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Oct 24, 2026
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Then a poor German professor turned up for two weeks and said nothing. Louisa May Alcott, 1869.
Oct 22, 2026
Tennyson, 1842. His kingdom is quiet, his son is ready, and he is already thinking of another voyage.
Oct 19, 2026
Elizabeth Gaskell, 1855. She meant the whole thing to look like arithmetic.
Oct 17, 2026
Charles Dickens, 1861. Eleven years after he last saw her, someone else is walking there at dusk.
Oct 15, 2026
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E. M. Forster, 1908. An old man found her alone the night before she could leave.
Oct 12, 2026
Robert Browning, 1864, gave an old wanderer six lines to say what the young years were really for.
