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Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival

Without Christopher Marlowe, there might not have been a Bard.

by Nina Pasquini

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/books-literary-life/harvard-shakespeare-marlowe-literature

Christopher Marlowe at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/410

#books #literature

A 1585 portrait believed to be of Christopher Marlowe, by an unknown artist.

It depicts a young man, with long hair and a light beard, with his arms folded. He is expensively dressed in a dark doublet, possibly velvet, with rows of golden buttons. The doublet has a zig-zag pattern made by cuts in the cloth, exposing the orange lining.

The upper left hand corner of the portrait contains the date anno dni 1585, together with the age of the sitter expressed by the Latin text ætatis suæ 21, meaning of his own age 21.

Below this is a Latin motto, Quod me nutrit me destruit, in English That which nourishes me destroys me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlowe_portrait#/media/File:Christopher_Marlowe.jpg

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New Review - a very smart novel in dialogue with a classic telling us the untold story of The Other Frankenstein by Melissa F Olson which I highly recommend! https://www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/9/12/the-other-frankenstein-by-melissa-f-olson

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61d

7 authors in a dark, gothic horror fantasy 👼😈

7 spotlights to introduce them! ✍️📖

Also wanna do some about the stories.

I'll start the ball rolling. 😁 Call me Etaski.

https://mybook.to/Fallen1

#Books #ComingSoon #HorrorAnthology #FallenAngels #DarkReads #DarkFantasyReaders #HorrorBooks #HorrorRomance #RomanticHorror #GothicReads #DarkFantasy #UrbanFantasy

@bookstodon @bookstadon @horror @lgbtqbookstodon @sffbookclub @paranormal @romancelandia @fantasy @books

Fallen: Darkness Ascending Vol. 1. Meet: A.S. Etaski. Author Spotlight. A gothic background of a dark forest with a transparent image of a hand reaching for a pair of white wings.

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60d

Giorgos Garbis, founder of the anarchist publisher "Free Press," has died Takahe has limited support for this type: See Original Page

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60d

Non-military space opera recomendations

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Giorgos Garbis, founder of the anarchist publisher "Free Press," has died Takahe has limited support for this type: See Original Page

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43d

@bookstodon@a.gup.pe @bookstodon

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A German content creator posting primarily about books:

@antjeswereld.de

I really like her posts 😊

#books

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Eine deutsche Content-Creatorin, die hauptsächlich Buchcontent postet:

@antjeswereld.de

Ich mag ihre Posts 😊

#buch #buecher

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62d

Writer Elisabeth Wheatley explains Audible's new policy that aims to create a monopoly and keep audiobooks out of libraries and other stores

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43d

Writer, Resistance Fighter, and Kafka’s First Translator: Milena Jesenská, Forgotten No More

Christine Estima on Breathing Fictional Life Into a Long-Overlooked Literary Figure

https://lithub.com/writer-resistance-fighter-and-kafkas-first-translator-milena-jesenska-forgotten-no-more/

Kafka at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735

#books #translators #literature

Milena Jesenská (1896 - 1944) - Czech journalist, writer and translator.

Milena Jesenská appears as a poised young woman with strong, well-defined features. Her face is oval with expressive dark eyes, a straight nose, and full lips. She often wears her dark hair in a short, modern bob. She is dressed quite simply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milena_Jesensk%C3%A1#/media/File:Milena_Jesensk%C3%A1.jpg

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43d

10 Famous Authors and Their Unfinished Manuscripts

By Bess Lovejoy (from the archives)

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/67424/10-famous-authors-and-their-unfinished-manuscripts

Twain, Dickens, Virgil, Kafka, Hemingway, Gogol, Chaucer at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/53
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/129
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/50533
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/531
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/144

#books #literature

Mark Twain photo portrait, 1907.

He is shown with a full head of thick, white hair. His large, bushy mustache dominates his face. Twain is dressed formally in a light-colored suit, waistcoat, and tie.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain#/media/File:MarkTwain.LOC.jpg/2

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American writer Harriette Woods Baker was born #OTD in 1815.

She wrote under the pseudonym "Madeline Leslie." She devoted herself successfully to novels; but after about 15 years, she wrote popular religious literature. Some of her well-known titles include The Family in the Parsonage (1853), The Mother’s Mission (1854), and The Orphan Children (1856).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriette_Woods_Baker

Books by Madeline Leslie at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/31136

#books #literature

Harriette Newell Woods Baker
G. Derby & J. T. White - T. White The National Cyclopædia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time

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62d

From Renaissance Florence to today’s global stage, Guicciardini’s shrewd maxims show that medieval political wisdom never goes out of style.

https://www.medievalists.net/2025/08/medieval-wisdom-for-modern-politics/

Medieval history and literature at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/2863

#books #literature #history

Ritratto di Francesco Guicciardini.

The painting presents Guicciardini in the formal, sober style typical of early 16th-century Florentine portraiture. He is shown as a mature man with a thoughtful, somewhat severe expression.

Dressed in dark, dignified clothing, likely a scholar’s or statesman’s robe, he embodies intellectual authority and civic responsibility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Guicciardini#/media/File:Ritratto_di_Francesco_Guicciardini.jpg

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62d

Practical Translation: Proust

A panel discussion moderated by Merve Emre

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/08/24/on-translation-practical-translation-merve-emre/

Marcel Proust (as an author and translator) at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/987

#books #literature #Translation

First galley proof of A la recherche du temps perdu: Du côté de chez Swann with handwritten revision notes by Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922). Auctioned by Christie's in July 2000 for £663,750 — a world record for a French literary manuscript.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_la_recherche_du_temps_perdu#/media/Fichier:MS_A_la_recherche_du_temps_perdu.jpg

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60d

Recommend me some good sci-fi short story collections and anthologies.

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57d

"Thanks to denial, I'm immortal" -Philip J. Fry 😂

@reading @bookstodon @bookbubble @humour

#Futurama #Quote
#ReadingMemes #Memes #ReadAllTheBooks #Humor #Humour
#Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Fiction
#Bookwyrm #Bookworm #Bookstodon #BookLove

Post by Jonathan Edward Durham

I’m not a book hoarder. I’m prepping for the possibility that one day I might have 173 years to do nothing but read.

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59d

Recommendations?

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57d

Two Years After Cormac McCarthy’s Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth

The famously reclusive novelist amassed a collection of thousands of books ranging in topics from philosophical treatises to advanced mathematics to the naked mole-rat

By Richard Grant

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/two-years-cormac-mccarthys-death-rare-access-to-personal-library-reveals-man-behind-myth-180987150/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550

#books #literature

Photo portrait of American author Cormac McCarthy used as the first-edition back cover of his 1973 novel Child of God.

The photo portrait of Cormac McCarthy, used on the back cover of the first edition of Child of God (1973), presents the author in a stark, unadorned style. McCarthy is shown in black and white, his face turned slightly toward the camera with a calm, contemplative expression. His features are sharply defined — high forehead, dark hair combed back, strong jawline.

He wears a simple collared shirt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy#/media/File:Cormac_McCarthy_(Child_of_God_author_portrait_-_high-res).jpg

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56d

Practical Translation: ‘The Thousand and One Nights’

A panel discussion moderated by Merve Emre

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/08/28/on-translation-practical-translation-1001-nights-merve-emre/

The Thousand and One Nights at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=The+Thousand+and+One+Nights

#books #literature #Translation

The image is an ornate illustrated title page from The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I, published in London by Chatto and Windus.

The central text is framed within an elaborate orientalist decorative border, filled with arabesques, flourishes, and small architectural motifs resembling arches and minarets. At the top center is a vignette illustration of Scheherazade, seated in an opulent room beneath a hanging lamp, telling her stories to Sultan Shahryar, who reclines on cushions.

On either side of the border are smaller inset illustrations: one shows a dramatic scene with figures in a shadowed landscape, while the other depicts a romantic or courtly encounter, reflecting the variety of tales within the collection.

The lettering of the title — The Thousand & One Nights, Vol. I — is stylized, with flourishes that echo the decorative frame. At the bottom, beneath the publisher’s name, appears a small medallion with Arabic script inside, reinforcing the book’s exoticized presentation for a Victorian audience.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/34206/pg34206-images.html

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English aristocrat and society hostess Lady Ottoline Morrell died #OTD in 1938.

Her salons were frequented by key figures of the Bloomsbury Group, including Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, & Lytton Strachey, as well as writers like Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot, & D.H. Lawrence. Artists such as Duncan Grant & Vanessa Bell were also regular visitors. During World War I, they invited conscientious objectors such as Duncan Grant, Clive Bell & Lytton Strachey to take refuge at Garsington.

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A group at Garsington Manor, country home of Lady Ottoline Morrell, near Oxford. Left to right: Lady Ottoline Morrell, Mrs. Aldous Huxley, Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, and Vanessa Bell.

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A visit to Cormac McCarthy’s “enormous and chaotically disorganized personal library” - Biblioklept Takahe has limited support for this type: See Original Page

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59d

5 women who changed the way we travel

From adventurers and explorers to tourism entrepreneurs

Discover how these trailblazing women made journeys that broke barriers and shaped the way we travel today

by Aleksandra Strzelichowska

https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/5-women-who-changed-the-way-we-travel?mtm_campaign=EuropeanaThemedNewsletter-August2025

Travelers at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/2870

#books #travel #women_explorers

Ida Pfeiffer (photographed by Franz Hanfstaengl).

She wears a dark dress with long sleeves and a high collar, accessorized with a bonnet that frames her face.

Her expression is serious and composed, with a steady gaze directed slightly away from the camera, giving her an air of dignity and quiet determination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Laura_Pfeiffer#/media/File:Ida_Pfeiffer.jpg

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59d

Public Librarians Partner with Internet Archive to Preserve Local Digital Heritage

by Anna Trammell via @internetarchive

https://blog.archive.org/2025/08/27/public-librarians-partner-with-internet-archive-to-preserve-local-digital-heritage/

Public libraries at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/19136

#libraries #digital_heritage #books

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#OTD in 1756 German writer Benedikte Naubert was born.

She "anonymously published more than 50 historical novels and is considered a pioneer of the genre in the 1780s. Naubert wrote under the pseudonyms Verfasser des Walther von Montbarry, Verfasser der Alme, Verfasserin des Walther von Montbarry, and Fontanges. Today she is largely unknown, even in Germany."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedikte_Naubert

Books by Naubert at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/55311

#books #literature