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OmniNerd News (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
A while back I happened upon the short story "The Curfew Tolls" by Stephen Vincent Benét, which raised a very interesting question pertaining to history and mankind. The story is written in the form of letters by an English military man to his sister while he is on sabbatical in the south of France for restful health reasons (as doctors were apt to suggest in the mid 1700s). His letters begin by expressing...
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Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 13/03/2008
B orn today: Joseph Priestley, scientist, essayist, theologian, Birstall, Fieldhead, Yorkshire, 1733; Hugh Walpole, novelist, critic, playwright, Auckland, New Zealand,1884; Genét (ps. Janet Flanner), journalist, Indianapolis, Ind., 1892; George Seferis, poet, Smyrna, Anatolia, Ottoman Empire, 1900; L(afayette) Ronald Hubbard, novelist, essayist, Tilden, Neb., 1911; W(illiam) O(rmond) Mitchell, author,...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 12/11/2007
Prepare for the next literary trend - books on Americans in Paris.
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PaperBackSwap.com (Free subscription) | 01/05/2007
Stories by Jack London, A. Conan Doyle, Stephen Vincent Benet, Edgar Allan Poe, Edwin A. Abbott, Ambrose Bierce, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, Theodore Sturgeon, James Blish