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Day 19 - Harvard Classics - 90 Day ChallengeMar 13: Manzoni's I PROMESSI SPOSIBefore Noblity Ran Tea Rooms Manzoni has pictured in this thrilling romance of the seventeenth century nobility, the pompous and sporting life of those good old days when nobles lived sumptuously in spacious castles surrounded by vast estates. Read from Manzoni's I PROMESSI SPOSI ............ Vol. 21, pp. 318-332 Mar 14: THE HOLY GRAILA Maiden's Forfeit"This gentlewoman that ye lead with you is a maid? " demanded the knight. "Sir," said she, "a maid I am." "Then she must yield us the custom of this castle." Read from THE HOLY GRAIL ................... Vol. 35, pp. 194-200 Mar 15: Plutarch's CaesarBeware the Ides of March!Twice warned of the danger that threatened him on the Ides of March, although "the earth rocked and the stars fell and headless men walked in the Forum," Caesar goes to the doom awaiting him in the Senate Chamber. Read from Plutarch's CESAR ............... Vol. 12, pp. 315-321 Mar 16: Darwin's VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLECrabs Climb Trees?Many amazing things happen in the Malay jungles. For example, Darwin tells about a crab that climbs trees and walks down the trunks for an occasional bath in a pool. Read from Darwin's VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE .... Vol. 29, pp. 466-475 |