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Marcel Proust, from a story featured in "The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust," originally published in 2001

'Village at Dusk'. Émile Breton. 1886.

Franz Ludwig Catel - "Monks in a monastery courtyard" (1856)

Thro’ the Wood (John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1836 - 1893)

Sylvia Plath, from “Poem for a Birthday: Witch Burning.” [ID in alt text]

— by Francisco de Goya

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Oil on canvas, 160 x 144,8 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary

Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Tepidarium (1881)

— J. Allyn Rosser, from Sugar Dada

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss.

Clarice Lispector, from "Too Much of Life Complete Chronicles," publ. in 2022

The Kiss 1909.

Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman — almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was pale; her prospects were desolate.