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langleav: Love & Misadventure by Lang Leav

tetheredstrings — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:24:47 -0400

Love & Misadventure by Lang Leav

The Book of Accidents: Designed for Young Children. Ptak Science...

tetheredstrings — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 08:22:12 -0400

The Book of Accidents: Designed for Young Children.

The very Gorey-ish title of this book — seemingly designed to manufacture accidents for children — is actually a children’s advocate book. Its a small book, a chapbook, made for small hands, produced on the cheap and meant to be consumed by children and adults alike, warning people of the commonplace dangers that called on children in the 1830’s. Scalding, being kicked by a horse, falling, being injured while playing with knives and candles and firearms, crossing the street, being tossed by a bull or wild horse, falling out of a coach, drowning, playing and throwing stones, tumbling down stairs and the like made a devastating impact on the lives of children — sometimes ending them, as the author points out. By pointing out these dangers, and by having them read by (or to) children, the author believed that the lives of thousands of children could be saved.

You can read the book in its entirety here.

francisabernathys: theparisreview: In a note to Fitzgerald,...

tetheredstrings — Fri, 17 May 2013 03:52:47 -0400

francisabernathys:

theparisreview:

In a note to Fitzgerald, Hemingway shows he was better at being aggressive than passive-aggressive.

For more of this morning’s roundup, click here.

“Hemingway once sent F. Scott Fitzgerald a typescript of A Farewell to Arms. Fitzgerald sent back ten pages of edits and comments, signing off with “A beautiful book it is!” You can see Hemingway’s first reaction above (signed EH). In later drafts, it seems, he took some of Fitzgerald’s advice to heart.”

By Marianna Paige.

tetheredstrings — Tue, 14 May 2013 04:43:55 -0400

By Marianna Paige.

Ex-Libris, Ross King

howlandhoot — Sun, 12 May 2013 15:45:13 -0400

Ex-Libris, Ross King

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, c. 1873-77

howlandhoot — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:53:38 -0400

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, c. 1873-77

from A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket aka...

howlandhoot — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:13:42 -0400

from A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket aka Daniel Handler

Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka)...

howlandhoot — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 05:20:57 -0400

Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka) - 2002

Vladimir Nabakov Lolita, 1955

howlandhoot — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:41:28 -0400

Vladimir Nabakov

Lolita, 1955

His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman.

howlandhoot — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:35:57 -0400

His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman.

littletexts: — Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock

tetheredstrings — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:06:15 -0400

littletexts:

— Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock

Stephen King Salem’s Lot 1975

howlandhoot — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:31:00 -0400

Stephen King

Salem’s Lot
1975

aseaofquotes: Mark Strand, “Eating Poetry” You can read the...

tetheredstrings — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:25:03 -0400

aseaofquotes:

Mark Strand, “Eating Poetry”

You can read the poem in its entirety here.

“The Field Bazaar”, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1896

howlandhoot — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:33:20 -0400

“The Field Bazaar”, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1896

From Andrei Tarkovsky’s working diary for Mirror

howlandhoot — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:03:05 -0400

From Andrei Tarkovsky’s working diary for Mirror

Mary Shelley’s handwritten poem “Absence”, on the death of her...

tetheredstrings — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 05:18:11 -0400

Mary Shelley’s handwritten poem “Absence”, on the death of her husband. The poem reads:

Ah! he is gone — and I alone;
How dark and dreary seems the time!
‘Tis Thus, when the glad sun is flown,
Night rushes o’er the Indian clime.

Is there no star to cheer this night
No soothing twilight for the breast?
Yes, Memory sheds her fairy light,
Pleasing as sunset’s golden west.

And hope of dawn — Oh! brighter far
Than clouds that in the orient burn;
More welcome than the morning star
Is the dear thought — he will return!

daillest94: Les Fleurs du Mal - Charles Beaudelaire (1857)

tetheredstrings — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:02:13 -0400

daillest94:

Les Fleurs du Mal - Charles Beaudelaire (1857)

Walt Whitman’s “O Captain, My Captain” with his appended...

howlandhoot — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:54:33 -0400

Walt Whitman’s “O Captain, My Captain” with his appended corrections and comments. Feb 9, 1888.

From Slaughterhouse Five by K. Vonnegut

howlandhoot — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:30:09 -0400

From Slaughterhouse Five by K. Vonnegut

Ode To The West Wind manuscript, Percy Bysshe Shelley

tetheredstrings — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 04:36:48 -0400

Ode To The West Wind manuscript, Percy Bysshe Shelley