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Polina Graf’s illustrated book cover for the Russian edition of Terry Pratchett’s and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens.
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lets-get-lit · 2 months
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No one is ever holy without suffering.
- Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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megairea · 8 months
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“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859
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The Code of the Woosters, PG Wodehouse, 1938
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bsd-bibliophile · 9 days
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You may be wrong there, [sir].. Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet unassuming people.
Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
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artesie · 1 year
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Emily Brontë. 1847. Wuthering Heights. 
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cyangansey · 8 months
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I think Americans shouldn’t consume UK media. It’s borderline cultural appropriation.
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llovelymoonn · 1 month
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okechukwu nzelu here again now
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pemberlaey · 2 years
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hot girl spring is out. mary lennox spring is in. get in loser we’re frolicking in the garden; we’re talking to birds; we’re getting lost in the heather; we’re wandering gothic manors in the dead of night and discovering secret cousins concealed in attic bedrooms, we’re jumping rope
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burningvelvet · 7 days
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"Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
— An excerpt from Percy Bysshe Shelley's A Defence of Poetry (1821) in honor of World Poetry Day
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Bleak House ~ Charles Dickens
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Anna and Elena Balbusso’s illustration for Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey.
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wildfellweekly · 9 months
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New Book Club for Autumn 2023!
Announcing Wildfell Weekly, a substack read-a-long for Anne Brontë's novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall!
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You must go back with me to the autumn of 1827.
A new tenant has taken up residence in old Wildfell Hall and Mr. Gilbert Markham finds himself very intrigued. But the widow Mrs. Helen Graham is more than what she seems, and as rumors about her start to fly, she reveals to a doubting Gilbert the truth about the disastrous marriage she left behind.
Anne Brontë differed from her sisters Charlotte (Jane Eyre) and Emily (Wuthering Heights) in favoring a Realist rather than Romantic approach to her writing. In Tenant she explored themes of domestic violence, alcoholism and addiction, gender relations, motherhood and marriage, and the ability of women to define their own lives with an unflinching desire to depict what she saw to be true. While now considered among the first feminist novels, critics of Anne's day were shocked by a book they found coarse, brutal, and overly graphic.
So starting October 26, 2023 and until June 10, 2024, let's read together a story one nineteenth century critic called "utterly unfit to be put in the hands of girls"!
Find More Information about the Project and Subscribe Here!
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megairea · 1 year
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D.H. Lawrence, Dream-Confused; The Collected Poems of D.H. Lawrence
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silverystardustt · 1 year
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my life is one big unfinished diary entry
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bsd-bibliophile · 6 months
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Good thing, perhaps, that one can’t foresee the future.
Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
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