William Shakespeare is the immortal bard of the English language, the great dramatist of the human soul on the human stage. Shakespeare is recorded as having been baptized on April 26, meaning he was likely born a little bit beforehand. While no one knows for sure, April 23 tends to…
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), the “Father of Russian Literature,” is most famous for his poetry, but later in his life he increasingly published prose. We are not to see Pushkin’s “turn to prose” as representing any loss of inspiration on the author’s part, for his skillful storytelling in prose continues to…
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