canon

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If you’re new to her work, here is where to start with Groff’s sprawling canon, which spans from steamy Florida swamps to medieval abbeys with a gift for the unexpected.

From Los Angeles Times

“Rumpelstiltskin” is surely one of the more peculiar tales in the Brothers Grimm canon.

From The Wall Street Journal

For generations, this imposing photograph of a clean-shaven Abraham Lincoln—age 51 and at the crest of newfound national fame—inexplicably remained an orphan in the Lincoln visual canon.

From The Wall Street Journal

But “Hamnet’s” emphasis is on the circumstances that may have led Shakespeare to write one of the greatest plays in the Western canon.

From Los Angeles Times

I also think that a lot of people credit Heathcliff with being in the canon of bad boys.

From Los Angeles Times