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28 October 1882 – 1 December 1911 Richard Barham Middleton's..... "The Ghost Ship" is one of the best-loved ghost stories in English literature.  He was a tragic figure, a young man impatient for success, who managed to live the archetypal life of the Romantic Bohemian poet, complete with poverty, unrequited love for an impossible woman (a prostitute), despair, and an early suicide.  While he published many pieces in the best magazines of the day, no volumes of his work were published in his lifetime.  As soon as he was dead, he was..... "discovered."  Four volumes of his collected works were in print within eighteen months. Three more followed in the next two decades.  His poetry was acclaimed in the press as a new Keats, both for the brilliance of his work and the brevity of his life.  He is remembered today for a handful of superbly crafted, eerie fantasies, such as..... "The Coffin Merchant," ....... "On the Brighton Road,"

Yuval Noah Harari is the author of  international bestsellers.  He is an Israeli historian and a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Guardian quotes Yuval as saying..."Homo Sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so." Yuval also gives a free online course in English titled..."  A Brief History of Humankind ."  Over the years, more than 100,000 people throughout the world....  have already taken his course.