I recently finished The Will of the Many. this story follows an orphaned prince surviving in the Republic that invaded his country in a Romanesque world that uses will based magic in all things. Vis finds himself stuck between a plot to tear down the Republic and a senator that adopts him to attend a school to solve the murder of his brother. This was a fun read but there were issues with the grammar that were frustratingly repetitive. ⭐⭐🌟 @bookstodon @fantasy #books #fantasy #books
#OTD in 1844.
The first three of many theatrical adaptations of A Christmas Carol open in London.
An early theatrical production was A Christmas Carol: Or, the Miser's Warning!, a two-act adaptation of A Christmas Carol by C. Z. Barnett, first produced at the Surrey Theatre on 5 February 1844, just weeks after the publication of the novella.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_A_Christmas_Carol
A Christmas Carol at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46
'The truth is she did the right thing': The mystery of why Jane Austen's letters were destroyed – by her own sister
By Neil Armstrong
Books by Jane Austen at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68
The birth of naturalism
The modern era is often seen as the triumph of science over supernaturalism. But what really happened is far more interesting
By Peter Harrison
French aristocrat Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné was born #OTD in 1626.
She is best known for her extensive correspondence, particularly with her daughter, Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné, the Comtesse de Grignan. Her letters, filled with wit, charm, and keen observations of court life under Louis XIV, provide valuable insights into the culture, politics, and daily life of the French nobility during the time.
Madame de Sevigné at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/42463
Finnish priest, lyric and epic poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg was born #OTD in 1804 (Runeberg Day).
He is the author of the lyrics to Vårt land (Our Land, Maamme in Finnish) which became the Finnish national anthem. Runeberg was also involved in the modernization of the Finnish Lutheran hymnal and produced many texts for the new edition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Ludvig_Runeberg
Books by Johan Ludvig Runeberg at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2842
#OTD in 1913.
Claudio Monteverdi's last opera L'incoronazione di Poppea was performed theatrically for the first time in more than 250 years.
Two versions of the musical score of L'incoronazione exist, both from the 1650s. The first was rediscovered in Venice in 1888, the second in Naples in 1930. The Naples score is linked to the revival of the opera in that city in 1651.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27incoronazione_di_Poppea
Books about Monteverdi at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=monteverdi&submit_search=Search
#OTD in 1870.
The Seven Brothers (Seitsemän veljestä), a novel by Finnish author Aleksis Kivi, is published first time in several thin booklets.
Kivi began writing the work in the early 1860s and wrote it at least three times, but no manuscript has survived. The work was largely created while Kivi lived in Siuntio's Fanjunkars with Charlotta Lönnqvist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seitsem%C3%A4n_veljest%C3%A4
Seitsemän veljestä at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11940
#OTD in 1920.
An inaugural meeting of the Bloomsbury Group's Memoir Club is arranged by Mary MacCarthy in London.
Among the people involved in the group were Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Vanessa Bell, and Lytton Strachey.
Virginia Woolf at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89
John Maynard Keynes:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6280
E. M. Forster:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/975
Lytton Strachey:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/576
In February 1860.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon gives up her acting career to write. In the same year she meets her future husband John Maxwell. However, Maxwell was already married and Braddon acted as stepmother to his children until 1874, when Maxwell's wife died and they were able to get married
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Elizabeth_Braddon
Mary Elizabeth Braddon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2957
"A nihilist," said Nikolai Petrovich. "That comes from the Latin nihil, nothing, as far as I can judge; the word must mean a man who... who recognizes nothing?"
In February 1862.
Ivan Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons (Отцы и дети – old spelling Отцы и дѣти, Ottsy i dety, literally "Fathers and Children") is published by Russkiy Vestnik in Moscow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathers_and_Sons_(novel)
Fathers and Sons at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30723
"The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom."
Book V, Ch. I
In February 1865.
Publication of Leo Tolstoy's "1805", an early version of War and Peace, begins in the magazine Russkiy Vestnik. The version that was published in Russkiy Vestnik had a very different ending from the version eventually published under the title War and Peace in 1869.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace
War and Peace at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600
#OTD in 1936.
Charlie Chaplin's film Modern Times opened in New York City.
During a European tour promoting City Lights, Chaplin got the inspiration for Modern Times from both the lamentable conditions of the continent through the Great Depression, along with a conversation with Mahatma Gandhi in which they discussed modern technology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Times_(film)
Books about or by Charlie Chaplin at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=charlie+chaplin&submit_search=Search
Limited restock of all signed copies of my poetry books are now available at https://www.nihtgengapress.com
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Das erste Buch aus der #Bücherwabe ist „Ferdinand der Stier“. Es erschien 1936 und war radikal bzgl. seines Verständnisses von Männlichkeit und dem hohen Wert von Individualität. Auffällig ist, dass Ferdinand nie Teil einer Gesellschaft ist. Er ist der glückliche Außenseiter, der nicht kämpfen will, sondern viel lieber (allein) an Blumen riecht.
Ferdinands Pazifismus bleibt für ihn folgenlos, ganz im Gegenteil zu dem Buch, das wir als nächstes vorstellen. #books #literatur #politik #chemnitz
#OTD in 1826.
First printing of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. This is Cooper's first book under contract with Philadelphia publishers Mathew Carey and Isaac Lea, following Charles Wiley's near-bankruptcy and death. It endures as "the most popular novel of the 1820s."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_the_Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/940
When Bohr got it wrong: the impact of a little-known paper on the development of quantum theory
Part of our International Year of Quantum Science and Technology coverage
By Philip Ball
Books by Niels Bohr at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/44167
How (and Why) Was Black Identity Erased in Art?
Black identity in American art has been historically misrepresented or eradicated.
By Sarah Isak-Goode
#OTD in 1925.
The first story under the name B. Traven (identified variously as actor Ret Marut or Otto Feige) is published, in Vorwärts (Berlin).
Traven real name, nationality, date and place of birth and details of biography are all subject to dispute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Traven
B. Traven at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/53904
"Thus the wise and worthy singer
Sings not all his garnered wisdom;
Better leave unsung some sayings
Than to sing them out of season."
Epilogue, line 20
#OTD in 1835.
The Finnish language epic poetry Kalevala, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from oral sources, is first published in the Grand Duchy of Finland, becoming influential in the Fennoman movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala
Kalevala at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/5186
Anactoria is a woman mentioned in the work of the ancient Greek poet Sappho, who wrote in the late 7th and early 6th centuries BCE. Sappho names Anactoria as the object of her desire in a poem numbered as fragment 16. Another of her poems, fragment 31, is traditionally called the "Ode to Anactoria", although no name appears in it.
Algernon Charles Swinburne wrote a long poem, "Anactoria", published in his 1866 collection Poems and Ballads.
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#OTD in 1854.
An adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice into Bengali, Bhānumatī-chittavilās by Hara Chandra Ghosh, is staged; also, Dinabandhu Mitra introduces Falstaff in Nabin Tapaswini.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Falstaff
At PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1515
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1780
#OTD in 1754.
Riot at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin. Thomas Sheridan, the manager, resigns, and leaves Ireland on September 15 for London where his wife Frances Sheridan meets Samuel Richardson.
Thomas Sheridan was the manager at the time and had recently banned the presence of audience members on stage and the taking of money for the privilege of going backstage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smock_Alley_Theatre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sheridan_(actor)
Thomas Sheridan at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39471
Venonta legado: "Dragon's Egg" de Robert L. Forward (en la angla)
Kaj ankaŭ prokastitaj numeroj de "Monato" por manĝeto
![Niels Bohr, physicist.
The American Institute of Physics credits the photo [1] to AB Lagrelius & Westphal, which is the Swedish company used by the Nobel Foundation for most photos of its book series Les Prix Nobel. - Niels Bohr's Nobel Prize biography, from 1922](/proxy/post_attachment/606716/ee1430bb9d.jpg "Niels Bohr, physicist.
The American Institute of Physics credits the photo [1] to AB Lagrelius & Westphal, which is the Swedish company used by the Nobel Foundation for most photos of its book series Les Prix Nobel. - Niels Bohr's Nobel Prize biography, from 1922")
