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<p>American journalist Nellie Bly died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1922.</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_B</span><span class="invisible">ly</span></a></p><p>Nellie Bly at PG<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9648" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9648"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/9648</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

A woodcut image of Nellie Bly's homecoming reception in Jersey City printed in Frank Leslie's Illustrated News on February 8, 1890.

Caption reads: "Around the world in seventy-two days and six hours - reception of Nellie Bly at Jersey City on the completion of her journey." Includes two vignettes (inset) titled: "Presenting the Globe-Girdler a Golden Globe" and "The Arrival in Philadelphia."

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<p>Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 2002.</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_Lindgren" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_Lindgren"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_L</span><span class="invisible">indgren</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Astrid Lindgren around 1960.

She is typically seen with short, slightly wavy hair, characteristic of her later years, and a kind yet intelligent expression that reflects her deep connection with storytelling and children’s literature.

Lindgren is dressed in modest yet elegant attire, wearing a collared blouse or a cardigan.

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The Death of Washington Post Book World and Why Criticism Still Matters <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/45885052">See Original Page</a> </small>

the-death-of-book-world-and-why-criticism-still-matters

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<p>My <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#bookreview</a> is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, and spectacular <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> far and wide.</p><p>The tropes and subtext in THE NIGHT SHIP could be both trite & unceasingly grim but Alex Woodroe's deft & elegant writing makes this weird, cosmic horror tale of survivors battling the forces of darkness a suspenseful, thrilling, life-affirming adventure of determination & grit. (Flame Tree)</p><p><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/cosmichorror/" rel="tag">#CosmicHorror</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> <a href="/tags/mothersuspiriareview/" rel="tag">#mothersuspiriareview</a> <a href="/tags/msreview/" rel="tag">#MSReview</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://toot.community/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon@toot.community</span></a></span></p>

The Night Ship by Alex Woodroe

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<p>When <a href="/tags/shtf/" rel="tag">#SHTF</a>, I'm sure you will need <a href="/tags/community/" rel="tag">#community</a>, <a href="/tags/solidarity/" rel="tag">#solidarity</a> and stable <a href="/tags/relationships/" rel="tag">#relationships</a> at a local level a little more than you'll need a 2y supply of freeze-dried meals.</p><p>Though it can't hurt to download <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> and <a href="/tags/information/" rel="tag">#information</a> now that you once believed would be treasured as heritage of humankind – and never be burned, or rewritten to suit the needs of fanatics with fragile egos.</p><p>Start here:</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gutenberg_org</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@kiwix" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kiwix</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>internetarchive</span></a></span></p>

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<p>"Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept."</p><p>In January 1909.</p><p>T. E. Hulme's poems "Autumn" and "A City Sunset" are included in the Poets' Club anthology For Christmas MDCCCCVIII, as the first examples of Imagism.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Hulme" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Hulme"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Hu</span><span class="invisible">lme</span></a></p><p>Canzoni & Ripostes at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39783" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39783</a></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>

T.E. Hulme in 1912.

Hulme is shown in formal attire, such as a suit, with neatly combed hair.

His expression is typically stern or contemplative, aligning with his reputation as a rigorous thinker and a key figure in early modernist movements, particularly Imagism.

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<p>📚 Fauves by: Melissa Da Costa</p><p>Je veux jouer avec le feu, trembler, sentir la morsure de la mort. Défier les instincts les plus brutaux, les plus sauvages, et les dépasser.</p><p>Comment s'échapper de sa cage ? C'est l'obsession des fauves mais aussi celle de Tony, dix-sept ans, lorsqu'il rejoint un cirque itinérant après avoir fui la violence de son père. Faire face aux bê...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/fauves" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/fauves</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/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>

Je veux jouer avec le feu, trembler, sentir la morsure de la mort. Défier les instincts les plus brutaux, les plus sauvages, et les dépasser.

Comment s'échapper de sa cage ? C'est l'obsession des fauves mais aussi celle de Tony, dix-sept ans, lorsqu'il rejoint un cirque itinérant après avoir fui la violence de son père. Faire face aux bêtes, affronter ses propres démons...

Le nouveau roman de Mélissa Da Costa nous propulse au coeur de l'arène, où l'ivresse du danger fait oublier la mort. Une fresque magistrale, portée par une écriture tendue et charnelle.

Mélissa Da Costa relève hautement le défi de cet audacieux roman. Le Parisien WE

C'est tout un univers de brutes et d'audacieux, de femmes endurantes et bouleversantes, l'envers du chapiteau que conte brillamment Mélissa Da Costa. Adrénaline garantie. Elle
Fauves séduit par la complexité de ses personnages, rendant le roman addictif et difficile à lâcher. Huffington Post

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<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/1onVykHO8cWR9T8KXDwYXB" rel="nofollow">Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 <br>by Gabrielle Zevin.</p><p>Two friends become productive creative partners in computer game design, but their emotional blocks cause regular estrangements (gets a bit frustrating - grow up already!). I enjoyed the nostalgia of old-school gaming, but would probably still be enjoyable for non-gamers. Now, off to play Oregon Trail ... <a href="https://oregontrail.run/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>oregontrail.run/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> @wildwoila@wyrms.de<br></p>

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<p>"Poet, never chase the dream.<br>Laugh yourself and turn away.<br>Mask your hunger, let it seem<br>Small matter if he come or stay;..."</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1918.</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G</span><span class="invisible">raves</span></a></p><p>Robert Graves at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/628" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/628"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/628</span></a></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 Robert Graves in 1919.

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<p>Three women translators who bridged cultures</p><p>Stories of Birgitte Thott, Sarah Austin, and Émilie du Châtelet</p><p>by Małgorzata Szynkielewska via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://glammr.us/@europeana" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>europeana</span></a></span> (from the archives)</p><p><a href="https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/three-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.europeana.eu/en/stories/three-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.europeana.eu/en/stories/th</span><span class="invisible">ree-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures</span></a></p><p>Books by or translated by Émilie du Châtelet at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=%C3%89milie+du+Ch%C3%A2telet&submit_search=Search" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=%C3%89milie+du+Ch%C3%A2telet&submit_search=Search"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=%C3%89milie+du+Ch%C3%A2telet&submit_search=Search</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/translators/" rel="tag">#translators</a> <a href="/tags/womeninart/" rel="tag">#womeninart</a></p>

Birgitte Thott (1610–1662) used her remarkable linguistic abilities to bring foreign knowledge to her native Denmark.

Sarah Austin (1793–1867) was an English translator and editor who played a pivotal role in introducing British audiences to German authors. Sarah’s translations were linguistic accomplishments and also acts of cultural mediation, helping to bridge intellectual divides between Britain and continental Europe.

Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749) was a French natural philosopher and mathematician.

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<p>Wit, courage and guile: ten literary heroines to inspire you on International Women’s Day</p><p>Whether courageous and confident or quietly subversive, literary heroines can inspire us in our everyday lives.</p><p>by Amy Wilcockson</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/wit-courage-and-guile-ten-literary-heroines-to-inspire-you-on-international-womens-day-277607?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=International%20Womens%20Day%202026&utm_content=International%20Womens%20Day%202026+CID_03740b2982c8e57598d1dcb20bdec6c2&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Wit%20courage%20and%20guile%20ten%20literary%20heroines%20to%20inspire%20you%20on%20International%20Womens%20Day" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/wit-courage-and-guile-ten-literary-heroines-to-inspire-you-on-international-womens-day-277607?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=International%20Womens%20Day%202026&utm_content=International%20Womens%20Day%202026+CID_03740b2982c8e57598d1dcb20bdec6c2&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Wit%20courage%20and%20guile%20ten%20literary%20heroines%20to%20inspire%20you%20on%20International%20Womens%20Day"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/wit-courag</span><span class="invisible">e-and-guile-ten-literary-heroines-to-inspire-you-on-international-womens-day-277607?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=International%20Womens%20Day%202026&utm_content=International%20Womens%20Day%202026+CID_03740b2982c8e57598d1dcb20bdec6c2&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Wit%20courage%20and%20guile%20ten%20literary%20heroines%20to%20inspire%20you%20on%20International%20Womens%20Day</span></a></p><p>Women fiction at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=women+fiction" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=women+fiction"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">cts/search/?query=women+fiction</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/womenhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#womenhistoryMonth</a></p>

The Wife of Bath's Tale in the Ellesmere manuscript of The Canterbury Tales, c. 1405–1410.

A illuminated manuscript page with dense Gothic cursive text in two sections, separated by a decorative rubric line in red. The left and bottom margins are bordered by an elaborate acanthus and ivy-leaf vine decoration in blue, gold, and red, with small coloured flowers and curling tendrils. A small miniature illustration in the right margin depicts a figure in a wide-brimmed hat riding a horse, rendered in warm reds, blues, and browns. A large decorative initial capital begins the lower text block. The rubric midpage reads "Heere endeth the Wyf of Bathe hir prologe and biginneth hir tale." The page is cream-coloured with age, and a folio number is visible in the upper right corner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wife_of_Bath%27s_Tale#/media/File:Wife-of-Bath-ms.jpg

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<p>📚 Cibola Burn by: James S. A. Corey</p><p>An empty apartment, a missing family, that's creepy. But this is like finding a military base with no one on it. Fighters and tanks idling on the runway with no drivers. This is bad juju. Something wrong happened here. What you should do is tell everyone to leave.<br> <br>The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonize has beg...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/cibola-burn" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/cibola-burn"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/cibola-bur</span><span class="invisible">n</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>

An empty apartment, a missing family, that's creepy. But this is like finding a military base with no one on it. Fighters and tanks idling on the runway with no drivers. This is bad juju. Something wrong happened here. What you should do is tell everyone to leave.

The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonize has begun. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity's home planets. Ilus, the first human colony on this vast new frontier, is being born in blood and fire.

Independent settlers stand against the overwhelming power of a corporate colony ship with only their determination, courage, and the skills learned in the long wars of home. Innocent scientists are slaughtered as they try to survey a new and alien world.

The struggle on Ilus threatens to spread all the way back to Earth. James Holden and the crew of his one small ship are sent to make peace in the midst of war and sense in the midst of chaos. But the more he looks at it, the more Holden thinks the mission was meant to fail. And the whispers of a dead man remind him that the great galactic civilization that once stood on this land is gone. And that something killed it.

The ExpanseLeviathan WakesCaliban's WarAbaddon's GateCibola BurnNemesis GamesBabylon's AshesThe Expanse Short Fiction The Butcher of Anderson StationGods of RiskThe ChurnThe Vital Abyss.

The explosive fourth novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series. Now a m

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<p>I've read that the fourth <a href="/tags/dune/" rel="tag">#Dune</a> novel is quite good and perhaps I will read it one day.</p><p>[End of transmission] </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a></p>

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<p>Man Finds Rare Trove of Winnie-the-Pooh Drawings and Manuscripts in His Father's Attic</p><p>By Sarah Kuta</p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/man-finds-rare-trove-of-winnie-the-pooh-drawings-and-manuscripts-in-his-fathers-attic-180985907/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/man-finds-rare-trove-of-winnie-the-pooh-drawings-and-manuscripts-in-his-fathers-attic-180985907/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-n</span><span class="invisible">ews/man-finds-rare-trove-of-winnie-the-pooh-drawings-and-manuscripts-in-his-fathers-attic-180985907/</span></a></p><p>Books by A. A. Milne at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/730" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/730"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/730</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/lost_manuscripts/" rel="tag">#lost_manuscripts</a></p>

Photograph of A. A. Milne.

Emil Otto Hoppé - Shadowland, September 1922 (page 62)

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<p>"Ameisen" steht in der <a href="/tags/bücherwabe/" rel="tag">#Bücherwabe</a> 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 <a href="/tags/ameisenmühle/" rel="tag">#Ameisenmühle</a>: Ameisen folgen den Duftspuren ihrer Vorgänger und laufen im Kreis bis sie sterben. <br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bücher/" rel="tag">#bücher</a> <a href="/tags/lesen/" rel="tag">#lesen</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/literatur/" rel="tag">#literatur</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/chemnitz/" rel="tag">#chemnitz</a></p>

$Ein Bild der Bücherwabe im Schaufenster der Buchhandlung am Brühl. Es sind neun Bücher zu sehen: Ursula K. LeGuin: The Word for World is Forest, Stefan Heym: Schwarzenberg, Leaf\Lawson: Ferdinand, Norbert Bobbio: Rechts und Links, Arne Semsrott: Machtübernahme, Magdalena Sorger: Ameisen, Hannah Arendt: Menschen in finsteren Zeiten, Cory Doctorow: Little Brother (Aufstand), Mely Kiyak: Werden sie uns mit FlixBus deportieren?$

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<p>"<a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> did NOT reduce spending – at all. But it did reduce federal employment; 271,000 people lost their jobs in the federal government" </p><p><a href="/tags/startmakingsense/" rel="tag">#StartMakingSense</a> talks w/ <a href="/tags/sashaabramsky/" rel="tag">#SashaAbramsky</a>, author of <a href="/tags/americancarnage/" rel="tag">#AmericanCarnage</a>: How <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>, <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> and DOGE butchered the US Government </p><p><a href="https://www.thenation.com/podcast/archive/sms-012026/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thenation.com/podcast/archive/sms-012026/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thenation.com/podcast/arch</span><span class="invisible">ive/sms-012026/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USpolitics</a> <a href="/tags/dogebags/" rel="tag">#DOGEbags</a> <a href="/tags/siliconvalleyright/" rel="tag">#SiliconValleyRight</a> <a href="/tags/austerity/" rel="tag">#austerity</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/bigtech/" rel="tag">#BigTech</a> <a href="/tags/techbros/" rel="tag">#TechBros</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</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>

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<p>In Febraury 1895.</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Captain_Horn" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Captain_Horn"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adve</span><span class="invisible">ntures_of_Captain_Horn</span></a></p><p>The Adventures of Captain Horn at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12190" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12190</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Original publication of The Adventures of Captain Horn by Frank R. Stockton in The bookman v.1 1895 Feb-Jul.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030005394&view=1up&seq=492&skin=2021

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It is not altogether with a feeling of satisfaction that we lay down Mr. Stockton's "departure" in fiction, nor are we quite disappointed. Perhaps this impression has been induced by the puff preliminary, for though “it is unlike any novel"-we quote from the publisher's advertisement-" that has hitherto appeared from this popular writer's pen," it is not "a romance of the most adventurous kind," and it seems extraordinary to us that after Treasure Island, King Solomon's Mines, and other stories obviously brought to mind in this category, any one should deem the events born of Mr. Stockton's imagination" as "wholly extraordinary.”

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<p>"The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death."<br>Salomé (1893)</p><p>Oscar Wilde’s Portraits, Poems, Letters and Manuscripts Head to Auction 125 Years After His Death</p><p>Other rare items, available for purchase in February, include illustrations, theater programs, telegrams and newspapers</p><p>by Christian Thorsberg</p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oscar-wildes-portraits-poems-letters-and-manuscripts-head-to-auction-125-years-after-his-death-180988023/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oscar-wildes-portraits-poems-letters-and-manuscripts-head-to-auction-125-years-after-his-death-180988023/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-n</span><span class="invisible">ews/oscar-wildes-portraits-poems-letters-and-manuscripts-head-to-auction-125-years-after-his-death-180988023/</span></a></p><p>Oscar Wilde at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/111" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/111"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/11</span><span class="invisible">1</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

"The Climax" by Aubrey Beardsley, created in 1893 as an illustration for Oscar Wilde's play "Salome".

This is one of Beardsley's most famous and controversial images, depicting the moment when Salome kisses the severed head of John the Baptist (Jokanaan). The illustration shows:

Salome as an elongated, stylized figure with elaborate hair
The severed head she's holding
Dramatic black and white contrast, flowing Art Nouveau lines, and decorative patterns
The pond/pool of blood at the bottom rendered in stark black
Organic, decorative elements including the elaborate pattern in the upper left corner

https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42704/pg42704-images.html

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<p>The Sociopolitical Impact of A Passage to India</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/the-sociopolitical-impact-of-a-passage-to-india/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/the-sociopolitical-impact-of-a-passage-to-india/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/the-sociopolit</span><span class="invisible">ical-impact-of-a-passage-to-india/</span></a></p><p>A Passage to India at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61221" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61221</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

First edition cover of A Passage To India, 1924.

The cover has a simple and minimalistic design, featuring a beige or light brown background with red lettering.

The title, A Passage to India, is prominently displayed at the top in bold, capital letters, while the author's name, E. M. Forster, appears at the bottom in a smaller but similarly styled red font.

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1863.</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Weeks_in_a_Balloon" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Weeks_in_a_Balloon"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Wee</span><span class="invisible">ks_in_a_Balloon</span></a></p><p>Five Weeks in a Balloon at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/3526" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/3526</a><br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/4548" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/4548</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Jules Verne "Five Weeks in a Balloon" front cover.

One of the most famous versions includes an ornate red or blue cloth binding with gold and black embossed decorations.

The cover often prominently displays an illustration of a grand hot air balloon soaring over an African landscape, emphasizing the novel’s central theme of exploration.

The balloon is depicted above exotic terrain, with figures in the balloon's basket scanning the horizon.

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<p>📚 Piranesi by: Susanna Clarke</p><p>Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls lined with thousands upon thousands of statues. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; and waves thunder up staircases, while rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/piranesi" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/piranesi</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/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/general/" rel="tag">#general</a></p>

Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls lined with thousands upon thousands of statues. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; and waves thunder up staircases, while rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house.

There is one other person in the house-a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.

Spellbinding, strange, and unforgettably original (Esquire), Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty.

The award-winning, New York Times bestselling fantasy sensation that Madeline Miller called, “a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling,” Piranesi is an intoxicating, hypnotic novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

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A cartoon illustration of a vampire laying on his couch reading a book while surrounded by ghosts and bats. Caption reads "He was a sucker for mysteries and true crime."

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1848.</p><p>Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto (Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) in London.</p><p>Published amid the Revolutions of 1848 in Europe, the manifesto remains one of the world's most influential political documents.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Comm</span><span class="invisible">unist_Manifesto</span></a></p><p>At PG.<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/61" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/61</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

A decorative border and ornate text reading "Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei." on darker-than-white paper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto#/media/File:Communist-manifesto.png

Only surviving page from the first draft of the Manifesto, handwritten by Karl Marx.

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<p>Where to start with: Jane Austen</p><p>From sparkling dialogue to surprise character traits, wit, humour and tragedy, this is the year to appreciate Austen</p><p>By John Mullan</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/20/where-to-start-with-jane-austen" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/20/where-to-start-with-jane-austen"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/books/2025</span><span class="invisible">/feb/20/where-to-start-with-jane-austen</span></a></p><p>Jane Austen at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/68</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Portrait of Jane Austen, from the memoir by J. E. Austen-Leigh (1798-1874). All other portraits of Austen are generally based on this, which is itself based on a sketch by Cassandra Austen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen#/media/File:Jane_Austen,_from_A_Memoir_of_Jane_Austen_(1870).jpg

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