THE YOUTH WHO COULD NOT SHIVER AND SHAKE
1812
GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES
THE YOUTH WHO COULD NOT SHIVER AND SHAKE
Jacob Ludwig Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm
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Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859) - German philologists whose collection “Kinder- und Hausmarchen,” known in English as “Grimm’s Fairy Tales,” is a timeless literary masterpiece. The brothers transcribed these tales directly from folk and fairy stories told to them by common villagers. The Youth Who Could Not Shiver and Shake (1812) - A stupid, but fearless young man, who wants only to learn how to shiver and shake, spends three nights with wicked spirits in an enchanted castle then marries a princess.
YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN
1835
TWICE-TOLD TALES
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864) - An American writer whose old New England family was involved in the Salem Witch Trials and Quaker persecutions.
His reflections on his family’s past became the theme of many of his works. His clear, musical style made him one of America’s most emulated authors. Young Goodman Brown (1835) - Widely considered Hawthorne’s greatest short story, it tells of a man who leaves his wife to wander in the woods, the Devil’s territory, and discovers that evil exists in every human heart.
THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
SHERLOCK HOLMES
THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930) - Scottish-born English writer known for his detective stories based around the character of Sherlock Holmes.
Doyle was a physician before gaining fame as a writer and, in his later years, he devoted most of his time to the study of spiritualism and the occult. The Adventure of Black Peter (1904) - A former whaling captain is found harpooned to death.
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