Ragtime (novel)
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Ragtime is a novel by E. L. Doctorow, first published in 1975. The sweeping historical fiction occurs in the area of New York City between 1902 and 1912.
Image: Stanford White in 1895
Image: Evelyn Nesbitt circa 1903
Michael Kohlhaas
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Michael Kohlhaas is a novella by the German author Heinrich von Kleist, based on a 16th-century story of Hans Kohlhase. Kleist published fragments of the work in volume 6 of his literary journal Phöbus in June 1808. The complete work was published in the first volume of Kleist's Erzählungen (novellas) in 1810.
Kleist's collection Erzählungen, 1810
Hans Kohlhase (19th-century print)
Opening of the novella, first edition, 1810
"Disbands His Gang", from Woodcuts for Heinrich von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas (1953/2003) by Jacob Pins