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Tag Archives: Literature
“The Best Things In Life Are Free”
Today copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain. They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Film, History, Music, Photography, Theater, USA, Writing
Tagged Ernest Hemingway, Literature, Public Domain, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner
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A Novel Way to Tell Time
The Author Clock by Mechanical Design Labs is a novel digital clock that uses quotes from well known books to tell the time. The clever timepiece lifts passages from hundreds of years of literature to provide quotes that refer to the exact … Continue reading
Forgotten Books, Forgotten Stories
Last month, I found a very interesting piece in Smithsonian Magazine titled “How Much Medieval Literature Has Been Lost Over the Centuries,” which linked to six-minute video from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the journal Science … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, History, Libraries, Tech
Tagged illuminated manuscripts, Literature, medieval manuscripts, Oxford University
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we owe literature almost everything we are
“You said that we owe literature almost everything we are and what we have been. If books disappear, history will disappear, and human beings will also disappear. I am sure you are right. Books are not only the arbitrary sum … Continue reading
Posted in Books, South America, USA, Writing
Tagged Jorge Luis Borges, Literature, Susan Sontag
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For in the beginning of literature there is myth
“Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote” by Jorge Luis Borges Translated by Andrew Hurley Weary of his land of Spain, an old soldier of the king’s army sought solace in the vast geographies of Ariosto, in that valley of the moon … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Writing
Tagged Don Quixote, Literature, Miguel de Cervantes
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Plague Tales
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio follows ten young people–seven women and three men–who take shelter from the Black Plague outside of medieval Florence. Each day, over the course of ten days, members of the group must entertain the others with … Continue reading
Free Reading Materials (really pt.2)
While millions of people are staying home to reduce the spread of COVID-19, Scribd is making their digital library of ebooks and audiobooks free for everyone: scribd.com/readfree
Free Books (really)
h/t to Stanislav and Milen for the extensive links FAMOUS AUTHORS Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte. The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, ebooks, Europe, History, Libraries, Theater, USA, Writing
Tagged children's books, Literature, Mystery, Philosophy, Poetry, Science
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