literature

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1850 writer Robert Louis Stevenson was born.</p><p>Robert Louis Stevenson’s Art of Living (and Dying)</p><p>&quot;Trenton B. Olsen Explores How the Author Navigated a Lifetime of Chronic Illness&quot;</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/robert-louis-stevensons-art-of-living-and-dying/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/robert-louis-stevensons-art-of-living-and-dying/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/robert-louis-steven</span><span class="invisible">sons-art-of-living-and-dying/</span></a></p><p>Stevenson at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/35</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Am I really home? A Journey Through the Literary Voices of Italian Scottish Women<br>25 Nov, Edinburgh – free, ticketed</p><p>Through storytelling, poetry, &amp; prose, four widely published Italian Scottish women writers will describe their diverse journeys of navigating, rooting, &amp; belonging</p><p><a href="https://iicedimburgo.esteri.it/en/gli_eventi/calendario/am-i-really-home-a-journey-through-the-literary-voices-of-italian-scottish-women/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="iicedimburgo.esteri.it/en/gli_eventi/calendario/am-i-really-home-a-journey-through-the-literary-voices-of-italian-scottish-women/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">iicedimburgo.esteri.it/en/gli_</span><span class="invisible">eventi/calendario/am-i-really-home-a-journey-through-the-literary-voices-of-italian-scottish-women/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/scottishitalian/" rel="tag">#ScottishItalian</a> <a href="/tags/identity/" rel="tag">#identity</a> <a href="/tags/culturalidentity/" rel="tag">#culturalidentity</a> <a href="/tags/belonging/" rel="tag">#belonging</a> <a href="/tags/womenwriters/" rel="tag">#womenwriters</a></p>

<p>&quot;On a memorable morning of early December London opened its eyes on a frigid gray mist...&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1891.</p><p>Israel Zangwill&#x27;s The Big Bow Mystery, the first classic full-length locked room mystery, begins serialization in The Star (London), before being published as a novel the following year.</p><p>It has been almost continuously in print since 1891 and has been used as the basis for three movies.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bow_Mystery" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bow_Mystery"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_</span><span class="invisible">Bow_Mystery</span></a></p><p>The Big Bow Mystery at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28164" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28164</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Music and Musicians in the Medieval Persianate World</p><p>From royal courts to wine-filled gatherings, music played a vital role in medieval Persianate culture. Two remarkable texts — one practical, one theoretical — reveal how musicians lived, performed, and understood their art.</p><p>By Timur Khan</p><p><a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2025/11/music-and-musicians-in-the-medieval-persianate-world/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.medievalists.net/2025/11/music-and-musicians-in-the-medieval-persianate-world/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.medievalists.net/2025/11/m</span><span class="invisible">usic-and-musicians-in-the-medieval-persianate-world/</span></a></p><p>Music at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/677" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/677"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books</span><span class="invisible">helf/677</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Belgian lawyer and bibliographer Paul Otlet was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1868.</p><p>He developed the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) system, an innovative and highly detailed method for cataloging information. Otlet envisioned a global network of information that could be accessed remotely, which he described in his writings as a &quot;réseau&quot; or network of knowledge.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otlet" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otlet"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otl</span><span class="invisible">et</span></a></p><p>Books by Paul Otlet at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/50172" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/50172"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/50172</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>“In crime, as in all life, nothing is fixed or certain. Put another way, it is part of the mystery of being, which has its origin in religious faith, &amp; Stevenson’s stories abound in mysteries”</p><p>SINS &amp; FOLLIES<br>Three Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson</p><p>🗡️ “A Lodging for the Night”<br>🪞 “Markheim”<br>💀 “The Body-Snatcher”</p><p>Download the free ebook</p><p>@bookstodon </p><p>1/4</p><p><a href="https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/sins-and-follies-2/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/sins-and-follies-2/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">asls.org.uk/publications/books</span><span class="invisible">/free-publications/sins-and-follies-2/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/robertlouisstevenson/" rel="tag">#RobertLouisStevenson</a> <a href="/tags/shortstories/" rel="tag">#ShortStories</a> <a href="/tags/crimefiction/" rel="tag">#CrimeFiction</a> <a href="/tags/19thcentury/" rel="tag">#19thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/victorian/" rel="tag">#Victorian</a> <a href="/tags/gothic/" rel="tag">#gothic</a> <a href="/tags/rlsday/" rel="tag">#RLSDay</a></p>

<p>&quot;We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.&quot;</p><p>~Philips Gibbs. In : The Pageant of the Years</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1918 - Armistice Day</p><p>The Soul of a Nation by Philip Gibbs is available at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41308" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41308</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/armistice/" rel="tag">#armistice</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>“It is an RLS hallmark, the quicksilver evolution of thought and the fabular turn, the victory of original perception”</p><p>—Amdrew O’Hagan stays overnight in Robert Louis Stevenson’s childhood home, 17 Heriot Row, Edinburgh – via the London Review of Books</p><p><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n01/andrew-o-hagan/diary" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n01/andrew-o-hagan/diary"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n0</span><span class="invisible">1/andrew-o-hagan/diary</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/robertlouisstevenson/" rel="tag">#RobertLouisStevenson</a> <a href="/tags/edinburgh/" rel="tag">#Edinburgh</a> <a href="/tags/rlsday/" rel="tag">#RLSDay</a></p>

<p>Some one was singing<br>Up a twisty stair,<br>A fragment of a song,<br>One sweet, spring day,<br>When twelve o’clock was ringing,<br>Through the sunny square…</p><p>—Marion Angus (1865–1946), “Remembrance Day”<br>first published in THE LILT AND OTHER VERSES (1922)</p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/warpoetry/" rel="tag">#warpoetry</a> <a href="/tags/ww1/" rel="tag">#WW1</a> <a href="/tags/remembranceday/" rel="tag">#RemembranceDay</a></p>

<p>Hamish Henderson (1919–2002) – poet, soldier, intellectual, activist, songwriter – was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 11 Nov. A hugely important figure in Scottish culture, Henderson fought in North Africa &amp; Italy in WW2. A 🎂🧵</p><p>There were no gods and precious few heroes…<br>—“Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica”</p><p>1/10</p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/hamishhenderson/" rel="tag">#HamishHenderson</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/warpoetry/" rel="tag">#warpoetry</a> <a href="/tags/ww2/" rel="tag">#WW2</a> <a href="/tags/remembranceday/" rel="tag">#RemembranceDay</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1881.</p><p>Robert Louis Stevenson&#x27;s children&#x27;s pirate adventure novel Treasure Island begins serialization in the British magazine Young Folks as Treasure Island; or, The mutiny of the Hispaniola by &quot;Captain George North&quot;. It was first published as a book on 14 November 1883 by Cassell &amp; Co.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Island" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Island"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure</span><span class="invisible">_Island</span></a></p><p>Treasure Island at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/120" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/120</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Mary Wollstonecraft, The Woman Who Laid the Foundation for Feminism</p><p>&quot;Think 18th-century feminism must be outdated? Think again—there is still so much to learn from the life and writing of Mary Wollstonecraft.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/mary-wollstonecraft-woman-laid-foundation-feminism/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/mary-wollstonecraft-woman-laid-foundation-feminism/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/mary-woll</span><span class="invisible">stonecraft-woman-laid-foundation-feminism/</span></a></p><p>Wollstonecraft at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/84" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/84"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/84</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Norman MacCaig (1910–1996) was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 14 November. A self-described “Zen Calvinist”, when asked how long it took him to write a poem he would reply “one cigarette – or two for a long one”</p><p>A 🎂🧵</p><p>“Toad”<br>published in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)</p><p>1/12</p><p><a href="https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poems-of-norman-maccaig/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poems-of-norman-maccaig/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem</span><span class="invisible">s-of-norman-maccaig/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/normanmaccaig/" rel="tag">#NormanMacCaig</a></p>

<p>With A Boat And Some Help, You Can Read Moby Dick In A Day</p><p>&#x27;All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad&#x27;</p><p>By Riley MacLeod</p><p><a href="https://aftermath.site/moby-dick-marathon-mystic" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aftermath.site/moby-dick-marathon-mystic"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aftermath.site/moby-dick-marat</span><span class="invisible">hon-mystic</span></a></p><p>Moby Dick at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1889.</p><p>Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde are entertained together at dinner at the Langham Hotel, London, by the American Joseph Marshall Stoddart of Lippincott&#x27;s Monthly Magazine, who commissions from them respectively the stories The Sign of the Four and The Picture of Dorian Gray, which appear next year in the magazine.</p><p>The Sign of the Four at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2097" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/2097</a></p><p>The Picture of Dorian Gray at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/4078" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/4078</a><br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/174" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/174</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>English poet Agnes Bulmer was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1775.</p><p>Bulmer’s most famous work is Messiah&#x27;s Kingdom, an epic poem consisting of 14 books and over 14,000 lines, written in blank verse. The poem, which took over 9 years to complete, was published in 1833. It is is is probably the longest work in verse ever composed by a woman.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Bulmer#" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Bulmer#"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Bu</span><span class="invisible">lmer#</span></a></p><p>Messiah&#x27;s Kindgdom is available at <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>:<br><a href="https://archive.org/details/messiahskingdomp00bulm" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="archive.org/details/messiahskingdomp00bulm"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/messiahski</span><span class="invisible">ngdomp00bulm</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>

<p>American author Gertrude Chandler Warner died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1970.</p><p>She is best known for creating The Boxcar Children series, a popular series of children&#x27;s books. The book was well-received, and Warner later revised it in 1942, making it more accessible to younger readers. This revised version became a classic, and Warner went on to write 18 more books in the series.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Chandler_Warner" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Chandler_Warner"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude</span><span class="invisible">_Chandler_Warner</span></a></p><p>Books by Gertrude Chandler Warner at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/41863" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/41863"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/41863</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>English novelist and playwright Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1797.</p><p>She wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also contributed five volumes of Lives of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and French authors to Dionysius Lardner&#x27;s Cabinet Cyclopaedia.</p><p>Books by Mary Shelley at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/61" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/61"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/61</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/literarycriticism/" rel="tag">#literarycriticism</a></p>

<p>Look now, look quick – a shooting star!<br>Make your wish! It’s very far<br>From here to where the active light<br>Set out and streaked across a night<br>In Glasgow’s greatly dark November…</p><p>—Edwin Morgan, “Leonids”<br>in the London Review of Books, June 2000</p><p><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/n12/edwin-morgan/four-poems" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/n12/edwin-morgan/four-poems"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/n1</span><span class="invisible">2/edwin-morgan/four-poems</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a> <a href="/tags/leonids/" rel="tag">#leonids</a> <a href="/tags/meteor/" rel="tag">#meteor</a> <a href="/tags/edwinmorgan/" rel="tag">#EdwinMorgan</a></p>

<p>The Far Side of Disaster: On Virginia Woolf’s Unacknowledged Plague Novel To the Lighthouse</p><p>Colin Dickey: “It reminds me that others have struggled with how to write through the end of the world.”</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/the-far-side-of-disaster-on-virginia-woolfs-unacknowledged-plague-novel-to-the-lighthouse/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/the-far-side-of-disaster-on-virginia-woolfs-unacknowledged-plague-novel-to-the-lighthouse/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/the-far-side-of-dis</span><span class="invisible">aster-on-virginia-woolfs-unacknowledged-plague-novel-to-the-lighthouse/</span></a></p><p>Woolf at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/89</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>In September 1922.</p><p>Marcel Proust&#x27;s sequence À la Recherche du temps perdu begins to appear in English in a translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff of Swann&#x27;s Way, as the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past. This occurs two months before the author&#x27;s death. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Searc</span><span class="invisible">h_of_Lost_Time</span></a></p><p>Books by Marcel Proust at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/987" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/987"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/987</span></a></p><p>Books by Scott-Moncrieff at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/217" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/217"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/217</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1914.</p><p>Charles Masterman invites 25 &quot;eminent literary men&quot; to Wellington House in London to form a secret British War Propaganda Bureau. Those who attend include William Archer, Arnold Bennett, Hall Caine, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ford Madox Hueffer, John Galsworthy, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, John Masefield, Henry Newbolt, Gilbert Parker, G. M. Trevelyan and H. G. Wells. <br>1/2</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington_House" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington_House"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellingt</span><span class="invisible">on_House</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>The Wonderful Public Domain of Oz</p><p><a href="https://blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/the-wonderful-public-domain-of-oz/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/the-wonderful-public-domain-of-oz/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/th</span><span class="invisible">e-wonderful-public-domain-of-oz/</span></a></p><p>Baum&#x27;s books at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/42" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/42"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/42</span></a></p><p>Ruth Plumly Thompson&#x27;s books at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34661" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34661"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/34661</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>In September 1923.</p><p>T. S. Eliot&#x27;s poem The Waste Land (1922) is first published in the United Kingdom in book form, complete with notes, in a limited edition by the Hogarth Press of Richmond upon Thames. The firm is run by Eliot&#x27;s Bloomsbury Group friends Leonard and Virginia Woolf, and the type handset by Virginia (completed in July).</p><p>The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1321" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1321</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Yesterday, I was reading Shklovsky and stumbled upon this unexpectedly chilling short text. I translated it for you (although I just googled that the book itself *is* available in English, if you decide to read it from start to finish).</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/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/prose/" rel="tag">#prose</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/russian/" rel="tag">#russian</a> <a href="/tags/pennydreadfuls/" rel="tag">#pennydreadfuls</a></p>