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Questions and answers about Toussaint Louverture.
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“Lizzie Borden took an axe.” Or did she?
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Learn how German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's failed love affairs inspired his work, including his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774).
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“If for a day joy masters me / Think not my wounds are healed.”
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On January 1, 1818, a small London publisher printed 500 copies of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus on the cheapest paper available. That was only the beginning.
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“Tell me, Muse…”