April 27, 2022
The best-selling novel of all time—by far—is Miguel de Cervantes’s 1615 work Don Quixote: probably more than 500 million copies have been sold.
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What Did Shakespeare Sound Like?
Of course, since there was no recording technology in Shakespeare’s time, we can never really know what the bard and his contemporaries sounded like. But using linguistic principles, we can guess. Shakespeare almost certainly didn’t sound like John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, or any of the other
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