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Coming to the Stacks: February 2017

Published on : 19 February, 201819 February, 2018 Published by : LitStackEditor

SCI-FI/FANTASY Author of THE WOLF OF THE NORTH trilogy and THE SOCIETY OF THE SWORD trilogy Duncan Hamilton’s DRAGONSLAYER, the first in a new trilogy about an ancient dragon that awakens and lays waste to the countryside, a mage fleeing being burned at the stake by her neighbors, and an […]

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On this day, February 26, in 1802, Victor Hugo was born in Besançon, France. Considered one of France’s greatest authors, the man who penned Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame was born at a time of great political upheaval both in his country, and in his family. His father was an officer in Napoleon’s army, but his mother was a staunch supporter of the Bourbon Monarchy. Early in his career he gained fame as a poet and in 1841 was honored by King Louis-Philippe, but was exiled when Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III) seized power ten years later. Returning to Paris in 1870, he was hailed as a
national hero. He remained active politically, championing social issues, until his death from pneumonia in 1885, at age 83.

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On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.