Watch the only known motion picture film of Mark Twain with his daughters Clara and Jean shot with using the Kinetograph

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At the feast of the Phaeacians, Odysseus relates the story of his blinding of Polyphemus, the Cyclops.

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Alice Walker published The Color Purple in 1982. With it, she became the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

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The Bigfoot story dates back to Native American and Indigenous Canadian folklore.

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“It is a truth universally acknowledged...”

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Learn about Edgar Allan Poe's place in the Gothic literary tradition and his influence on contemporary science fiction.

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Learn about essential elements of the novel—including mood, motivation, characterization, and style—with editor and anthologist Clifton Fadiman and actors from London's Old Vic theater company. This is a 1962 production of Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.

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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.