Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Christiaan Huygens and the Scientific Secrets of Saturn
Seventeenth-century science was so competitive that Christiaan Huygens used a cipher to conceal his Saturn observations when sharing them with interlocutors.
By: Danny Robb
https://daily.jstor.org/christiaan-huygens-and-the-scientific-secrets-of-saturn/
Christiaan Huygens at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5648
Whatever Happened to London’s “Little America”?
Since the time of John Adams, the first US Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Grosvenor Square has been the locus of the American government in Britain.
By: Matthew Wills
https://daily.jstor.org/whatever-happened-to-londons-little-america/
John Adams at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4660
Reading deeper into Virginia Woolf’s vicious diary entry
Maggie Humm says the author’s recollection of encountering a group of learning-disabled people is surely a defence mechanism and projection
Virginia Woolf at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89
![Photograph of Virginia Woolf with hand on face wearing a fur stole (10 x 15 centimeters).
This particular photograph is simply described as "Woolf Virginia [1927]". The verso of the photograph bears no mention allowing an identification of the photographer, but simply indicates - faintly pencilled - the portrait has been made in London.
The photograph was, according to the Smith College Library's web site, "used for promotion" by Harcourt Brace, the publisher of the American version of To the Lighthouse in 1927. In Virginia Woolf Icon (University of Chicago Press, 1999), Brenda Silver describes the photograph as an "(unidentified) studio photograph" and comments it "appear[ed] in in an number of Harcourt Brace ads and articles about Woolf and/or her works in the States during the late 1920s ans the 1930s" (p. 132).
It was in particular published with no copyright notice in a review of the book published by The New York Times on May 8, 1927 and another review published by The Bookshelf Review in June 1927. The photograph was exhibited in the show Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2014 with the following caption : "by Unknown photographer, 1927. Courtesy of the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Neilson Library, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#/media/File:Virginia_Woolf_1927.jpg](/proxy/post_attachment/782040/218a299813.jpg "Photograph of Virginia Woolf with hand on face wearing a fur stole (10 x 15 centimeters).
This particular photograph is simply described as \"Woolf Virginia [1927]\". The verso of the photograph bears no mention allowing an identification of the photographer, but simply indicates - faintly pencilled - the portrait has been made in London.
The photograph was, according to the Smith College Library's web site, \"used for promotion\" by Harcourt Brace, the publisher of the American version of To the Lighthouse in 1927. In Virginia Woolf Icon (University of Chicago Press, 1999), Brenda Silver describes the photograph as an \"(unidentified) studio photograph\" and comments it \"appear[ed] in in an number of Harcourt Brace ads and articles about Woolf and/or her works in the States during the late 1920s ans the 1930s\" (p. 132).
It was in particular published with no copyright notice in a review of the book published by The New York Times on May 8, 1927 and another review published by The Bookshelf Review in June 1927. The photograph was exhibited in the show Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2014 with the following caption : \"by Unknown photographer, 1927. Courtesy of the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Neilson Library, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts\".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#/media/File:Virginia_Woolf_1927.jpg")
Which modern books do you think will become classics?
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I'm looking for recommendations for audiobooks 😁
Preferably simple enough that I can keep up while doing other stuff at the same time, but not so simple that I get bored,
The last series was Skullduggery Pleasant, if that helps.
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📚 Flashlight by: Susan Choi
One summer night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the breakwater. Her father is carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later, Louisa is found on the beach, soaked to the skin, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old.
Louisa is an only child of parents who have severed themselves from the past. ...
https://bookblabla.com/book/flashlight
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📚 Misery by: Stephen King
Bestselling novelist Paul Sheldon thinks he’s finally free of Misery Chastain. In a controversial career move, he’s just killed off the popular protagonist of his beloved romance series in favor of expanding his creative horizons. But such a change doesn’t come without consequences.
After a near-fatal car accident in rural Colorado leaves his body broken, Pau...
For some time I had been wondering what was up with one of my favorite authors - it had been so long since I last heard any news.
So I went to her website - https://www.otherscribbles.com/news/2025/4/25/monk-and-robot-omnibus-and-some-other-tidbits - and read the most delightful news: she's about to publish a new book! This post was from April 25, so it shouldn't be long now🤞🤞🤞
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Hear Albert Camus’ Grateful Letter to His Teacher After Winning the Nobel Prize
In 1924, two decades before the publication of The Stranger, author Albert Camus was a boy growing up in poverty in Algeria. Noticing his potential, a teacher named Louis Germain took him under his wing, even giving him free lessons to help him secure a scholarship.
By Regina Sienra
What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? July 29
In #books: It’s typical of José Skinner’s approach that his main protagonist is not some self-assured reflection of his own qualifications, but rather Quigley, a dopey gringo vacillating between colonial-gaze fascination and fear of a world he doesn’t understand. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-search-committee-border-literary-canon/
16 to go in the next 5 months!
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read
Many of these are at PG.
Illustration from Gulliver Travels at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17157/pg17157-images.html
Book recommendation: Fantasy, female author, strong feminine main character
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THE WRITHING, VERDANT END compiles 6 uniquely intense, memorable stories of eco-horror. Corey Farrenkopf, Tiffany Morris, and Eric Raglin all contribute eerie, haunting tales where human nature and the natural world clash & fight for survival. Lush writing about terrifying, strange nature(s). (Cursed Morsels)
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This month's Distributed Proofreaders blog delves into the newly uploaded "Newton's Principia."
"In it, Newton expounds, with mathematical proof, what is now the bedrock of modern physics: his groundbreaking laws of motion and universal gravitation, and his explanations of the motion of planets, moons, comets, tides, fluids, and other physical phenomena."
https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/08/01/newtons-principia/
Newton's Principia at PG:
6 Authors Who Hated Their Most Popular Books
From Agatha Christie to Franz Kafka, these authors were not fans of their most beloved creations.
By Paul Anthony Jones
https://www.mentalfloss.com/entertainment/literature/authors-who-hated-their-most-popular-books
Louisa May Alcott, Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, Kafka, MIlne at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/102
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/730
Collecting The Most Beautiful Books
22 Aug, Mount Stuart House, Rothesay – £8.50–£11
Kelsey Jackson Williams will explore armorial bookbindings in the Bute Collection & tell how aristocratic pride, the bookbinders' art, & subsequent tastes in collecting came together to form an exceptional but unknown assemblage of book-art in the Mount Stuart libraries.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collecting-the-most-beautiful-books-august-talk-tickets-1529153030879
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Nietzsche vs. Schopenhauer’s Views on Life, Suffering, and the Will
Is suffering something that hinders us, or helps us along? Schopenhauer looks for a way out, while Nietzsche insists we make good use of it.
by Viktoriya Sus
https://www.thecollector.com/nietzsche-vs-shopenhauer/
Schopenhauer and Nietzsche at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3648
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/779
Warsaw Treaty New Initiatives - Documents of the Meeting of the Political Consultative Committee of the Member States of the Warsaw Treaty Organization
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