Prof. Frank McDonough Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Prof. Frank McDonough

18 January 1936. Legendary writer and poet, Rudyard Kipling, died (aged 70). His best known works were the poem If and the novels Jungle Book and Kim. In 1907, he became the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. https://t.co/NSz4BROJ5l

Prof. Frank McDonough

23 November 1644. John Milton published Areopagitica, a pamphlet opposing censorship. It’s regarded as one of the most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech. https://t.co/4o39QyaaVK

Prof. Frank McDonough

2 March 1930. David Herbert (”DH”) Lawrence, died (aged 44). His best known novels were: Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover. In an obituary, E. M. Forster called him "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation”. https://t.co/1s3NhaWSy7

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31 March 1855. Yorkshire born novelist, Charlotte Bronte, died (aged 38). She was the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels became classics of English literature. Her four completed novels were: Jane Eyre, her most famous novel, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor. https://t.co/XOzY19Ztr2

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13 November 1850. Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of Treasure Island, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and other classic novels, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He’s ranked as the 26th most-translated author in the world, ahead of even Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe. https://t.co/Z4XmzWdsMU

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28 March 1941. Acclaimed novelist, Virginia Woolf (aged 59), suffering from severe depression, drowned herself in River Ouse, Sussex. Her best-known works were The Voyage Out, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and feminist classic, A Room of One’s Own. https://t.co/WiqoMe4G8l

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20 March 1828. Legendary playwright and poet, Henrik Ibsen, was born in Skien, Norway. His major works include: Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, A Doll’s House, and Hedda Gabler. His plays are the second most frequently performed in the world after Shakespeare. https://t.co/GYWgCsgSCH

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21 September 1947. Horror writer, Stephen King, was born in Portland, Maine. His books have sold over 350 million copies and many have been adapted into Hollywood films, including: Carrie, The Shining, Knightriders, Creepshow, Cat’s Eyes and Silver Bullet. https://t.co/qZ9ZuawsL7

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9 February 1881. Legendary Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, died (aged 59). His most acclaimed works include: Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. He’s rated as one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature. https://t.co/ndYjTEJMIs

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26 November 1864. Oxford Tutor, Charles Dodgson (whose author name was Lewis Carroll), presented Alice Liddell (right), with the story she had inspired, called Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, on the date of its publication in the UK. https://t.co/u21n2cURoQ