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		wolverine876 on June 1, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Could the greatest works of literature be undiscov... Taken literally, that seems unlikely - Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, the Bible, etc. But I wonder how many we would recognize.

bombcar on June 1, 2022 [–]

I suspect famous means famous in their time.

We know some of them just from pure output (think Charles Dickens) - but think of all the contemporaries of Cervantes we don’t know - the very people he was making fun of with Don Quixote.

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