#modern library

[macrolit]

New post at macrolit.books at IG about one of the rarest vintage Modern Library books and a female author who emerged on the literary scene 85 years ago.

#modern library #vintage books #old books #art #book cover #literature #bookstagram

[garadinervi]

John Milton, (1667), Paradise Lost, [Book V], Edited with an Introduction by William G. Madsen, Modern Library, New York, NY, 1969, pp. 132-133

#graphic design #poetry #notation #paradise lost #book #john milton #galileo galilei #william g. madsen #modern library #1660s #1960s

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

On this day, July 10 in 1871, French novelist Marcel Proust (Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust, to be exact) was born to an upper-class family in the Paris Borough of Auteuil. Born at a time of great change for French society, with the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the middle class, Proust's most well-known publication, the monumental, 7-volume novel À la recherche du temps perdu (currently translated as In Search of Lost Time, but previously translated as Remembrance of Things Past) explores the effects of these changes in personal and intimate ways.

Proust began work on this novel in 1909 and continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to stop. It was published in France between 1913 and 1927, and has become one of the hallmarks of world literature from the 20th century. The novel unfolds as a series of memories initiated by the sensation of a sip of tea in which he had dipped a madeleine cake. The sensation sparks dormant recollections of experiences from childhood to adulthood in fin de siècle France society.

The first six volumes of the novel were first translated into English by the Scottish author and translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff from 1922 to 1930, with the final volume translated by British novelist and translator Stephen Hudson in 1931. Terence Kilmartin revised the Scott Moncrieff translation in 1981 (with the final volume translated by Andreas Mayor) using the new French edition of 1954. The copy shown here is a revision of that revision by British academic D. J. Enright, based on the French Bibliothèque de la Pléiade edition of 1987-1989, published in six volumes by the Modern Library in New York (and by Chatto and Windus in London) in 1992. It is the first edition to use the more current translation of the title, In Search of Lost Time.

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#Milestone Monday #milestones #Marcel Proust #birthdays #French authors #In Search of Lost Time #Rememberance of Things Past #À la recherche du temps perdu #C. K. Scott Moncrieff #Terence Kilmartin #D. J. Enright #Modern Library

[nicklloydnow]

“Lost ye way in the dark, said the old man. He stirred the fire, standing slender tusks of bone up out of the ashes.

The kid didnt answer.

The old man swung his head back and forth. The way of the transgressor is hard. God made this world, but he didnt make it to suit everbody, did he?

I dont believe he much had me in mind.

Aye, said the old man. But where does a man come by his notions. What world's he seen that he liked better?

I can think of better places and better ways.

Can ye make it be?

No.

No. It's a mystery. A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it. You believe that?

I dont know.

Believe that.”

#mccarthy #cormac mccarthy #blood meridian #modern library #folio #folio society #suntup #books #book lover #library

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 058

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri / illustrated by George Grosz

Random House 1944

I sold most of my Modern Library books in my latest purge, but I had to keep this one. Illustrated by George Grosz, this edition is a really unusual Modern Library and a beautiful book.

#bookshelf #illustrated book #library #collection #personal library #personal collection #bookseller #books #book lover #bibliophile #modern library #divine comedy #dante alighieri #george grosz #random house

[yoloapocalypse]

#comedia romántica #shakespeare #modern library #vintage #vintage books #book covers #comedy #complete and unabridged

[cadaverkeys]

You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).

Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.

#rambles #if you are a person who is into delicate skills #like lacemaking or printing or sewing #you will know fair well just how non expansive the knowledge online is in comparison to written guides from like the 50s #there was a time where at least one person in the household had to know a constructive skill #but in the modern day there is just less ans less demands for comprehensive guides #library propaganda #im stuck doing an essay rn but bc i have covid i cant go to the library and its totally fucked me #i want to source a lot of the stuff i read irl but i just cant go and get it and theres no online ver

[july-19th-club]

seriously have been thinking about this all night long. call me autistic but the fact that 90% of workplaces the point is not to get your work done and then be done doing it but to instead perform an elaborate social dance in which you find something to do even when you're done doing everything you need to do in order to show your fellow workers that you, too, are Working . because you are at Work . disgusting why cant we all agree that if there is no work immediately to be done. we just dont do anything

#i personally like to not be doing things constantly at all times. it stresses me out #i know there are ppl who thrive on cosntant activity #but me i like to chill out. #and the problem then becomes that i only ACTIVELY remember to do work and Find More Work To Do when im stressed #at the thought that others might want to see me working #if im ever relaxed i just dont look for stuff to do #catch 22 of modern work culture which permeates even ostensibly noncapitalist structures like public libraries #for instance: will it really kill anybody if the books get shelved by me now after a very busy day? #or shelved tomorrow morning by. well probably me since i'll be the one at the desk #not in the slightest #but it was work that wasnt being immediately done by me. therefore it was incorrect behavior #that i failed to identify because my instinct is to relax when not immediately presented with a Situation #this got me labeled as 'having no initiative' by my dad from a very early age #and even as an adult i still feel like im a child with no initiative

[grotto-esque]

#paper #Swann’s Way #Marcel Proust #modern library #gd

[macrolit]

from ml.books

#the brothers karamazov #fyodor dostoevsky #fyodor dostoevski #old books #don quixote #vintage books #modern library #muriel spark #michel de montaigne #bookstack

[garadinervi]

John Milton, (1667), Paradise Lost, [Book I], Edited with an Introduction by William G. Madsen, Modern Library, New York, NY, 1969, p. 16

#graphic design #poetry #notation #paradise lost #book #john milton #galileo galilei #william g. madsen #modern library #1660s #1960s

[slightlyoutoffocusphotos]

Home Office - Freestanding Mid-sized traditional freestanding desk design example with a dark wood floor and brown floor in a home office library that has white walls and no fireplace.

#modern library #fireplace surrounds #ladder #desk #home office #home library

[dogsinbowties]

Contemporary Closet - Flat Panel A small, modern walk-in closet with flat-panel cabinets and white cabinets has a beige floor and carpeting that is gender-neutral.

#modern walk in wardrobe #buckhurst hill bespoke #shoe storage #rolling library ladder #narrow walk in wardrobe #modern library #closet

[science70]

Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library, Toronto, 1973-77.

Architect: Raymond Moriyama

#architecture #modernism #library #interior #Raymond Moriyama #Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library #Toronto #Ontario #Canada #1970s

[nicklloydnow]

“Tuesday, 12:30 P.M. . . Baker, California . . . Into the Ballantine Ale now, zombie drunk and nervous. I recognize this feeling: three or four days of booze, drugs, sun, no sleep and burned out adrenalin reserves a giddy, quavering sort of high that means the crash is coming. But when? How much longer? This tension is part of the high. The possibility of physical and mental collapse is very real now. . .

. . . but collapse is out of the question; as a solution or even a cheap alternative, it is unacceptable. Indeed. This is the moment of truth, that fine and fateful line between control and disaster - which is also the difference between staying loose and weird on the streets, or spending the next five years of summer mornings playing basketball in the yard at Carson City.

No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride . . . and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well . . . maybe chalk it off to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten. It's all in Kesey's Bible. . . . The Far Side of Reality.

And so much for bad gibberish; not even Kesey can help me now.”

#hunter s thompson #thompson #raoul duke #fear #loathing #las vegas #ken kesey #johnny depp #drugs #modern library #books #book lover

[biboocat]

The latest second hand haul: a lot of Modern Library books.

#modern library #books #somerset maugham #gustave flaubert #emily bronte