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<p>Explore an Online Archive of 2,100+ Rare Illustrations from Charles Dickens’ Novels </p><p>via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://toot.community/@openculture" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>openculture</span></a></span> (from the archives)</p><p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2024/12/explore-an-online-archive-of-2100-rare-illustrations-from-charles-dickens-novels.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.openculture.com/2024/12/explore-an-online-archive-of-2100-rare-illustrations-from-charles-dickens-novels.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.openculture.com/2024/12/ex</span><span class="invisible">plore-an-online-archive-of-2100-rare-illustrations-from-charles-dickens-novels.html</span></a></p><p>Charles Dickens books illustrations are available to download for free here:<br><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=charles+dickens+books+Illustrations&amp;title=Special%3AMediaSearch&amp;type=image" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=charles+dickens+books+Illustrations&amp;title=Special%3AMediaSearch&amp;type=image"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.</span><span class="invisible">php?search=charles+dickens+books+Illustrations&amp;title=Special%3AMediaSearch&amp;type=image</span></a></p><p>Charles Dickens at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/37</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#Art</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/bookillustration/" rel="tag">#bookillustration</a></p>

<p>150 years of the bizarre Hans Christian Andersen</p><p>His oddball stories were driven by his outsider status and strange appearance.</p><p>By Frances Wilson</p><p><a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2025/07/150-years-of-the-bizarre-hans-christian-andersen" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2025/07/150-years-of-the-bizarre-hans-christian-andersen"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.newstatesman.com/culture/b</span><span class="invisible">ooks/book-of-the-day/2025/07/150-years-of-the-bizarre-hans-christian-andersen</span></a></p><p>Hans Christian 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> <a href="/tags/literarycriticism/" rel="tag">#literarycriticism</a></p>

<p>ALT Book Fringe 2025<br>4–29 August, Edinburgh</p><p>Entirely run &amp; curated by three of Scotland’s leading indie bookshops – Argonaut Books, Lighthouse – Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop, &amp; Typewronger – ALT Book Fringe is a free, alternative August literary festival</p><p><a href="https://www.lighthousebookshop.com/events/book-fringe-2025-alt-edition-returns" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.lighthousebookshop.com/events/book-fringe-2025-alt-edition-returns"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.lighthousebookshop.com/eve</span><span class="invisible">nts/book-fringe-2025-alt-edition-returns</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/edinburgh/" rel="tag">#Edinburgh</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookfestival/" rel="tag">#bookfestival</a></p>

<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&amp;q=https://reviewdb.app/book/6lMRfaFP54ZHHjtprjY6nR" rel="nofollow">Question 7</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 <br>by Richard Flanagan.</p><p>An exploration of life &amp; death, love &amp; fate, encompassing everything from his family history to HG Wells and the development of the atomic bomb. Damn he can write! The description of his near-death experience is mesmerising. Didn&#x27;t fully come together for me, but suspect it will benefit from a revisit.</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><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> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wyrms.de/user/wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wildwoila@wyrms.de</span></a></span><br></p>

<p>📚 The Boy on The Bridge by: M. R. Carey </p><p>One exceptional clever boy journeys into the ashes of society to find the cure for a devastating plague in a riveting post-apocalyptic world, a land blighted by terror.</p><p>The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out...</p><p>To where the monsters lived.</p><p>From the author of USA Today bestsell...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-boy-on-the-bridge" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-boy-on-the-bridge"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-boy-on</span><span class="invisible">-the-bridge</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/subjects/" rel="tag">#subjects</a></p>

<p>Story structure can be good, it can also make it painfully obvious. Personally I prefer not being able to guess the ending after the first chapter... 🤔😁 </p><p>@bookstodon @fantasybookstodon @bookbubble @humour @reading</p><p><a href="/tags/tomgauld/" rel="tag">#TomGauld</a> <a href="/tags/and/" rel="tag">#And</a> <a href="/tags/the/" rel="tag">#The</a> <a href="/tags/story/" rel="tag">#Story</a> <a href="/tags/of/" rel="tag">#Of</a> <a href="/tags/the/" rel="tag">#The</a> <a href="/tags/structure/" rel="tag">#Structure</a><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> <br><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> <br><a href="/tags/repost/" rel="tag">#Repost</a> <a href="/tags/from/" rel="tag">#From</a> <a href="/tags/old/" rel="tag">#Old</a> <a href="/tags/account/" rel="tag">#Account</a></p>

Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

<p>Whatever Happened to London’s “Little America”?</p><p>Since the time of John Adams, the first US Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Grosvenor Square has been the locus of the American government in Britain.</p><p>By: Matthew Wills </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/whatever-happened-to-londons-little-america/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/whatever-happened-to-londons-little-america/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/whatever-happe</span><span class="invisible">ned-to-londons-little-america/</span></a></p><p>John Adams at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4660" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4660"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/4660</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

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<p>Smashwords - Free Scifi Summer - My short stories are FREE from Smashwords July 1-31, 2025! Grab a free story from any of the eighteen below:</p><p><a href="https://inkican.com/smashwords-free-scifi-summer/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="inkican.com/smashwords-free-scifi-summer/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inkican.com/smashwords-free-sc</span><span class="invisible">ifi-summer/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/freestuff/" rel="tag">#freestuff</a> <a href="/tags/free/" rel="tag">#free</a> <a href="/tags/freebies/" rel="tag">#freebies</a> <a href="/tags/giveaway/" rel="tag">#giveaway</a> <a href="/tags/frugal/" rel="tag">#frugal</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#Sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/booksforkids/" rel="tag">#booksforkids</a></p>

<p>Hear Albert Camus’ Grateful Letter to His Teacher After Winning the Nobel Prize</p><p>In 1924, two decades before the publication of The Stranger, author Albert Camus was a boy growing up in poverty in Algeria. Noticing his potential, a teacher named Louis Germain took him under his wing, even giving him free lessons to help him secure a scholarship.</p><p>By Regina Sienra </p><p><a href="https://mymodernmet.com/albert-camus-letter-teacher/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mymodernmet.com/albert-camus-letter-teacher/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mymodernmet.com/albert-camus-l</span><span class="invisible">etter-teacher/</span></a>?</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a></p>

<p>My <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#bookreview</a> is brief/won&#x27;t spoil, to spread good, great, and spectacular <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> far and wide.</p><p>THE WRITHING, VERDANT END compiles 6 uniquely intense, memorable stories of eco-horror. Corey Farrenkopf, Tiffany Morris, and Eric Raglin all contribute eerie, haunting tales where human nature and the natural world clash &amp; fight for survival. Lush writing about terrifying, strange nature(s). (Cursed Morsels)</p><p><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a><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="/tags/mothersuspiriareview/" rel="tag">#mothersuspiriareview</a> <a href="/tags/msreview/" rel="tag">#MSReview</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://toot.community/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon@toot.community</span></a></span></p>

<p>This month&#x27;s Distributed Proofreaders blog delves into the newly uploaded &quot;Newton&#x27;s Principia.&quot; </p><p>&quot;In it, Newton expounds, with mathematical proof, what is now the bedrock of modern physics: his groundbreaking laws of motion and universal gravitation, and his explanations of the motion of planets, moons, comets, tides, fluids, and other physical phenomena.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/08/01/newtons-principia/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.pgdp.net/2025/08/01/newtons-principia/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.pgdp.net/2025/08/01/newto</span><span class="invisible">ns-principia/</span></a></p><p>Newton&#x27;s Principia at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76404" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76404</a></p><p><a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/dp/" rel="tag">#dp</a></p>

<p>I’m a big fan of Helen’s work. Her stories are clever, atmospheric and often scare-filled, which is already a powerful combination. And then when you add in her exquisitely realistic and researched sense of place, the terror only increases exponentially. </p><p>There aren’t too many great writers furthering the pleasing terror agenda of M. R. James, and making it their own, but Helen’s surely one of them—and one of the best. </p><p><a href="/tags/supernaturalhorror/" rel="tag">#SupernaturalHorror</a> <a href="/tags/ghoststories/" rel="tag">#GhostStories</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#Horror</a> <a href="/tags/supernaturalliterature/" rel="tag">#SupernaturalLiterature</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/womeninhorror/" rel="tag">#WomenInHorror</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> <a href="https://mas.to/@helengrantsays/116277066752625876" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mas.to/@helengrantsays/116277066752625876"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mas.to/@helengrantsays/1162770</span><span class="invisible">66752625876</span></a></p>

<p>6 Authors Who Hated Their Most Popular Books</p><p>From Agatha Christie to Franz Kafka, these authors were not fans of their most beloved creations.</p><p>By Paul Anthony Jones</p><p><a href="https://www.mentalfloss.com/entertainment/literature/authors-who-hated-their-most-popular-books" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.mentalfloss.com/entertainment/literature/authors-who-hated-their-most-popular-books"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.mentalfloss.com/entertainm</span><span class="invisible">ent/literature/authors-who-hated-their-most-popular-books</span></a></p><p>Louisa May Alcott, Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, Kafka, MIlne at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/102" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/102"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/102</span></a><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><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/69</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1735</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/730" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/730"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/730</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Collecting The Most Beautiful Books<br>22 Aug, Mount Stuart House, Rothesay – £8.50–£11</p><p>Kelsey Jackson Williams will explore armorial bookbindings in the Bute Collection &amp; tell how aristocratic pride, the bookbinders&#x27; art, &amp; subsequent tastes in collecting came together to form an exceptional but unknown assemblage of book-art in the Mount Stuart libraries.</p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collecting-the-most-beautiful-books-august-talk-tickets-1529153030879" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collecting-the-most-beautiful-books-august-talk-tickets-1529153030879"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collect</span><span class="invisible">ing-the-most-beautiful-books-august-talk-tickets-1529153030879</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookbinding/" rel="tag">#bookbinding</a> <a href="/tags/bookhistory/" rel="tag">#bookhistory</a> <a href="/tags/bute/" rel="tag">#Bute</a> <a href="/tags/rothesay/" rel="tag">#Rothesay</a></p>

<p>Nietzsche vs. Schopenhauer’s Views on Life, Suffering, and the Will</p><p>Is suffering something that hinders us, or helps us along? Schopenhauer looks for a way out, while Nietzsche insists we make good use of it.</p><p>by Viktoriya Sus</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/nietzsche-vs-shopenhauer/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/nietzsche-vs-shopenhauer/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/nietzsche</span><span class="invisible">-vs-shopenhauer/</span></a></p><p>Schopenhauer and Nietzsche at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3648" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3648"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/3648</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/779" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/779"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/779</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#Philosophy</a></p>

Warsaw Treaty New Initiatives - Documents of the Meeting of the Political Consultative Committee of the Member States of the Warsaw Treaty Organization