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FAMOUS NOVEL PUBLISHED ON THIS DAY

Moby Dick was first published on November 14, 1851. Have y… | Flickr

Moby-Dick is now considered a great classic of American
literature and contains one of the most famous opening
lines in fiction: “Call me Ishmael.” Initially, though, the
book about Captain Ahab and his quest to catch a giant
white whale was a flop.

Its author, Herman Melville was born in New York City in
1819. As a young man, he spent time in the merchant
marines, the U.S. Navy and on a whaling ship in the
South Seas.

Melville depicted in an 1870 portrait by Joseph Oriel Eaton
Herman Melville
(August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891)

14 novembre 1851 : Parution de Moby Dick

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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The Sad Story of the B-25 Bomber that Crashed into the Empire State Building | The National Interest

B-25 Mitchell Bomber Hits The Empire State Building - July 28, 1945 - Includes All Newsreel ...

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NOVEL PUBLISHED ON THIS DAY IN 1936

Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell - First Edition, with “Published May, 1936” on the ...

Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind, one of the best-
selling novels of all time and the basis for a blockbuster
1939 movie, was published on June 30, 1936.

In 1926, Mitchell was forced to quit her job as a reporter
at the Atlanta Journal to recover from a series of physical
injuries. With too much time on her hands, Mitchell soon
grew restless. Working on a Remington typewriter, a gift
from her second husband, John R. Marsh, in their cramped 
one-bedroom apartment, Mitchell began telling the story
of an Atlanta belle named Pansy O’Hara.

Literary South: Margaret Mitchell - This Is My South
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
(November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949
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AUTHOR AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE IN 1940

The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, John - 1939

On May 6, 1940, John Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize
for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.

The book traces the fictional Joad family of Oklahoma as they
lose their family farm and move to California in search of a
better life. 

One of Steinbeck’s most effective works of social commentary,
the novel also won the National Book Award.

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John Ernst Steinbeck Jr.
(February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968)

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