Word: 19th
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Wolfe has said he wants to write realistic novels that chronicle our times the way Charles Dickens captured the 19th century. U.S. readers showed their approval of Dickens by waiting in long lines for hours to attend his lectures and readings. In the 20th century, the sizable first printing of Wolfe's new book suggests there are at least 1.2 million readers waiting to purchase A Man in Full, the latest conventional novel about lives we can understand. LUANNE FEIK Greenville...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--The 17th-ranked Bearcats won their 19th straight season opener Thursday night by using their strength to dominate inside and their speed to cause problems all over the court...
According to Sergio J. Campos '00, president of RAZA, the writers said they found a 19th-century map in the national archives in Washington, D.C., that was used to draw up the Guadalupe-Hidalgo treaty...
While traveling in Australia last summer, our art critic, Robert Hughes, saw an exhibition titled "New Worlds from Old: 19th Century Australian and American Landscapes" and read press coverage of it, which included a review by Patricia Macdonald in Australian Art Collector. After the exhibition moved to the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn., Hughes' review ran in our Nov. 2 issue. His first three sentences were very similar to the opening sentence of Macdonald's article. "To my embarrassment I seem to have cannibalized it, but it was entirely unconscious," says Hughes. "I apologize to Ms. Macdonald and to TIME...
Mendelssohn is widely regarded as one of the great romantic composers of the 19th century. He began composing when he was a boy and became one of the brightest musical talents of the first half of the century. Enormously popular in Victorian times (he was Queen Victoria's favorite composer), today his only universally recognized piece is the "Wedding March" from his "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Most people do not know it was Mendelssohn who wrote it, which is quite a shame. Mendelssohn and his music were often described as precocious and charming. His work is lyrical, stylish...