<p>An Evening of Scottish Speculative Fiction<br>22 Jan, Waterstones Argyle Street, Glasgow. Tickets £5.</p><p>A trio of fantastic Scottish writers of spectacular speculative fiction – Christopher Caldwell, Angie Spoto, & Lorraine Wilson – in a discussion chaired by Elaine Gallagher.</p><p><a href="https://www.waterstones.com/events/an-evening-of-scottish-speculative-fiction/glasgow-argyle-street" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.waterstones.com/events/an-evening-of-scottish-speculative-fiction/glasgow-argyle-street"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.waterstones.com/events/an-</span><span class="invisible">evening-of-scottish-speculative-fiction/glasgow-argyle-street</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#SFF</a> <a href="/tags/speculativefiction/" rel="tag">#SpeculativeFiction</a> <a href="/tags/specfic/" rel="tag">#SpecFic</a> <a href="/tags/glasgow/" rel="tag">#Glasgow</a></p>
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<p>Dracula author's lost story unearthed after 134 years.</p><p>An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker, published just seven years before his legendary gothic novel Dracula.</p><p>By Maia Davies <span class="h-card"><a href="https://press.coop/@BBCNews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BBCNews</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g9119l64qo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g9119l64qo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4</span><span class="invisible">g9119l64qo</span></a></p><p>"Gibbet Hill" published in Supplement to the Daily Express in 17th December 1890 is available here:<br><a href="https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000924296" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000924296"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls00</span><span class="invisible">0924296</span></a></p><p>Books by Bram Stoker at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/190" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/190"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/19</span><span class="invisible">0</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>"Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother--Death."<br>Plays and Stories</p><p>Austrian author and dramatist Arthur Schnitzler died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1931.</p><p>He is considered one of the most significant representatives of Viennese Modernism. Schnitzler’s works, which include psychological dramas and narratives, making him a sharp and stylistically conscious chronicler of Viennese society around 1900.</p><p>Books by Arthur Schnitzler at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3010" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3010"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/3010</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>See Dick and Jane free</p><p>Given how much "Dick and Jane" have been used sardonically, one might think Zerna Sharp's schoolbook characters were already public domain.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom </p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/23/see-dick-and-jane-free/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/23/see-dick-and-jane-free/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/23/see-dick-and-jane-free/</span></a></p><p>More information about Dick and Jane:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_and_Jane" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_and_Jane"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_and</span><span class="invisible">_Jane</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#publicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>
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<p>Snaw is bluffertin’ the toun,<br>Gurly wunds are roustin’ roun’,<br>Peety fowk in broken shoon<br>This winter nicht…</p><p>—Helen Burness Cruickshank (1886–1975), “Song of Pity for Refugees”<br>published in Collected Poems (Reprographia, 1971)</p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/scots/" rel="tag">#Scots</a> <a href="/tags/scotslanguage/" rel="tag">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/refugees/" rel="tag">#refugees</a> <a href="/tags/winter/" rel="tag">#winter</a></p>
<p>Making Sense of The Nutcracker’s Libretto</p><p>Early audiences loved it, even as critics questioned its structure. Returning to the story helps illuminate what makes the ballet so strangely captivating.</p><p>By: Angelica Frey </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/making-sense-of-the-nutcrackers-libretto/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/making-sense-of-the-nutcrackers-libretto/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/making-sense-o</span><span class="invisible">f-the-nutcrackers-libretto/</span></a></p><p>Ballet at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/26513" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/26513"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/26513</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/ballet/" rel="tag">#ballet</a></p>
<p>A Forgotten Louisa May Alcott Story Showcases the Author’s Twist on Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’</p><p>"Written in 1882, “A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True,” covered many of the same themes as Dickens’ classic, albeit with a different audience in mind"</p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-forgotten-louisa-may-alcott-story-showcases-the-authors-twist-on-charles-dickens-a-christmas-carol-180987898/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-forgotten-louisa-may-alcott-story-showcases-the-authors-twist-on-charles-dickens-a-christmas-carol-180987898/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smithsonianmag.com/history</span><span class="invisible">/a-forgotten-louisa-may-alcott-story-showcases-the-authors-twist-on-charles-dickens-a-christmas-carol-180987898/</span></a></p><p>This story is in "Lulu's LIbrary, Volume I" at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40682" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40682</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/holida/" rel="tag">#Holida</a></p>
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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1849.</p><p>American writer Edgar Allan Poe died under mysterious circumstances at Washington Medical College four days after being found on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland, in a delirious and incoherent state.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Edgar_Allan_Poe" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Edgar_Allan_Poe"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of</span><span class="invisible">_Edgar_Allan_Poe</span></a></p><p>Books by Edgar Allan Poe at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/481" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/481"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/481</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>"Tupi or not tupi - That is the question."<br>Manifesto Antropófago, 1928.</p><p>Brazilian poet, novelist and cultural critic Oswald de Andrade died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1954.</p><p>Andrade was one of the founders of Brazilian modernism and a member of the Group of Five, along with Mário de Andrade, Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral and Menotti del Picchia. He participated in the Modern Art Week (Semana de Arte Moderna).</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_de_Andrade" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_de_Andrade"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_d</span><span class="invisible">e_Andrade</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>“I love winter… I love the peace of the nature reserve with its labyrinths of bare branches and its startling sunsets. I love the blitz of wee birds at the feeders in the garden. I’m not so keen on the damp grey days, I admit. So It’s no hardship to stay at my desk.”</p><p>—Val McDermid on how winter fuels her creative process – via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@literaryhub" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>literaryhub</span></a></span> </p><p>@writingcommunity </p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/ice-and-inspiration-an-ode-to-writing-in-winter-from-val-mcdermid/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/ice-and-inspiration-an-ode-to-writing-in-winter-from-val-mcdermid/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/ice-and-inspiration</span><span class="invisible">-an-ode-to-writing-in-winter-from-val-mcdermid/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/winter/" rel="tag">#winter</a> <a href="/tags/creativity/" rel="tag">#creativity</a> <a href="/tags/crimefiction/" rel="tag">#crimefiction</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1893.</p><p>Jerome K. Jerome founds To-Day, "A weekly magazine-journal", in London. However, he had to withdraw from both publications (The Idler) because of financial difficulties and a libel suit.</p><p>Books by Jerome K. Jerome at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/173" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/173"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/173</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>Making Sense of Middle Earth: Exploring the World of J.R.R. Tolkien</p><p>Michael D.C. Drout Remembers the Impact of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit on His Childhood</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/making-sense-of-middle-earth-exploring-the-world-of-j-r-r-tolkien/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/making-sense-of-middle-earth-exploring-the-world-of-j-r-r-tolkien/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/making-sense-of-mid</span><span class="invisible">dle-earth-exploring-the-world-of-j-r-r-tolkien/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>The debut of a dramatic duo</p><p>Moss Hart wrote the first draft of Once in a Lifetime, a comedy about Hollywood's transition to "talkies", as a 25-year-old unknown.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/24/the-debut-of-a-dramatic-duo/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/24/the-debut-of-a-dramatic-duo/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/24/the-debut-of-a-dramatic-duo/</span></a></p><p>More information about it:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_in_a_Lifetime_(play)" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_in_a_Lifetime_(play)"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_in_</span><span class="invisible">a_Lifetime_(play)</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#publicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>
<p>Yeats and the Occult Imagination</p><p>Beneath his poems lay a lifelong devotion to magic, divination, and a visionary system that shaped his most prophetic work.</p><p>By: Gus Mitchell </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/yeats-and-the-occult-imagination/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/yeats-and-the-occult-imagination/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/yeats-and-the-</span><span class="invisible">occult-imagination/</span></a></p><p>Yeats at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1719" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1719"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1719</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><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a>: <br>‘kiss me & you will see how important i am.’<br>i'm wishing a sketchy birthday to la plath, born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#otd</a> in 1932 - &, even though i've not a chance in high hades of achieving a scintilla of the written eloquence that she displayed, here's my scribbled ode. [cheeky wee thread follows]<br><a href="/tags/sylviaplath/" rel="tag">#sylviaPlath</a> <a href="/tags/illustration/" rel="tag">#illustration</a> <a href="/tags/poet/" rel="tag">#poet</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>
<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 @Europeanaeu</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><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/translator/" rel="tag">#translator</a></p>
<p>Franz Kafka’s papers metamorphose into National Library exhibit.</p><p>Wide-ranging exhibition ‘Kafka: Metamorphosis of an Author’ features the institution’s singular archives and marks 100 years since the Czech author’s death</p><p>By Jessica Steinberg </p><p><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/franz-kafkas-papers-metamorphose-into-national-library-exhibit/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.timesofisrael.com/franz-kafkas-papers-metamorphose-into-national-library-exhibit/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.timesofisrael.com/franz-ka</span><span class="invisible">fkas-papers-metamorphose-into-national-library-exhibit/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>In December 1891.</p><p>Thomas Hardy writes "The Son's Veto" (collected in Life's Little Ironies), which he regards as his best short story.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%27s_Little_Ironies" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%27s_Little_Ironies"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%27s</span><span class="invisible">_Little_Ironies</span></a></p><p>Life's Little Ironies at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3047" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3047</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>Banned in Texas</p><p>Struggle over academic freedom in Texas state universities has a long history. Today it's often over race and gender; in the 1940s, it was over things like John Dos Passos's USA trilogy. <br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/27/banned-in-texas/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/27/banned-in-texas/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/27/banned-in-texas/</span></a></p><p>John Dos passos at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2015" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2015"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2015</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>Edgar Allan Poe’s Mechanical Imagination</p><p>Behind The Raven’s melancholy lies a theory of composition shaped by magazines, machines, and modernity.</p><p>By: Danny Robb </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/edgar-allan-poes-mechanical-imagination/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KJVCCCNCPMWJ7N0E01YF4D4S&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/edgar-allan-poes-mechanical-imagination/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KJVCCCNCPMWJ7N0E01YF4D4S&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/edgar-allan-po</span><span class="invisible">es-mechanical-imagination/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KJVCCCNCPMWJ7N0E01YF4D4S&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>The Raven at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14082" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14082</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17192" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17192</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25525" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25525</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45484" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45484</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55749" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55749</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>In November 1907. </p><p>While tutoring a Trieste businessman in English, James Joyce reveals that he is a writer, and his pupil, known to Joyce as Ettore Schmitz, proves to be the published novelist Italo Svevo. A literary friendship ensues.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Svevo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Svevo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Sv</span><span class="invisible">evo</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>In November 1852.</p><p>Leo Tolstoy's debut novel, Childhood («Детство», Detstvo), is published under the initials L. N. in this month's issue of the Saint Petersburg literary journal Sovremennik.</p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2142" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/2142</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>The erotic poems of Bilitis</p><p>A lush translation of this late-discovered lesbian poet added to the legacy of Sappho, but there was a trickster at work</p><p>by Cat Lambert</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/how-a-playful-literary-hoax-illuminates-classical-queerness" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/how-a-playful-literary-hoax-illuminates-classical-queerness"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/how-a-playful-l</span><span class="invisible">iterary-hoax-illuminates-classical-queerness</span></a></p><p>Les Chansons de Bilitis at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4708" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4708</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>"[...] people always live for ever when there is any annuity to be paid them."</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1811.</p><p>Jane Austen publishes her first novel: Sense and Sensibility at her own expense in 3 volumes, priced at 15 s., in Thomas Egerton's Military Library.</p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/161" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/161</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>In November 1868.</p><p>Robert Browning's narrative poem The Ring and the Book begins four-part publication by Smith, Elder & Co. in London. It is a major commercial and critical success.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50954" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50954</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>
