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Peter Pan: Do You Believe in Fairies?

The Children are Carried off The Pirate Ship Do You Believe in Fairies? The more quickly this horror is disposed of the better. The first to emerge from his tree was Curly. He rose…

Larry Hagman

Actor Larry Hagman played the ripely nefarious oil baron J.R. Ewing in the 1980s television show Dallas. It was Hagman's second iconic TV role: he also played Major Tony Nelson, the goofy astronaut…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Indian Serenade

by Percy Bysshe Shelley An ExhortationTo Sophia [Miss Stacey]The Indian Serenade Published, with the title, "Song written for an Indian Air", in "The Liberal", 2, 1822. Reprinted ("Lines…

Elgar, Sir Edward William

(Encyclopedia) Elgar, Sir Edward WilliamElgar, Sir Edward Williamĕlˈgär [key], 1857–1934, English composer. He received his training from his father, who was an organist, music seller, and amateur…

Onetti, Juan Carlos

(Encyclopedia) Onetti, Juan Carlos, 1909–94, Uruguayan novelist and short story writer, b. Montevideo. One of the great 20th-century Latin American novelists, Onetti wrote of the dissipation of…

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro

(Encyclopedia) Calderón de la Barca, PedroCalderón de la Barca, Pedropāˈᵺrō käldārōnˈ dā lä bärˈkä [key], 1600–1681, Spanish dramatist, last important figure of the Spanish Golden Age, b. Madrid.…

Berger, Thomas

(Encyclopedia) Berger, ThomasBerger, Thomasbûrˈgər [key], 1924–2014, American novelist, b. Cincinnati, grad. Univ. of Cincinnati (B.A., 1948). He is known for bitterly comic novels that often deal…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Triumph of Life

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles the FirstThe Triumph of Life Swift as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory and of good, the Sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his splendour, and the mask Of…