Seit November ist unser Buchladen ganz schön gewachsen. Deswegen müssen wir heute ein paar Schränke neu arrangieren. Gar nicht so einfach für uns Quereinsteiger. 😅 Seht ihr Bücher die Euch besonders gefallen haben, oder die ihr unbedingt noch lesen wollt. Gibt es Bücher die wir unbedingt noch dahaben sollten?
Liebe Grüße aus #chemnitz
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The Sociopolitical Impact of A Passage to India
E. M. Forster’s novel captured not only the tensions between colonizers and colonized but also the fraught internal politics that shaped India’s fight for independence.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-sociopolitical-impact-of-a-passage-to-india/
A Passage to India at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61221
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How an Obscure German Noblewoman Influenced the Way Anne Frank Wrote Her Diary
Biographer Ruth Franklin on the Value of a Careful Eye and Fresh Perspective
https://lithub.com/how-an-obscure-german-noblewoman-influenced-the-way-anne-frank-wrote-her-diary/
![The last known photograph of Anne taken in May 1942, taken at a passport photo shoot. (Photo collection Anne Frank House, Amsterdam. Public Domain Work)]](/proxy/post_attachment/598767/9106584499.jpg "The last known photograph of Anne taken in May 1942, taken at a passport photo shoot. (Photo collection Anne Frank House, Amsterdam. Public Domain Work)]")
A surprising number of medieval scribes were women
New research estimates around 8,000 of those manuscripts could still exist today.
By Andrew Paul
#OTD in 1853.
Charlotte Brontë's novel, Villette, appears, its publication having been delayed in order to allow Ruth, by her friend Elizabeth Gaskell, to be given a head start in the press.
Villette was Charlotte Brontë's third & last novel published during her life. It was preceded in writing by The Professor (her posthumously published 1st novel, of which Villette is a reworking, though still not very similar), Jane Eyre, & Shirley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villette_(novel)
"What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all."
#OTD in 1901.
Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters premieres at Moscow Art Theatre in Russia under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(play)
Three Sisters at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7986
#OTD in 1863.
Jules Verne's novel Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (Cinq semaines en ballon) is published in Paris. It will be the first of Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires. This was Verne's first novel to be published by Pierre-Jules Hetzel, following the rejection of Voyage en Angleterre et en Écosse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Weeks_in_a_Balloon
Five Weeks in a Balloon at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/3526
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/4548
#OTD in 1848.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto (Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) in London.
Published amid the Revolutions of 1848 in Europe, the manifesto remains one of the world's most influential political documents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto
Where to start with: Jane Austen
From sparkling dialogue to surprise character traits, wit, humour and tragedy, this is the year to appreciate Austen
By John Mullan
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/20/where-to-start-with-jane-austen
Jane Austen at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68
#OTD in 1904.
J. M. Synge's tragedy Riders to the Sea is first performed at Molesworth Hall, Dublin, by the Irish National Theatre Society, with Helen Laird playing Maurya.
Synge's use of phrasing from the Irish language is part of the Irish Literary Revival, a period when Irish literature looked to encourage pride and nationalism in Ireland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riders_to_the_Sea
Riders to the Sea at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/994
#OTD in 1909.
The first issue appears of La Nouvelle Revue Française, a literary magazine founded in Paris by André Gide, Jacques Copeau, Jean Schlumberger, Gaston Gallimard, and others.
Established writers such as Paul Bourget and Anatole France contributed to the magazine from its early days. The first published works by André Malraux and Jean-Paul Sartre were in the pages of the Revue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Revue_Fran%C3%A7aise
Nouvelle Revue Française is available at UPenn:
https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=nouvellerevfr
7 Legal Ways To Get Free eBooks
https://www.howtogeek.com/legal-ways-to-get-free-ebooks/
(just skip Amazon for obvious reasons)
10 most iconic lines by Dostoevsky that make people sit back and overthink life
Dostoevsky at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/314
Don Quixote: Was the First Modern Novel Born in Captivity?
The whimsical and idealistic nature of Don Quixote makes it easy to forget that much of the novel was inspired by Cervantes’ incarceration and enslavement.
By Lily Hunger
https://www.thecollector.com/don-quixote-first-modern-novel-born-captivity/
Don Quixote at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/996
The Story of Don Quixote by Paulson, Cervantes Saavedra, and Edwards:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29468
#OTD (to March 17) in 1877
Robert Louis Stevenson's first published work of fiction, the novella "An Old Song", appears anonymously in four episodes in the magazine London. It is first attributed to Stevenson in 1980.
Books by Robert Louis Stevenson at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35
"Hvad skal manden være? Sig selv, det er mit korte svar."
"What ought a man to be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’."
Act IV
#OTD in 1876.
The stage première of the verse-play Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (published 1867) with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, takes place in Christiania, Norway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_Gynt
Peer Gynt at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66239
In Norwegian at @runeberg-org.bsky.social
https://runeberg.org/peergynt/
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"Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel 'Parable of the Sower' that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time of fires, violence, racism, addiction, climate change, social inequality and an authoritarian 'President Donner.'
"That day is today."
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/01/octavia-butler-feb-1-2025-black-history-month
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The Bloomsbury Group: A Reading List
In 1905, a group of writers and painters gathered in a London home and began a conversation on politics, love, sex, and art that lasted decades.
By: Jenny Noyce
https://daily.jstor.org/bloomsbury-group-reading-list/
Bloomsbury Group at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/975
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54154
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4565
Sure, but does anyone start reading the classics? Reading on any level should be encouraged 😊
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#OTD in 1830.
The première of Victor Hugo's play Hernani in Paris elicits protests from an audience seeing it as an attack on Classicism.
Hugo had enlisted the support of fellow Romanticists such as Hector Berlioz and Théophile Gautier to combat the opposition of Classicists who recognised the play as a direct attack on their values.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernani_(drama)
Hernani at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9976
#OTD in 1922.
In a "savage creative storm" of less than three weeks beginning today at Château de Muzot in Switzerland, Rainer Maria Rilke writes his Sonnets to Orpheus (Die Sonette an Orpheus) and completes his Duino Elegies (Duineser Elegien).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnets_to_Orpheus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duino_Elegies
Books by Rainer Maria Rilke at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/846
"There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present."
James Joyce was born #OTD in 1882.
Together with Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Richardson, he is credited with the development of the stream of consciousness technique in which the same weight is given to both the internal world of the mind and the external world of events and circumstances as factors shaping the actions and views of fictional characters.
James Joyce at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1039
#OTD in 1920.
Beyond the Horizon, Eugene O'Neill's second full-length play, opens with a Morosco Theatre matinée in New York City, partly as a producer's experiment and partly to quiet the actor Richard Bennett, who sought to play the lead. Reviewers hail the play and O'Neill gains fame. It won the 1920 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Horizon_(play)
Beyond the Horizon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58569
