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in 1609.

Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.

However, there are six additional sonnets that Shakespeare wrote and included in the plays Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and Love's Labour's Lost. There is also a partial sonnet found in the play Edward III. The sonnets are almost all constructed using three quatrains followed by a final couplet. The rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1041

Title page of William Shakespeare - Shake-Speare's Sonnets, quarto published by Thomas Thorpe, London, 1609, Folger Library http://www.folger.edu

Danish-born Norwegian writer Sigrid Undset was born in 1882.

Born in Denmark and raised in Norway, Undset had her first books of historical fiction published in 1907. She fled Norway for the United States in 1940 because of her opposition to Nazi Germany and the German invasion and occupation of Norway, but returned after World War II ended in 1945.

Books by Sigrid Undset at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35742

Sigrid Undset on her first working day at Bjerkebæk. This was the place where she finished her trilogy "Kristin Lavransdatter" during the years 1920 – 1922.
Sigrid Undset on her first working day at Bjerkebæk. This was the place where she finished her trilogy "Kristin Lavransdatter" during the years 1920 – 1922.

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"Le roman, qui veut le sentiment, le style et l’image, est la création moderne la plus immense. Il succède à la comédie qui, dans les mœurs modernes, n’est plus possible avec ses vieilles lois."

"The novel, which strives for feeling, style and image, is the most immense modern creation. It is the successor to comedy, which, in modern times, is no longer possible with its old laws."

Illusions perdues, éd. Furne, 1843, p. 309

~Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850)

French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac was born in 1799.

He is best known for his magnum opus, "La Comédie Humaine", a vast collection of interlinked novels and stories that provide a detailed panorama of French society in the first half of the 19th century. The series is divided into three major parts: "Études de Mœurs", "Études Philosophiques", and "Études Analytiques".

Books by Honoré de Balzac at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/251

Balzac and the characters from La Comédie humaine. Pen drawing by Grandville for a fan project, circa 1835-1836. This preparatory drawing for a fan, probably never executed, shows Balzac in vest, brandishing his cane, whose knob is here adorned with a female face. Seated against a stack of books, he dominates a procession of women, some harnessed to the chariot in which the writer is seated, others behind the convoy, their hands clasped in devotion. At the end of the procession, an old woman admonishes two young girls, no doubt to forbid them from taking part in an event reserved for women educated in the ways of life. In front of the float, a few women burn incense in front of the statuette of Balzac (Dantan's caricature), while others remain seated, absorbed in their reading. A few men can be seen busy with specific tasks: one cranks up the stack of books on which Balzac is leaning; another brings to the reading room, not without difficulty, numerous books placed on a hood. An enormous inkwell containing two quill pens grimaces, and its size alone explains the proliferation of works by Balzac, often referred to by newspapers as "the most fertile of our novelists". Several allusions to novels pepper the drawing: the skeleton of death emerges behind the triangular "peau de chagrin"; the young woman and the man leaning on a chest and barrels sway in the background.

When the hunter becomes the prey. ‘The High Road’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set mainly in central Scotland and the far north-west.

Portpatrick in the Rhins of Galloway is a very long way from where the novel reaches its climax but Callum Anderson visits in the hope of finding his missing cousin; and unwittingly brings death in his wake.

Find out more on our website:
https://www.arachnid.scot/book-thr/index.html

The image shows a view down onto an enclosed harbour with an inner segment in the bottom left of the frame and an outer segment in the centre right of the frame. A village of mainly white houses and cottages stretches round the far side of the harbour, finishing as the coast climbs to low cliffs in the upper right of the frame, looking right out to sea. There are more buildings in the bottom right and boats are moored in the inner harbour. The front cover of ‘The High Road’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

How far would you go to right a wrong? ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is a spooky adventure story for younger readers involving a two-century-old family mystery and the haunting of Dunmore Park, a ruined house in central Scotland.

These atmospheric - or creepy - stone steps can be found in the north range. They have an important role as the book’s young characters find themselves cast ever further adrift from their everyday realities.

Find out more:
http://www.kenlussey.com/h46c/index.html

The image shows a flight of ten stone steps which climb between grey stone walls before turning back on themselves and simply stopping. They are heavily overgrown with ferns and other vegetation and there is debris on the floor. The front cover of ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is shown in the top right corner.

American novelist and short story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne died in 1864.

Hawthorne's early career was marked by relative obscurity. He self-published his first work, a novel titled "Fanshawe," in 1828, but later sought to suppress it. Throughout the 1830s and 1840s, he wrote numerous short stories and sketches which were later collected in volumes such as "Twice-Told Tales" (1837, 1842).

Books by Nathaniel Hawthorne at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/28

Cover of Mosses from an old manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Mosses from an Old Manse is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. The collection includes several previously published short stories, and was named in honor of The Old Manse where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. The first edition was published in 1846. Hawthorne seems to have been paid $75 for the publication.
Photographic portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne in the 1860s Mathew Benjamin Brady - Library of Congress Black and white photograph featuring a man with a well-groomed mustache.

"There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness."
The Letters of T.E. Lawrence

British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer T. E. Lawrence died in 1935.

He is famously known as "Lawrence of Arabia" due to his extraordinary role in the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

T. E. Lawrence as a translator at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65161

British Army File photo of T.E. Lawrence. A man in uniform standing proudly in a black and white photo.
Bedouins of the Syrian Desert. (JOHN SARGENT. R.A.) Frontispiece of Syria, the Desert & the Sown Author: Gertrude Lowthian Bell Illustrator: John Singer Sargent Available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63731