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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1910.</p><p>Halley's comet reappears after 76 years, and Mark Twain dies at his home, Stormfield, the day after the comet's perihelion. In his autobiography, Twain wrote, "I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It's coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. The Almighty has said no doubt, 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a></p>

Halley in April 1910, from Harvard's Southern Hemisphere Station, taken with an 8-inch Bache Doublet

Harvard College Observatory - http://dasch.rc.fas.harvard.edu/gallery.php

Portion of Plate b41215 of Halley's comet taken on April 21, 1910 from Arequipa, Peru with the 8-inch Bache Doublet, Voigtlander. The exposure was 30 minutes centered on 23h41m29s R.A. and +07d21m09s Declination.

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Wanderer (2025) – Adedapo Adeniyi <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/32339852">See Original Page</a> </small>

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Any good psychological horror novels?

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<p>Wrapping up 2025 with gratitude to the many people who supported me this year while I was launching The Expert of Subtle Revisions. Thank you for reading the book, for buying the book, for checking it out from the library (I just learned it was a top check out from the Mechanics' Institute Library this year!) for sharing it with friends and online, for showing up at events, for your kind notes, your kind reviews, your attention. My year-in-review features moments I photographed--the book launch at Bookshop West Portal with Lilian Van Cleve, Book Passage with Allison Bainbridge, Symposium Books with Tanya Young, That was Then at Page Street, a New York City book store tour with Meredith Davis, a Boston book store tour with Daphne Kalotay, Sebastopol LitCrawl, and Kepler's Story is the Thing--but many important moments have no image to accompany them. They will always remain with me as well. Thank you!</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://youtu.be/7zfOlSfED28" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>youtu.be/7zfOlSfED28</a></p>

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<p>📚 The Nightingale: A Novel by: Kristin Hannah</p><p>With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking o...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-nightingale-a-novel" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-nightingale-a-novel"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-nighti</span><span class="invisible">ngale-a-novel</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>

With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France―a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.

Goodreads Best Historical Novel of the Year • People's Choice Favorite Fiction Winner • #1 Indie Next Selection • A Buzzfeed and The Week Best Book of the Year

A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation.

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<p>German philosopher Immanuel Kant was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> 300 years ago!</p><p>Kant’s most famous work, the "Critique of Pure Reason", is often considered one of the most significant works in the history of philosophy. In this book, he introduced the concept of a priori synthetic judgments, arguing that our ability to perceive & understand the world is shaped by the ways our mind structures experiences.</p><p>Books by Immanuel Kant at PG:<br>The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#philosophy</a></p>

Immanuel Kant, painted portrait, c1790. Kant (1724-1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.

A classic painting depicting Immanuel Kant with white, curly hair wearing an 18th-century style dark coat with a white shirt visible at the collar. The background is dark, providing a strong contrast with the lighter elements of the figure's attire.

Cover of The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant.

"The Critique of Pure Reason" (Kritik der reinen Vernunft), published in 1781 and revised in 1787, is Immanuel Kant’s seminal work and one of the most influential texts in the history of philosophy. In this book, Kant endeavors to analyze the faculties of human reason and to establish the capabilities and limits of pure reason.

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<p>📚 Yellowface by: Rebecca F. Kuang</p><p>Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena's a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks.</p><p>So when June witnesses Athena's death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/yellowface" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/yellowface</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/psychologicalfiction/" rel="tag">#psychologicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a></p>

Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena's a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks.

So when June witnesses Athena's death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena's just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I.

So what if June edits Athena's novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song--complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn't this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That's what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree.
But June can't get away from Athena's shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June's (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.

With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. R.F. Kuang's novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.

White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences... Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and

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<p>Great piece by Ilana Masad on making art and marketing it:</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/booksky/" rel="tag">#booksky</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://electricliterature.com/artists-shouldnt-need-to-become-content-creators-to-get-fair-pay/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="electricliterature.com/artists-shouldnt-need-to-become-content-creators-to-get-fair-pay/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">electricliterature.com/artists</span><span class="invisible">-shouldnt-need-to-become-content-creators-to-get-fair-pay/</span></a></p>

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<p>I just read the two-part graphic novel "My Brother's Husband" by Gengoroh Tagame. It's set in Japan, where a single dad gets to know his deceased identical twin's Canadian husband. It's a mix of a young girl's enthusiasm over a surprise uncle and an adult's struggle with his culture's (and his own) view of gayness. Lots of layers, as he's also divorced and raising his daughter mostly on his own. They all develop a broader sense of family.</p><p><a href="/tags/graphicnovel/" rel="tag">#GraphicNovel</a> <a href="/tags/queer/" rel="tag">#queer</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#lgbtq</a> <a href="/tags/japan/" rel="tag">#japan</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</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></p>

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<p>As Jews around the world begin to celebrate the festival of <a href="/tags/passover/" rel="tag">#Passover</a> tonight, they’ll open up thousands of different editions of the Haggadah, the guide to the ritual feast.</p><p>The curator of a Judaica library looked through their collection of hundreds of Haggadahs to highlight three of his favorites – including this groundbreaking edition published in Amsterdam in 1695.</p><p>Chag sameach to all who celebrate! </p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/from-sumptuous-engravings-to-stick-figure-sketches-passover-haggadahs-and-their-art-have-been-evolving-for-centuries-227269" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/from-sumptuous-engravings-to-stick-figure-sketches-passover-haggadahs-and-their-art-have-been-evolving-for-centuries-227269"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/from-sumpt</span><span class="invisible">uous-engravings-to-stick-figure-sketches-passover-haggadahs-and-their-art-have-been-evolving-for-centuries-227269</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/jewstodon/" rel="tag">#Jewstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a></p>

A yellowed book page with lots of detailed illustrations in back ink, and text in Hebrew.

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Simple yet effective - Strange Pictures (2025) Review

<p>Strange Pictures was published by YouTuber Uketsu in 2022 and translated into English in 2025. The book is about multiple drawings connected to different murders and the interlinked story connecting them together, told through simple writing and hand drawings.</p><p>One way to take this book into perspective would be to call it “telegraphic horror”, I suppose. The first chapter starts with an epistolary form and it’s obvious to see that it’s meant to be simple enough to engage readers and hook them in without any purple prose or complex sentences.</p><p>The diary entries and minimal storytelling reminded me of those exciting times as a kid when I used to read creepypastas and every mystery seemed like a larger than life puzzle that felt like it could be solved and which kept me interested even when I took a break from reading them.</p><p>That’s the kind of charm Strange Pictures started with and moving forward it does demand more from it’s readers in terms of attention to sustain the allure of its mystery, it felt earned because I wanted to figure out what the drawings meant and why the second chapter started out in such an unrelated fashion.</p><p>One minor criticism would be that it’s marketed as a horror book for Jungi Ito fans but I never found that abyss like horror of human nature and I wouldn’t say the book goes that far in it’s character’s mind, therefore to me it’s still a better mystery and suspense novel with pictures then a new horror addition to Japanese canon but I guess it comes close.</p><p>Anyway, if you’re going through a reading slump and would like to read something fast and exciting and mysterious and have had any interactions with reading creepypastas as a kid then I would wholeheartedly recommend this unique experience. I loved it</p><p>4/5***</p> <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/37631122">See Original Page</a> </small>

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<p>Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Anders Celsius died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1744.</p><p>In 1742, Celsius introduced the temperature scale that bears his name. His original scale was actually the reverse of what we use today: it set the boiling point of water at 0 degrees & the freezing point at 100 degrees. However, shortly after his death, the scale was reversed by Carl Linnaeus, resulting in the 0 degrees for freezing & 100 degrees for boiling that we are familiar with.</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>

"Observationer om twänne beständiga grader på en thermometer" [Observations about two stable degrees on a thermometer]. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar (Proceedings of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) (in Swedish). 3: 171–180. 1742.

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Assata: An Autobiography <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://slrpnk.net/post/28106414">See Original Page</a> </small>

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Assata: An Autobiography <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/36578285">See Original Page</a> </small>

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<p>Italian inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1874.</p><p>He is best known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. He is often credited as the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun for their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy.</p><p>Books about Guglielmo Marconi at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Guglielmo+Marconi&submit_search=Go%21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Guglielmo+Marconi&submit_search=Go%21"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Guglielmo+Marconi&submit_search=Go%21</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>

Guglielmo Marconi, portrait, head and shoulders, facing left.

A vintage black and white portrait of Guglielmo Marconi wearing a dark suit, white dress shirt, and a light-colored necktie. The individual's attire suggests a formal context. The photo appears aged with some textural wear, indicative of its historical nature.

A black and white photograph of an early 20th-century telegraph communication setup with a paper sheet hung on the wall, a telegraph key, and a receiving device on a wooden table connected by wires.

Marconi's first transmitter incorporating a monopole antenna. It consisted of an elevated copper sheet (top) connected to a Righi spark gap (left) powered by an induction coil (center) with a telegraph key (right) to switch it on and off to spell out text messages in Morse code.

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<p>Oscar Wilde's library card reissued 130 years after being revoked over gay conviction. </p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2lymkm1jno" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2lymkm1jno"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2l</span><span class="invisible">ymkm1jno</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>English poet William Cowper died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1800.</p><p>His first volume of poetry, "Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq." was published in 1782. This volume included some of his most famous poems, such as "Table Talk" and other shorter pieces that reflected his views on nature, spirituality, and humanity. His most famous work is "The Task" (1785), a six-book poem in blank verse, which was inspired by a friend who challenged him to write a poem about a sofa. </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>

Portrait of William Cowper (1731-1800).

A portrait of William Cowper dressed in 18th-century attire, with a black coat, yellow waistcoat, and matching breeches, seated beside a red upholstered chair with one arm resting on a table. The individual holds a quill in their right hand, and an open book lies on the table. The background is a plain dark color, providing a contrast to the lighter tones of the clothing and furniture.

Page of The Task, and Other Poems by William Cowper.

An old book cover titled "The Task and Other Poems" by Cowper, with a floral design around the central circle which reads "Cassell's National Library" and edited by Professor Henry Morley.

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<p>Swedish feminist writer Ellen Key died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1926.</p><p>One of her most influential works is "The Century of the Child," first published in 1900. In this book, she projected her ideas about education and the rights of children into the 20th century, which she termed the "Century of the Child." She was also a proponent of women's rights: she believed in the importance of motherhood in society and argued that women should have more choices regarding marriage and children.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Ellen Key, 1910
Becker & Maass / Marie Boehm - Nyström-Hamilton, Louise (1913) Ellen Key, Her Life and Her Work, New York City: G. P. Putnam's Sons.

A sepia-toned vintage photo of a seated person (Ellen Key) wearing a Victorian style dress with a lace collar and long sleeves.

Old black hardcover book with title "The Century of the Child" by Ellen Key in gold lettering.

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1920.</p><p>F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" appears in the Saturday Evening Post and on the magazine's cover, illustrated by artist Norman Rockwell. It was Fitzgerald's first short story to achieve national prominence. The original publication featured interior illustrations by May Wilson Preston. The work later appeared in the September 1920 short story collection Flappers and Philosophers published by Charles Scribner's Sons.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4368" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4368</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

The May 1, 1920 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, the first time Fitzgerald's name appeared on the cover of the magazine to which he contributed for much of his life. Fitzgerald's short story Bernice Bobs Her Hair appeared in this issue.

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<p>Who is that, so insistently tapping at my chamber door?</p><p>Something suitably spooky is coming to <a href="https://inquisitivebiologist.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>inquisitivebiologist.com</a> this <a href="/tags/halloween/" rel="tag">#Halloween</a>... For now, here is a quick progress shot while you all wait for the next <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> to drop. I'm about halfway in.<br> <br><a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/biography/" rel="tag">#Biography</a> <a href="/tags/gothic/" rel="tag">#Gothic</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#Horror</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</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>

A photo of a book standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor. The book is pictured showing its face, the pages heavily annotated with numerous Post-it notes. The cover and spine are purposefully not visible. The book is standing on top of another hardback book, lying down: The Knickerbocker Classics version of The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. The spine is golden cloth with a fancy black repeating floral pattern on it, such as you might find on old wallpaper.

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<p>‘A cottage of one’s own’: Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published</p><p>A chance discovery at a country house revealed the three funny – sometimes surreal – interlinked tales, written almost a decade before Woolf’s first book was published</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/27/a-cottage-of-ones-own-newly-unearthed-virginia-woolf-stories-to-be-published" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/27/a-cottage-of-ones-own-newly-unearthed-virginia-woolf-stories-to-be-published"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/books/2025</span><span class="invisible">/sep/27/a-cottage-of-ones-own-newly-unearthed-virginia-woolf-stories-to-be-published</span></a></p><p>Woolf at PG:<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>

Woolf in 1927.

Unknown author - Harvard Theater Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University

Woolf is shown resting her head on her hand. Her gaze is softly directed toward the camera, though not in an intense stare.

She is wearing a fur-stole or wrap around her shoulders. Her hair is styled in a period-appropriate way, likely neat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#/media/File:Virginia_Woolf_1927.jpg

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<p>German mathematician and mathematics educator Felix Klein was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1849.</p><p>He is best known for his substantial contributions to group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and for connecting mathematics with other disciplines, notably physics. His notable achievements are the Erlangen Program, Complex Analysis and Algebraic Geometry, Klein Bottle, and Klein's Quartic Curve.</p><p>Books by Felix Klein at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9227" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9227"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/9227</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a></p>

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<p>> Books on the Move: Bookmobiles, Mobile Libraries and More <a href="https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2025/09/books-on-the-move-bookmobiles-mobile-libraries-and-more/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2025/09/books-on-the-move-bookmobiles-mobile-libraries-and-more/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2025</span><span class="invisible">/09/books-on-the-move-bookmobiles-mobile-libraries-and-more/</span></a></p><p>Via <a href="/tags/libraryofcongress/" rel="tag">#LibraryOfCongress</a>. Locally our county public library does have a bookmobile. </p><p><a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/bookmobile/" rel="tag">#Bookmobile</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> </p><p>@bookstodon@a.gup.pe <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></p>

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<p>French novelist, poet, short story writer, and literary critic Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1889.</p><p>His work depicts the ravages of passion, whether carnal (Une vieille maîtresse, 1851), filial (Un prêtre marié, 1865), political (Le Chevalier des Touches, 1864) or mystical (L'Ensorcelée, 1855). In particular, Les Diaboliques in which the unusual and the transgressive plunge the reader into an ambiguous universe, earned the author accusations of immoralism.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Photography of Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly by Félix Nadar

A black and white vintage photograph of Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly dressed in a formal double-breasted coat with detailed embroidery on the sleeves, standing while holding a pocket watch in one hand.

Manuscript page from Les Diaboliques: Le bonheur dans le crime folio 54 by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808-1889).

Previously published in 1871.

Dr. Torty and the narrator are strolling through the Jardin des Plantes. In front of the panther's cage, a couple catches the narrator's eye. They are Count Serlon de Savigny and his wife Hauteclaire Stassin. Dr. Torty recounts their story, which he has followed as their doctor and friend.

The young woman, Mlle Hauteclaire Stassin, of great quality (ravishing and an expert fencer), and the Count fall in love. They hatch a diabolical scheme to get rid of the Count's wife and stay together. After that, the couple live happily ever after, guilt-free.

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13848

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