2. Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880.
He died less than four months after its publication.
3. Ernest Hemingway's reading list for a young writer
1. In his final moments, G. K. Chesterton declared: "The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness, and everyone must choose his side.”
2. According to Giorgio Vasari, regarded as the father of Western art history, Leonardo da Vinci confessed on his deathbed that he had offended God and mankind because his work had not reached the quality it should have.
3. In her final days, Emily Dickinson could only manage to write short notes.
According to her niece, Emily's succinct and poetic farewell read: “I must go in; the fog is rising.”
1. “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
2. George Orwell, Animal Farm
3. “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart.”