Mountain
Bonus Classic:
Gao Lian (fl. 16th century) Chinese playwright;
Yuzanji (
The Jade Hairpin)
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