Quote of the day
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Georg Brandes
Born: February 4, 1842
Died: February 19, 1927 (aged 85)
Bio: Georg Brandes, born Morris Cohen, was a Danish critic and scholar who greatly influenced Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century.
Known for:
- Impressions of Russia (1889)
- The world at war (1917)
- Lord Beaconsfield; a study
- Eminent authors of the nineteenth century (1886)
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