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The Romantic Hero Timeline Game

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Summoning Knowledge...

About This Challenge

In the world of literature, the concept of the Romantic Hero has always been a captivating and intriguing one. This game allows players to engage with this theme by exploring a timeline of events related to various romantic heroes throughout history.

  • Players will need to carefully place events in their correct chronological order to progress through the game.
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  • 1798: Publication of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads
  • 1804: Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of France
  • 1812: Publication of Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
  • 1820: Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound is published
  • 1821: Death of John Keats
  • 1820: Publication of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe
  • 1831: Victor Hugo publishes The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
  • 1857: Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is published
  • 1861: Publication of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations
  • 1849: Death of Edgar Allan Poe
  • 1818: Publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
  • 1820: Washington Irving publishes The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  • 1850: Publication of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
  • 1847: Publication of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
  • 1832: Death of Sir Walter Scott
  • 1832: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is published
  • 1847: Publication of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
  • 1835: Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales are published
  • 1851: Publication of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
  • 1850: Gustave Courbet's The Stonebreakers is exhibited

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