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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1854.</p><p>Wilkie Collins's "The Lawyer's Story of a Stolen Letter", published as "The Fourth Poor Traveller" in The Seven Poor Travellers – the Household Words special Christmas number – is the first non-police detective fiction published in Britain.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkie_Collins" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkie_Collins"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkie_C</span><span class="invisible">ollins</span></a></p><p>The Lawyer's Story of a Stolen Letter at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1626" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1626</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

The Seven Poor Travellers by Wilkie Collins.

Being the Extra Christmas Number of Household Words, Christmas 1854, p. 1.

https://archive.org/details/householdwords10dick/page/1/mode/1up?q=seven+poor

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1847.</p><p>Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey are published in a three-volume set under the pen names of Ellis and Acton Bell respectively, in London by T. C. Newby. Wuthering Heights will be Emily's only published novel, as she dies a year later, aged 30.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wutherin</span><span class="invisible">g_Heights</span></a></p><p>Wuthering Heights at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/768" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/768</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Grey" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Grey"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Gr</span><span class="invisible">ey</span></a></p><p>Agnes Grey at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/767" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/767</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Title page for the first volume of the first edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. Thomas Cautley Newby, publisher. Lowell 1238.5 (A), Houghton Library, Harvard University

First edition title page of Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte. Volumes 1 and 2 of this edition are Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.

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What I'm reading tonight: Piper Perish by Kayla Cagan

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<p>Did anyone else try out the Apple Voice Technology offered for free by Draft2Digital to produce audiobooks? I was amazed at how terrible and primitive the Apple Voice Technology actually is, considering what Apple is. Here's one clue about how terrible the technology is: I wrote a book in 2023 under the pen name N.J. Edwards. The computer-generated male voice introduced the audiobook this way: "This is an audiobook by author New Jersey Edwards. Granted, New Jersey Edwards is a fantastic pen name. I wish I'd thought of it. But that is not the author's name on the front of my book. The audiobook of my novel BEER POUR is so atrocious that there's actual computer code jibberish spoken in the middle of a dialogue scene. I could go on and on about all the flaws, but there's not enough room here. Go back to the drawing board, Apple. <a href="/tags/apple/" rel="tag">#Apple</a> <a href="/tags/audiobook/" rel="tag">#audiobook</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#novel</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#novel</a> <a href="/tags/voice/" rel="tag">#voice</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/newjersey/" rel="tag">#NewJersey</a> <a href="/tags/draft2digital/" rel="tag">#draft2digital</a> <a href="/tags/d2d/" rel="tag">#D2D</a> <a href="/tags/computergenerated/" rel="tag">#computergenerated</a> <a href="/tags/computer/" rel="tag">#computer</a> <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a> <a href="/tags/intro/" rel="tag">#intro</a> <a href="/tags/introductions/" rel="tag">#introductions</a> <a href="/tags/scribesandmakers/" rel="tag">#scribesAndMakers</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/writerscoffeeclub/" rel="tag">#writersCoffeeClub</a> <a href="/tags/writer/" rel="tag">#writer</a> <a href="/tags/publishing/" rel="tag">#publishing</a> <a href="/tags/mywork/" rel="tag">#MyWork</a> <a href="/tags/writersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#writers</a> <a href="/tags/writerslife/" rel="tag">#writersLife</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieAuthor</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/authors/" rel="tag">#authors</a> <a href="/tags/audio/" rel="tag">#audio</a> <a href="/tags/audiofiction/" rel="tag">#audiofiction</a> <a href="/tags/startup/" rel="tag">#startup</a></p>

I was commenting on how terrible Apple Voice Technology is for creating audiobooks. It can't even get the author's name right.

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<p>"Man is not truly one, but truly two."</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> (and January 9) in 1886.</p><p>Robert Louis Stevenson's horror novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde appears in New York and London. Almost 40,000 copies are sold in the first six months. By 1901, it was estimated to have sold over 250,000 copies in the United States.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_</span><span class="invisible">Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde</span></a></p><p>The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/43" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/43</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Title page of the first London edition (1886) of
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

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<p>"Ah! the death of the poor, the empty entrails, howling hunger, the animal appetite that leads one with chattering teeth to fill one’s stomach with beastly refuse in this great Paris, so bright and golden! "<br>Chapter XII</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1877.</p><p>Émile Zola's L'Assommoir, 7th in his novel sequence Les Rougon-Macquart, is first published in book format a few weeks after its serialisation ends in Le Bien public (Paris). </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Assommoir" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Assommoir"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Asso</span><span class="invisible">mmoir</span></a></p><p>L´Assommoir at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=L%27Assommoir&submit_search=Go%21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=L%27Assommoir&submit_search=Go%21"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?q</span><span class="invisible">uery=L%27Assommoir&submit_search=Go%21</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Cover of 1877 Charpentier edition of L'Assommoir.

The cover of the 1877 Charpentier edition of L'Assommoir by Émile Zola is relatively simple and characteristic of 19th-century French book design.

It typically features a plain or minimalistic layout with the title (L'Assommoir) and author's name (Émile Zola) displayed prominently in an elegant, classic serif typeface.

The publisher, G. Charpentier, is credited, often at the bottom of the cover. The design is likely devoid of elaborate illustrations, aligning with the literary and serious nature of Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series.

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Do the 2000's Hugo Winners Still Hold Up? <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/43681673">See Original Page</a> </small>

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1835.</p><p>Abolitionist Susan Paul officiates at a meeting of the New England Anti-Slavery Society (NEASS) in Boston. Later in the year, her Memoir of James Jackson becomes the earliest-known published narrative by an African-American woman and the first account documenting the life of a free black child in the United States.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Paul" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Paul"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Pa</span><span class="invisible">ul</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Memoir of James Jackson by Susan Paul, 1835, cover

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<p>Fae Reviews makes video book reviews, especially about romantasy books (romantic stories with a fantasy setting). You can follow at:</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="[{'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://makertube.net/a/faereviews/video-channels', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://makertube.net/a/faereviews', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://makertube.net/accounts/faereviews', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}]" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>faereviews</span></a></span> </p><p>They've already uploaded 17 videos, you can browse them all at <a href="https://makertube.net/a/faereviews/videos" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="makertube.net/a/faereviews/videos"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">makertube.net/a/faereviews/vid</span><span class="invisible">eos</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/featuredpeertube/" rel="tag">#FeaturedPeerTube</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookreviews/" rel="tag">#BookReviews</a> <a href="/tags/romantasy/" rel="tag">#Romantasy</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#Romance</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/peertube/" rel="tag">#PeerTube</a> <a href="/tags/peertubers/" rel="tag">#PeerTubers</a></p>

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1911.</p><p>The U.K. Copyright Act consolidates copyright law in the British Empire and confirms the six libraries to which a copy of every book published in the U.K. must be deposited by the publisher: the British Museum Library (London); the Bodleian Library (Oxford); the Advocates Library (Edinburgh); the National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth); Trinity College Dublin; and Cambridge University Library.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_1911" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_1911"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyrigh</span><span class="invisible">t_Act_1911</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/copyright/" rel="tag">#copyright</a></p>

Cover page of the British Copyright Act 1911, also known as the Imperial Copyright Act of 1911. "Part I Imperial Copyright. Rights. 1.(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, copyright shall subsist throughout the parts of His Majesty’s dominions to which this Act extends for the term hereinafter mentioned in every original literary dramatic music and artists work, if..."

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<p>📚 Good Girl by: Aria Aber</p><p>In Berlin’s artistic underground, where techno and drugs fill warehouses still pockmarked from the wars of the twentieth century, nineteen-year-old Nila at last finds her tribe. Born in Germany to Afghan parents, raised in public housing graffitied with swastikas, drawn to philosophy, photography, and sex, Nila has spent her adol...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/good-girl" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/good-girl</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> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/women/" rel="tag">#women</a></p>

In Berlin’s artistic underground, where techno and drugs fill warehouses still pockmarked from the wars of the twentieth century, nineteen-year-old Nila at last finds her tribe. Born in Germany to Afghan parents, raised in public housing graffitied with swastikas, drawn to philosophy, photography, and sex, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice as a young woman and artist.

Then in the haze of Berlin’s legendary nightlife, Nila meets Marlowe, an American writer whose fading literary celebrity opens her eyes to a life of personal and artistic freedom. But as Nila finds herself pulled further into Marlowe’s controlling orbit, ugly, barely submerged racial tensions begin to roil Germany—and Nila’s family and community. After a year of running from her future, Nila stops to ask herself the most important question: Who does she want to be?

A story of love and family, raves and Kafka, staying up all night and surviving the mistakes of youth, Good Girl is the virtuosic debut novel by a celebrated young poet and, now, a major new voice in fiction.

An exhilarating debut novel (R.O. Kwon, The New York Times Book Review) about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of self-discovery—a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in a Berlin that can’t escape its history

A girl can get in almost anywhere, even if she can’t get out.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER F

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<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/40lLKnj7017mT5Nbq1DmX6" rel="nofollow">Before the Coffee Gets Cold</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 <br>by Toshikazu Kawaguchi.</p><p>In a particular seat in an otherwise unremarkable cafe, it is possible to travel through time. Despite stringent limitations, the customers and workers nonetheless find solace from the travails of life. Its a pleasing enough community of everyday people, but nothing special.</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> </p><p> @wildwoila@wyrms.de <span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span><br></p>

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<p>I didn't know basic dickheads knew how to read, good for them! 😜😂 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@reading" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>reading</span></a></span> <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> @humor@lemmy.world @aiop <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/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</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> <a href="/tags/funny/" rel="tag">#Funny</a><br><a href="/tags/readingmemes/" rel="tag">#ReadingMemes</a> <a href="/tags/readallthebooks/" rel="tag">#ReadAllTheBooks</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#Readers</a> <a href="/tags/readersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#ReadersOfMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a><br><a href="/tags/litterature/" rel="tag">#Litterature</a> <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></p>

Cover a book I assume doesn't actually exist, with a 1950s looking picture of a young man pointing at an engine.
Title: Everything I don't like is WOKE, a book for basic dickheads
The young man saying: This engine is woke.

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<p>📚 It's Different This Time by: Joss Richard</p><p>Reeling from the cancellation of her hit TV show, June Wood has nothing left to lose when a mysterious email lures her back to the New York City brownstone she once called home before she moved to Los Angeles. Thanks to a clause in the former owner’s will, she and her old roommate, Adam Harpe...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/its-different-this-time" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/its-different-this-time"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/its-differ</span><span class="invisible">ent-this-time</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> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/contemporaryfiction/" rel="tag">#contemporaryfiction</a></p>

Reeling from the cancellation of her hit TV show, June Wood has nothing left to lose when a mysterious email lures her back to the New York City brownstone she once called home before she moved to Los Angeles. Thanks to a clause in the former owner’s will, she and her old roommate, Adam Harper, now own the multimillion-dollar property—or at least they will in a month, once all the paperwork is signed.

Four weeks, then June can return to her life in LA and forget about New York City and everything she left behind. Sure, the fact that June and Adam are estranged and haven’t even spoken in five years, and that their friendship didn’t exactly end on good terms might complicate matters, but this is an opportunity of a lifetime.

As the autumn leaves fall around them, through shared meals and late-night conversations, old wounds and long-buried sparks resurface, and it becomes strikingly clear: June and Adam have unfinished business. Confronted with the consequences of their choices years before, they must now navigate the minefield of their past the best way they know how: together. Second chances are always a risk, but maybe, if they get it right and are finally honest with each other and with themselves, it could be different this time.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER. In this sweeping, second-chance romance, a twist of fate forces two former roommates back into their beloved New York City brownstone where they must confront the events that led to their estrangement—and th

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<p>Replicating Shakespearean-era printing brings its own dramas and comedy</p><p>This video from the London Review of Books (LRB) celebrates the Folio’s 400th anniversary by documenting an audacious attempt to replicate the methods used to print the book at the time of its original release.</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/videos/replicating-shakespearean-era-printing-brings-its-own-dramas-and-comedy" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/videos/replicating-shakespearean-era-printing-brings-its-own-dramas-and-comedy"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/videos/replicating-sha</span><span class="invisible">kespearean-era-printing-brings-its-own-dramas-and-comedy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Fo</span><span class="invisible">lio</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/oldprinting/" rel="tag">#oldprinting</a></p>

The title page of the First Folio of William Shakespeare's plays.

The title page prominently features an engraved portrait of Shakespeare, created by Martin Droeshout, a relatively young engraver at the time.

The portrait depicts Shakespeare with a high forehead, a mustache, and a goatee, wearing a doublet with a wide lace collar.
The engraving has been both praised and critiqued for its accuracy. Ben Jonson, in his introductory poem to the Folio, vouched for its likeness, calling it a "true representation" of Shakespeare.

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<p>" I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking."<br>Have His Carcase</p><p>English author, poet, and playwright Dorothy L. Sayers died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1957. Sayers is most famous for her detective novels featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, an aristocratic amateur sleuth. She wrote several plays, including The Zeal of Thy House and The Man Born to Be King. Sayers also translated major works, notably Dante’s Divine Comedy. </p><p>Dorothy L. Sayers at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/45867" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/45867"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/45867</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Dorothy L. Sayers – English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer (1893-1957)

uncredited; published by Boni and Liveright in connexion with her 1925 release Whose Body - Publicity photo from her American publishers; copy at the National Portrait Gallery.

The focus is on Sayers' upper torso and face, with a neutral or slightly blurred background that ensures the viewer’s attention is drawn entirely to her.

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1824.</p><p>The first issue of a radical quarterly founded by Jeremy Bentham, The Westminster Review, is published in London.</p><p>It was published from 1824 to 1914. James Mill was one of the driving forces behind the liberal journal until 1828. Some notable contributors: George Eliot, Harriet Martineau, John Stuart Mill, Mary Shelley, Herbert Spencer, John Tyndall, Caroline Cornwallis, Julia Wedgwood, Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Westminster_Review" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Westminster_Review"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_West</span><span class="invisible">minster_Review</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Frontispiece of The Westminster review v.1 1824.

Full copies are available at Hathi Trust Digital Library:
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008893449

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<p>"Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it."<br>The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)</p><p>Dame Agatha Christie died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> 50 years ago.</p><p>She wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections. She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_C</span><span class="invisible">hristie</span></a></p><p>Agatha Christie at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/451</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Agatha Christie as a young woman

Unknown author - The Christie Archive Trust

The image captures Christie leaning out of a window with decorative latticed or diamond-patterned glass panes. She is photographed from roughly chest level up, positioned in the window frame.

Christie appears youthful creating volume on top of her head. She wears a distinctive outfit featuring a striped blouse with bold vertical stripes, paired with what appears to be a polka-dotted. A decorative handkerchief or lace detail is visible near her collar area.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Agatha_Christie#/media/File:Agatha_Christie_as_a_young_woman.jpg

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<p>HAPPY PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY!</p><p>Books which will enter the US public domain:</p><p>William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury<br>Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms<br>Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own<br>Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon (as serialized in Black Mask magazine)<br>John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold (Steinbeck's first novel)<br>Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica<br>Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story<br>Patrick Hamilton, Rope</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomain/" rel="tag">#publicdomain</a> <br>/1</p>

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1818.</p><p>Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus first appears anonymously in London. </p><p>Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankens</span><span class="invisible">tein</span></a></p><p>1818 edition at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/41445" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/41445</a><br>1831 edition<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/42324" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/42324</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Title page of first edition of Frankenstein, Volume I.

Author Mary Shelley; publisher Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones

It includes the following details:

Title: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Volume Information: "In Three Volumes."
Quotation: A quote from Paradise Lost by John Milton:
Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?

Volume Number: "VOL. I."
Publication Details:
Published in London.
Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, located at Finsbury Square.
Year of Publication: 1818.

Victor Frankenstein becoming disgusted at his creation. Illustration from the frontispiece of the 1831 edition. Steel engraving (993 x 71mm) to the revised edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, published by Colburn and Bentley, London 1831. The novel was first published in 1818.

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<p>Just finished creating cover designs for the 12 days promo Christine and I are launching on DEC 20th. We're offering 12 days of free downloads, ranging from energy audits, mindfulness exercises, manifesting, sales/business playbooks AND MORE. The retail value of the offerings ranges from $97-$497 each. </p><p>Want to learn more? Register for free:</p><p><a href="https://meetfutureu.com/sign-up-for-futureu-updates/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="meetfutureu.com/sign-up-for-futureu-updates/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">meetfutureu.com/sign-up-for-fu</span><span class="invisible">tureu-updates/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/life/" rel="tag">#life</a> <a href="/tags/selfcare/" rel="tag">#selfCare</a> <a href="/tags/mentalhealth/" rel="tag">#mentalHealth</a> <a href="/tags/adhd/" rel="tag">#ADHD</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

Branded art for FutureU Co-Lab group coaching 12 days of Christmas offerings. Various covers of the free courses are arranged, with a person standing at the left of frame “holding” one of covers. Topics range from reframing mindset, managing uncertainty, profitability, week at a glance, intentions and creating a vision board.

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1873.</p><p>Louisa May Alcott's family satire "Transcendental Wild Oats" is published in the newspaper The Independent.</p><p>The work was first published in a New York newspaper in 1873, and reprinted in 1874, 1876, and 1915 and after. Alcott's view of male arrogance and female exploitation in this piece is paralleled in her novel Work, published in the same year as Transcendental Wild Oats.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Wild_Oats" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Wild_Oats"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcen</span><span class="invisible">dental_Wild_Oats</span></a></p><p>Transcendental Wild Oats at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34920" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34920</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>Lost Federico García Lorca verse discovered 93 years after it was written</p><p>Eight-line poem found on the back of a manuscript sheds light on Spanish poet’s preoccupation with time</p><p>by Sam Jones</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/apr/18/lost-federico-garcia-lorca-verse-discovered-93-years-after-it-was-written" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/apr/18/lost-federico-garcia-lorca-verse-discovered-93-years-after-it-was-written"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/culture/20</span><span class="invisible">26/apr/18/lost-federico-garcia-lorca-verse-discovered-93-years-after-it-was-written</span></a></p><p>Lorca at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/56772" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/56772"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/56772</span></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>

Self-Portrait by Federico García Lorca for *Poeta en Nueva York*

A large dreaming face dominates the centre, eyes closed, crescent moons on the cheeks. Surrounding skyscrapers are covered in alphabets and numbers. Black demon-like creatures prowl the margins. A winged figure floats above. A piano keyboard appears on the right.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Garc%C3%ADa_Lorca#/media/Archivo:Autorretrato_Poeta_NY.jpg

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<p>J. J. Thomson, who was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1856, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 for his discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be found.</p><p>Thomson was also a teacher, and seven of his students went on to win Nobel Prizes: Ernest Rutherford, Lawrence Bragg, Charles Barkla, Francis Aston, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Richardson and Edward Victor Appleton.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Thomson" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Thomson"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Th</span><span class="invisible">omson</span></a></p><p>Books by J.J. Thomson at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/38322" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/38322"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/38322</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a></p>

J.J. Thomson, Nobel Prize photograph (1906).

Nobel foundation - http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1906/thomson-bio.html

Joseph John Thomson (1856–1940), often referred to as J.J. Thomson, is shown in a candid pose, engrossed in writing or drawing, likely related to his scientific work.

He is depicted as a middle-aged man with receding hair, a neatly groomed mustache, and a composed, intellectual demeanor.

Thomson is wearing formal attire typical of the early 20th century:
A dark tweed suit jacket with a subtle texture.

A high-collared white shirt and a decorative tie or cravat.

A pocket square neatly tucked into his breast pocket, adding to the formal appearance.

He is wearing round spectacles, which were characteristic of the period and contributed to his scholarly appearance.

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1893.</p><p>The first story featuring the private detective character Sexton Blake, "The Missing Millionaire", appears in Alfred Harmsworth's new boys' story paper The Halfpenny Marvel, written by Harry Blyth under the pen-name Hal Meredeth.</p><p>Sexton Blake adventures were featured in a wide variety of British and international publications from 1893 to 1978, comprising more than 4,000 stories by some 200 different authors.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexton_Blake" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexton_Blake"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexton_B</span><span class="invisible">lake</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Blyth" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Blyth"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bl</span><span class="invisible">yth</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/pulpfiction/" rel="tag">#pulpfiction</a></p>

The cover of the first Sexton Blake tale, published in The Halfpenny Marvel in 1893, introduces the iconic detective Sexton Blake to readers, presenting an aesthetic typical of late 19th-century pulp fiction.

The title prominently features "The Halfpenny Marvel" in bold, eye-catching font at the top, emphasizing the magazine's affordability and accessibility.

Below the publication name, the story’s title—likely something dramatic like The Missing Millionaire—is highlighted, immediately drawing attention to the thrilling nature of the tale.

Taglines or subtitles, such as “A Sensational Detective Story,” may be included to emphasize the excitement and mystery.

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