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<a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1896.While Oscar Wilde is in prison, his play Salome (written in 1891) is premièred in its original French by Lugné-Poe's Théâtre de l'Œuvre company in Paris, perhaps at the Comédie-Parisienne. Because the play depicted biblical characters it was banned in Britain and was not performed publicly there until 1931.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_(play)" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_(play)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_(play)</a>Salomé at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1339" rel="nofollow">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1339</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a>

Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley for the first English edition of the play (1894).

The image depicts Salomé holding the severed head of John the Baptist (also known as Jokanaan) on a platter.

She gazes at it with a mixture of fascination and satisfaction, while dark liquid (presumably blood) drips from the head onto the pedestal below.

Her elaborate gown, accessories, and stylized hair reflect the Art Nouveau aesthetic, infused with Beardsley’s signature decadence and eroticism.

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Jane Austen was a satirist – why isn’t she treated like one?By Adam J SmithAlthough many women writers were critiquing society in the 18th century, hardly any of them were considered satirists.<a href="https://theconversation.com/jane-austen-was-a-satirist-why-isnt-she-treated-like-one-262274?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%204%202025%20-%203474435381&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%204%202025%20-%203474435381+CID_11a7064190437d6047887b31fe5798d3&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Jane%20Austen%20was%20a%20satirist%20%20why%20isnt%20she%20treated%20like%20one" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/jane-austen-was-a-satirist-why-isnt-she-treated-like-one-262274?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%204%202025%20-%203474435381&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%204%202025%20-%203474435381+CID_11a7064190437d6047887b31fe5798d3&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Jane%20Austen%20was%20a%20satirist%20%20why%20isnt%20she%20treated%20like%20one">https://theconversation.com/jane-austen-was-a-satirist-why-isnt-she-treated-like-one-262274?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%204%202025%20-%203474435381&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%204%202025%20-%203474435381+CID_11a7064190437d6047887b31fe5798d3&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Jane%20Austen%20was%20a%20satirist%20%20why%20isnt%20she%20treated%20like%20one</a>Jane Austen at PG <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

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Life, Work & AdorationBecoming George: The Invention of George Sandreview by Lucasta Miller<a href="https://literaryreview.co.uk/life-work-adoration" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="literaryreview.co.uk/life-work-adoration">https://literaryreview.co.uk/life-work-adoration</a>George Sand at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/851" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/851">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/851</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a>

Portrait of George Sand (cropped)
Part of: Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand
By Eugène Delacroix

George Sand depicted:

In masculine attire (white collar visible)
With dark hair and intense gaze
Holding what appears to be a small bird or flower
Against a rich, dark background with reddish-brown tones
Delacroix's characteristic loose, colorful brushwork
Contemplative, serious expression

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sand#/media/Fichier:Eug%C3%A8ne_Ferdinand_Victor_Delacroix_041.jpg

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📚 The Universe Box by: Michael SwanwickDiscover the vast worlds and pocket universes of Michael Swanwick (Stations of the Tide), the only author to win science fiction's most prestigious award five times in six years. In his dazzling new collection, the master of speculative short stories returns with tales in which magic and science improbably c...<a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-universe-box" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-universe-box">https://bookblabla.com/book/the-universe-box</a><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a><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/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/general/" rel="tag">#general</a>

Discover the vast worlds and pocket universes of Michael Swanwick (Stations of the Tide), the only author to win science fiction's most prestigious award five times in six years.

In his dazzling new collection, the master of speculative short stories returns with tales in which magic and science improbably coexist with myth and legend. With two stories original to this collection, Swanwick aptly demonstrates with poignant humor why he is widely respected as a master of imaginative storytelling.

In engaging stories, Mischling the thief races through time to defeat three trolls before the sun rises for the first time and turns the inhabitants of her city into stone. A scientist is on the run from assassins, because her research in merging human intelligence with sentient AI is too dangerous. An aging veteran obtains a military weapon from his past: a VR robotic leopard in which he rediscovers the consequences of the hunt. In the biggest heist in the history of the universe, a loser Trickster (and the girlfriend who is better than he deserves), sets out to violate every trope and expectation of fiction possible.

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Luckily Bert is right, you don't HAVE to read Dostoyevsky 😂 But you can if you want 😊 @bookstodon @bookbubble @humour @reading<a href="/tags/song/" rel="tag">#Song</a> <a href="/tags/evita/" rel="tag">#Evita</a> <a href="/tags/dostoyevsky/" rel="tag">#Dostoyevsky</a> <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> <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/boostingissharing/" rel="tag">#BoostingIsSharing</a>

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Bert's Books
Don't cry for me Dostoyevsky
The truth is I never read you
All through your chapters
Your epic fiction
You kept on writing
I kept my distance

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📚 Stolen in Death by: J. D. RobbA blow to the head with a block of amethyst has left multibillionaire Nathan Barrister dead while nearby, a vault, its door ajar, sits filled with priceless paintings, jewelry, and other treasures. Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s husband, Roarke who misspent his youth in Ireland as a scrappy ...<a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/stolen-in-death" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/stolen-in-death">https://bookblabla.com/book/stolen-in-death</a><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a><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/mysterydetective/" rel="tag">#mysterydetective</a> <a href="/tags/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/crimefiction/" rel="tag">#crimefiction</a> <a href="/tags/womensleuths/" rel="tag">#womensleuths</a>

A blow to the head with a block of amethyst has left multibillionaire Nathan Barrister dead while nearby, a vault, its door ajar, sits filled with priceless paintings, jewelry, and other treasures. Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s husband, Roarke who misspent his youth in Ireland as a scrappy thief—recognizes at least two stolen pieces among the hoard. The crime scene suggests a burglar caught in the act. But only one item seems to be missing.

Then it’s revealed that the vault had actually belonged to the victim’s late father—and no one in the household knew it was there until a recent remodeling project exposed it. To protect the family name and business, they explain to Eve, they’d been looking for a way to return the ill-gotten gains anonymously and avoid the police. But now the police are all over their elegant house, and have a bigger, bloodier mystery to solve.

By all accounts, Nathan Barrister was a good man, a generous employer, a devoted husband and father. As for his father—he clearly had secrets. Now it’s up to Eve and her team to find out if those secrets got Nathan killed—and if it was a crime of passion or revenge.

A violent death and a vault of stolen treasures has Eve Dallas struggling to solve crimes old and new in the next thriller in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.

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Books I Wish I Could Read Again for the First Time: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-books-i-wish-i-could-read-again-for-the-first-time/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-books-i-wish-i-could-read-again-for-the-first-time/">https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-books-i-wish-i-could-read-again-for-the-first-time/</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/nonfiction/" rel="tag">#Nonfiction</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/wednesdayweeklybloggingchallenge/" rel="tag">#WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

Book cover for A Short History of the World According to Sheep by Sally Coulthard. Image on cover is a photo of a shepherd herding his sheep while they stand on a mountain. There are much larger, snowier mountains in the background.

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The first <a href="/tags/concentrationcamp/" rel="tag">#concentrationcamp</a>. Decades from now this <a href="/tags/photo/" rel="tag">#photo</a> will (hopefully) be in the <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a>

The first concentration camp. Decades from now this photo will (hopefully) be in the history books

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Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/JigsawCity" rel="nofollow">https://books2read.com/JigsawCity</a>Nicole’s brain is slowly being taken over by an ancient, magical artifact, a small fragment of a magic city. She seeks a cure, before the city can destroy her sanity and then eventually, take her life by replacing her mind. Racing against time, she gathers pieces of the city, hoping to find an answer among them.<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <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>

(Left) The cover of Jigsaw City, by Owen Tyme.

The background is a futuristic city of sky scrapers covered in greenery, with water ways in place of some streets. The background has been divided by dark lines that cut it up, into a jigsaw puzzle.

The foreground is a hexagonal coin with an indentation in the center that follows the same shape, with raised lines forming a hexagram in the center, which has a smaller one turned at a ninety-degree angle inside the hexagon at the center of it. The smaller hexagram has another inside it, a pattern that repeats until the lines become so fine and indistinct, they blend together.

(Right) There's a pool of lava at the base of a rocky slope, with some sharp rocks sticking upward out of it and the following text over the top:

“I’m immune to heat and fire. I can easily carry and protect one of you…”

“Ye’d need to deliver an army to make a difference, not one person!”

“I *am* an army.”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/JigsawCity

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Historians recently discovered a hidden fragment of the Bible.A part of the book of Matthew was found under two other layers of text.<a href="https://historyfacts.com/world-history/fact/historians-recently-discovered-a-hidden-fragment-of-the-bible/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="historyfacts.com/world-history/fact/historians-recently-discovered-a-hidden-fragment-of-the-bible/">https://historyfacts.com/world-history/fact/historians-recently-discovered-a-hidden-fragment-of-the-bible/</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/bible/" rel="tag">#bible</a>

View of someone holding a copy of the Holy Bible.

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Liebes <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> ,unser neues Kulturprogramm für 2026 ist draußen! 🎉 Mehr Infos findet ihr hier: <a href="https://buchhandlung-am-bruehl.de/aktuelle-veranstaltungen/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="buchhandlung-am-bruehl.de/aktuelle-veranstaltungen/">https://buchhandlung-am-bruehl.de/aktuelle-veranstaltungen/</a>Wir hoffen, dass für jede*n was dabei ist. :)Gedruckt liegt das neue Programm Ende der Woche bei uns aus.Liebe Grüße Tina und Max von der Buchhandlung am Brühl in <a href="/tags/chemnitz/" rel="tag">#Chemnitz</a> <a href="/tags/veranstaltungen/" rel="tag">#Veranstaltungen</a> <a href="/tags/kultur/" rel="tag">#Kultur</a> <a href="/tags/lesung/" rel="tag">#Lesung</a> <a href="/tags/konzert/" rel="tag">#Konzert</a> <a href="/tags/tacheles/" rel="tag">#tacheles</a> <a href="/tags/buch/" rel="tag">#buch</a> <a href="/tags/krimi/" rel="tag">#krimi</a> <a href="/tags/literatur/" rel="tag">#Literatur</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bucher/" rel="tag">#bucher</a> <a href="/tags/livres/" rel="tag">#livres</a> <a href="/tags/dielinke/" rel="tag">#dielinke</a> <a href="/tags/leipzig/" rel="tag">#leipzig</a> <a href="/tags/dresden/" rel="tag">#dresden</a> <a href="/tags/erzgebirge/" rel="tag">#erzgebirge</a> <a href="/tags/mittelsachsen/" rel="tag">#mittelsachsen</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/lesen/" rel="tag">#lesen</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a>

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📚 Love and Other Brain Experiments by: Hannah BrohmNeuroscientist Dr. Frances Silberstein has success on the brain. As a grad student, she was offered a job by her brilliant boyfriend, but determined to make it on her own, she turned it—and him—down. Now, stuck in postdoc purgatory with no job security and no personal life to speak ...<a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/love-and-other-brain-experiments" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/love-and-other-brain-experiments">https://bookblabla.com/book/love-and-other-brain-experiments</a><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a><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/fakedating/" rel="tag">#fakedating</a>

Neuroscientist Dr. Frances Silberstein has success on the brain. As a grad student, she was offered a job by her brilliant boyfriend, but determined to make it on her own, she turned it—and him—down. Now, stuck in postdoc purgatory with no job security and no personal life to speak of, Frances is desperate to make a breakthrough. Her best shot is a summer conference packed with her field's leading scientists. The only problem? It's organized by her ex, who has found the success that’s eluded her. But backing out is not an option, because Frances desperately needs to network to save her career.

Enter Dr. Lewis North: her perceptive, meticulous, and inconveniently attractive rival. When their academic sniping gets mistaken for flirtatious chemistry, Frances doesn't deny it—putting her integrity and career on the line. As soon as her prefrontal cortex is operational again, Frances realizes she needs to keep up the charade, or risk everything she’s worked for. Faking data is out of the question, but fake dating? That might just be the solution she needs.

But as Lewis starts to make her reward centers spark and a major setback has Frances questioning everything, she must confront what she's willing to chase for love, for science, and for the future she thought she wanted.

An academic-rivals-to-lovers rom-com set at a New York conference about two neuroscientists who are forced to pretend they're dating, leading to unexpected chemistry and a heartfelt journey of

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Letter From Minnesota: Vigil in a Besieged CityFOR POET JIM MOORE, ECHOES OF 1970 AND BEYOND<a href="https://lithub.com/letter-from-minnesota-vigil-in-a-besieged-city/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/letter-from-minnesota-vigil-in-a-besieged-city/">https://lithub.com/letter-from-minnesota-vigil-in-a-besieged-city/</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a>

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10 Myths About the Greek Goddess ArtemisFascinating stories about the goddess Artemis from Greek myth. The twin sister of Apollo, the chaste goddess, represents the wild wilderness and the hunt. by Daniel Soulard<a href="https://www.thecollector.com/myths-about-artemis-greek-goddess/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/myths-about-artemis-greek-goddess/">https://www.thecollector.com/myths-about-artemis-greek-goddess/</a>There are two interesting books about Artemis at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14576" rel="nofollow">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14576</a> <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9283" rel="nofollow">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9283</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/mythology/" rel="tag">#mythology</a>

Scene from sacrifice in honour of Artemis-Diana who is accompanied by a deer. Fresco from the triclinium of the house of Vettii in Pompeii, Italy, between 62 CE and 79 CE (Destruction of Pompeii).

An ancient Fourth-Pompeian-Style Roman wall painting depicting a scene of sacrifice in honor of the goddess Diana; she is seen here accompanied by a deer. The fresco was discovered in the triclinium of House of the Vettii in Pompeii, Italy.

As with the other frescoes in this house, the painting dates between the time of the earthquake of Pompeii in 62 AD and the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD that destroyed Pompeii, killing its inhabitants, but preserved many ancient works of art.

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finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/1Z9ZG5bdKt91MBlwOgBE2H" rel="nofollow">The Hobbit</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 by JRR Tolkien.[re-read] The dwarves are dead weight - it's all Bilbo and Gandalf. Gollum really gets a raw deal in the riddle game. <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/sleepstory/" rel="tag">#SleepStory</a><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@WildWoila</a> @wildwoila@wyrms.de

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How Georges Méliès Brought Magic to the MoviesGeorges Méliès created worlds of magic and adventure that revolutionized filmmaking when filmmaking itself was still a novelty.by Kat Bello (from the archives)<a href="https://www.thecollector.com/georges-melies-magic-movies/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/georges-melies-magic-movies/">https://www.thecollector.com/georges-melies-magic-movies/</a>Movie books at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/49" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/49">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/49</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/movies/" rel="tag">#movies</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a>

Screenshot from Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902)

by Roger-Viollet

One of cinema's most iconic images: the Man in the Moon with a rocket capsule lodged in his eye, from Georges Méliès's "Le Voyage dans la Lune" (A Trip to the Moon, 1902). The moon is rendered as a grimacing human face, the capsule embedded like an arrow.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s#/media/Fichier:Le_Voyage_dans_la_lune.jpg/2

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📚 A Gentleman in Moscow by: Amor TowlesIn 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his lif...<a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/a-gentleman-in-moscow" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/a-gentleman-in-moscow">https://bookblabla.com/book/a-gentleman-in-moscow</a><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a><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/historical/" rel="tag">#historical</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/political/" rel="tag">#political</a>

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.

Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.

The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers. A New York Times Readers Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century Pick

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel

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"Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard. Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!"<a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1898.The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde was published by Leonard Smithers, under the name "C.3.3.", which stood for cell block C, landing 3, cell 3.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Reading_Gaol" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Reading_Gaol">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Reading_Gaol</a>Ballad of Reading Gaol at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/301" rel="nofollow">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/301</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a>

Cover of The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1904).

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How an Enslaved Gardener Transformed the Pecan Into a Cash CropBeronda L. Montgomery on the Unsung Contributions of Black and Indigenous People to American Biology<a href="https://lithub.com/how-an-enslaved-gardener-transformed-the-pecan-into-a-cash-crop/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KFTZBCW42TQ28MP0BQPX2FQJ&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/how-an-enslaved-gardener-transformed-the-pecan-into-a-cash-crop/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KFTZBCW42TQ28MP0BQPX2FQJ&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER">https://lithub.com/how-an-enslaved-gardener-transformed-the-pecan-into-a-cash-crop/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KFTZBCW42TQ28MP0BQPX2FQJ&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</a>Botanics at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/115" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/115">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/115</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/botanics/" rel="tag">#botanics</a> <a href="/tags/biology/" rel="tag">#biology</a>

Carya illinoinensis (Wangenh.) K.Koch.

Multiple leaflets arranged along a central rachis (stem) showing some characteristics
Serrated (toothed) margins
Lanceolate to oblong shape
Prominent venation preserved in the pressing
Typical arrangement of 9-13 leaflets on this specimen

The brown color is normal for aged herbarium specimens

https://www.botanicalcollections.be/#/en/specimen/BR0000024493932

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<a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1889.August Strindberg's naturalistic drama Miss Julie (Fröken Julie), 1888, is first performed, by the Scandinavian Experimental Theater at the University of Copenhagen. His wife Siri von Essen plays the title rôle.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Julie" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Julie">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Julie</a>Miss Julie at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14347" rel="nofollow">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14347</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a>

Photograph of the first production of Miss Julie at The People's Theatre in November 1906.

Unknown photographer, 1906 - Strindberg and the Five Senses, bu Hans-Goran Ekman.

On the left, a woman dressed in traditional servant attire appears to be engaged in a kitchen task, emphasizing the play’s working-class setting.

In the center-right, a woman in a long white dress (likely portraying Miss Julie) is interacting closely with a man in a formal suit (likely the character Jean), highlighting the tension and intimacy central to the plot.

The set design features modest furniture, utensils hanging on the wall, and exposed wooden beams, reflecting the realistic and detailed staging typical of early 20th-century naturalist theatre.

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What Is the Story of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle?by Alexander RobertsThe Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a history of the Anglo-Saxon kings, and it has an interesting history of its own.<a href="https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-story-anglo-saxon-chronicle/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/what-is-story-anglo-saxon-chronicle/">https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-story-anglo-saxon-chronicle/</a>The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle at PG<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/657" rel="nofollow">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/657</a>and<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75186" rel="nofollow">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75186</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a>

A map of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy

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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? February 03

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Who Were the Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance?<a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nu83pQl7mgQ" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/shorts/Nu83pQl7mgQ">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nu83pQl7mgQ</a>At PG:Gwendolyn Bennett<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Gwendolyn+Bennett" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Gwendolyn+Bennett">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Gwendolyn+Bennett</a>Alice Dunbar Nelson<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Alice+Dunbar+Nelson" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Alice+Dunbar+Nelson">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Alice+Dunbar+Nelson</a>Anne Spencer<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Anne+Spencer" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Anne+Spencer">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Anne+Spencer</a>Zora Neale Hurston<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Zora+Neale+Hurston" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Zora+Neale+Hurston">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Zora+Neale+Hurston</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a>

Anne B. Spencer in her wedding dress - picryl.com

She is standing with her right hand on the back of a chair.

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Celebrating Black History MonthFebruary marks Black History Month, a month-long observance in the United States and Canada that recognizes the significant contributions of Black Americans to history, as well as the historical legacies of the African diaspora. By The Editors<a href="https://daily.jstor.org/black-history-month-editors-picks/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/black-history-month-editors-picks/">https://daily.jstor.org/black-history-month-editors-picks/</a>Black history at PG: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=black+history" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=black+history">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=black+history</a><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#blackhistorymonth</a>

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hello. i'm marmar. not usually very active on social media but thought i'd give mastodon a try. just migrated over to sunny.garden so here's a little <a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a> post- de <a href="/tags/pr/" rel="tag">#PR</a> 🇵🇷 - sadly living in the US - from the very very late 1900ssome interests: <a href="/tags/games/" rel="tag">#games</a> : <a href="/tags/megaten/" rel="tag">#megaten</a> <a href="/tags/smt/" rel="tag">#smt</a> <a href="/tags/persona/" rel="tag">#persona</a> <a href="/tags/jrpg/" rel="tag">#jrpg</a> <a href="/tags/zelda/" rel="tag">#zelda</a> <a href="/tags/indie/" rel="tag">#indie</a> <a href="/tags/dnd/" rel="tag">#dnd</a> <a href="/tags/ttrpg/" rel="tag">#ttrpg</a> <a href="/tags/cartoons/" rel="tag">#cartoons</a> : <a href="/tags/stevenuniverse/" rel="tag">#stevenuniverse</a> <a href="/tags/adventuretime/" rel="tag">#adventuretime</a> <a href="/tags/overthegardenwall/" rel="tag">#overthegardenwall</a><a href="/tags/dropout/" rel="tag">#dropout</a> : <a href="/tags/makesomenoise/" rel="tag">#makesomenoise</a> <a href="/tags/dimension20/" rel="tag">#dimension20</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> : <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> : <a href="/tags/dancegavindance/" rel="tag">#dancegavindance</a> <a href="/tags/gameaudio/" rel="tag">#gameaudio</a> <a href="/tags/gamemusic/" rel="tag">#gamemusic</a> <a href="/tags/vgm/" rel="tag">#vgm</a> <a href="/tags/emo/" rel="tag">#emo</a> <a href="/tags/posthardcore/" rel="tag">#postHardcore</a> <a href="/tags/neosoul/" rel="tag">#neosoul</a>

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