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4 unusual facts about The Gadfly


The Gadfly

The Gadfly is a novel by Irish writer Ethel Lilian Voynich, published in 1897 (United States, June; Great Britain, September of the same year), set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings.

Krazana, Soviet Georgian, by Kote Mardjanishvili.

The Gadfly Suite is an arrangement of selections from Shostakovich's score by the composer Levon Atovmian.

The Gadfly Suite, which includes the movement Romance, later becoming popular on its own right, is an arrangement of selections from Shostakovich's score by composer Levon Atovmian.


George Boole

Ethel Lilian (1864–1960), who married the Polish scientist and revolutionary Wilfrid Michael Voynich and was the author of the novel The Gadfly.


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