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Day 19 - Harvard Classics - 90 Day Challenge





Mar 13: Manzoni's I PROMESSI SPOSI

Before 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 GRAIL

A 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 Caesar

Beware 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 BEAGLE

Crabs 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