The Bibliophile's Compass

🔴 1897 Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories 🔴 1993 Romantic comedy film "Sleepless in Seattle" starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, co-written and directed by Nora Ephron, is released 🔴 2010 British TV series "Sherlock" debuts starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss

🔴1993 Tom Stoppard's play "Arcadia" premieres in London directed by Trevor Nunn, starring Rufus Sewell, Felicity Kendal and Bill Nighy 🔴2011 Gary Sinise narrates the audiobook of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" 🔴2013 Kristin Hannah’s Fly Away published

🔴 1854 "Hard Times" begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, "Household Words" 🔴 1857 Herman Melville publishes the novel "The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade" on April Fool's Day in New York 🔴 1893 An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde published 🔴 1941 Lillian Hellman's play "Watch on the Rhine" premieres in NYC 🔴 1947 "Shin Takarajima" (New Treasure Island) by Osamu Tezuka published, first manga cartoon in tankōbon form 🔴 1993 Alan Bennett's play "The Madness of George III" premieres in London 🔴 2017 Bob Dylan receives his Nobel Prize for Literature at a private ceremony in Stockholm