Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

George Eliot

Silas Marner

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Anticipation Disappointment

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Nancy Lammeter

Author

George Eliot

Source

Silas Marner

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1861 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Eliot, George. Silas Marner. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861, ch. 18.

Current Citation

Eliot, George. Silas Marner. Signet, 2007, ch. 18.

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

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Resistance to change New ideas
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Raskolnikov

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Source
Crime and Punishment
Medium
Novel
Language
Russian
Time
1866 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Feodor. Преступленіе и наказаніе [Crime and Punishment]. The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1866 - Dec. 1866, monthly serial.

Current Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment, translated and edited by Michael R. Katz. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.

Another quote from 1861

One, if by land, and two, if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Atlantic Monthly

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Battles of Lexington and Concord American Revolution

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source
Paul Revere's Ride The Atlantic Monthly
Medium
Poem Magazine
Language
English
Time
1861 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "Paul Revere's Ride." The Atlantic Monthly, Jan. 1861.

Current Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, st. 2.