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Nov 7, 2026
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William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, 1623. The room was told to awake its faith.
Nov 5, 2026
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Jane Austen, 1814. The punishment for refusing was to be sent back to the cramped life she had come from. She still would not change her answer.
Nov 2, 2026
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, 1878. What she wrote in initials, and what he wrote back.
Oct 31, 2026
William Shakespeare, 1609. He wrote fourteen lines against the argument that love expires.
Oct 29, 2026
John Keats, October 1819, writing to the woman he had tried to leave behind
Oct 26, 2026
Anne Brontë, 1848, and the man who almost walked away from her gate
