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theaskew · 24 days

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Sanctuary, a novel by William Faulkner. (New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, [1931]. First edition, first printing.)

#novel #fiction #literature #literary work #American novel #American fiction #American literature #classic literature #classic fiction #American author #American novelist #American writer #William Faulkner #Sanctuary #book cover #book excerpt #rape #abduction #crime

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herecomesoberon · 11 months

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Toni Morrison, Beloved

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acredittar · 7 months

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"Estou apaixonada por você e não quero me negar o simples prazer de compartilhar algo verdadeiro.

Estou apaixonada por você. E sei que o amor é apenas um grito no vácuo, e que o esquecimento é inevitável, e que estamos todos condenados ao fim, e que haverá um dia em que tudo o que fizemos voltará ao pó, e sei que o sol vai engolir a única Terra que podemos chamar de nossa, e eu estou apaixonada por você."

John Green. A culpa é das estrelas🌼

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kim-namjuns-baby · 8 months

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Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive.

The Old Man and the Sea

#ernest hemingway #the old man and the sea #nobel prize #nobel prize winner #american novel #hemingway #book quotes #quotes

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flowerytale · 1 year

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James Baldwin, from Giovanni’s Room

#james baldwin #giovanni’s room #typo #typography #novel #lit #literature #american literature #fragments #*

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the-evil-clergyman · 3 months

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Illustrations from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Bernie Wrightson (1983)

#bernie wrightson #art #illustration #1980s #1980s art #vintage art #vintage illustration #vintage #american art #american artist #american illustrators #graphic novel #mary shelley #frankenstein #horror #horror art #classic art

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ffcrazy15 · 3 months

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Someone needs to do an analysis on the way the Kung Fu Panda movies use old-fashioned vs. modern language ("Panda we meet at last"/"Hey how's it going") and old-fashioned vs. modern settings (forbidden-city-esque palaces/modern-ish Chinese restaurant) to indicate class differences in their characters, and how those class differences create underlying tensions and misunderstandings.

#This is neither a criticism nor a compliment of that artistic choice #I just think it's really interesting #Like even looking at the Five:#Tigress talks in an older style than the others because she was mainly raised at the Jade Palace #While Mantis talks like Joe-schmo off the street because he *was* a streetfighter and an ordinary guy #Shifu and even Tai Lung talk like they're from an old-fashioned novel or kung fu movie #Po talks like a modern guy you'd meet working in a twenty-first century family restaurant #Part of Tigress's initial disdain for him in the first movie is clearly because she considers him to be low-class/a commoner #(And therefore an intruder into the world of the Jade Palace and the rest of the Kung Fu masters which appears to be semi-noble).#Shen looks genuinely off-put and disgusted when he has to respond to Po's greeting with a “...hey.”#And when Po wants to appear more legitimate as a warrior he adopts a more “legendary”/old-fashioned way of speaking.#In the aesthetic language of KFP old fashioned=noble/upper class and modern=common/lower class.#This translates entirely naturally—I think especially to an American audience—but it is wild once you notice it #Because you realize: “Hang on—shouldn't *all* these characters be talking like they're living in the medieval era?”#“And what does it mean that they're not? What is the movie attempting to convey with this—probably entirely subconscious—artistic choice?”#kung fu panda

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thefugitivesaint · 3 months

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Dorothy P. Lathrop (1891-1980), ''The Princess and Curdie'' by George MacDonald, 1946 Source

#Dorothy P. Lathrop #Dorothy Pulis Lathrop #american artists #george macdonald #vintage illustration #fantasy novels

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delphiniumjoy · 11 months

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"Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that's rarer than a lover; it's more unselfish anyhow."

#wasn't expecting such wise words from the one american in this book #dracula daily #turns out quincy might be my favorite #he's so stupid and genuine #aromantic #dracula novel

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visenyaism · 7 months

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you used to wear newspapers in your shoes.

#i like this moment we’re having to reflect on the absolute euphoria of getting queerbaited by the MCU 2014-2017. it was real to me #people were on here writing next great American novel-tier shit about the MCU #we really did lose the brightest minds of our generation to Captain America the Winter soldier

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oddishblossom · 1 year

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We got something going on. Sail away with me to another world

BANANA FISH Episode 18: Islands in the Stream

#bananafishedit #dailyshounenai #fyanimegifs #anisource #useraslaanjade #animangaboys #banana fish #asheiji #my gifs!#ash lynx #eiji okumura #gif set #1K!#i think it’s clever that the episode titles are named after american classic novels #i was originally gonna use a quote from the book as the caption #but when i heard the dolly parton song of the same name i saw how it fit better ❤️

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herecomesoberon · 11 months

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One of the best books I have read in a long time. Toni Morrison’s Beloved tells the story of how America’s slavery haunts the present. I loved her use of suspension, how she compares violence based on race and gender, and how, in the most unexpected moments, Morrison unleashes an experimental, poetic voice that gives the novel so much more depth and bite.

Though this is my first Morrison, this is a book and writer I will be returning to again and again.

Toni Morrison, Beloved