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Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day In Jan 1857 French writer Gustave Flaubert was put on trial for obscenity following the serialisation of his book, Madame Bovary, in La Revue de Paris. The book became a bestseller in Apr 1857 when it was published after Flaubert's acquittal https://t.co/hlPGNdnU0c

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Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist was first published in serialised form betweeen 1937-39. I recommend Alan Bleasdale's 1999 adaptation of the same name. If only for the fact that it includes, and elaborates on, the "Monks" subplot of the book. https://t.co/Pce7thpV7z

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Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day Volume 1 of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott was published on 30th September 1868. https://t.co/Cf4lwwjFBc

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Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day The novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne was first published in 1850. It is set in the puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649 https://t.co/0v61t6V2dh

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Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day The Turn of the Screw, a novella by Henry James, was published in book form in 1898 after being serialised in Collier's Weekly earlier that same year https://t.co/NBzALZ5dCL

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Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day Samuel Dashiell Hammett, author of the Maltese Falcon and creator of the hard-boiled detective Sam Spade, was born 27th May 1894 in Maryland, U.S.A. Read more: https://t.co/W4CSaCkPcI https://t.co/BDDJh2vMcT