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Index
9/11 11 September 2077; 19 September 2001
60 Minutes (TV programme) 24 September 1968
2001: A Space Odyssey 13 April 1970
Abelard, Peter 17 May 1164
Accidental Death of an Anarchist 9 October 1997
Achebe, Chinua 12 June 1890
Adam and Eve (public house) 14 January 2001
Adams, John 4 July 1826
Addison, Joseph 17 June 1719; 13 August 1704
Aeschylus 29 September 480 BC
Aeneid 21 September 19 BC
Age of Innocence, The 7 April 1908
Alcott, Louisa May 30 September 1868
Aldiss, Brian 27 September 1957
All Quiet on the Western Front 16 December 1943
Amaryllis at the Fair 20 August 1887
Amazing Stories 1 April 1926
Amazon (electronic bookseller) 15 May 1997
American Civil War 12 April 1861
American Declaration of Independence 1 December 1971
American Dream, An 22 November 1960
American Gold Rush 19 August 1848
Amiel, Henri-Frédéric 20 April 1848
Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) 18 September 2001
Amis, Kingsley 2 March 1948
Amis, Martin 24 October 2009
Anatomy of Melancholy, The 5 December 1620
And Quiet Flows the Don 10 December 1965
Appointment in Samarra 20 July 1998
Arbuthnot, Dr John 17 July 1734
Archer, Jeffrey 19 July 2000
Archer, Mary 19 July 2000
Armstrong, Neil 13 April 1970
Arnold, Matthew 20 April 1848
Around the World in Eighty Days 20 December 1872
Asa-Asa, Louis 31 January 1831
Ashford, Daisy 15 January 1972
Asimov, Isaac 21 June 1938
Astounding Science Fiction 21 June 1938
Atlas Shrugged 9 March 1982
Atwood, Margaret 21 August 1832
Auden, W.H. 16 February 2009; 20 May 1946; 24 May 1951; 23 September 1939
Austen, Jane 9 July 1764; 2 December 1802
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 7 March 1967
Bacon, Francis 3 July 1603
Bad Blood 11 January 2001
Bainbridge, Beryl 2 July 2010 (Preface)
‘Ballad of the Gibbet’ 8 January 1463
Bambi 18 November 1928
Banville, John 23 May 2005
Barker, A.L. 1 September 1947
Barker, Pat 22 July 1916
Barnacle, Norah 16 June 1904
Barrie, J.M. 1 January 1988; 15 January 1972
Barthes, Roland 21 October 1966
‘Battle Hymn of the Republic, The’ 19 November 1861
Battle of Maldon 10 August AD 991
Beerbohm, Max 3 June 1997
Beethoven, Ludwig van 17 January 1972
Beeton, Mrs Isabella Mary 14 March 1836; 4 May 1891
Beggar’s Opera, The 29 February 1728
Behn, Aphra 16 April 1689
Bell Jar, The 11 February 1963
Bellamy, Edward 8 September 1892
Bellow, Saul 22 February 2007
Bennett, Alan 2 July 2010 (Preface)
Beowulf 23 October 1731
Berger, John 23 November 1972
Berger, Thomas 24 June 1876
Berlin, Irving 25 December 1941
Berryman, John 7 January 1972
bestseller lists 28 April 1974
Betjeman, John 25 May 1895
Bezos, Jeff 23 February 1455; 15 May 1997
Bierce, Ambrose 12 April 1861
Big Sleep, The 6 February 1939
Bigg-Wither, Harris 2 December 1802
Birth of a Nation, The 3 March 1915
Black and White 25 February 1985
Black Mask (magazine) 6 February 1939
Black Robe 25 August 1921
Blake, William 17 April 1794
Blast (magazine) 20 February 1909; 2 July 1914
Blasting and Bombardiering 2 July 1914
Blindheim (Blenheim), Battle of 13 August 1704
Bloom, Harold 15 December 2003
Bloom, Mary 17 January 1972
Blunt, Maggie Joy 17 September 1946
Blunt, Wilfred Scawen 18 January 1914
Blyton, Enid 11 August 1897
Bolger, Ray 11 October 1948
Bollingen Prize 19 February 1949
Book of Common Prayer 21 March 1556
Book of Daniel, The 19 June 1953
Booker Prize 2 July 2010 (Preface); 23 November 1972
Borges, Jorge Luis 4 June 1946
Borodino, Battle of 7 September 1812
Bostonians, The 8 April 1883
Boswell, James 24 November 1762
Bosworth Field, Battle of 31 August 1485
Bradford, William 11 November 1620
Bradstreet, Anne 20 June 1669
Brando, Marlon 3 December 1947
Brave New World 29 March 1933
Brazel, William 14 June 1947
Breast, The 24 October 2009
Brecht, Bertolt 29 February 1728; 31 October 1947
Brent, Linda 30 October 1859
Bridge, The 3 January 1870
Brinnin, John Malcolm 19 October 1953
Britten, Benjamin 3 February 1832
Brodsky, Josef 4 January 1965
Brontë, Charlotte 1 October 1848; 4 December 1849
Brontë, Emily 1 October 1848
Brooke, Rupert 4 February 1915
Brooklyn Bridge 3 January 1870
Broughton, Rhoda 5 June 1920
Brownell, Sonia 13 October 1949
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward 26 November 1703
Bunyan, John 12 November 1660
Burgess, Anthony 16 May 1963
Burgess, Guy 24 May 1951
Burns, Robert 25 January 1759
Burton, Richard 27 February 1972
Burton, Robert 5 December 1620
Butterworth, Rebecca 5 July 1846
Byatt, A.S. 14 January 2001
Byrd II, William 26 August 1744
Byron, Lord George 29 January 1819; 10 March 1812; 11 April 1815; 15 June 1815; 15 July 1814
Cabrillo, Juan Rodríguez 28 September 1542
Calder and Boyars (publishers) 28 July 1966
Caleb Williams 6 March 1842
California Gold Rush 19 August 1848
Call of the Wild, The 22 August 1913
Campbell, John W. 21 June 1938
Campbell, Roy 14 April 1949
Campaign, The 13 August 1704
Carlyle, Jane Welsh 21 April 1866; 21 November 1855
Carlyle, Thomas 21 April 1866
Carpenter, Edward 12 December 1913
Carretta, Vincent 29 April 1789
Castle of Otranto, The 28 January 1754
Castro, Fidel 21 February 2005
Catcher in the Rye, The 16 July 1951
Caxton, William 9 September 1471
Cecil, Robert 3 July 1603
Chandler, Raymond 6 February 1939
Chapman and Hall (publishers) 8 February 1836
‘Charge of the Light Brigade, The’ 25 October 1415
Charles I of England 30 January 1649; 27 May 1650
Charles O’Malley 15 June 1815
Chartist Petition 10 April 1848
Chaucer, Geoffrey 18 March 1640; 17 May 1164; 10 June 2009
Cheever, John 30 March 1964
Chekhov, Anton 3 May 1904
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bsp; Childe Harold 10 March 1812; 15 July 1814
Christie, Agatha 12 January 1976; 13 September 1957
Churchill, Winston 4 February 1915; 15 October 1953
Clansman, The 3 March 1915
Clancy, Tom 11 September 2077
Clarke, Arthur C. 13 April 1970; 11 September 2077
Cleland, John 19 July 2000; 15 December 1964
Clemens, Samuel (Mark Twain) 16 January 1851
Cocteau, Jean 14 February 1989
Coetzee, J.M. 22 February 2007
Cofer, Betty 6 May 1937
Coghlan, Monica 19 July 2000
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 11 April 1815
Collins, John Churton 12 September 1908
SS Commodore 2 January 1897
Common Sense 10 January 1776
Confessions of a Mask 25 November 1970
Conrad, Joseph 12 June 1890
‘Convergence of the Twain, The’ 31 March 1909
Cool Million, A 22 December 1940
Cooper, James Fenimore 27 January 1825; 30 April 1803
Coover, Robert 19 June 1953
Coverdale Bible 4 October 1535
Crabb, Jack 24 June 1876
Crabbe, George 3 February 1832
Crane, Hart 3 January 1870
Crane, Stephen 2 January 1897; 12 April 1861
Cranmer, Thomas 21 March 1556
Crimean War 17 March 1854; 25 October 1415, 1854
Cromwell, Oliver 30 January 1649; 27 May 1650
Crosby, Bing 25 December 1941
‘Crossing the Bar’ 12 October 1892
Crystal, David 10 June 2009
Cuban missile crisis 29 August 1962
Custer, General George Armstrong 24 June 1876
Cymbeline 12 October 1892
‘Dame Shirley’ 4 September 1852
Dance to the Music of Time, A 22 January 1951
Dante (Alighieri) 1 May 1274
Darrow, Clarence 5 May 1925
Defoe, Daniel 25 April 1819; 19 July 2000; 31 July 1703
DeLillo, Don 19 June 1953
De Quincey, Thomas 13 May 1803
Democracy in America 2 April 1831
Dent, John Mallaby 9 May 1926
Derrida, Jacques 21 October 1966
Diaghilev, Sergei 18 May 1922
Diary of a Nobody 3 April 1892
Dickens, Charles (‘Boz’) 8 February 1836; 17 February 1857; 6 March 1842; 22 April 1854; 9 June 1865; 15 July 1814; 16 September 1853
Dickinson, Emily 8 June 1862
Disney, Walt 18 November 1928
Dixon, Thomas 3 March 1915
Doctor Strangelove 30 August 1963
Doctor Zhivago 3 November 1958
Doctorow, E.L. 19 June 1953
Domestic Manners of the Americans, The 4 November 1827
Donne, John 25 March 1608
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 21 December 1849
Downton, Lizzie 2 June 1840
Doyle, Arthur Conan 4 May 1891
Drabble, Margaret 28 May 1988
Dracula 6 November 1897
Dreiser, Theodore 8 November 1900
Dresden (bombing of) 13 February 1945
Dreyfus, Alfred, Captain 13 January 1898
Dryden, John 5 November 1688; 18 December 1679
Dublin Uprising 24 April 1916
‘Duet with Muffled Brake Drums’ 14 August 1954
Dumas, Alexandre 5 January 1825
Dust Bowl 15 April 1935
Dylan, Bob 9 April 2008
Earp, Marshal Virgil 26 October 1881
‘Easter 1916’ 24 April 1916
Eckermann, Johann Peter 22 March 1832
Eco, Umberto 21 October 1966
Edinburgh Festival 5 September 1903
Edinburgh Review, The 1 June 1820
Eikon Basilike 30 January 1649
Eliot, George 5 June 1920
Eliot, T.S. 4 January 1965; 19 February 1949; 4 April 1984; 25 June 1922; 24 August 1966; 14 December 1956
Elizabeth I of England 3 July 1603; 8 August 1588
Ellis, Havelock 16 November 1928
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 8 July 1838
Encounter 27 April 1966
Enoch Soames 3 June 1997
‘Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot’ 17 June 1719; 17 July 1734
Epstein, Barbara 1 February 1963
Equiano, Olaudah 29 April 1789
Esterhazy, Major Ferdinand 13 January 1898
Eugene Onegin 10 February 1837
European Union 20 January 1972
Evans, Harold 28 April 1974
Everyman Books 9 May 1926
Executioner’s Song, The 17 January 1977; 29 November 1963
Exit Ghost 19 March 2007
Falconer 29 March 1933
Fanny Hill 15 December 1964
Farrell, J.G. 12 August 1979
Faulkner, William 11 May 1942
Feast of Fools 6 January 1482
Federal Writers’ Project 6 May 1937; 27 July 1935
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence 7 October 1955
Fielding, Henry 18 October 1749
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 20 September 1884; 7 November 1924
Flaubert, Gustave 7 February 1857
Fletcher, John 18 March 1640
Fleurs du Mal, Les 7 February 1857
Florence, Peter 28 May 1988
Florio, John 20 October 1595
Fo, Dario 9 October 1997
‘For the Union Dead’ 18 July 1863
Ford, Ford Madox (Hueffer) 26 June 1939
Ford, Henry 29 March 1933
Forster, E.M. 12 December 1913
Foster, Professor E. Gordon 2 May 1966
Foucault, Michel 21 October 1966
Four Just Men, The 12 December 1931
Fowles, John 27 June 1969
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs 21 March 1556
Francis, Dick 8 May 1962
Frankenstein 11 April 1815
Franklin, Benjamin 19 December 1732
French Lieutenant’s Woman, The 27 June 1969
Freud, Sigmund 23 September 1939
Frey, James 26 January 2006
Friedan, Betty 23 March 1963
Frost, Robert 29 August 1962
Fullerton, Morton 7 April 1908
Futurist Manifesto 20 February 1909
G 23 November 1972
Gaskell, Mrs Elizabeth 16 September 1853
Gawain and the Green Knight 30 December c. 1350
Gay, John 29 February 1728
Gay News 12 July 1977
George III of Great Britain 29 January 1819
Gernsback, Hugo 1 April 1926
Ghosts 13 March 1891
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 17 August 1935
Gilmore, Gary 17 January 1977
Ginsberg, Allen 7 October 1955
Global Language Monitor (GLM) 10 June 2009
Go Down, Moses 11 May 1942
‘God Save the King’ 12 March 1710
Goebbels, Josef 10 May 1933
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 22 March 1832; 26 March 1911
Gold Rush, California 19 August 1848
Golding, William 6 October 1983
Goldsmith, Oliver 27 March 1766
Gone with the Wind 17 December 1939
Good Soldier, The 26 June 1939
Goodbye to All That 22 July 1916
Gospel According to Jesus Christ, The 6 July 2009
Gosse, Edmund 12 September 1908
Gower, John 18 March 1640
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners 12 November 1660
Graef, Ortwin de 9 January 1988
Grahame, Kenneth 8 March 1859
Grapes of Wrath, The 15 April 1935; 5 October 1936
Graves, Robert 22 July 1916
Gravity’s Rainbow 25 July 1945
Great Fire of London 2 September 1666
Great Gatsby, The 7 November 1924
Greenspan, Alan 9 March 1982
Griffith, D.W. 3 March 1915
Grossmith, George and Weedon 3 April 1892
Ground Beneath her Feet, The 14 February 1989
‘Ground in the Mill’ 22 April 1854
Gunfight at the OK Corral 26 October 1881
Gutenberg Bible 23 February 1455
Gutenberg, Johannes 1 December 1971
gutenberg.org 1 December 1971
Guy Domville 23 January 1895
Guys and Dolls 11 December 1946
Haldane, J.B.S. 29 March 1933
Hall, (Marguerite) Radclyffe 16 November 1928
Hamlet 24 August 1966
Hammett, Dashiell 6 February 1939
Hannibal, Missouri 16 January 1851
Hard Times 22 April; 16 September 1853
Hardy, Thomas 31 March 1909; 2 June 1840
Hardwick, Elizabeth 1 February 1963
Harland, Peter 28 April 1974
Harlem Renaissance 8 December 1951
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 21 July 2007
Hart, Michael S. 1 December 1971
Hastings, Battle of 14 October 1066
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 5 August 1850; 20 November 1856
Hay Festival 28 May 1988
Heart of Darkness 12 June 1890
Heine, Heinrich 27 November 1870
Héloise 17 May 1164
Hemingway, Ernest 26 February 1925; 7 March 1967; 20 September 1884
Henley, W.E. 23 August 1849
Henry V 25 October 1415, 1854
Henry VIII of England 3 August 1527; 6 September 1536
Henry Esmond 26 November 1703
Herbert, George 26 April 1630
Herland 17 August 1935
Heyer, Georgette 15 June 1815
Hicks, Mary A. 6 May 1937
Higginson, Francis 24 July 1629
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth 8 June 1862
History of Mary Prince 31 January 1831
Hitler, Adolf 9 November 1923; 16 December 1943
Hoffman, E.T.A. 9 August 1846
Holliday, Doc 26 October 1881
‘Holy Thursday’ 17 April 1794
Hoover, J. Edgar 7 May 1945
Hopkins, Gerard Manley 6 December 1875
‘Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return From Ireland, An’ 27 May 1650
House Un-American Activities Committee 1 March 1692; 22 June 1950; 31 October 1947
Household Words 22 April 1854
Howe, Julia Ward 19 November 1861
Howe, Susan 19 May 1676
Howl 7 October 1955
Huckleberry Finn 18 February 1885; 16 July 1951
Hughes, Ted 4 January 1965; 11 February 1963
Hugo, Victor 6 January 1482
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The 6 January 1482
Hurston, Zora Neale 8 December 1951
Huxley, Aldous 29 March 1933
Huxley, T.H. 29 May 1895
Hyperion 31 March 1909
I, Robot 21 June 1938
Ibsen, Henrik 13 March 1891
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