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The 12th of January, 1628
395 years
Charles Perrault
/pɛˈroʊ/
French: [ʃaʁl pɛʁo]

collection of fairy stories for children, Contes de ma mère l’oye (1697; Tales of Mother Goose)
Isabel Oakley Naftel 1862
"Little Red Riding Hood"

The Sleeping Beauty
La Belle au bois dormant
Little Red Riding
Hood
Le Petit Chaperon Rouge
Cinderella
Cendrillon
Puss in Boots
Le Maître chat ou le Chat botté
Bluebeard
Barbe Bleue

The Sleeping Beauty
La Belle au bois dormant

The Sleeping Beauty
La Belle au bois dormant

Little Red Riding
Hood
Le Petit Chaperon Rouge

Richard Hermann Eschkef
"Little Red Riding Hood"

Клевер Юлий
Красная шапочка в лесу.

George William Mote
"Little Red Riding Hood"

Carol Lawson "Little Red Riding Hood"

Scott Gustafson "Little Red Riding Hood"

Albert Anker
"Little Red Riding Hood"

Beauty and the Beast by Charles Perrault

https://www.storynory.com/beauty-and-the-beast-2/

Puss in Boots
Le Maître chat ou le Chat botté
by Charles Perrault

The 14th of January, 1818
205 years
Zachris Topelius
Zacharias Other spellings used are Sakari and Sakarias
(Swedish pronunciation: [ˈsǎkːrɪs tɔˈpěːlɪɵs]

Adalmina's Pearl
The Birch and the Star (Koivu ja tähti)

The 22nd of January, 1788
235 years
George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron
"I awoke one morning and found myself famous."

Don Juan
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Hebrew Melodies
Manfred,

Cain

Of Byron's lifestyle in Ravenna we know more from Shelley, who documented some of its more colourful aspects in a letter: "Lord Byron gets up at two. I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom … at 12. After breakfast we sit talking till six. From six to eight we gallop through the pine forest which divide Ravenna from the sea; we then come home and dine, and sit up gossiping till six in the morning.

I don’t suppose this will kill me in a week or fortnight, but I shall not try it longer. Lord B.'s establishment consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it… .

Lord Byron
Engraved for the New Monthly Magazine by Henry Meyer, from a Drawing by G.H.Harlowe

[P.S.] I find that my enumeration of the animals in this Circean Palace was defective … . I have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an Egyptian crane. I wonder who all these animals were before they were changed into these shapes.“
Circean (свойственный Цирцее; обольстительный)

Lady Caroline Lamb called him "mad, bad and dangerous to know“

Byron enjoyed adventure, especially relating to the sea.
The first recorded notable example of open water swimming took place on 3 May 1810 when Lord Byron swam from Europe to Asia across the Hellespont Strait.

Dardanelles Strait

The Dardanelles Strait is a narrow waterway forming the border between Asian Turkey and European Turkey. It is one of the narrowest water channels used to support international water navigation. The Dardanelles Strait (also called the Strait of Gallipoli), formerly known as the Hellespont, is a narrow waterway in northwestern Turkey. It forms part of the border between Europe and Asia. The strait connects the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara, allowing for passage to the Black Sea via the Bosporus Strait. The Dardanelles Strait has an average depth of 55 m and a maximum depth of 103 m at its narrowest, central section.

Dardanelles, formerly Hellespont, Turkish Çanakkale Boğazı, narrow strait in northwestern Turkey, 38 miles (61 km) long and 0.75 to 4 miles (1.2 to 6.5 km) wide
|ˌdɑːdəˈnelz|
|ˈhelɪspɒnt|

Fondness for animals
Byron had a great love of animals, most notably for a Newfoundland dog named Boatswain. When the animal contracted rabies, Byron nursed him, albeit unsuccessfully, without any thought or fear of becoming bitten and infected.
Byron also kept a tame bear while he was a student at Trinity, out of resentment for rules forbidding pet dogs like his beloved Boatswain. There being no mention of bears in their statutes, the college authorities had no legal basis for complaining: Byron even suggested that he would apply for a college fellowship for the bear.
During his lifetime, in addition to numerous cats, dogs, and horses, Byron kept a fox, monkeys, an eagle, a crow, a falcon, peacocks, guinea hens (guinea hen цесарка), an Egyptian crane, a badger (барсук), geese, a heron, and a goat. Except for the horses, they all resided indoors at his homes in England, Switzerland, Italy, and Greece.

Over forty operas have been based on his works, in addition to three operas about Byron himself (including Virgil Thomson's Lord Byron). His poetry was set to music by many Romantic composers, including Beethoven, Schubert, Rossini, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Carl Loewe. Among his greatest admirers was Hector Berlioz, whose operas and Mémoires reveal Byron's influence.

Major works
Hours of Idleness (1807)
Lachin y Gair (1807)
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cantos I & II (1812)
The Giaour (1813)
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
The Corsair (1814)
Lara, A Tale (1814)
Hebrew Melodies (1815)

The Siege of Corinth (1816)
Parisina (1816)
The Prisoner of Chillon (1816)
The Dream (1816)
Prometheus (1816)
Darkness (1816)
Manfred (1817)
The Lament of Tasso (1817)
Beppo (1818)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1818)

The Vision of Judgment (1821)
Heaven and Earth (1821)
Werner (1822)
The Age of Bronze (1823)
The Island (1823)
The Deformed Transformed (1824)
Letters and journals, vol. 1 (1830)
Letters and journals, vol. 2 (1830)
Don Juan (1819–1824; incomplete on Byron's death in 1824)
Mazeppa (1819)
The Prophecy of Dante (1819)
Marino Faliero (1820)
Sardanapalus (1821)
The Two Foscari (1821)
Cain (1821)

Selected shorter lyric poems
Maid of Athens, ere we part (1810)
And thou art dead (1812)
She Walks in Beauty (1814)
My Soul is Dark (1815)
The Destruction of Sennacherib (1815)
Monody on the Death of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan (1816)
Fare Thee Well (1816)
So, we'll go no more a roving (1817)
When We Two Parted (1817)
Ode on Venice (1819)
Stanzas (1819)
Don Leon (not by Lord Byron, but attributed to him; 1830s)
Byron's Stone in Tepelenë, Albania

George Gordon Byron "Twilight"
It is the hour when from the boughs
The nightingale’s high note is heard.
It is the hour when lovers’ vows
Seem sweet in every whisper’d word.
And gentle winds and waters near
Make music to the lonely ear.
Each flower the dews have lightly wet,
And in the sky the stars are met:
And on the wave is deeper blue,
And on the leaf a browner hue,
And in the Heaven, that clear obscure
So softly dark and darkly pure,
That follows the decline of day
As twilight melts beneath the moon away.

Сумерки
Это час, когда среди ветвей
Трель свою выводит соловей,
Это час, когда влюблённых клятвы
Так нежны и сладостно приятны,
Когда каждое прошептанное слово,
С губ едва слетев, исполниться готово.
Слышен шелест ветра, шум листвы,
Словно музыка, мелодия мечты…
На лепестках цветов лежит роса,
Звезда звезду встречает в небесах.
И стал нежней и глубже цвет волны,
И ночи тень легла уж средь листвы,
А неба так прозрачна темнота,
Так призрачна она и так чиста…
В тот час, что за закатом дня спешит
И меркнет пред луной, и от неё бежит…
Перевод стихотворения Джорджа Байрона

PARISINA.

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Each flower the dews have lightly wet,
And in the sky the stars are met,
And on the wave is deeper blue,
And on the leaf a browner hue,⁠10
And in the heaven that clear obscure,
So softly dark, and darkly pure,
Which follows the decline of day,
As twilight melts beneath the moon away.
https://youtu.be/gBsxPyiI3RM

https://youtu.be/2xYVb4qlYng

appears in Hebrew Melodies

'Lord Byron' GardensOnline

Detail from a pencil portrait of Lord Byron (undated, ca. 1820s), signed “M.B.,” a copy after G.H. Harlow. New York Public Library

Fuchsia 'Lord Byron' GardensOnline

Lord Byron | Archistrategos

Rome, Italy, the statue of Lord Byron in the park of Villa Borghese

The 23rd of January, 1783
240 years
Marie-Henri Beyle
better known by his pen name Stendhal
(UK: /ˈstɒ̃dɑːl/, US: /stɛnˈdɑːl, stænˈ-/; French: [stɛ̃dal, stɑ̃dal])
French: [bɛl]

Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830)
La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839)

The 8th of February, 1828
195 years
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne
(/vɜːrn/; French: [ʒyl gabʁijɛl vɛʁn]

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1872)

The 10th of February, 1898
125 years
Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht

The Threepenny Opera
(wrote with Kurt Weill)
(Die Dreigroschenoper)
Life of Galileo
(Leben des Galilei)

Mother Courage and Her Children
(Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder)

The Good Person of Szechwan
(Der gute Mensch von Sezuan)

The Caucasian Chalk Circle
(Der kaukasische Kreidekreis)

Mr Puntila and his Man Matti
(Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti)
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
(Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui)

The 13th of February, 1903
120 years
Georges Simenon
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon
(French: [ʒɔʁʒ simnɔ̃]
Belgium

Simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret.
Tropic Moon (Coup de Lune, 1933)
The Window Over the Way (Les Gens d’en face, 1933)
The Man from London (L'Homme de Londres, 1934)
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (L'homme qui regardait passer les trains, 1938)
Liberty Bar (1940) in: Maigret Travels South.
The Strangers in the House (Les inconnus dans la maison, 1940)
Strange Inheritance (1941)
The Hotel Majestic (1942)

The 15th of February, 1928
95 years
Eno Raud

Estonian children's writer.

Sipsik (Raggie), 1962
Kilplased (The Gothamites), 1962
Tuli pimendatud linnas (A Light in a Darkened City), 1967
Päris kriminaalne lugu (A Quite Criminal Tale), 1968
Lugu lendavate taldrikutega (A Story with Flying Saucers), 1969
Telepaatiline lugu (A Telepathic Tale), 1970
Naksitrallid (Three Jolly Fellows. 1–2), 1972
Jälle need Naksitrallid (Three Jolly Fellows. 3–4), 1979

The 27th of February, 1913
110 years
Irwin Shaw

Bury the Dead (1936)
The Young Lions (1948)
Rich Man, Poor Man (1969)
Beggarman, Thief (1977)

The 28th of February, 1533
490 years
Michel de Montaigne
also known as the Lord of Montaigne
Michel Eyquem, Sieur de Montaigne (/mɒnˈteɪn/ mon-TAYN;[4] French: [miʃɛl ekɛm də mɔ̃tɛɲ]

Locked up in his library, which contained a collection of some 1,500 works,
he began work on his Essais ("Essays"), first published in 1580.

The coat of arms of Michel Eyquem, Lord of Montaigne

The 20th of March
International Francophonie Day
The French language has always had an important place among languages. First a symbol of culture and creativity, it was then a vector of democracy and humanism, values ​​that UNESCO intends to promote. UNESCO loves, speaks and promotes French - one of its 6 official languages ​​and one of its 2 working languages. But more broadly UNESCO celebrating the Francophonie celebrates the cultural and linguistic diversity that makes up the world.
Celebrating La Francophonie is recognizing the potential of language and culture to unite people, to create spaces of solidarity and mutual understanding, to reflect together on our common future. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF) share this common vision that places culture and language at the heart of any lasting effort for peace. and development.
20 марта — Международный день франкофонии.

The 21st of March
World Poetry Day is celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, "with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard".

The 21st of March
Всеми́рный день поэ́зии ежегодно отмечается 21 марта. Был учрежден ЮНЕСКО (Организация Объединённых Наций по вопросам образования, науки и культуры) в резолюции 30-й сессии Генеральной конференции ЮНЕСКО, принятой 15 ноября 1999 года. Как отмечалось в решении ЮНЕСКО, цель учреждения праздника — «поддержать языковое разнообразие посредством поэтического самовыражения и дать возможность языкам, находящимся под угрозой исчезновения, быть услышанными».

The 2nd of April
International Children’s Book Day

2 апреля
Международный день детской книги

За год до 2023
Плакат Международного дня детской книги – 2022
В 2022 году организатором Международного дня детской книги является национальная секция IBBY (Международный совет по детской книге) Канады, которая была основана в 1960 году. Секретариат работает в Торонто. Президент секции – Пэтти МакИнтош (Ms.Patti Mclntosh).

Автором Плаката Международного дня детской книги в 2022 году стала североамериканская художница Жюли Флетт. Автор Послания – канадский писатель Ричард Ван Кэмп
О Жюли Флетт (Julie Flett)

Жюли Флетт – коренная североамериканка, происходящая из народов Кри и Ме́тис, автор и иллюстратор, получившая множество Канадских наград за свои работы.

Жюли написала большое количество книг, включая «Birdsong» («Пение птиц»), получившую почётную награду Американской премии в области молодежной литературы американских индейцев, а также Бостонскую литературную премию Глоуб-Хорн.

О Ричарде Ван Кэмпе (Richard Van Camp)

Ричард Ван Кэмп – писатель, происходящий из индейского народа Тличо. Является автором 26 книг, в том числе детских. В 2014 Ричард стал членом жюри Нейштадтской литературной премии в области детской литературы, а его финалисткой была Жюли Флетт. В 2015 году Ричард был награжден Премией Р. Росса Арнетта в области детской литературы за книгу «Little You» («Маленький ты»). Его графический роман «A Blanket of Butterflies» («Покрывало из бабочек») был номинирован на Премию Айснера. В 2021 году получил Премию CODE Берта в области детской литературы коренных народов, инуитов и метисов за книгу «Moccasin Square Gardens» (Сквер Гарденс Моккасин, местное название танцевального зала в Форт Смите, СЗТ).

Две детские книги Ричарда, проиллюстрированные Джорджем Литтлчайлдом, вошли в Коллекции книжек-картинок коренных народов Америки: «A Man Called Raven» («Человек по имени Ворон») and «What is the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses?» («Что прекрасного вы знаете о лошадях?»).

Также в Коллекции вошли две его книги для малышей, проиллюстрированные Жюли Флетт: «Welcome Song for Baby: A Lullaby for Newborns» («Приветственная песня для ребенка: колыбельная для новорожденных») and «Little You» («Маленький ты»).

Послание детям мира
к Международному дню детской книги 2022


Истории – это крылья, благодаря которым ты каждый день взлетаешь.
Чтение – свобода. Чтение – дыхание.
Чтение помогает взглянуть на мир по-новому, завлекает в миры, которые не хочется покидать.
Чтение позволяет душе мечтать.
Говорят, книги – наши друзья, это так.
В тебе прорастает лучшее, когда ты читаешь.
Истории – крылья, на них ты паришь надо всем в поисках книг, взывающих к твоей душе, сердцу, разуму.
Истории – лекарство. Они исцеляют. Утешают. Вдохновляют. Научают.
Да здравствуют сказители, читатели, слушатели.
Да здравствуют книги. Они исцеляют, делают мир краше и лучше.



Автор: Ричард Ван Кэмп

Перевод с английского языка: Денис Безносов https://rgdb.ru/projects

The 3rd of April, 1783
240 years
Washington Irving
/ˈwɒʃɪŋtən ˈ зːvɪŋ/
['wɔʃiŋtǝn 'ǝ:vɪŋ]
Pen names Diedrich Knickerbocker, Geoffrey Crayon, Launcelot Langstaff

Washington Irving (1783—1859), an American writer of short stories, was born in the city of New York. He was the first well-known author in American literature to write about the life in his country. His first book, which made him famous, was "History of New York". In it he described people and told interesting episodes about old New York.
In his stories Irving used folklore, especially Indian legends. Irving's stories are often full of fantasy, mystery, humour and irony.

"Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain that deal with subjects such as Alhambra, Christopher Columbus and the Moors.

Washington Irving and his major works
         Washington Irving was born in New York City on April 3, 1783. Irving achieved international fame for his fictional works, including the stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, as well as for his biographies and historical writings. Irving served as the United States ambassador to Spain and helped to promote international copyright before his death in 1859.

Irving is best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle," 
Washington Irving was born on April 3, 1783 in New York City, New York, USA. He was one of eleven children born to Scottish-English immigrant parents, William Irving, Sr. and Sarah. He was named Washington after the hero of the American revolution (which had just ended),George Washington, and attended the first presidential inauguration of his namesake in 1789.
       

        He and his brother William Irving and James Kirke Paulding wrote the Salamagundi papers (1807–8), a collection of humorous essays. He first became more widely known for his comic work, A History of New York (1809), written under the name of "Diedrich Knickerbocker."
In 1815 Irving went to England to work for his brothers' business, and when that failed he composed a collection of stories and essays that

became The Sketch Book, published under the name "Geoffrey Crayon" (1819–20), which included ‘Rip Van Winkle’ and ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’. In 1822 he went to the Continent, living in Germany and France for several years, and was then in Spain (1826) and became attache at the US embassy in Madrid. While in Spain he researched for his biography of Christopher Columbus(1828) and his works on Granada (1829) and the Alhambra (1832).
       

        He was secretary of the US legation in London (1829–32), and later returned to Spain as the US ambassador (1842–6), but he spent most of the rest of his life at his estate, ‘Sunnyside’, near Tarrytown, NY, turning out a succession of mainly historical and biographical works, including a five-volume life of George Washington. Although he became a best-selling author, he never really fully developed as a literary talent, he has retained his reputation as the first American man of letters.

Irving also advocated for writing as a legitimate career, and argued for stronger laws to protect writers from copyright infringement.
        In 1999, director Tim Burton released his film Sleepy Hollow based on Washington Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." The film starred Johnny Depp as police constable Ichabod Crane, who is sent from New York City to investigate a series of murders by a mysterious Headless Horseman.

The 4th of April, 1818
205 years
Thomas Mayne Reid
Captain Mayne Reid
"Captain" Reid
/ˈtɒməs ˈmeɪn ˈri:d /

«После Рида Америка лесов, прерий, мустангов и бизонов стала существовать в европейской литературе уже независимо от него, оживая под пером людей, о которых в Америке и слыхом не слыхивали.»
Эссе о Томасе Майн Риде
Чеслав Милош (знаменитый польский поэт, лауреат Нобелевской премии).

The Rifle Rangers; or, Adventures in Southern Mexico (1850)
The Scalp Hunters: A Romance of the Plain (1851)
The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness (1851)
The Forest Exiles; or, The Perils of a Peruvian Family Amid the Wilds of the Amazon (1852)
The White Chief; A Legend of North Mexico (1855)
The Boy Hunters, or, Adventures in Search of a White Buffalo (1853)
The Hunter's Feast; or, Conversations Around the Camp-fire (1856)
The Bush Boys: History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and His Family (1856)
The Quadroon: or, A Lover's Adventures in Louisiana: in 3 volumes (1856)
The War-trail: or, The Hunt of the Wild Horse; a Romance of the Prairie (1857)
The Young Yagers, or, A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa (1857)
The Plant Hunters; or, Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains (1858)
Osceola the Seminole, or, The Red Fawn of the Flower Land (1858)
Wild Life; or, Adventures on the Frontier (1859)
Odd People; or, Singular Races of Man (1860)
The Lone Ranch (1860)
The Scalp Hunters (1860)
Bruin: The Great Bear Hunt (1860)
The Lone Ranch: A Tale of the Staked Plain (1860)
The Wild Huntress; or, The Big Squatter's Vengeance (1861)
The Maroon: A Tale of Voodoo and Obeah (1862)
Croquet (1863)
The Cliff Climbers (1864)
The Boy Slaves (1865)
The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea (Ticknor and Fields, 1865)
The Headless Horseman (1866)
The Giraffe Hunters (1867)
Afloat in The Forest; or A Voyage Among the Tree-Tops (1867)
The White Squaw (1868)
The Headless Horseman: A Strange Story of Texas (1868)
The Helpless Hand: A Tale of Backwoods Retribution (1868)
The Planter Pirate: A Souvenir of Mississippi (1868)
"The Child Wife: A Tale of Two Worlds" (1869)
The Yellow Chief: A Romance of the Rocky Mountains (1869)
The Fatal Cord (1869)
The Castaways: A Story of Adventure in the Wilds of Borneo (1870)
The Vee-Boers: A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa (1870)
The Finger of Fate (1872)
The Death Shot; or, Tracked to Death (1873)
The Cuban Patriot, or, The Beautiful Creole: An Episode of the Cuban Revolution (1873)
The Death Shot (1874)
The Giraffe Hunters (1876)
The Flag of Distress, or A Story of the South Sea (1876)
Gwen Wynn; A Romance of the Wye (1877)
The Man-Eaters (1878)
The Specter Barque: A Tale of the Pacific (1879)
The Captain of the Rifles; or, The Queen of the Lakes: A Romance of the Mexican Valley (1879)
The Land Pirates, or, The League of Devil's Island: A Tale of the Mississippi (1879)
The Ocean Hunters, or, The Chase of the Leviathan: A Romance of Perilous Adventure (1881)
Blue Dick, or, The Yellow Chief's Vengeance: A Romance of the Rocky Mountains (1883)
The Hunters' Feast (serial 1854, book 1883)
Gaspar, the Gaucho, or, Lost on the Pampas: A Tale of the Gran Chaco (1883)
The Island Pirate: A Tale of the Mississippi (1884)
The Land of Fire: A Tale of Adventure (1885)
The Lost Mountain: A Tale of Sonora (1885)
The Free Lances: A Romance of the Mexican Valley (1888)
The Tiger Hunter: A Hero in Spite of Himself (1889)
No Quarter! (1890)
The White Gauntlet (1892)
The Guerilla Chief and Other Tales
The Bandolero, A Marriage among the Mountains
The Boy Tar
The Child Wife
Ran Away to Sea (1857 : George Routledge and Sons)([14]
Wood Rangers: The Trappers of Sonora
The Young Voyageurs: Boy Hunters in the North (1854)

“The Land of Innisfail,” by Mayne Reid.
And I must leave thee, Erin! ’tis my fate—
And I must wander over many a land!
And other climes and other homes await
The ‘Scholar,’ wasted - worn - but may this hand
That writes thy praises now, cold on the sand
Unburied lie for ever - may no hearth
Shelter me, vagrant on a foreign strand
The cursed and homeless outcast of the earth,
When I forget thou art the country of my birth.

Erin, I love thee! though thy sunken cheek
Is pale with weeping, and thy hollow eye,
With many a stifled groan, and rending shriek,
Reveals dark tales of bitter agony;
That I have pitied thy sad misery
I’ve proved through every change of land and sea;
I’ve wafted o’er the ocean many a sigh,
And many an earnest prayer that thou shouldst be,
As are thy children’s souls - unshackled, happy, free!

I love thee, though I could not live with thee!
The trampler of thy fields, red with thy gore,
Had made my home a hell - I would not be
The fawning minion at a great man’s door—
I would not beg upon thy wintry moor
To starve neglected; and soon as I knew
That there were other lands, the broad seas o’er,
With hands to welcome, and with hearts as true—
I dropped one tear, and bid my native land adieu!
Эрин, я люблю тебя...
Я люблю вас, соотечественники, но не могу остаться с вами.
Чужеземец превратил мой дом в ад — и я не желаю
Быть попрошайкой у дверей богача...

A Southern Sunset, from “La Cubana,” by Mayne Reid.
How gorgeously the golden sun declining
Gilds the soft sea whose tranquil waters span
Fair Cuba’s Isle, the broad blue billow lining
With such bright tints as painter’s pencil can
Project upon the naked canvas never!
In mellower beam his parting glances quiver,
Blending the hues of gold and red and azure,
And pouring on the wave his richest treasure.
From terraced roof above the noisy town,
The Spanish maiden watches him go down;
And mischief glistens in her dark brown eye:
For sunset brings the masking hour nigh.
Through loophole barred in yonder battlement,
Where grimly frowns El Moros castled wall
There’s many an eye in weary watching bent,
And many a sigh - alas! too idly spent—
By pinioned captive pining in his thrall.
The brilliant sheen upon the distant sea
Perchance may to his memory recall
Some happy thought of days when he was free;
Draw from his haggard eye the scalding tear—
The first that he has shed for many a year;
He breathes! he moves! alas, the clanking chain,
Soon checks the thought - he’s in his cell again!
The sentry pacing on the ’brazured wall,
Lets to his feet the burnished carbine fall,
And looking down upon the busy bay,
Hums to himself some Andalusian lay;
Or, gazing on the banner floating gay,



Drawls out the loyal words, “Viva el rey!”
Along the shores that skirt this southern town,
A thousand dark eyes beam from faces brown—
’Tis they that joy to see the sun go down.
The muleteer, mounting, homeward turns his face,
And goads his laden mule to quicker pace;
The weary slave from out the field of cane,
A moment glances at the far free main,
And sighs as he bethinks him of his chain.
Short-lived and silent is his thought of pain,
For, stopping in his task while it is on,
He reads relief in yonder setting sun,
For, ’tis the herald of his labour done!
The poor Bozal, who knows not yet to pray,
Thinks of his wife and children far away,
In some rude kräal by Biafra’s bay.
But where are they, that mild and gentle race,
Who worshipped him with prostrate form and face?
Where is the palm-screened hut of the cacique,
That once rose over yon barranca’s brow?
Where are they all? Son of the island, speak!
Where the bohio stood, domes, turrets now
Alone along the hill-sides proudly gleam!
Ha! thou art sad and silent on the theme;
But in thy silence I can read their doom—
Name, nation, all, have passed into the tomb.
The tomb? No - no; they have not even one
To tell that they were once, and now are gone!
*****
The fading light grows purple on the deep,
In gorgeous robes the god hath sunk to sleep;
So sets the sun o’er Cuba, with a smile—
The sweetest that he sheds upon this southern isle!

Мустангер Морис Джеральд спросил свою спутницу:
— Нравится ли вам здесь?
И Луиза Пойндекстер, дочь богатого плантатора, привыкшая к роскоши, ответила, что видит перед собой самое чудесное в мире: зеленую траву, цветы, деревья, и в этом краю ей хотелось бы жить и умереть.
Героиня книги высказала то, что было в мыслях у самого писателя: живя в цивилизованной, застроенной домами и заводами Англии, он помнит годы своей молодости, проведенные в Техасе и Луизиане, он тоскует по равнинам, которые, в отличие от пионеров-поселенцев, именует не сорняковой прерией, а райским садом, посаженным и выращенным самой природой.
This is the weed prairie,
It is misnamed,
It is the Garden of God

* Военная жизнь, или Приключения офицера легкой пехоты / War Life; or, The Adventures of a Light Infantry Officers (1849)
* Вольные стрелки / The Rifle Rangers (1850)
* Охотники за скальпами / The Scalp Hunters (1851)
* Жилище в пустыне / The Desert Home (1852)
* В поисках белого бизона / The Boy Hunters (1853)
* Гудзонов залив / The Young Voyageurs (1854)
* Изгнанники в лесу / The Forest Exiles (1854)
* Охотничий праздник / The Hunter's Feast (1855)
* Белый вождь / The White Chief (1855)
* В дебрях Южной Африки, или Приключения бура и его семьи / The Bush Boys; or, The History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and His Family in the Wild Karoos of Southern Africa (1855)
* Живая природа / Wild Life; or, Adventures on the Frontier: a Tale of the Early Days of the Texas Republic (1856)
* Юные охотники, или Повесть о приключениях в Южной Африке / The Young Yagers; or, A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa (1856)
* Квартеронка / The Quadroon (1856)
* Тропа войны / The War Trail; or, The Hunt of the Wild Horse (1857)
* Охотники за растениями / The Plant Hunters (1858)
* На море / Ran Away to Sea: An Autobiography for Boys (1858)
* Оцеола, вождь семинолов / Osceola (1859)
* Морской волчонок / The Boy Tar (1859)
* Необычные люди: Популярное описание экзотических человеческих рас / Odd People: Being a Popular Description of Singular Races of Men (1860)
* Объездчики / The Wood Rangers (1860)
* Отважная охотница / The Wild Huntress (1861)
* Жак Депар / Despard the Sportsman (1861)
* Охотники на медведей / Bruin (1861)
* Охотник на тигров / А Него in Spite of Himself (1861)
* Мароны / The Maroon (1862)
* Крокет / Croquet (1863)
* Ползуны по скалам / The Cliff Climbers (1864)
* Затерянные в океане / The Ocean Waifs (1864)
* Белая перчатка / The White Gauntlet (1864)
* Молодые невольники / The Boy Slaves (1865)
* Всадник без головы / The Headless Horseman; A Strange Tale of Texas (1865)
* Бандолеро, или Свадьба в горах / The Bandolero: or, A Marriage Among ihe Mountains (1866)

* Водяная пустыня / Afloat in the Forest (1866)
* Четвероногие, кто они такие и где водятся: Книга по зоологии для ребят / Quadrupeds, What They Are, and Where Found: A Book of Zoology for Boys (1867)
* Охотники за жирафами / The Giraffe Hunters (1867)
* Вождь гверильясов / The Guerilla Chief and Other Tales (1867)
* Жена-девочка / The Child Wife (1868)
* Остров дьявола / The Planter Pirate: A Souvenir of the Mississippi (1868)
* Беспомощная рука, или Возмездие дикого леса / The Helpless Hand; or, Backwoods Retribution (1868)
* Голубой Дик / The Yellow Chief: A Romance of the Rocky Mountains (1868)
* Белая скво / The White Squaw (1869)
* В дебрях Борнео, или Приключения потерпевших кораблекрушение / The Castaways: A Story of Adventure in the Wilds of Borneo (1870)
* Уединённое жилище / The Lone Ranche; A Tale of the Staked Plain (1871)
* Перст судьбы / The Finger of Fate (1872)
* Кубинский патриот, или Прекрасная креолка. Эпизод из кубинской революции / The Cuban Patriot; or, The Beautiful Creole. An Episode of the Cuban Revolution (1873)
* Смертельный выстрел / The Death Shot; A Romance of Forest and Prairie (1873)
* Сигнал бедствия / The Flag of Distress: A Story of the South Seas (1876)
* Гвен Уинн: Роман долины реки Уай / Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye (1877)
* Чёрный мустангер / The Wild-Horse Hunters (1877)
* Гаспар гаучо / Gaspar the Gaucho: A Tale of the Gran Chaco (1879)
* Королева озёр / The Captain of the Rifles; or, The Queen of the Lakes (1879)
* Американские партизаны / The Free Lances (1881)
* Охота на Левиафана / The Chase of Leviathan (1881)
* Затерявшаяся гора / The Lost Mountain (1882)
* Переселенцы Трансвааля / The Vee-Boers: A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa (1883)
* Огненная земля / The Land of Fire (1884)
* Пронзённое сердце / The Pierced Heart and Other Stories (1885)
* Дерево-ловушка / Trapped in a Tree and Other Stories (1886)
* Без пощады! / No Quarter! (1888)
* Натуралист в Силурии / The Naturalist in Siluria (1889)
* Популярные приключенческие повести / Popular Adventure Tales (1890)

The 15th of April, 1843
180 years
Henry James

The American
The Turn of the Screw
The Portrait of a Lady
What Maisie Knew
The Wings of the Dove
Daisy Miller
The Aspern Papers
The Ambassadors
The Bostonians
Washington Square
The Golden Bowl

The 22nd of April, 1923
100 years
Paula Fox

Desperate Characters

The Slave Dancer
Borrowed Finery (memoir)

The 23rd of April, 1918
105 years
Maurice Druon

Les Rois maudits (The Accursed Kings)
Le Roi de fer (The Iron King)
La Reine étranglée (The Strangled Queen)
Les Poisons de la couronne (The Poisoned Crown)
La Loi des mâles (The Royal Succession)
La Louve de France (The She-Wolf of France)
Le Lys et le lion (The Lily and the Lion)
Quand un Roi perd la France (The King Without a Kingdom)

The 28th of April, 1948
75 years
Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett

Discworld

Good Omens

The 6th of May, 1668
355 years
older spelling Le Sage
Alain-René Lesage
French pronunciation: ​[alɛ̃ ʁəne ləsaʒ]

The Devil upon Two Sticks (1707, Le Diable boiteux)
Turcaret (1709)

Gil Blas (1715–1735)

The 13th of May, 1838
185 years
Raffaello Giovagnoli
/pɛˈroʊ/
French: [ʃaʁl pɛʁo]

Realistic novels:
Evelina, 1868;
Natalina. I drammi del lusso, 1878.
I racconti del maggiore Sigismondo, 1908.
Historical novels:
Spartacus Spartaco, 1874;
Opimia, 1875;
Plautilla, 1878;
Saturnino, 1879;
Faustina, 1881;
La guerra sociale. Aquilonia, 1884;
Messalina, 1885;
Benedetto IX, 1899;
Publio Clodio, 1905;
Poetry:
Peccata juventutis meae, 1883

The 17th of May, 1873
150 years
Henri Barbusse
(French pronunciation:
​[ɑ̃ʁi baʁbys]

Under Fire (1916)
1895 – Pleureuses; English translation:The Hired Mourners (poetry)
1903 – Les Suppliants; English translation The Supplicants (prose novel)
1908 – L'enfer; English translation: Hell (novel)
1912 – Meissonier; (biography)
1916 – Le feu; English translation: Under Fire (novel)
1921 – Le couteau entre les dents; English translation: The Knife Between My Teeth (novel)
1921 – Quelque Coins du Coeur (prose pieces with 24 woodcuts by Frans Masereel)
1923 – Esperantista Laboristo; English translation: "Esperantist Worker" (magazine article)
1930 – Manifeste aux intellectuels; English translation: Elevations (novel)
1936 – Staline: Un monde nouveau vu à travers un homme (biography); English translation: Vyvyan Holland (translator) (1935). Stalin: A New World Seen Through the Man

The 28th of May, 1908
115 years
Ian Lancaster Fleming
Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming's image of James Bond; commissioned to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists
Created byIan Fleming
Original workCasino Royale (1953)

James Bond series
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang

The 31st of May, 1773
250 years
Ludwig Tieck
Johann Ludwig Tieck
(/tiːk/; German: [tiːk]

Volksmärchen von Peter Lebrecht
Der blonde Eckbert
"The Fair-haired Eckbert"

The 5th of June, 1898
125 years
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca
Federico García Lorca
(English: /ɡɑːrˌsiːə ˈlɔːrkə/
gar-SEE-ə LOR-kə)

Green wind. Green branches.
The ship out on the sea
and the horse on the mountain.
With the shadow at the waist
she dreams on her balcony,
green flesh, green hair,
with eyes of cold silver.
From "Romance Sonámbulo",
("Sleepwalking Romance"), García Lorca

Impresiones y paisajes [es] (Impressions and Landscapes 1918)
Libro de poemas (Book of Poems 1921)
Poema del cante jondoes [es] (Poem of Deep Song; written in 1921 but not published until 1931)
Suites (written between 1920 and 1923, published posthumously in 1983)
Canciones (Songs written between 1921 and 1924, published in 1927)
Romancero gitano (Gypsy Ballads 1928)
Odes (written 1928)
Poeta en Nueva York (written 1930 – published posthumously in 1940, first translation into English as Poet in New York 1940)
Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías [es] (Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías 1935)
Seis poemas galegos [es] (Six Galician poems 1935)
Sonetos del amor oscuro [es] (Sonnets of Dark Love 1936, not published until 1983)
Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter and Other Poems (1937)
Primeras canciones (First Songs 1936)
Diván del Tamarit [es] (The Tamarit Divan, poems written 1931–34 and not published until after his death in a special edition of Revista Hispánica Moderna in 1940).
Selected Poems (1941)
Federico García Lorca with Salvador Dalí, Turó Park de la Guineueta, Barcelona, 1925

The 12th of June, 1878
145 years
James Oliver Curwood

1908 –
The Courage of Captain Plum
The Wolf Hunters
1909 –
The Great Lakes
The Gold Hunters. Polish writer Halina Borowikowa (using the pen name of Jerzy Marlicz), published a 1932 novel The Adventure Hunters that "completed" the action of this novel.[7]
1910 – The Danger Trail
1911 –
The Honor of the Big Snows
Steele of the Royal Mounted
1912 – The Flower of the North
1913 – Isobel: A Romance of the Northern Trail or Icebound Hearts
1914 – Kazan or "Kazan, The Wolf-Dog"
1915 – God's Country and the Woman
1916 –
The Hunted Woman or "The Valley of Gold"
The Grizzly King
1917 – Baree, Son of Kazan
1918 – The Courage of Marge O'Doone published as "The Girl Beyond the Trail" in the UK.
1919 –
Nomads of the North
The River's End
"The Golden Snare" (First published in England in 1918, not published in America until 1921)
1920 –
Back to God's Country and Other Stories (Featuring the story "Wapi the Walrus", here renamed Back to God's Country, following the release of the adapted 1919 film of the same title)
The Valley of Silent Men
"Swift Lightning" (First published in England in 1920, not published in America until 1926).
1921 –
God's Country – The Trail to Happiness
The Flaming Forest
1922 – The Country Beyond
1923 – The Alaskan, or "The Last Frontier"
1924 – A Gentleman of Courage
1925 – The Ancient Highway
1926 –
The Black Hunter
1928 – The Plains of Abraham
The Glory of Living (Curwood's Autobiography as he wrote it, only published in England until a limited edition was published in America in 1983)
1929 – The Crippled Lady of Peribonka
1930 –
Green Timber
Son of the Forests (Heavily edited autobiography)
1931 – Falkner of the Inland Seas

The 22nd of June, 1898
125 years
Erich Paul Remark
Erich Maria Remarque
/rəˈmɑːrk/,
German: [ˈeːʁɪç maˈʁiːa ʁəˈmaʁk]

All Quiet on the Western Front (1928)
The Road Back (Der Weg zurück) Three Comrades (Drei Kameraden) Flotsam (in German titled Liebe deinen Nächsten, or Love Thy Neighbour) Arch of Triumph
Arc de Triomphe
Shadows in Paradise

The 25th of June, 1903
120 years
Eric Arthur Blair
better known by his pen name
George Orwell
/pɛˈroʊ/
French: [ʃaʁl pɛʁo]

He is known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial northof England,
and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics, literature, language and culture.

The 10th of July, 1918
105 years
Harold Edward James Aldridge
James Aldridge

Signed with Their Honour

The Sea Eagle
The Hunter

Heroes of the Empty View

The 14th of July, 1903
120 years
Irving Stone
born Tennenbaum

Lust for Life (1934), about the life of Vincent van Gogh
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961), about Michelangelo

The 16th of July, 1928
95 years
Robert Sheckley

Immortality
Inc.


Seventh Victim

The 23rd of July, 1888
135 years
Raymond Thornton Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler

His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939, featuring the detective Philip Marlowe, speaking in the first person. In 1950, Chandler described in a letter to his English publisher, Hamish Hamilton, why he began reading pulp magazines and later wrote for them:

Wandering up and down the Pacific Coast in an automobile I began to read pulp magazines, because they were cheap enough to throw away and because I never had at any time any taste for the kind of thing which is known as women's magazines. This was in the great days of the Black Mask (if I may call them great days) and it struck me that some of the writing was pretty forceful and honest, even though it had its crude aspect. I decided that this might be a good way to try to learn to write fiction and get paid a small amount of money at the same time. I spent five months over an 18,000 word novelette and sold it for $180. After that I never looked back, although I had a good many uneasy periods looking forward.

Critics and writers, including W. H. Auden, Evelyn Waugh and Ian Fleming, greatly admired Chandler's prose. In a radio discussion with Chandler, Fleming said that Chandler offered "some of the finest dialogue written in any prose today". Contemporary mystery writer Paul Levine has described Chandler's style as the "literary equivalent of a quick punch to the gut". Chandler's swift-moving, hardboiled style was inspired mostly by Dashiell Hammett, but his sharp and lyrical similes are original: "The muzzle of the Luger looked like the mouth of the Second Street tunnel"; "He had a heart as big as one of Mae West's hips"; "Dead men are heavier than broken hearts"; "I went back to the seasteps and moved down them as cautiously as a cat on a wet floor." Chandler's writing redefined the private eye fiction genre, led to the coining of the adjective "Chandleresque", and inevitably became the subject of parody and pastiche. Yet the detective Philip Marlowe is not a stereotypical tough guy, but a complex, sometimes sentimental man with few friends, who attended university, who speaks some Spanish and sometimes admires Mexicans and Blacks, and who is a student of chess and classical music. He is a man who refuses a prospective client's fee for a job he considers unethical.

Chandler's short stories and novels are evocatively written, conveying the time, place and ambiance of Los Angeles and environs in the 1930s and 1940s. The places are real, if pseudonymous: Bay City is Santa Monica, Gray Lake is Silver Lake, and Idle Valley a synthesis of wealthy San Fernando Valley communities.
British songwriter Robyn Hitchcock paid homage to Chandler in the song "Raymond Chandler Evening" on the 1986 album Element of Light.
His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime (an eighth, in progress at the time of his death, was completed by Robert B. Parker). All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once. In the year before his death, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America.

Santa Monica’s relaxed charm makes it a perfect base from which to explore LA, but there’s a lot to enjoy in the town itself, and you’d be silly not to embrace its laid-back vibe

Santa Monica is a little corner of Californian paradise

The 25th of July, 1923
100 years
Maria Gripe
born Maja Stina Walter

a Swedish author of books for children and young adults, which were often written in magical and mystical tone. She has written almost forty books, with many of her characters presented in short series of three or four books (e.g., the Hugo and Josephine books, the Shadow series, and the titles about Lotten).

Josephine (Josefin, 1961)
Hugo and Josephine (Hugo och Josefin, 1962)
Pappa Pellerin's Daughter (Pappa Pellerins dotter, 1963)
The Glassblower's Children (Glasblåsarns barn, 1964)
In the Time of the Bells (I klockornas tid, 1965)
Hugo (Hugo, 1966)
The Land Beyond (Landet utanför, 1967)
The Night Daddy (Nattpappan, 1968)
Julia's House (Julias hus och nattpappan, 1971)
Elvis and his Secret (Elvis Karlsson, 1972)
Elvis and his Friends (Elvis! Elvis!, 1973)
The Green Coat (...ellen, dellen..., 1974)
Agnes Cecilia (Agnes Cecilia – en sällsam historia, 1981)

The 30th of July, 1818
205 years
Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë
Pen nameEllis Bell
[(/ˈbrɒnti/, commonly /-teɪ/]

an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature
The only undisputed portrait of Brontë, from a group portrait by her brother Branwell

The 15th of August, 1858
165 years
E. Nesbit
Edith Nesbit
(married name Edith Bland) published her books for children as E. Nesbit

Five Children and It
The Story of the Treasure Seekers

The Railway Children

The 4th of September, 1768
255 years
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
François-René de Chateaubriand
[English pronunciation: /ʃæˌtoʊbriːˈɑːn/;
French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁəne də ʃɑtobʁijɑ̃]]

the autobiography Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe ("Memoirs from Beyond the Grave")
Atala

Génie du christianisme

René

The 5th of September, 1568
455 years
baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella
Tommaso Campanella
Italian: [tomˈmaːzo kampaˈnɛlla]

La Città del Sole

The City of the Sun, a utopia describing an egalitarian theocratic society where property is held in common
Philosophia sensibus demonstrata, 1591
Monarchia Messiae, 1605
Prodromus philosophiae instaurandae, 1617
Apologia pro Galileo (in Latin). Frankfurt am Main: Gottfried Tampach. 1622.
La città del sole, 1602 (Latin Civitas solis, 1623)
Atheism Conquered, 1606–1607 (Latin Atheismus triumphatus, 1631, Paris 1636)
Medicinalium libri (in Latin). Lugduni: ex officina Ioannis Pillehotte : sumptibus Ioannis Caffin, & Francisci Plaignard. 1635.
Metaphysica (in Latin). Vol. 1. Paris. 1638.
Metaphysica (in Latin). Vol. 2. Paris. 1638.
Metaphysica (in Latin). Vol. 3. Paris. 1638.
Poesie. Bari: Laterza. 1915.

The 9th of September, 1778
245 years
Clemens Wenzeslaus Brentano (also Klemens; pseudonym: Clemens Maria Brentano
Clemens Brentano
/brɛnˈtɑːnoʊ/; German: [bʁɛnˈtaːno]

Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Die Mährchen vom Rhein [de]
Italienische Märchen [de]

The 15th of September, 1613
410 years
François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac
François de La Rochefoucauld
French: [fʁɑ̃swa d(ə) la ʁɔʃfuko]

Maximes
Memoirs

The 20th of September, 1878
145 years
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr.
Upton Sinclair
won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943

Sinclair, Upton. Upton sinclair anthology (1947) online
Engs, Ruth Clifford, ed. Unseen Upton Sinclair: Nine Unpublished Stories, Essays and Other Works. (McFarland & Co. 2009).
Courtmartialed – 1898
Saved By the Enemy – 1898
The Fighting Squadron – 1898
A Prisoner of Morro – 1898
A Soldier Monk – 1898
A Gauntlet of Fire – 1899
Holding the Fort – 1899
A Soldier's Pledge – 1899
Wolves of the Navy – 1899
Springtime and Harvest – 1901, reissued the same year as King Midas
The Journal of Arthur Stirling – 1903
Off For West Point – 1903
From Port to Port – 1903
On Guard – 1903
A Strange Cruise – 1903
The West Point Rivals – 1903
A West Point Treasure – 1903
A Cadet's Honor – 1903
Cliff, the Naval Cadet – 1903
The Cruise of the Training Ship – 1903
Prince Hagen – 1903
The Jungle

Depression Island – 1935
Co-op: a Novel of Living Together – 1936
The Gnomobile – 1936, 1962
Wally for Queen – 1936
No Pasaran!: A Novel of the Battle of Madrid – 1937
The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America – 1937
Little Steel – 1938
Our Lady – 1938
Expect No Peace – 1939
Marie Antoinette (novel) – 1939
Telling The World – 1939
Your Million Dollars – 1939
World's End – 1940
World's End Impending – 1940
Between Two Worlds – 1941
Dragon's Teeth – 1942
Wide Is the Gate – 1943
Presidential Agent – 1944
Dragon Harvest – 1945
A World to Win – 1946
A Presidential Mission – 1947
A Giant's Strength – 1948
Limbo on the Loose – 1948
One Clear Call – 1948
O Shepherd, Speak! – 1949
Another Pamela – 1950
Schenk Stefan! – 1951
A Personal Jesus – 1952
The Return of Lanny Budd – 1953
What Didymus Did – UK 1954 / It Happened to Didymus – US 1958
Theirs Be the Guilt – 1959
Affectionately Eve – 1961
The Coal War – 1976


Manassas: A Novel of the War – 1904, reissued in 1959 as Theirs be the Guilt
A Captain of Industry – 1906
The Jungle – 1906
The Overman – 1907
The Industrial Republic – 1907
The Metropolis – 1908
The Moneychangers – 1908, reprinted as The Money Changers
Samuel The Seeker – 1910
Love's Pilgrimage – 1911
Damaged Goods – 1913
Sylvia – 1913
Sylvia's Marriage – 1914
King Coal – 1917
Jimmie Higgins – 1919
Debs and the Poets – 1920
100% - The Story of a Patriot – 1920
The Spy – 1920
They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of the Second Coming – 1922
The Millennium – 1924
The Goslings: A Study of the American Schools – 1924
The Spokesman's Secretary – 1926
Money Writes! – 1927
Oil! – 1927
Boston, 2 vols. – 1928
Mountain City – 1930
Roman Holiday – 1931
The Wet Parade – 1931
American Outpost – 1932
The Way Out (novel) – 1933
Immediate Epic – 1933
The Lie Factory Starts – 1934
The Book of Love – 1934

The 26th of September, 1888
135 years
Thomas Stearns Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Nobel Prize in Literature (1948)
Order of Merit (1948)

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915)
The Waste Land (1922)
Four Quartets (1943)
Murder in the Cathedral (1935)


In 1939, Eliot published a book of light verse, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. ("Old Possum" was Ezra Pound's friendly nickname for Eliot.) The first edition had an illustration of the author on the cover. In 1954, the composer Alan Rawsthorne set six of the poems for speaker and orchestra in a work titled Practical Cats. After Eliot's death, the book was the basis of the musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber, first produced in London's West End in 1981 and opening on Broadway the following year.


Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

The 28th of September, 1803
220 years
Prosper Mérimée
French: [meʁime]

La Vénus d'Ille (1837)
Carmen (1845)

The 5th of October
National Poetry Day
National Poetry Day is a British campaign to promote poetry, including public performances.[1] National Poetry Day was founded in 1994 by William Sieghart. It takes place annually in the UK on the first Thursday in October.[3] Since its inception, it has engaged millions of people across the country with live events, classroom activities and broadcasts.

The 5th of October, 1713
310 years
Denis Diderot
/ˈdiːdəroʊ/;French: [dəni did(ə)ʁo]

Essai sur le mérite et la vertu, written by Shaftesbury French translation and annotation by Diderot (1745)
Philosophical Thoughts, essay (1746)
La Promenade du sceptique (1747)
The Indiscreet Jewels, novel (1748)
Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient (1749)
Encyclopédie, (1750–1765)
Lettre sur les sourds et muets (1751)
Pensées sur l'interprétation de la nature, essai (1751)
"Systeme de la Nature," (1754)
Le Fils naturel (1757)
Entretiens sur le Fils naturel (1757)
Le père de famille (1758)
Discours sur la poesie dramatique (1758)
Salons, critique d'art (1759–1781)
La Religieuse, Roman (1760; revised in 1770 and in the early 1780s; the novel was first published as a volume posthumously in 1796).
Le neveu de Rameau, dialogue (written between 1761 and 1774).
Lettre sur le commerce de la librairie (1763) Jacques le fataliste et son maître, novel (written between 1765 and 1780; first published posthumously in 1796)
Mystification ou l’histoire des portraits (1768)
Entretien entre D'Alembert et Diderot (1769)
Le rêve de D'Alembert, dialogue (1769)
Suite de l'entretien entre D'Alembert et Diderot (1769)
Paradoxe sur le comédien (written between 1770 and 1778; first published posthumously in 1830)
Apologie de l'abbé Galiani (1770)
Principes philosophiques sur la matière et le mouvement, essai (1770)
Entretien d'un père avec ses enfants (1771)
Ceci n'est pas un conte, story (1772)
Madame de La Carlière, short story and moral fable, (1772)
Supplément au voyage de Bougainville (1772)
Histoire philosophique et politique des deux Indes, in collaboration with Raynal (1772–1781)
Voyage en Hollande (1773)
Éléments de physiologie (1773–1774)
Réfutation d'Helvétius (1774)
Observations sur le Nakaz (1774)
Essai sur les règnes de Claude et de Néron (1778)
Est-il Bon? Est-il méchant? (1781)
Lettre apologétique de l'abbé Raynal à Monsieur Grimm (1781)
Aux insurgents d'Amérique (1782)
Diderot's literary reputation during his life rested primarily on his plays and his contributions to the Encyclopédie; many of his most important works, including Jacques the Fatalist, Rameau's Nephew, Paradox of the Actor, and D'Alembert's Dream, were published only after his death.

The 10th of October, 1913
110 years
Claude Simon
French: [simɔ̃]
the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature

Le Tricheur (The Cheat) 1946
La Corde Raide (The Tightrope) 1947
Gulliver 1952
Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) 1954
Le vent: Tentative de restitution d 'un rétable baroque
(The Wind: Attempted Restoration of a Baroque Altarpiece) 1957
L'Herbe (The Grass) 1958
La Route des Flandres (The Flanders Road) 1960
Le Palace (The Palace) 1962
La Separation (The Separation) 1963; play,
adapted from the novel L'Herbe
Femmes, sur 23 peintures de Joan Miró
(Women, on 23 paintings by Joan Miró) 1966;
new edition, La Chevelure de Bérénice (Berenice's Hair) 1984
Histoire (Story) 1967
La Bataille de Pharsale (The Battle of Pharsalus) 1969
Orion aveugle: Essai (Blind Orion: Essay) 1970
Les Corps conducteurs (Conducting Bodies) 1971
Triptyque (Triptych) 1973
Leçon de choses (Lesson in Things) 1975
Les Géorgiques (The Georgics) 1981
L'Invitation (The Invitation) 1987
L'Acacia (The Acacia) 1989
Le jardin des plantes (The Garden of Plants) 1997
Le tramway (The Trolley) 2001

The 16th of October, 1888
135 years
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
Tony Award for Best Play (1957)
Eugene O'Neill
Nobel Prize in Literature (1936)
Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1920, 1922, 1928, 1957)

Full-length plays
Bread and Butter, 1914
Servitude, 1914
The Personal Equation, 1915
Now I Ask You, 1916
Beyond the Horizon, 1918 - Pulitzer Prize, 1920
The Straw, 1919
Chris Christophersen, 1919
Gold, 1920
Anna Christie, 1920 - Pulitzer Prize, 1922
The Emperor Jones, 1920
Diff'rent, 1921
The First Man, 1922
The Hairy Ape, 1922
The Fountain, 1923
Marco Millions, 1923–25

One-act plays
The Glencairn Plays, all of which feature characters on the fictional ship Glencairn—filmed together as The Long Voyage Home:

Bound East for Cardiff, 1914
In the Zone, 1917
The Long Voyage Home, 1917
Moon of the Caribbees, 1918
Other one-act plays include:

A Wife for a Life, 1913
The Web, 1913
Thirst, 1913
Recklessness, 1913
Warnings, 1913
Fog, 1914
Abortion, 1914
The Movie Man: A Comedy, 1914[3][34]
The Sniper, 1915
Before Breakfast, 1916
Ile, 1917
The Rope, 1918
Shell Shock, 1918
The Dreamy Kid, 1918
Where the Cross Is Made, 1918
Eugene O'Neill's "Exorcism" 1919[35]
Hughie, written 1941, first performed 1959
All God's Chillun Got Wings, 1924
Welded, 1924
Desire Under the Elms, 1924
Lazarus Laughed, 1925–26
The Great God Brown, 1926
Strange Interlude, 1928 - Pulitzer Prize
Dynamo, 1929
Mourning Becomes Electra, 1931
Ah, Wilderness!, 1933
Days Without End, 1933
The Iceman Cometh, written 1939, published 1940, first performed 1946
Long Day's Journey into Night, written 1941, first performed 1956; Pulitzer Prize 1957
A Moon for the Misbegotten, written 1941–1943, first performed 1947
A Touch of the Poet, completed in 1942, first performed 1958
More Stately Mansions, second draft found in O'Neill's papers, first performed 1967
The Calms of Capricorn, published in 1983

Tomorrow, 1917. A Small Story published in The Seven Arts, Vol. II, No. 8 in June 1917.
The Last Will and Testament of an Extremely Distinguished Dog, 1940. Written to comfort Carlotta as their "child" Blemie was approaching his death in December 1940.

The 28th of October, 1903
120 years
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh
Evelyn Waugh
/ˈiːvlɪn ˈsɪndʒən ˈwɔː/

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century

The 7th of November, 1913
110 years
Albert Camus
/kæˈmuː/ kam-OO,
US also /kəˈmuː/ kə-MOO; French: [albɛʁ kamy]
He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history.

The Stranger

The Plague

The Myth of Sisyphus
The Fall

The Rebel

The 20th of November, 1858
165 years
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf
/ˈlɑːɡərlɜːf, -lɜːv/,
US also /-lʌv, -ləv/,
Swedish: [ˈsɛ̂lːma ˈlɑ̂ːɡɛˌɭøːv]
She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909.

Gösta Berlings saga (1891; novel). Translated as The Story of Gösta Berling (Pauline Bancroft Flach, 1898), Gösta Berling's Saga (V.S. Howard and Lillie Tudeer, 1898), The Story of Gösta Berling (R. Bly, 1962)
Osynliga länkar (1894; short stories). Translated as Invisible Links (Pauline Bancroft Flach, (1869–1966) 1899)
Antikrists mirakler (1897; novel). Translated as The Miracles of Antichrist (Selma Ahlström Trotz, 1899) and The Miracles of Antichrist (Pauline Bancroft Flach (1869–1966), 1899)
Drottningar i Kungahälla (1899; short stories). Translated as The Queens of Kungahälla and Other Sketches From a Swedish Homestead (Jessie Bröchner, 1901; C. Field, 1917)
En herrgårdssägen (1899; short stories). Translated as The Tale of a Manor and Other Sketches (C. Field, 1922)
Jerusalem: två berättelser. 1, I Dalarne (1901; novel). Translated as Jerusalem (Jessie Bröchner, 1903; V.S. Howard, 1914)
Jerusalem: två berättelser. 2, I det heliga landet (1902; novel). Translated as The Holy City : Jerusalem II (V.S. Howard, 1918)
Herr Arnes penningar (1903; novel). Translated as Herr Arne's Hoard (Arthur G. Chater, 1923; Philip Brakenridge, 1952) and The Treasure (Arthur G. Chater, 1925) – adapted as the 1919 film Sir Arne's Treasure.
Kristuslegender (1904; short stories). Translated as Christ Legends and Other Stories (V,S. Howard, 1908)
Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (1906–07; novel). Translated as The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (V.S. Howard, 1907; Richard E. Oldenburg, 1967) and Further Adventures of Nils (V.S. Howard, 1911)
En saga om en saga och andra sagor (1908; short stories). Translated as The Girl from the Marsh Croft (V.S. Howard, 1910) and Girl from the Marsh Croft and Other Stories (edited by Greta Anderson, 1996)
Hem och stat: Föredrag vid rösträttskongressen den 13 juni 1911 (1911; non-fiction). Translated as Home and State: Being an Address Delivered at Stockholm at the Sixth Convention of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, June 1911 (C. Ursula Holmstedt, 1912)
Liljecronas hem (1911; novel). Translated as Liliecrona's Home (Anna Barwell, 1913)
Körkarlen (1912; novel). Translated as Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! (William Frederick Harvey, 1921). Filmed as The Phantom Carriage, The Phantom Chariot, The Stroke of Midnight.

Stormyrtossen: Folkskädespel i 4 akter (1913) with Bernt Fredgren
Astrid och andra berättelser (1914; short stories)
Kejsarn av Portugallien (1914; novel). Translated as The Emperor of Portugallia (V.S. Howard, 1916)
Dunungen: Lustspel i fyra akter (1914; play)
Silvergruvan och andra berättelser (1915; short stories)
Troll och Människor (1915, 1921; novel). Translated as The Changeling (Lagerlöf novel) (Susanna Stevens, 1992)
Bannlyst (1918; novel). Translated as The Outcast (Lagerlöf novel) (W. Worster, 1920/22)
Kavaljersnoveller (1918; novel), with illustrations by Einar Nerman
Zachris Topelius utveckling och mognad (1920; non-fiction), biography of Zachris Topelius
Mårbacka (1922; memoir). Translated as Marbacka: The Story of a Manor (V.S. Howard, 1924) and Memories of Marbacka (Greta Andersen, 1996) – named for the estate Mårbacka where Lagerlöf was born and raised
The Ring trilogy – published in 1931 as The Ring of the Löwenskölds, containing the Martin and Howard translations, LCCN 31-985
Löwensköldska ringen (1925; novel). Translated as The General's Ring (Francesca Martin, 1928) and as The Löwensköld Ring (Linda Schenck, 1991)
Charlotte Löwensköld (1925; novel). Translated as Charlotte Löwensköld (V.S. Howard)
Anna Svärd (1928; novel). Translated as Anna Svärd (V.S. Howard, 1931)
En Herrgårdssägen: Skådespel i fyra akter (1929; play), based on 1899 work En herrgårdssägen
Mors porträtt och andra berättelser (1930; short stories)
Ett barns memoarer: Mårbacka (1930; memoir). Translated as Memories of My Childhood (Lagerlöf) Further Years at Mårbacka (V.S. Howard, 1934)
Dagbok för Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1932; memoir). Translated as The Diary of Selma Lagerlöf (V.S. Howard, 1936)
Höst (1933; short stories). Translated as Harvest (book) (Florence and Naboth Hedin, 1935)
Julberättelser (1936)
Gösta Berlings saga: Skådespel i fyra akter med prolog och epilog efter romanen med samma namn (1936)
Från skilda tider: Efterlämnade skrifter (1943–45)
Dockteaterspel (1959)
Madame de Castro: En ungdomsdikt (1984)

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

The 24th of November, 1713
310 years
Laurence Sterne

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

The 9th of December, 1608
415 years
John Milton

Paradise Lost

Areopagitica

Lycidas
Paradise Lost is widely considered one of the greatest works of literature ever written, and it elevated Milton's widely-held reputation as one history's greatest poets.

Poetry and drama
1629: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
1630: On Shakespeare
1631: On Arriving at the Age of Twenty-Three
1632: L'Allegro
1632: Il Penseroso
1634: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, commonly known as Comus (a masque)
1637: Lycidas
1645: Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin
1652: When I Consider How My Light is Spent (Commonly referred to as "On his blindness", though Milton did not use this title)
1655: On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
1667: Paradise Lost
1671: Paradise Regained
1671: Samson Agonistes
1673: Poems, &c, Upon Several Occasions
Arcades: a masque. (date is unknown).
On his Deceased wife, To The Nightingale, On reaching the Age of twenty four.

Prose
Of Reformation (1641)
Of Prelatical Episcopacy (1641)
Animadversions (1641)
The Reason of Church-Government Urged against Prelaty (1642)
Apology for Smectymnuus (1642)
Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643)
Judgement of Martin Bucer Concerning Divorce (1644)
Of Education (1644)
Areopagitica (1644)
Tetrachordon (1645)
Colasterion (1645)
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
Eikonoklastes (1649)
Defensio pro Populo Anglicano [First Defence] (1651)
Defensio Secunda [Second Defence] (1654)
A Treatise of Civil Power (1659)

The Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings from the Church (1659)
The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth (1660)
Brief Notes Upon a Late Sermon (1660)
Accedence Commenced Grammar (1669)
The History of Britain (1670)
Artis logicae plenior institutio [Art of Logic] (1672)
Of True Religion (1673)
Epistolae Familiaries (1674)
Prolusiones (1674)
A brief History of Moscovia, and other less known Countries lying Eastward of Russia as far as Cathay, gathered from the writings of several Eye-witnesses (1682)
De Doctrina Christiana (1823)

The 9th of December, 1848
175 years
Joel Chandler Harris

Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings

Nights with Uncle Remus

Br'er Rabbit ("Brother Rabbit") is the main character of the stories, a character prone to tricks and troublemaking, who is often opposed by Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear.
Harris compiled six volumes of Uncle Remus stories between 1881 and 1907; a further three books were published posthumously, following his death in 1908.
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“When you've got a thing to say,
Say it! Don't take half a day.
When your tale's got little in it
Crowd the whole thing in a minute!
Life is short--a fleeting vapor--
Don't you fill the whole blamed paper
With a tale which, at a pinch,
Could be cornered in an inch!
Boil her down until she simmers,
Polish her until she glimmers.” ― Joel Chandler Harris

Dead Foxes
Tell No Tales
It was a bright summer day in the country. Birds were
chirping, squirrels were bounding about, and the sun was smiling down on all the world. It seemed as if all the animals were smiling back—all the animals, that is, except for Brer Fox.
Brer Fox was strolling down the road, looking mighty downhearted, and kicking a pebble. When it stopped, he’d amble on up to it and kick it again.
In this way he slowly made his way down the road, ignoring everything around him—which was why he nearly ran over Brer Wolf. Brer Wolf was resting by the side of the road, looking longingly at the sheep in a nearby pasture.
“Watch where you’re going, Brer Fox,” said Brer Wolf. “Why, you
nearly ran me down! Now I’ve got to start my counting all
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over again:
Brer Fox just looked up at him, and didn’t even apologize. Then he looked back down, kicked the pebble, and moved on.
Brer Wolf could tell that something wasn’t right. So he decided to follow Brer Fox down the road, and see what was what.
“What’s got you stewing?” he asked Brer Fox.
“Guess,” said Brer Fox.
“Are you hungry?”
“Nope.”
“Are you tired?”
“Nope.”
“Are you angry?”
“Now you’re get' ting somewhere,” said Brer Fox, kick' ing up a cloud of dust and missing the pebble entirely.
“At who?” asked Brer Wolf.
“I’ll give you a hint,” said Brer Fox, finally giving Brer Wolf his full attention. “He’s fast, and he’s furry, and he’s got long brown ears,

and he’s a big pain in my neck!” Brer Wolf knew immediately—he could only be complaining about Brer Rabbit.
“What did be do to make you look stupid this time?” Brer Wolf asked.
“This time, nothing,” said Brer Fox. “I’m just sick and tired of bis shenanigans. He’s always one up on me. I’ve got to find a way to get back at him.”
“Well, I’d be happy to help, Brer Fox.”
The plan was simple—they would somehow lure Brer Rabbit to Brer Fox’s house, and show him a thing or two with a large club when he arrived.
“But how are we gonna get him to come?” asked
Brer Fox, “I mean, he’s so suspicious of me that he’d only consider coming inside if he knew I was lying down dead.”
Brer Wolf scratched his head. “Then you will be dead,” said Brer Wolf.
Now Brer Fox scratched his head. “Correct me if I’m wrong, Brer Wolf, but if I’m dead, it’s going to be awfully difficult for me to show anything to Brer Rabbit, let alone a thing or two.”
“You won’t actually be dead,” Brer Wolf explained. “That’s just what we’ll tell Brer Rabbit. You’ll be lying down pretending, and he’ll come running in to see if it’s true—and then you’ll nab him!”
This made sense to Brer Fox—if there was anything he understood well, it was nabbing.
So Brer Fox went back to his house, to lie down and practice being “dead” for a while before Brer Rabbit came. And Brer Wolf went knocking on Brer Rabbit’s door.

knock! KNOCK! KNOCK!
“Who’s there?’’ said Brer Rabbit from inside his house.
“Brer Wolf,” said Brer Wolf, “with some awful bad news.”
“If it’s that you’re standing outside my house, I can already see that,” said Brer Rabbit, looking out the little window.
“Something even worse,” said Brer Wolf, missing the joke com¬ pletely. “Brer Fox is dead.”
Brer Rabbit opened the door.
“Dead?” said Brer Rabbit. “How did it happen?”
“I’m not really sure,” said Brer Wolf. “I just saw him lying there in his bed, and when I tried to shake him awake, he kept on lying there.”
“You wouldn’t be pulling my leg, would you?” said Brer Rabbit.
“No, Wolf’s Honor,” said Brer Wolf, raising his right paw. Now, Wolf’s Honor didn’t mean much to Brer Rabbit, but it was
enough to get him interested in going over to Brer Fox’s house to see what was going on.
He and Brer Wolf quickly made their way over to Brer Fox’s house. Peeking in through the window, Brer Rabbit couldn’t believe his eyes! There he saw Brer Fox lying on the bed, looking as dead as can be. But looking dead wasn’t the same as being dead, and Brer Rabbit knew this. So he decided to test Brer Fox.
“Brer Fox, are you sleeping?” he called. No answer.
“Brer Fox, you lazy excuse for a forest animal, get up!” he called again. Still no answer.
Brer Rabbit was beginning to doubt his doubting.
But he had to be sure before he went inside. He turned to Brer Wolf. “Well, Brer Fox sure looks like he’s dead. But he doesn’t really act dead.”
‘What do you mean, he doesn’t act dead?” asked Brer Wolf. “He’s lying there stone cold, isn’t he?”
“Sure,” said Brer Rabbit, “but everyone knows that dead people lift up their legs and holler, ‘Yahoo!’ when a visitor comes by.”
“Oh! Why—why that’s true!” said Brer Wolf, not " anting to look dumb.

Well, Brer Fox may have been dead, but be didn’t want to look dumb either. So be immediately lifted his legs, and at the top of his
“YA A AHHHOOOOOOO!”
Then he waited for Brer Rabbit to enter.
“I’m glad to see you’re feeling better, Brer Fox,” said Brer Rabbit. And he tore off fast for home, before Brer Fox and Brer Wolf could say another word.

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It was a bright summer day in the country. Birds were chirping.

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Squirrels were bounding about and the sun was smiling down and all the world. It
seemed as if all the animals were smiling back. All the animals that is
except for Brer Fox. Brer Fox was strolling down the road looking mighty
downhearted, kicking a pebble. When it stopped he'd amble up on it to kick it
again. In this way he slowly made his way down the road ignoring everything around
him. which was why he nearly ran over Brer Wolf bear wolf was resting by the
side of the road looking longingly at the sheep in a nearby pasture watch
where you're going bear Fox said bear wolf why you nearly ran me down now I've got to start my counting all over again

bear Fox just looked up at him and didn't even apologize then he looked
back down kick the pebble and moved on bear wolf could tell that something
wasn't right so he decided to follow Brer Fox down the road and see what with
what what's got you stealing he asked Brer Fox yes said bear Fox are you
hungry no are you tired nope are you angry now
you're getting somewhere said Brer Fox kicking up a cloud of dust and missing
the pebble entirely at who asked bear wolf I'll give you a hint said bear Fox
finally giving bear wolf his full attention he's fast and he's furry he's
got long brown ears he's big pain in my neck Brer wolf knew immediately he could only be complaining about Brer Rabbit what did he do to make you look stupid this time very well fast this time nothing super Fox I'm just sick and

tired of his shenanigans he's always one up on me I've got to find a way to get
back at him well I'd be happy to help Prairie Fox the plan was simple it would somehow lure Brer Rabbit to Brer Fox his house and show him a thing or two with a large Club when he arrived how are we gonna get him to come ask Brer Fox I mean he's so suspicious of me that he'd only consider coming inside if you knew I was lying down dead bear wolf scratched his head and you will be dead sit burn wolf now Brer Fox scratched his head correct me if I'm wrong bear wolf but if I'm dead it's going to be awfully difficult for me to show anything to Brer Rabbit let alone a thing or two you won't actually be dead bear wolf explained that's just what we'll tell Brer Rabbit you'll be lying down pretending and he'll come and run
in to see what's true and then you'll nab him this made sense to Brer Fox there was anything he understood well it was nabbing so Brer Fox went back to his house to lie down and practice being dead for a while before Brer Rabbit came and Brer wolf went knocking on Brer rabbits door

who’s there said Brer Rabbit from inside his house Brer wolf said bear wolf with some awful bad news if it's that you're standing outside in my house I can already see that it said Brer Rabbit looking out the little window something even worse said rare wolf missing the joke completely Brer Fox is dead Brer Rabbit opened the door dead said / Gravatt how did it happen I'm not really sure said bear wolf I just saw him lying there in his bed and when I tried to shake him awake he kept on lying there you'd be pulling my leg would you should be rabbit nope Wolf's owner said bear wolf raising his right paw now what's owner didn't mean much to bear a rabbit but it was enough to get him interested and going over to bear Fox's house to see what was going on he and bear wolf quickly made their way over to Brer Fox his house peeking in through the window Brer Rabbit couldn't believe his eyes there he saw Brer Fox lying on the bed looking as dead as can be but looking dead wasn't the same as being dead Brer Rabbit knew this so he decided to test Brer Fox bear Fox are you sleeping he called no answer fur Fox you lazy excuse for a forest animal get up he called again still no answer Brer Rabbit was beginning to doubt his doubting but had to be sure before he went inside he turned to bear wolf

well Brer Fox sure looks like he's dead it really doesn't act dead what do you mean here's an act dead nice bear wolf he's lying there stone-cold isn't he sure severe habit everyone knows it did people lift up their legs in yellow Yahoo when a visitor comes back oh why why that's true Sid bear wolf not wanting to look dumb well bear Fox may have been dead but he didn't want to look dumb either so he immediately lifted his legs at the top of his lungs yelled Yahoo then he waited for Brer Rabbit to enter I'm glad to see you're feeling better Brer Fox said Brer Rabbit he tore off faster home before Brer Fox and Brer wolf could say another word

the great race of all the creatures on the old plantation when the smallest and one of the smartest was per her turtle now Brer turtle was a calm quiet creature who always considered things very seriously when he spoke he spoke slowly choosing his words carefully so it seemed all the more surprising when Brer turtle got himself into a race against Brer Rabbit it all started one day near the pond Brer turtle was just waking up and beginning to emerge from his shell when he noticed something strange in front of him a very large pink nose and whiskers just outside of the shell hello and there echoed the nose and whiskers bear turtle thought he was dreaming I said hello repeated the nose then it laughed this was no dream Brer turtle slowly stuck out his neck to see what was what there sat Brer Rabbit sitting comfortably on a stone and chewing on a reed bear turtle should have known morning bear turtle said Brer Rabbit I don't mind saying that you're one of the slowest wakers I've ever seen bear turtle yawned I may be a slow Waker Brer Rabbit but I'm faster than you will ever be once I get myself going and have my morning fish he meant brain-wise of course but Brer Rabbit didn't know what the turtleman he didn't realize

that bird turtle was talking about fast thinking so he took his statement as a challenge so you'd think you're faster than me yeah yep said Brer turtle I always have been always will be he was quite proud of his mind then I guess you wouldn't mind joining me in a little test hey I said Brer Rabbit not a bit sad bird turtle he liked a good quiz what'll it be breeding ratting rithmetic Brer Rabbit laughed you'll need more than that to beat me Brer turtle he got up and threw down his read the turtles feet I knew my house once around the old plantation be there bear turtle realized that he had misunderstood Brer rabbits challenge once around the old plantation what kind of test is that he knows he's faster than I am but I can't let Brer Rabbit get one up on me bird turtle thought I've got to find a way to beat him Brer Rabbit was far and away the fastest animal on the old plantation Brer turtle knew that there was no way he could fairly beat him then again there was nothing fair about rabbit so why play fair after he had his morning fish Brer turtle was thinking much more clearly he had three sons each one the spitting image of his father now Brer turtle had a plan soon it was High Noon Brer turtle sent each of his sons to hide in a different spot along the path of the race then he met Brer Rabbit at the starting line ready to lose Brer Rabbit asked Brer turtle the day I lose to you is the day I dance on my ears sniff bear habit Brer Buzzard was the judge alright you two once around the old plantation all on your marks bear rabbit and Brer turtle took their marks Get Set

Brer Rabbit and Brer turtle set their feet and go and off they went Brer Rabbit spit out of sight Bertrille scurried along as fast as he could for about five feet then he began to walk slowly down the path when bird turtle had rounded the bend and starting lion was out of sight he doubled back to the woods to wait near the finishing line Brer Rabbit knew he was way ahead of Brer turtle so when he rounded a curve where a huge oak tree stood he decided to take a little rest Brer Rabbit leaned against the shady trunk and closed his eyes mighty nice here in the shade isn't it it's a familiar voice Brer Rabbit opened his eyes the air was Brer turtle actually it was Brer turtle eldest son but Brer Rabbit thought it was brick hurdle how what where you said bear it rabbit well said said Brer turtles son Brer Rabbit was too confused to speak he got up and took off running even faster than before but just when he rounded

another bend he tripped and feel ears over heels Brer Rabbit got up and walked back to see what he tripped over from a distance it looked like rock as he got closer he saw that it was no Rock he had tripped over a shell Brer turtle shell to be exact Brer turtle actually it was Brer turtle second son poked his head out have a nice trip he asked but I you back there said for a rabbit couldn't have said it any better said Brer turtle second son said Brer Rabbit speeding off again Brer Rabbit was taking no more chances no rest no rocks just a straight line to the finish for a while it was smooth running in Brer rabbits flying down the road at full speed he felt sure that the race was his that is until he rounded the next bend and spotted a small creature ahead Brer Rabbit squinted to see what it was it couldn't possibly be no nevertheless he turned on the speed and in a few moments he was neck to neck with Brer turtle again Brer Turtles third son smiled at the rabbit and kept moving

know this how said Brer Rabbit his eyes wide I'd love to chat said bird Turtles third son but I'm in the middle of a race right now gotta go Brer Rabbit was stunned he picked up speed past the turtle quickly and headed toward the finish line Brer Rabbit rounded the final bend the finish line was just ahead Brer Rabbit looked back to see that Brer turtle had dropped out of sight Brer Rabbit dug in his heels and headed for home he was running faster than he had ever run he was running so fast that when he did cross the finish line moments later he had to grab a nearby tree to stop himself from running past the spectators ha he yelled panting heavily but dancing with victory I've won have won what did you win asked the slow voice the race you fool I won the race Brer Rabbit stopped cold there right in front of him was Brer turtle I don't know what race you one said Brer turtle but it wasn't this one Brer Rabbit couldn't believe his eyes Brer turtle just looked at him and said well go ahead go ahead what ask Bear rabbit go ahead and dance on your ears said purr turtle calling over his three sons each one was carrying a musical and finish Brer turtle laughed loud and slow I can't wait to see this he said Brer Rabbit couldn't speak he had been beaten in more ways than one he couldn't deny it so he stood on his head began moving his ears and danced to the music of the Turtles

The Great Race
f all the creatures on the Old Plantation, one of the smallest—and one of the smartest—was Brer Turtle.
Now, Brer Turtle was a calm, quiet creature who always considered things very seriously. When he spoke, he spoke slowly, choosing his words carefully.
So it seemed all the more surprising when Brer Turtle got himself into a race against Brer Rabbit.
It all started one day near the pond. Brer Turtle was just waking up and beginning to emerge from his shell when he noticed something strange in front of him—a very large pink nose and whiskers, just out' side his shell.
Heellooooo innnn theeerrre,” echoed
the nose and whiskers.
Brer Turtle thought he was dreaming.
“I said, Hell OOOOOOOOO) repeated the
nose. Then it laughed.
This was no dream. Brer Turtle slowly stuck out his neck to see what was what.
There sat Brer Rabbit, sitting comfortably on a stone and chewing on a reed. Brer Turtle should have known.
“Morning, Brer Turtle,” said Brer Rabbit. “I don’t mind saying that you’re one of the slowest wakers I’ve ever met.”
Brer Turtle yawned. “I may be a slow waker, Brer Rabbit, but I’m faster than you’ll ever be—once I get myself going and have my morn' ing fish.” He meant brauvwise, of course.
But Brer Rabbit didn’t know what the turtle meant. He didn’t realize that Brer Turtle was talking about fast thinking—so he took his statement as a challenge. U
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So you think you’re faster than me, huh?”
“Yup,” said Brer Turtle. “Always have been, always - ?s ..^0^ will ke<” He was quite proud of his mind.
“Then 1 guess you wouldn’t mind joining me in a little test, eh?” said Brer Rabbit.
“Not a hit,” said Brer Turtle. He liked a good quiz. “What’ll it be—reading, writing or ’rithmatic?”
Brer Rabbit laughed. “You’ll need more than that to beat me, l Brer Turtle.” He got up, and threw down his reed at the turtle’s feet. “High noon. My house. Once around the Old Plantation.
Be there.”
Brer Turtle realized that he had misunderstood Brer Rabbit’s challenge. Once around the Old Plantation? What kind of test is that? He knows he's faster than I am! But I can’t let Brer Rabbit get one up on me, Brer Turtle thought. I’ve got to find a way to beat him.

Brer Rabbit was far and away the fastest animal on the Old Plantation. Brer Turtle knew that there was no way he could fairly beat him. But then again, there was nothing fair about Brer Rabbit—so why play fair?
After he had his morning fish, Brer Turtle was think' ing much more clearly. He had three sons, each one the spitting image of his father. Now Brer Turtle had a plan.
Soon it was high noon. Brer Turtle sent each of his sons to hide in a different spot along the path of the race. Then he met Brer Rabbit at the starting line.
“Ready to lose, Brer Rabbit?” asked Brer Turtle.
“The day I lose to you is the day I dance on my ears,” sniffed Brer Rabbit.
Brer Buzzard was the judge. “All right you two. Once around the Old Plantation. On your marks. . .” Brer Rabbit and Brer Turtle took their marks.

“Get set” Brer Rabbit and Brer Turtle set their feet “GO!” And off they went

Brer Rabbit sped out of sight. Brer Turtle scurried along as fast as he could—for about five feet. Then he began to walk slowly down the path. When Brer Turtle had rounded the bend and the starting line was out of sight, he doubled back through the woods to wait near the finish line.
Brer Rabbit knew he was way ahead of Brer Turtle, so when he rounded a curve where a huge oak tree stood, he decided to take a little rest. Brer Rabbit leaned against the shady trunk and closed his eyes.
“Mighty nice here in the shade, isn’t it?” said a familiar voice. Brer Rabbit opened his eyes—there was Brer Turtle!
Actually, it was Brer Turtle’s eldest son, but Brer Rabbit thought it was Brer Turtle.
“How—What! Wh—Where? You!” said Brer Rabbit.
“Well said,” said Brer Turtle’s son.
Brer Rabbit was too confused to speak. He got up and took off running even faster than before.
But just when he rounded another bend he tripped, and fell, ears over heels. Brer Rabbit got up and walked
back to see what he’d tripped over. From a distance, it looked
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like a rock.
But as he got closer, he saw that it was no rock. He had tripped over a shell—Brer Turtle’s shell, to he exact.
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Brer Turtle (actually, it was Brer Turtle’s second son) poked his head out. “Have a nice trip?” he asked.
“But 1! You! Back there!” said Brer Rabbit.
‘Couldn’t have said it any better,” said Brer Turtle’s second son. “Hmmmph!” said Brer Rabbit, speeding off again.
Brer Rabbit was taking no more chances. No rests, no rocks—just a straight line to the finish.
For a while it was smooth running, and Brer Rabbit was flying down the road at full speed. He felt sure that the race was his—that is, until he rounded the next bend and spotted a small creature ahead.
Brer Rabbit squinted to see what it was—it couldn’t possibly be— no! Nevertheless, he turned on the speed, and in a few moments, he was neck and neck with Brer Turtle again!
Brer Turtle’s third son smiled at the rabbit, and kept moving. “No! This! How?” said Brer Rabbit, his eyes wide.
‘I’d love to chat,” said Brer Turtle’s third son, “but I’m in the middle of a race right now.
Gotta go.”

Brer Rabbit was stunned. He picked up speed, passed the turtle quickly, and headed towards the finish line.
Brer Rabbit rounded the final bend. The finish line was just ahead! Brer Rabbit looked back to see that Brer Turtle had dropped out of sight. Brer Rabbit dug in his heels, and headed for home.
He was running faster than he had ever run. He was running so fast that when he did cross the finish line moments later, he had to grab a nearby tree to stop himself from running past the spectators.

“Hah!” he yelled, panting heavily but dancing
with victory, I ‘ve WON! , I ‘ve WON! “What did you win?” asked a slow voice.
“The race, you fool, I won the ra—”
Brer Rabbit stopped cold. There, right in front of him, was Brer Turtle.
“I don’t know what race you won,” said Brer Turtle, “but it wasn’t this one.”
Brer Rabbit couldn’t believe his eyes. Brer Turtle just looked at him and said, “Well, go ahead.”
“Go ahead what?” asked Brer Rabbit.
“Go ahead and dance on your ears,” said Brer Turtle, calling over his three sons. Each one was carrying a musical instrument.
Brer Turtle laughed loud and slow. “I can’t wait to see this,” he said.
Brer Rabbit couldn’t speak. He had been beaten, in more ways than one. He couldn’t deny it. So he stood on his head, began moving his ears, and danced to the music of the turtles.

Brer Rabbit, Brer bear, and the Peanut Patch. Brer Fox had the best peanut patch in the country. It was full of lush green vines bursting with plump peanuts that were just about to ripen. All the other creatures on the old plantation were mighty envious of Brer Fox except for Brer Rabbit. Brer Rabbit would have been envious too if he hadn't found a way to take advantage of the situation. Brer Rabbit decided to wait until the peanuts were ripe and then sneak through a hole in the fence to snatch whatever peanuts he could. sure enough just as soon as the peanuts were ripe Brer Fox got up bright and early to check on his patch right away he discovered that someone had been stealing peanuts right off the vine Brer Fox was furious at the robber for ruining all his hard work and he was determined to catch the thief walking around on the outskirts of the patch he found a hole in the fence hole just the right size for a crafty rabbit to slipped her right there Brer Fox set the trap he bent down the branch of an old hickory tree it stood beside the fence and tied a rope to the end of it at the other end of the rope he tied a loop and he set that loop down and fronted the hole in the fence and weighted down with a rock then he covered it with leaves and grass whoever stepped into that trap would be caught in the loop and strung up in hickory tree by the leg Brer Fox was pleased with himself now he could catch the thief

Brer Fox, Brer Rabbit, Brer Bear, and the Peanut Patch
Brer Fox had the best peanut patch in the country. It was full of lush, green vines bursting with plump peanuts that were just about to ripen. All the other creatures on the Old Plantation were mighty envious of Brer Fox except for Brer Rabbit.


decided to wait until the peanuts were ripe, and then sneak through a hole in the fence to snatch whatever peanuts he could.
Sure enough, just as soon as the peanuts were ripe, Brer Fox got up bright and early to check on his patch. Right away he discovered that someone had been stealing peanuts right off the vine!
Brer Fox was furious at the robber for ruining all his hard work, and he was determined to catch the thief. Walking around the outskirts of

the patch, he found a hole in the fence—-a hole just the right size for a crafty rabbit to slip through. Right there, Brer Fox set a trap. He bent down the branch of an old hickory tree that stood beside the fence, and tied a rope to the end of it. At the other end of the rope he tied a loop, and he set that loop down in front of the hole in the fence, and weighed it down with a rock. Then he covered it with leaves and grass.
Whoever stepped into that trap would be caught in the loop ………………. That night, when Brer Rabbit sneaked through the
……………….Peanuts> he stepped right into the trap. ……………….When he kicked away the rock, the loop flew up around his leg, dragging him up into the air between heaven and earth. He was mighty surprised to find himself swinging upside-down from the hickory tree.
I hope I don’t fall, thought Brer Rabbit, swinging back and forth. Then be bad another thought: I hope I do fall—otherwise, I might not get down. And there he hung, swinging back and forth and thinking, try¬ ing to figure out what to tell Brer Fox to get out of this one.
Just as the sun began to rise, Brer Rabbit heard someone lumbering up the road behind him. By and by, Brer Bear ambled on up to the tree and saw Brer Rabbit hanging there, upside-down.
“Howdy, Brer Rabbit,” said Brer Bear, tilting his head to look Brer Rabbit in the face. “How are you doing this fine morning?”
Brer Rabbit smiled a big smile. “Very fine, Brer Bear, very fine. No sir, you won’t catch me complaining today!”
Brer Bear was puzzled—but it wasn’t hard to puzzle Brer Bear.
“What are you doing hanging up there in the elements, Brer Rabbit?” he asked.
“Well, truth be told, Brer Bear, I’m making a dollar a minute,” said Brer Rabbit.

“A dollar a minute! How?”
“Brer Fox is paying me to keep watch over his peanut patch,” Brer Rabbit explained. “Some thief has been stealing his goobers. Yessir, this is just about the best job I’ve ever had. Hanging upside-down gives you a whole new perspective on the world.” Brer Rabbit paused. “You wouldn’t—? Nah.”
“Wouldn’t what?” Brer Bear asked.
“Well, you wouldn’t want to take over, would you? I mean, kknow you’ve got family to feed, and you’d make a mighty fine watchbear. And a dollar a minute is nothing to sneeze at.”
Brer Bear didn’t much like the idea of hanging upside- down, but he liked the idea of making a dollar a minute. It wasn’t long before Brer Bear let Brer Rabbit down, stuck his own leg through the loop, and took Brer Rabbit’s place hanging upside-down from the tree. The branch hung so low that Brer Bear almost bumped his head on the ground as he dangled in the air.
“Enjoy yourself, Brer Bear,’’ said Brer Rabbit. Then he ran to Brer Fox’s house.
“Oh Brer Fox! Brer Fox! Wake up and I’ll show you who’s been stealing your peanuts,” Brer Rabbit called from outside Brer Fox’s window. Right away, Brer Fox got up and ran off to the patch with Brer Rabbit.
There they saw Brer Bear, hanging upside-down from the tree and grinning bigger than a hyena.

“Howdy, Brer Fox!” said Brer Bear. “I’m glad I could be—OWW!” Brer Bear didn’t finish—Brer Fox had thwacked him in the behind.
“What’d you do that for? I’m only help—OUCH!”
Brer Bear stopped again as Brer Fox swung his stick once more.
It went on like this for about half an hour. Every time Brer Bear tried to explain, Brer Fox thwacked him again. And every time Brer Fox thwacked him, Brer Bear tried even harder to explain
While all this was going on, Brer Rabbit slipped away and hid in a nearby pond. He knew that once the thwacking was over, Brer Bear would he coming after him. So he stayed in the pond until he heard Brer Bear furiously lumbering up the road.
Only Brer Rabbit’s eyes poked out above the mud. Brer Bear thought he was a bullfrog.
“Howdy, Brer Bullfrog,” grumbled Brer Bear. “You seen Brer Rabbit go by?”
“He just went by—CHUGARUMP! said Brer Rabbit. “He went that away—CHUGARUMP!”
pointing his eyes to the east.
“Mighty obliged, Brer Bullfrog,” said Brer Bear. And off he lumbered. Brer Rabbit stayed in the pond until Brer Bear was well out of sight. Then he headed off the other way for home, laughing all the way.

that night with Brer Rabbit sneaked through the hole for more peanuts he stepped right into the trap when he kicked away the rock the loop flew up around his leg dragging him up into the air between heaven and earth he was mighty surprised to find himself swinging upside down from the hickory tree I hope I don't fall thought Brer Rabbit swinging back and forth then he had another thought I hope I do fall otherwise I might not get down and there he hung swinging back and forth and thinking trying to figure out what to tell Brer Fox to get out of this one just as the Sun began to rise Brer Rabbit heard someone lumbering up the road behind him by-and-by Brer bear ambled up to the tree and saw Brer Rabbit hang in there I'm side down howdy Brer Rabbit said Brer bear tilting his head to look at burr rabbit in the face how're you doing this fine morning Brer Rabbit smiled a big smile very fine Brer bear very fine no stirring you won't catch me complaining today Brer bear was puzzled but it wasn't hard to puzzle Brer bear what are you doing hanging up there in the elements Brer Rabbit yes will do told bear bear I'm making a dollar a minute said Brer Rabbit a dollar a minute Wow bear Fox is paying me to keep watch over his peanut patch bear rabbit explained some thief has been stealing

his goobers yes sir this is just about the best job I've ever had hanging upside down gives you a whole new perspective on the world bear have it paused you wouldn't know wouldn't what Brer bear asked well you wouldn't want to take over would you I mean I know you've got a family to feed and you'd make a mighty fine watch bear and a dollar a minute is nothing to sneeze at bear bear didn't much like the idea of hanging upside down but he liked the idea of making a dollar a minute it wasn't long before Brer bear let Brer Rabbit down stuck his own leg through the loop and took Brer rabbits place hanging upside down from the tree the branch hung solo the Brer bear almost bumped his head on the ground as he dangled in the air enjoy yourself Brer bear said Brer Rabbit then he ran to Brer Fox his house Oh Brer Fox Brer Fox wake up and I'll show you who's been stealing your peanuts Brer Rabbit called from outside Brer Fox's window right away Brer Fox got up and ran off to the path with Brer Rabbit there they saw Brer bear hanging upside down from the tree and grinning bigger than a hyena howdy Brer Fox said bear bear I'm glad I could be out bear bear didn't finish Brer Fox had slapped him in the behind would you do that for I'm only help ouch bear bear stop began as Brer Fox swung his tick once more it went on like this for about half an hour every time Brer bear tried to explain Brer Fox locked him again and every time

Brer Fox docked him bear bear tried even harder to explain while this is going on b-rabbit slipped away and hid in a nearby pond he knew that once the slacking was over Brer bear would be coming after him so he stayed in the pond until he heard Brer bear furiously lumbering up the road only Brer rabbits eyes poked out above the mud Brer bear thought he was a bullfrog howdy bird bullfrog grumble bear bear you seen Brer Rabbit oh boy he just went back to girl said Brer Rabbit he went that way jerem pointing his eyes to the east mighty obliged BRR bullfrog said Brer bear and off he lumbered Brer Rabbit stayed in the pond until Brer bear is well out of sight then hit it off the other way for home laughing all the way Brer Rabbit goes fishing for suckers everyone on the old plantation felt sorry for Brer Fox he'd worked so hard all spring on his peanut patch clearing and planting and sowing only to have his harvest stolen so all the creatures gathered together to help Brer Fox plant a new patch of peanuts Brer bear Brer raccoon and even Brer Rabbit showed up to help Brer Fox replant Brer Rabbit was feeling guilty because

he was the one who had stolen all the peanuts so he helped to they got busy clearing the peanut patch pulling up the old vines and making rows to plant new ones now the weather was mighty hot and soon Brer Rabbit who wasn't much of a worker in the first place got tired Brer out didn't want the others to know that he was tired he knew full well that he was a lazy creature but he hated for others to know so he needed a plan as anyone hot asked Brer Rabbit wiping sweat from his nose I sure AM said Brer bear me too said Brer Fox me three had a Brer a coon well then I suppose I go get a smarter said Brer Rabbit running off and the nearby woods before anyone could say otherwise the woods were nice and shady and Brer Rabbit felt much better being out of heat as he looked about he saw an old stone well two buckets hanging from the top Brer Rabbit was supposed to be fetching water but that wasn't his first thought his first thought was how nice and cool it would be to take a little bath so went to one of the buckets he hopped down he went at first the water was nice and cool but then it got really cool and soon after that it turned quite cold Brer Rabbit began to shiver and decided it was time to go up there was

only one problem he had no way to raise himself to the top he had left the other bucket on the ground at the top of the well Brer Rabbit started to get scared there he was alone and cold in the bottom of well far away from everyone else as a matter of fact he wasn't that far from everyone bear fox never lived rabbit go too far out of sight he knew that Brer Rabbit was always plotting something so he had followed Brer Rabbit from behind a nearby tree Brer Fox had seen Brer Rabbit hop into the bucket now why is he going down there bear Fox thought to himself there's nothing down there but cold water and Brer rabbits much too smart to get himself stuck down there for no good reason he must be keeping something in the old well something he doesn't want us to see Brer Fox thought he had it all figured out the old well must be where Brer Rabbit kept his treasures what treasures Brer Fox didn't know but he decided right then and there to make a deal with Brer Rabbit Brer Rabbit his voice that goes down the well to the Shivering rabbit what are you doing down there

Brer Rabbit knew the Brer Fox was his only chance to get out he thought quickly and answered I'm fishing for suckers are the many of them down there asked Brer Fox scores and scores should Brer Rabbit come on down and see Brer Fox knew that there wasn't any suckers down there but he did want to see Brer rabbits treasure so he hopped into the second bucket and down he went as he rode down Brer Rabbit started riding up in the other bucket halfway down going pretty fast Brer Fox passed Brer Rabbit who was singing this song goodbye Brer Fox take care of your clothes this is the way the world goes some go up and some go down but you'll get to the bottom safe and sound bear Fox just waved goodbye and confusion when he reached the bottom he began looking around for the treasure some time later Brer Rabbit sent the others to help him out and ever since then whenever Brer Rabbit wanted a good laugh he'd asked Brer Fox if he'd liked to go fishing for suckers

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Uncle Remus and His Friends (1892)
The Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus (1904)
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Презентация в помощь Методическим Объединениям для организации внеурочной деятельности по иностранным языкам (английскому, французскому, немецкому, итальянскому). Тема: “Литература. Юбилеи 2023 года” Под-тема: Писатели, прозаики, поэты стран английского, французского, немецкого, итальянского языка. Подготовила учитель МБОУ «ЯСШ № 6» Л.Н.Керимова