<p>A psychoanalyst’s desire for a saner world</p><p>In Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud turned his psychoanalytic attention from the troubles of the individual to those of the world.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/16/a-psychoanalysts-desire-for-a-saner-world/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/16/a-psychoanalysts-desire-for-a-saner-world/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/16/a-psychoanalysts-desire-for-a-saner-world/</span></a></p><p>Freud at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/391" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/391"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/391</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/psychoanalysis/" rel="tag">#psychoanalysis</a></p>
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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1922.</p><p>T. S. Eliot founds The Criterion magazine, with the first appearance of his poem The Waste Land. This will be first fully published in book form by Boni & Liveright in New York in December.</p><p>Eliot's goal was to make it a literary review dedicated to the maintenance of standards and the reunification of a European intellectual community.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Criterion" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Criterion"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crit</span><span class="invisible">erion</span></a></p><p>The Waste Land at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1321" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/1321</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>
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<p>"Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow."</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1848.</p><p>Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life is published anonymously by Chapman & Hall in London in two volumes.</p><p>Gaskell was paid £100 for the novel. The publisher Edward Chapman had had the manuscript since the middle of 1847.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Barton" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Barton"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bar</span><span class="invisible">ton</span></a></p><p>Mary Barton at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2153" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/2153</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
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<p>Think you know Hans Christian Andersen? Four experts pick his weirdest fairy tales to read this Christmas</p><p>By Ane Grum-Schwensen, Holger Berg, Jacob Bøggild and Sarah Bienko Eriksen</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/think-you-know-hans-christian-andersen-four-experts-pick-his-weirdest-fairy-tales-to-read-this-christmas-270725?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%2015%202025%20-%203618036937&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%2015%202025%20-%203618036937+CID_56e9e58f2a4c2b638ff45c2b60003d5f&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Think%20you%20know%20Hans%20Christian%20Andersen%20Four%20experts%20pick%20his%20weirdest%20fairy%20tales%20to%20read%20this%20Christmas" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/think-you-know-hans-christian-andersen-four-experts-pick-his-weirdest-fairy-tales-to-read-this-christmas-270725?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%2015%202025%20-%203618036937&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%2015%202025%20-%203618036937+CID_56e9e58f2a4c2b638ff45c2b60003d5f&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Think%20you%20know%20Hans%20Christian%20Andersen%20Four%20experts%20pick%20his%20weirdest%20fairy%20tales%20to%20read%20this%20Christmas"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/think-you-</span><span class="invisible">know-hans-christian-andersen-four-experts-pick-his-weirdest-fairy-tales-to-read-this-christmas-270725?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%2015%202025%20-%203618036937&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%2015%202025%20-%203618036937+CID_56e9e58f2a4c2b638ff45c2b60003d5f&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Think%20you%20know%20Hans%20Christian%20Andersen%20Four%20experts%20pick%20his%20weirdest%20fairy%20tales%20to%20read%20this%20Christmas</span></a></p><p>Andersen at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2298" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2298"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2298</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>Heated Rivalry. By Rachel Reid.</p><p>You are a star hockey player just out of high school, when you meet your fellow rookie and nemesis, a Russian player, and you and he will go on to challenge each other on the ice and in the bed FOR 8 YEARS, which it turns out is longer than either of you can stand.</p><p>4 of 5 library cats 🏒 🏒 🏒 🏒 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/gay/" rel="tag">#gay</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#lgbtq</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/xxx/" rel="tag">#xxx</a></p>
<p>From PEN America: </p><p>Top 52 Banned Books: The Most Banned Books in U.S. Schools </p><p>"The 52 most banned books of the last four school years include National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winners, bestsellers, and beloved books by authors including Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Judy Blume."</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/writersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#writersofmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://pen.org/top-52-banned-books-since-2021/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="pen.org/top-52-banned-books-since-2021/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pen.org/top-52-banned-books-si</span><span class="invisible">nce-2021/</span></a></p>
<p>Stag Party. By Torrey Peters.</p><p>You are an usually large and ugly 19th century lumberjack in an all male remote camp, and you get the chance to appear at an arranged “dance” as an available female, which you eagerly accept.</p><p>4 of 5 library cats 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/lumberjacks/" rel="tag">#lumberjacks</a> <a href="/tags/trans/" rel="tag">#trans</a> <a href="/tags/sex/" rel="tag">#sex</a></p>
<p>Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online</p><p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/dictionary-of-the-oldest-written-language-free-online.html#google_vignette" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.openculture.com/2026/01/dictionary-of-the-oldest-written-language-free-online.html#google_vignette"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.openculture.com/2026/01/di</span><span class="invisible">ctionary-of-the-oldest-written-language-free-online.html#google_vignette</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/language/" rel="tag">#language</a></p>
<p>New Books I’m Looking Forward to This Year: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-new-books-im-looking-forward-to-this-year/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-new-books-im-looking-forward-to-this-year/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-week</span><span class="invisible">ly-blogging-challenge-new-books-im-looking-forward-to-this-year/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/tbr/" rel="tag">#TBR</a> <a href="/tags/nonfiction/" rel="tag">#Nonfiction</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/wednesdayweeklybloggingchallenge/" rel="tag">#WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge</a> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
<p>Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)</p><p>A female uptopia....</p><p><a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/herland/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="publicdomainreview.org/collection/herland/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publicdomainreview.org/collect</span><span class="invisible">ion/herland/</span></a></p><p>"Herland" at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1892.</p><p>The first collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories from The Strand Magazine (June 1891–June 1892), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, is published by George Newnes in London; it includes Doyle's favourite, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", which was originally published in February.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adve</span><span class="invisible">ntures_of_Sherlock_Holmes</span></a></p><p>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/FeyFighters" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/FeyFighters</a></p><p>Two soldiers on opposite sides, pixie Commander Stargazer Candleflash and human Sergeant Edwin Harris, find their fates forever entwined, first by revenge, but as they crash together in a dangerous rainforest, they’re forced to work together, just to survive. Will they make it or will their bickering get them killed?</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>
<p>OH MY GOD 🤣 </p><p>A novel just came out in which a tradwife influencer wakes up in 1805 and suddenly has to live the real life she's been selling online, raw milk and all!</p><p>All hail YESTERYEAR by Caro Claire Burke.</p><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/238226942-yesteryear" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.goodreads.com/book/show/238226942-yesteryear"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.goodreads.com/book/show/23</span><span class="invisible">8226942-yesteryear</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>
<p>Are there any book clubs on Mastodon? The in-person ones around me keep petering out or are hard to get to, and the ones I’ve seen online are toooo big for my tastes. I have a slight preference for fantasy/sci-fi, but any genre is good. I just want to talk about books! <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a></p>
<p>Someone should make a virtual tickler for e-books, otherwise it's discrimination 😜😂 <br> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor@lemmy.world</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/aiop" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aiop</span></a></span> <br> <br><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookmemes/" rel="tag">#BookMemes</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a><br><a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#Novels</a> <a href="/tags/bookshelf/" rel="tag">#Bookshelf</a> <a href="/tags/mastobooks/" rel="tag">#Mastobooks</a> <a href="/tags/booksofmastodon/" rel="tag">#BooksofMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookworm/" rel="tag">#Bookworm</a> <a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/booklove/" rel="tag">#BookLove</a> <a href="/tags/fantasybooks/" rel="tag">#FantasyBooks</a></p>
<p>📚 We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse) by: Dennis E. Taylor</p><p>There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. </p><p>He has been uploaded into computer ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/we-are-legion-we-are-bob-bobiverse" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/we-are-legion-we-are-bob-bobiverse"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/we-are-leg</span><span class="invisible">ion-we-are-bob-bobiverse</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a></p>
<p>Virginia Woolf Thought Katharine Mansfield Stank Like a “Civet Cat Taken to Streetwalking”</p><p>Gerri Kimber on the Literary Legacy of an Early Master of the Short Form</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/virginia-woolf-thought-katharine-mansfield-stank-like-a-civet-cat-taken-to-streetwalking/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/virginia-woolf-thought-katharine-mansfield-stank-like-a-civet-cat-taken-to-streetwalking/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/virginia-woolf-thou</span><span class="invisible">ght-katharine-mansfield-stank-like-a-civet-cat-taken-to-streetwalking/</span></a></p><p>Mansfield & Woolf at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/631" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/631"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/631</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/89</span></a></p><p>#<a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>Rare public display for Mary Queen of Scots' final letter</p><p>The public are to be given a rare chance to see the last letter by Mary Queen of Scots, which was written just hours before she was beheaded.</p><p>by Cara Berkley</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4nzy3r5zyo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4nzy3r5zyo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg</span><span class="invisible">4nzy3r5zyo</span></a></p><p>Mary Queen of Scots at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=Mary+Queen+of+Scots" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=Mary+Queen+of+Scots"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">cts/search/?query=Mary+Queen+of+Scots</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>Our latest newsletter listed a selection of March’s notable and interesting titles. Among them, we can highlight "1066 and All That" by Walter Carruthers Sellar and Robert Julian Yeatman.</p><p>It's a comic parody of English history, mocking how schoolchildren misremember facts. It reduces centuries of events to "Good Things," "Bad Things," and memorably mangled kings, battles, and causes — hilariously unreliable by design.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78124/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78124/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78124</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
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<p>Medieval Self-Portraits: Ten Artists Who Put Themselves in the Picture</p><p>Medieval artists did not just paint saints and kings—they sometimes slipped themselves into the scene, leaving behind portraits that can be devotional, witty, and surprisingly personal. </p><p><a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2026/01/medieval-self-portraits-ten-artists-who-put-themselves-in-the-picture/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.medievalists.net/2026/01/medieval-self-portraits-ten-artists-who-put-themselves-in-the-picture/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.medievalists.net/2026/01/m</span><span class="invisible">edieval-self-portraits-ten-artists-who-put-themselves-in-the-picture/</span></a></p><p>Medieval artists at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=medieval+artists" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=medieval+artists"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=medieval+artists</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/painting/" rel="tag">#painting</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1911.</p><p>German novelist Hans Fallada, kills his best friend in a suicide pact staged as a duel.</p><p>Fallada made a pact with a friend, Hanns Dietrich von Necker, to stage a duel to mask their suicides, feeling that the duel would be seen as more honorable. However, because of both boys' inexperience with weapons, it was a bungled affair. Dietrich missed Fallada, but Fallada did not miss Dietrich, killing him. </p><p>Hans Fallada at Projekt Gutenberg-DE<br><a href="https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/autoren/namen/fallada.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.projekt-gutenberg.org/autoren/namen/fallada.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.projekt-gutenberg.org/auto</span><span class="invisible">ren/namen/fallada.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1771.</p><p>Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.</p><p>This is a pastoral opera in two parts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Parini. It was commissioned by the Empress Maria Theresa for the wedding of her son, Archduke Ferdinand Karl, to Maria Beatrice d'Este on 15 October 1771.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascanio_in_Alba" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascanio_in_Alba"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascanio_</span><span class="invisible">in_Alba</span></a></p><p><a href="https://imslp.org/wiki/Ascanio_in_Alba,_K.111_(Mozart,_Wolfgang_Amadeus)" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="imslp.org/wiki/Ascanio_in_Alba,_K.111_(Mozart,_Wolfgang_Amadeus)"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">imslp.org/wiki/Ascanio_in_Alba</span><span class="invisible">,_K.111_(Mozart,_Wolfgang_Amadeus)</span></a></p><p>Books about Mozart at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=mozart&submit_search=Go%21&start_index=26" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=mozart&submit_search=Go%21&start_index=26"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=mozart&submit_search=Go%21&start_index=26</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/opera/" rel="tag">#opera</a></p>
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<p>The Elusive Poet of Desire</p><p>Why biographers can’t pin Cavafy down</p><p>by Langdon Hammer</p><p><a href="https://yalereview.org/article/langdon-hammer-the-elusive-poet-of-desire" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="yalereview.org/article/langdon-hammer-the-elusive-poet-of-desire"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">yalereview.org/article/langdon</span><span class="invisible">-hammer-the-elusive-poet-of-desire</span></a></p><p>Cavafy at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/51261" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/51261"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/51261</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>"The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1847.</p><p>Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is published (as "an autobiography, edited by Currer Bell") in London by Smith, Elder & Co. in 3 volumes.</p><p>The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyr</span><span class="invisible">e</span></a></p><p>Jane Eyre at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1260" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/1260</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
