"L'absence, quand on aime véritablement, loin d'affaiblir l'affection, l'augmente encore."
Absence, when we truly love, far from weakening affection, actually increases it.
French novelist Eugène Sue was born #OTD in 1804.
He was one of several authors who popularized the genre of the serial novel in France. He is best known for two of his social soap operas: Les Mystères de Paris (1842-1843) and Le Juif errant (1844-1845).
Books by Eugène Sue at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1186
German poet and novelist Achim von Arnim was born #OTD in 1781.
He is best known as one of the key figures of German Romanticism. His works were collected, with an introduction by Wilhelm Grimm, in twenty volumes (1839–48). He influenced late Romantics and Realists such as Eduard Mörike, Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Uhland and Theodor Storm, particularly through the Wunderhorn.
Books by Achim von Arnim at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/848
Dutch poet and essayist Martinus Nijhoff died #OTD in 1953.
His debut was in 1916 with his volume De wandelaar ('The Wanderer'). He was a literary craftsman who employed skillfully various verse forms from different literary periods. Some of his best-known works include Het Uur U (1936) and the long poem Awater (1934).
"Poet, never chase the dream.
Laugh yourself and turn away.
Mask your hunger, let it seem
Small matter if he come or stay;..."
#OTD in 1918.
The English poet Robert Graves marries the painter Nancy Nicholson in London. The wedding guests include Wilfred Owen, whose first nationally published poem appears three days later ("Miners" in The Nation). He will die by the end of the year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves
Robert Graves at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/628
#OTD in 1902.
The first example of a Sherlockian game – a study of inconsistencies of dates in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles (the serialisation of which in The Strand Magazine concludes in April) by publisher Frank Sidgwick – appears in The Cambridge Review.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_of_Sherlock_Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69
#OTD in 1813.
Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice is first published in London. A second edition follows in November.
The novel was originally published anonymously, as were all of Austen's novels. However, whereas her first published novel, Sense and Sensibility was presented as being written "by a Lady," Pride and Prejudice was attributed to "the Author of Sense and Sensibility".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/42671
Three women translators who bridged cultures
Stories of Birgitte Thott, Sarah Austin, and Émilie du Châtelet
by Małgorzata Szynkielewska via @europeana (from the archives)
https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/three-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures
Books by or translated by Émilie du Châtelet at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=%C3%89milie+du+Ch%C3%A2telet&submit_search=Search
English author, poet, mathematician, photographer Lewis Carroll was born #OTD in 1832.
His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871). He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. His poems Jabberwocky (1871) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) are classified in the genre of literary nonsense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll
Books by Lewis Carroll at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7
American journalist Nellie Bly died #OTD in 1922.
She was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, & for an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. Bly was also an inventor, receiving U.S. patent 697,553 for a novel milk can & U.S. patent 703,711 for a stacking garbage can.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly
Nellie Bly at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9648
5 famous authors who used pseudonyms (and why they did it)
From acclaimed novels to heretical treatises, sometimes a writer just doesn’t want to put their name on the cover.
By Scotty Hendricks
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/5-famous-authors-who-used-pseudonyms-and-why-they-did-it/
#OTD in 1860.
The first of Charles Dickens' literary sketches generally titled The Uncommercial Traveller appears in his magazine All the Year Round.
He seems to have chosen the title and persona of the Uncommercial Traveller as a result of a speech he gave on 22 December 1859 to the Commercial Travellers' School in London, in his role as honorary chairman and treasurer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uncommercial_Traveller
The Uncommercial Traveller at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/914
#OTD in 1838.
The second night of Henrik Wergeland's satirical musical play Campbellerne (The Campbells) in Christiania (Norway) provokes a riot.
To this performance, 26 distinguished high-ranking gentlemen from the university, court and administration mustered to take Wergeland once and for all. One of the actors finally calmed the audience, and the play commenced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Wergeland
Henrik Wergeland at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3926
#OTD 1754.
Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.
In a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann, Walpole explained an unexpected discovery he had made about a lost painting of Bianca Cappello by Giorgio Vasari by reference to a Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity
Horace Walpole at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/358
Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren died #OTD in 2002.
She is best known for several children's book series, featuring Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, and the Six Bullerby Children (Children of Noisy Village in the US), and for the children's fantasy novels Mio, My Son; Ronia the Robber's Daughter; and The Brothers Lionheart.
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"What dazzles, for the Moment spends its spirit:
What's genuine, shall Posterity inherit."
#OTD in 1829.
The first complete performance of Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy (1808), adapted by August Klingemann, in Braunschweig.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust,_Part_One
Faust at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/14591
Man Finds Rare Trove of Winnie-the-Pooh Drawings and Manuscripts in His Father's Attic
By Sarah Kuta
Books by A. A. Milne at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/730
"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted — nevermore!"
#OTD in 1845.
Edgar Allan Poe first publishes the narrative poem "The Raven", under his own name in The Evening Mirror of New York, of which he is a staff critic until February. It is rapidly reprinted across the United States and appears in book form by the end of the year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raven
The Raven at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/14082
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/17192
"Ameisen" steht in der #Bücherwabe für die These von Bayo Akomolafe, dass wir hinsichtlich der Denkwege, die unsere Lebens- und Wirtschaftsform bestimmen, in einer tödlichen Logik gefangen sind, wie Ameisen in einer #Ameisenmühle: Ameisen folgen den Duftspuren ihrer Vorgänger und laufen im Kreis bis sie sterben.
#books #bücher #lesen #literature #literatur #bookstodon #chemnitz
"Men should be what they seem;
Or those that be not, would they might seem none!"
Iago, scene iii
#OTD in 1909.
Junius Brutus Booth as Iago plays opposite Edmund Kean in the title role of Othello at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. Booth played Othello as a restrained gentleman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello
Othello at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1531
In February 1905.
Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle begins serialization in the American socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason.
In 1904, Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information while working incognito in the meatpacking plants of the Union Stock Yards in Chicago for the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle
Original files here:
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/appeal-to-reason/050225-appealtoreason-w482-thejungle.pdf
The Jungle at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/140
Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad
“Even as she does not mean to comfort, I feel her — here, still right here, to tell us how it really is.”
https://lithub.com/rachel-kushner-on-how-clarice-lispector-disrupts-our-notions-of-good-and-bad/
In Febraury 1895.
The Bookman (New York), a monthly, is first published by Dodd, Mead and Company with Harry Thurston Peck as editor. It publishes the first bestseller list, which is headed by Frank R. Stockton's novel The Adventures of Captain Horn. A sequel, Mrs. Cliff's Yacht, was released in 1897.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Captain_Horn
The Adventures of Captain Horn at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12190
In February to March 1893.
The 22-year-old Stephen Crane pays for publication of his first book, the Bowery novella Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, under the pseudonym "Johnston Smith", in New York City. Later considered a pioneering example of American literary realism, its first trade edition (rewritten) comes out in 1896 after Crane has attained fame with The Red Badge of Courage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie:_A_Girl_of_the_Streets
"We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language."
In February 1887.
Oscar Wilde publishes "The Canterville Ghost", his first short story, in The Court and Society Review. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canterville_Ghost
The Canterville Ghost at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/14522
