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On this day in 1809, author and poet Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston. Known as the “father of gothic literature,” Poe became well-known for dark writing filled with death and mystery—themes reflected in his two most famous works, “The Raven” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.”

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On this date in 1952 Life magazine published Ernest Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea, his last major work of fiction; it was also released as a book, and in 1953 it won a Pulitzer Prize.

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Roald Amundsen's arrival at the South Pole: One of the greatest figures in the history of polar exploration was Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who left Norway for Antarctica in June 1910 and on this date in 1911 became the first person to reach the South Pole.

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On this date in 1821 novelist Gustave Flaubert—a leading figure in the realist school of French literature, best known for his masterpiece, Madame Bovary—was born.

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On this date in 1884 Mark Twain's classic novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published, appearing in the United Kingdom and Canada; it was released in the United States the following year.

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On this date in 1877 shortly before her death, Anna Sewell published her only novel, Black Beauty, the first major animal story in children's literature.

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On this date in 1874 English author W. Somerset Maugham, best known for the novels Of Human Bondage (1915), The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Cakes and Ale (1930), and The Razor's Edge (1944), was born.

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On this date in 1945 American author Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven was first published, appearing in the New York Mirror; a melancholy evocation of lost love, it became one of the best-known poems in American literature.

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On this date in 1889 American journalist Nellie Bly began her around-the-world race against the record of Phileas Fogg, hero of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days; she completed the journey in slightly more than 72 days.

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On this date in 1927 English author Virginia Woolf published To the Lighthouse, one of her most successful and accessible experiments in the stream-of-consciousness style.