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" A Gentle Spirit , sometimes also translated as A Gentle Creature , is a short story written by Fyodor Dostoevsky in 1876. The piece comes with the subtitle of "A Fantastic Story," and it chronicles the relationship betw ...

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" The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man that decided that there was nothing to live for in the world, and therefore was determined to commit suicide. A ...

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" The Scarlet Letter published in 1850, is a Gothic American romance novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne ; generally considered to be his masterpiece. Set in Puritan New England (specifically Boston) in the seventeenth century, i ...

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" Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr (Baron) von Hardenberg (1772-1801), called Friedrich von Hardenberg. The death in 1797 of his young fiancé, Sophie von Kühn, led him to write Hymnen an d ...

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" Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne ; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is seen as a key figure in the development of American literature for his tales of the nat ...

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"Rappaccini's Daughter" is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1844 and collected in Mosses from an Old Manse that concerns a medical researcher in medieval Padua . Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w ...

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