THE ADVENTURE OF THE BRUCE-PARTINGTON PLANS

1908

SHERLOCK HOLMES

THE ADVENTURE OF THE BRUCE-PARTINGTON PLANS

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 the Bruce-Partington Plans (1908) - Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock’s brother, asks Sherlock to recover some missing British submarine plans.

THE YOUNG GIANT

1812

GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES

THE YOUNG GIANT

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 Young Giant (1812) - Thumbling, the tiny child of a poor man, is taken away by a giant. The giant suckles Thumbling until he too becomes a great giant. Thumbling returns home, is unwelcomed, and goes out into the world.

THE YOUNG GIANT

1812

GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES

THE YOUNG GIANT

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 Young Giant (1812) - Thumbling, the tiny child of a poor man, is taken away by a giant. The giant suckles Thumbling until he too becomes a great giant. Thumbling returns home, is unwelcomed, and goes out into the world.

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

YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN

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.