<p>O come, let all 4,850 of us adore him</p><p>In 1925 the Associated Glee Clubs of America put on a concert like no other. 15 choral groups, with over 850 singers in all, came together in New York's Metropolitan Opera House to sing a program broadcast on radio across America.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/25/o-come-let-all-4850-of-us-adore-him/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/25/o-come-let-all-4850-of-us-adore-him/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/25/o-come-let-all-4850-of-us-adore-him/</span></a></p><p>About Adeste Fideles:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Come,_All_Ye_Faithful" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Come,_All_Ye_Faithful"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Come,_</span><span class="invisible">All_Ye_Faithful</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a></p>
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<p>Up in the morning’s no for me,<br>Up in the morning early;<br>When a’ the hills are cover’d wi’ snaw,<br>I’m sure it’s winter fairly… </p><p>—“Up in the Morning Early”, by Robert Burns – poet of the people 🫡</p><p><a href="https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/morning-early/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/morning-early/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.</span><span class="invisible">uk/poem/morning-early/</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/18thcentury/" rel="tag">#18thCentury</a> <a href="/tags/robertburns/" rel="tag">#RobertBurns</a> <a href="/tags/winter/" rel="tag">#winter</a></p>
<p>Book launch<br>Ali Smith: GLYPH<br>29 Jan, Portobello Bookshop, Edinburgh, & online – ticketed</p><p>Ghosts don’t exist.<br>They don’t. End of.<br>Story, however.<br>It is haunting.<br>Everything tells it.</p><p>GLYPH is Ali Smith’s most soulful, playful & vital novel yet, a work of lightness that goes deep to counter the forces currently flattening the modern world. Smith will be in conversation with Jess Orr.</p><p><a href="https://www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/ali-smith-glyph" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/ali-smith-glyph"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theportobellobookshop.com/</span><span class="invisible">events/ali-smith-glyph</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#novel</a> <a href="/tags/alismith/" rel="tag">#AliSmith</a></p>
<p>How Colette Was Inspired By Her Many Cats</p><p>Susannah Fullerton on the French Writer’s Feline Muses</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/how-colette-was-inspired-by-her-many-cats/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/how-colette-was-inspired-by-her-many-cats/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/how-colette-was-ins</span><span class="invisible">pired-by-her-many-cats/</span></a></p><p>Books by Colette at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2065" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2065"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2065</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#animals</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1938.</p><p>Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States.</p><p>The War of the Worlds at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/36" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/36</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>Becoming Beatrice</p><p>Dante adored her so much that he cast her as his guide in the Divine Comedy. But who was Beatrice Portinari?</p><p>By: Emily Zarevich </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/becoming-beatrice/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/becoming-beatrice/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/becoming-beatr</span><span class="invisible">ice/</span></a></p><p>Divine Comedy at PG<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1004" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1004</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>"If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter."</p><p>Margaret Mead died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1978.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>In November 1848.</p><p>William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The History of Pendennis begins its serial publication. The publication was paused for 3 months following the author’s illness after the September 1849 part.</p><p>The History of Pendennis at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/7265" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/7265</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>“To Eat This Big Universe as Her Oyster”</p><p>Margaret Fuller and the First Major Work of American Feminism</p><p>By Randall Fuller via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>publicdomainrev</span></a></span><br><a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/margaret-fuller-and-the-first-major-work-of-american-feminism/?utm_source=newsletter" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="publicdomainreview.org/essay/margaret-fuller-and-the-first-major-work-of-american-feminism/?utm_source=newsletter"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publicdomainreview.org/essay/m</span><span class="invisible">argaret-fuller-and-the-first-major-work-of-american-feminism/?utm_source=newsletter</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>In November 1850</p><p>A new edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poems is published by Chapman & Hall in London, including in volume 2 her Sonnets from the Portuguese.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21161" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21161</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2002" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2002</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>I’m trying to entice my book club into reading Arcadia (Stoppard) with me, as well as Fleming’s analysis of the play. They probably won’t go along.</p><p>Philistines!</p><p>I’ll go it alone.</p><p><a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1850.</p><p>Charles Dickens's novel David Copperfield concludes serial publication and on November 14 appears complete in book form from Bradbury and Evans in London.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/766" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/766</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>The 29 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2025</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/the-29-best-old-books-we-read-in-2025/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/the-29-best-old-books-we-read-in-2025/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/the-29-best-old-boo</span><span class="invisible">ks-we-read-in-2025/</span></a></p><p>"Wuthering Heights" at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Wuthering+Heights" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Wuthering+Heights"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Wuthering+Heights</span></a></p><p>"The Country of the Pointed Firs" at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=The+country+of+the+pointed+firs" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=The+country+of+the+pointed+firs"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=The+country+of+the+pointed+firs</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 1895</p><p>Thomas Hardy's last completed novel, Jude the Obscure is published by Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co. in London, dated 1896, on completion of an expurgated serialization under the title Hearts Insurgent in Harper's Magazine. </p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/153" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/153</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 1902</p><p>Leo Tolstoy's drama The Power of Darkness (written in 1886) has its Russian-language première at the Moscow Art Theatre by Konstantin Stanislavski with some success, although Stanislavski is self-critical.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Darkness" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Darkness"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Powe</span><span class="invisible">r_of_Darkness</span></a></p><p>The Power of Darkness at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26661" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26661</a></p><p><a href="/tags/bboks/" rel="tag">#bboks</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a></p>
<p>HAPPY PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY! And Happy New Year!</p><p>Books published in 1930 will enter the U.S. public domain, such as:</p><p>The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett: This novel introduced the world to the famous detective Sam Spade.<br>As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner: A masterpiece of American literature.<br>The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie: This was the first novel to feature the beloved character Miss Marple.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomain/" rel="tag">#publicdomain</a><br>1/</p>
<p>"Man is free at the instant he wants to be."</p><p>French writer, deist and philosopher Voltaire was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1694. He established himself as one of the leading writers of the enlightenment.</p><p>Books by Voltaire at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/913" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/913"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/913</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 1748.</p><p>The first instalment of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, also known as Fanny Hill, is published anonymously by John Cleland to raise money to free himself from the London debtors' prison. It is considered by some to be the first modern erotic novel.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Hill" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Hill"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Hi</span><span class="invisible">ll</span></a></p><p>Memoirs of Fanny Hill at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/25305" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/25305</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>What was your favorite book from PG's catalog in 2025?</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomain/" rel="tag">#publicdomain</a></p>
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<p>Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025<br> <br>via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>publicdomainrev</span></a></span> </p><p>It’s that time in December when we inevitably end up asking the question: what, exactly, captured people’s attention over the past year? The list below is one answer. </p><p><a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/12/top-10-most-read-pieces-from-2025/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/12/top-10-most-read-pieces-from-2025/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publicdomainreview.org/blog/20</span><span class="invisible">25/12/top-10-most-read-pieces-from-2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/illustrations/" rel="tag">#illustrations</a></p>
<p>Virginia Faulkner: Writer, Editor and... Ghostwriter?</p><p>Brad Bigelow on the Collaborative Process That Produced Polly Adler’s A House is Not a Home</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/virginia-faulkner-writer-editor-and-ghostwriter/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/virginia-faulkner-writer-editor-and-ghostwriter/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/virginia-faulkner-w</span><span class="invisible">riter-editor-and-ghostwriter/</span></a></p><p>More about Virginia Faulkner:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Faulkner" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Faulkner"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia</span><span class="invisible">_Faulkner</span></a><br><a href="https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=10900" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>neglectedbooks.com/?p=10900</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>Abby Morton Diaz was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1821.</p><p>Born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, she became involved in the reform movements of the 19th century, particularly those related to women's suffrage, education, and labor.</p><p>Abby Morton Diaz at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2166" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2166"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2166</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>In November 1887.</p><p>Arthur Conan Doyle's first detective novel, A Study in Scarlet, is published in Beeton's Christmas Annual by Ward Lock & Co. in London, introducing the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes & his friend & chronicler Dr. Watson.</p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/244" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/244</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>In November 1874.</p><p>After completing a four-year prison sentence for thefts and frauds at Waldheim, Saxony, Karl May has his first story, "Die Rose von Ernstthal" ("The Story of Rose Ernstthal"), published.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1018" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1018"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1018</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms.</p><p>Historically, women faced barriers to publication and prejudicial attitudes, leading some to adopt male pseudonyms.</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/famous-women-writers-under-male-pseudonyms/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/famous-women-writers-under-male-pseudonyms/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/famous-wo</span><span class="invisible">men-writers-under-male-pseudonyms/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>