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21st September 1937: J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel The Hobbit first published in the United Kingdom

  • 21st September 2022
  • Tagged as: Art, Author, Britain, Culture, Fiction, Literature, Lord of the Rings, Mythology, Novel, Publishing, Tolkien

The initial run of 1,500 copies of The Hobbit sold out within three months, and further runs proved similarly popular prompting Tolkien to write the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

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18th February 1885: Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” published in the United States

  • 18th February 2022
  • Tagged as: African-American, America, American Civil War, Antebellum, Books, Culture, Fiction, Literature, Novel, Slavery, United States

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, under his pen-name Mark Twain, had previously published the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in which the character of Huckleberry “Huck” Finn is introduced for the first time.

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26th May 1897: Bram Stoker’s gothic horror novel Dracula published

  • 26th May 2019
  • Tagged as: Fiction, Ireland, Literature, Romania, Vampire
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On the 26th May 1897, Bram Stoker’s Gothic horror novel Dracula was first published.

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