literature

30d

“I usually try to write in Gaelic, unless a poem needs a particular turn of phrase in English… I will often work back and forth between both languages, because for me the translation provides a new lens to see the poem with.”

—Beth Frieden speaks to 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘺 magazine about her debut poetry pamphlet, 𝘈𝘤𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘯 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘩

https://www.theskinny.co.uk/books/features/beth-frieden-gaelic-poetry

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poetry #translation

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49d

Yee-haw! Today – 25 July – is Cowboy Day! 🤠

“Prosaic & glib cartoon art is consigned along with yesterday’s newspaper, to the bin & oblivion; the few great strips lodge themselves in the public’s psyche”

—downthetubes.net celebrates Lobey Dosser, Glasgow’s greatest cowboy (& his 2-legged horse El Fildeldo)

https://downthetubes.net/lobey-dosser-a-very-surreal-glaswegian/

#Scottish #literature #Glasgow #comic #comics #comicstrip #cowboy #CowboyDay #NationalCowboyDay

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Thar na sìorraidheachd, thar a sneachda,
chì mi mo dhàin neo-dheachdte,
chì mi lorgan an spòg a’ breacadh
gile shuaimhneach an t-sneachda:
calg air bhoile, teanga fala,
gadhair chaola ’s madaidhean-allaidh…

—Somhairle MacGill-Eain, “Coin is Madaidhean-allaidh” (“Dogs and Wolves”)

A poem for International Wolf Day 🐺

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #wolf #wolves #InternationalWolfDay

Coin is Madaidhean-allaidh
Somhairle MacGill-Eain

Thar na sìorraidheachd, thar a sneachda,
chì mi mo dhàin neo-dheachdte,
chì mi lorgan an spòg a’ breacadh
gile shuaimhneach an t-sneachda:
calg air bhoile, teanga fala,
gadhair chaola ’s madaidhean-allaidh
a’ leum thar mullaichean nan gàrradh,
a’ ruith fo sgàil nan craobhan fàsail,
a’ gabhail cumhang nan caol-ghleann,
a’ sireadh caisead nan gaoth-bheann;
an langan gallanach a’ sianail
thar loman cruaidhe nan àm cianail,
an comhartaich bhiothbhuan ’na mo chluasan,
an deann-ruith a’ gabhail mo bhuadhan:
rèis nam madadh ’s nan con iargalt
luath air tòrachd an fhiadhaich
tro na coilltean gun fhiaradh,
thar mullaichean nam beann gun shiaradh;
coin chiùine caothaich na bàrdachd,
madaidhean air tòir na h-àilleachd,
àilleachd an anama ’s an aodainn,
fiadh geal thar bheann is raointean,
fiadh do bhòidhche ciùine gaolaich,
fiadhach gun sgur gun fhaochadh.

Dogs and Wolves
Sorley MacLean

Across eternity, across its snows,
I see my unwritten poems,
I see the spoor of their paws dappling
the untroubled whiteness of the snow:
bristles raging, bloody-tongued,
lean greyhounds and wolves
leaping over the tops of the dykes,
running under the shade of the trees of the wilderness,
taking the defile of narrow glens,
making for the steepness of windy mountains;
their baying yell shrieking
across the hard barenesses of the terrible times,
their everlasting barking in my ears,
their onrush seizing my mind:
career of wolves and eerie dogs
swift in pursuit of the quarry,
through the forests without veering,
over the mountain-tops without sheering;
the mild mad dogs of poetry,
wolves in chase of beauty,
beauty of soul and face,
a white deer over hills and plains,
the deer of your gentle beloved beauty,
a hunt without halt, without respite.

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48d

An Integral Part of the Story: A Short History of Short Fiction by American Women

Arielle Zibrak Explores the Diverse Literary Landscape of 19th- and Early 20th-Century Female Writers in the United States (from the archives)

https://lithub.com/an-integral-part-of-the-story-a-short-history-of-short-fiction-by-american-women/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KXX1D5DQVEJ3204KF26QDMYQ&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER

Books in Short Stories at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/69

#books #literature

Cover image of Five Minute Stories

Author: Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Illustrator: Etheldred B. Barry

Albertine Randall Wheelan

It is showing an illustration of a woman in a dark flowing dress sitting beside a child in a nightgown standing at a crib, set against a green fleur-de-lis patterned background.

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14d

"He that uses words without any clear and steady meaning, what does he
but lead himself and others into errors? And he that designedly does it,
ought to be looked on as an enemy to truth and knowledge."

~John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) via @wikipedia

#books #literature

John Locke, by John Greenhill (died 1676).

An oval portrait of Locke that shows him with long curling natural hair and a direct gaze.

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48d

That must have been a time of happiness.
The air was mild, the Campsie Fells had vines.
Dirigible parties left soft sky-signs
and bursts of fading music. Who could guess
what they might not accomplish…

—Edwin Morgan, “A Golden Age”
from “Sonnets from Scotland”, published in COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1990)

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857541885/collected-poems/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EdwinMorgan #sonnet #sciencefiction #scifi #SciFiPoetry

Edwin Morgan
A Golden Age

That must have been a time of happiness.
The air was mild, the Campsie Fells had vines.
Dirigible parties left soft sky-signs
and bursts of fading music. Who could guess
what they might not accomplish, they had seas
in cities, cities in the sea; their domes
and crowded belvederes hung free, their homes
eagle-high or down among whitewashed quays.
And women sauntered often with linked arms
through night streets, or alone, or danced a maze
with friends. Perhaps it did not last. What lasts?
The bougainvillea millenniums
may come and go, but then in thistle days
a strengthened seed outlives the hardest blasts.

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48d

8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms

Historically, female writers have faced barriers to publication and prejudicial attitudes, leading some to adopt male pseudonyms.

https://www.thecollector.com/famous-women-writers-male-pseudonyms/

6 of these writers are at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/

George Eliot

#books #literature

This painting by François d'Albert-Durade shows George Eliot from the waist up, her body turned slightly to the right. She has a long nose and blue eyes. Her brown hair is parted in the middle and covers her ears. She wears a dark black jacket or coat with a criss-cross pattern over a white frilly blouse.

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48d

Words of the Wild Book Festival
29 September–3 October, Edinburgh

This autumn, immerse yourself in some of Scotland’s best nature writing at the first Words of the Wild Book Festival. Featuring online talks, panel discussions & creative writing workshops.

Full programme and tickets:

https://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/wordsofthewild/book-festival/

#Scottish #literature #writing #naturewriting #creativewriting #books #bookfestival #Edinburgh

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31d

Black Achilles

The Greeks didn’t have modern ideas of race. Did they see themselves as white, black – or as something else altogether?

by Tim Whitmarsh

https://aeon.co/essays/when-homer-envisioned-achilles-did-he-see-a-black-man?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a89c7b1537-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_07_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

Books about Achilles at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=achilles

#books #literature #history

Ajax carries off the body of Achilles, Attic black-figure lekythos from Sicily, c. 510 BCE (Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich).

A terracotta amphora fragment showing two helmeted warriors in black-figure style carrying the body of a fallen soldier. Large round shields decorated with serpent motifs dominate the scene.

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48d

A bird’s voice chinks and tinkles
Alone in the gaunt reedbed –
Tiny silversmith
Working late in the evening…

—Norman MacCaig, “July evening”
published in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)

https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poems-of-norman-maccaig/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig #summer #naturepoetry #naturewriting

Norman MacCaig
July evening

A bird’s voice chinks and tinkles
Alone in the gaunt reedbed –
Tiny silversmith
Working late in the evening.

I sit and listen. The rooftop
With a quill of smoke stuck in it
Wavers against the sky
In the dreamy heat of summer.

Flowers’ closing time: bee lurches
Across the hayfield, singing
And feeling its drunken way
Round the air’s invisible corners.

And grass is grace. And charlock
Is gold of its own bounty.
The broken chair by the wall
Is one with immortal landscapes.

Something has been completed
That everything is part of,
Something that will go on
Being completed forever.

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122d

Having a fine time with Sam Byers's smartly written Perfidious Albion, whose concerns about identity, data privacy, and political extremism have only gotten more pressing since it was published in 2018. But the tone is frequently absurdist rather than solemn, so it goes down easy

#books #reading #satire #SamByers #literature

Paperback copy of Perfidious Albion by Sam Byers, published by Faber & Faber. It features the 2017 artwork Babel Britain by Emily Allchurch, a satirical piece based on one of Verhaecht's Towers of Babel. Overlaid on this are the title and author's name in bright green sans-serif all-caps, and between these are three cover quotes: "Darkly plausible, witty and intelligent" (Financial Times), "Furiously smart...madly funny" (Guardian), and "A mordant, needle-sharp satire" (Jonathan Coe).

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“What an incredible coincidence it is that our moon fits exactly over our sun…”

—In his 2009 parallel-universes novel TRANSITION, Iain (M) Banks suggested that one of our planet’s near-miraculous total eclipses would be a perfect place to look for alien tourists

@bookstodon

https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/iain-banks/transition/9780349139272/

#Scottish #literature #IainMBanks #IainBanks #sciencefiction #scifi #eclipse #eclipse2026 #aliens

"Now, most jet travel on Earth is for tourism. Not business; tourism. Would our smart, curious aliens really be that different from us? I don't think so. Most of them would be tourists. Like us, they'd go on cruise ships. And would they want to actually come to a place like Earth, set foot – or tentacle, or whatever – here? Rather than visit via some sort of virtual reality set-up? Well, some would settle for second-best, yes. Maybe the majority of people would. But the high rollers, the super-wealthy, the elite, they'd want the real thing. They'd want the bragging rights, they'd want to be able to say they'd really been to whatever exotic destinations would be on a Galactic Grand Tour. And who knows what splendours they'd want to fit in; their equivalent of the Grand Canyon, or Venice, Italy, or the Great Wall of China or Yosemite or the Pyramids?

"But what I want to propose to you is that, as well as all those other wonders, they would definitely want to see that one precious thing that we have and probably nobody else does. They'd want to see our eclipse. They'd want to look through the Earth's atmosphere with their own eyes and see the moon fit over the sun, watch the light fade down to almost nothing, listen to the animals nearby fall silent and feel with their own skins the sudden chill in the air that comes with totality. Even if they can't survive in our atmosphere, even if they need a spacesuit to keep them alive, they'd still want to get as close as they possibly could to seeing it in the raw, in as close to natural conditions as it's possible to arrange. They'd want to be here, amongst us, when the shadow passes.

"So that's where you look for aliens. In the course of an eclipse totality track. When everybody else is looking awestruck at the sky, you need to be looking round for anybody who looks weird or overdressed, or who isn't coming out of their RV or their moored yacht with the heavily smoked glass.

""If they're anywhere, they're there, and as distracted – and so as vulnerable – as anybody else staring up in wonder at this astonishing, breathtaking sight.”

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Now westlin winds, and slaught’ring guns
Bring Autumn’s pleasant weather;
And the moorcock springs, on whirring wings,
Amang the blooming heather…

—Robert Burns, “Song, Composed in August”
First published in POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT (Kilmarnock, 1786)

Pages digitised by the National Library of Scotland

https://digital.nls.uk/poems-chiefly-in-the-scottish-dialect/archive/74464614#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=230&xywh=-1574%2C0%2C5647%2C4185

#Scottish #literature #poetry #song #folksong #RobertBurns #18thcentury #nature #environment

SONG
composed in August

Tune, I had a horse, I had nae mair

Now westlin winds, and slaught'ring guns
Bring Autumn's pleasant weather;

And the moorcock springs on whirring wings
Amang the blooming heather:
Now waving grain, wide o'er the plain,
Delights the weary Farmer;
And the moon shines bright, when I rove at night,
To muse upon my Charmer.

The Partridge loves the fruitful fells,
The Plover loves the mountains;
The Woodcock haunts the lonely dells,
The soaring Hern the fountains:
Thro' lofty groves the Cushat roves,
The path of man to shun it;
The hazel bush o'erhangs the Thrush,
The spreading thorn the Linnet.

Thus ev'ry kind their pleasure find,
The savage and the tender;
Some social join, and leagues combine,
Some solitary wander:

Avaunt, away! the cruel sway!
Tyrannic man's dominion;
The Sportsman's joy, the murd'ring cry,
The flutt'ring, gory pinion!

But PEGGY dear, the ev'ning's clear,
Thick flies the skimming Swallow,
The sky is blue, the fields in view,
All fading-green and yellow:
Come let us stray our gladsome way,
And view the charms of Nature;
The rustling corn, the fruited thorn,
And ilka happy creature.

We'll gently walk, and sweetly talk,
Till the silent moon shine clearly;
I'll grasp thy waist, and fondly prest,
Swear how I love thee dearly:
Not vernal show'rs to budding flow'rs,
Not Autumn to the Farmer,
So dear can be, as thou to me,
My fair, my lovely Charmer!

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31d

What Aeschylus’s “Prometheus Bound” Teaches About Defying Tyranny

Aeschylus’s "Prometheus Bound" explores themes of knowledge, power, and tyranny, and in doing so raised compelling questions about Athenian imperial authority.

https://www.thecollector.com/prometheus-bound/

"Four Plays of Aeschylus" at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8714

#books #literature #drama

In Thomas Cole's, "Prometheus Bound", "the landscape is appropriately desolate; above Prometheus are imposing, snowy mountains and a cold sky. The figure himself blends in with the rocks, a conscious decision of the artist that adds an element of surprise for the viewer when the figure is finally seen; the viewer's surprise emphasizes Prometheus's desperate and desolate situation.[1] Upon further inspection a vulture is seen lower in the painting, swooping up toward Prometheus. The raptor comes at dawn, when the planet Jupiter (the "morning star") is seen in the sky.[2] As the Roman god Jupiter is the equivalent of Zeus, Prometheus's antagonist symbolically watches over him." - Wikipedia

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54d

A younger but fully grown-ass person working behind the counter of a bookshop had to ask me how to spell 'traitor' this afternoon.

Tell me our brains aren't being turned to shit by social media and the endless AI-style lazy paths so accessible in the first world today.

Was looking for this, btw (and they had it):

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/253399/the-spy-and-the-traitor-by-ben-macintyre/

#reading #literature #books #ai #socialmedia #education #science #technology

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47d

On the Duplicitous Heroine in Wilkie Collins’s No Name

Is Magdalen Vanstone a Detective Using Her Acting Skills or, by Victorian Standards,... a Criminal?

by Olivia Rutigliano

https://lithub.com/on-the-duplicitous-heroine-in-wilkie-collinss-no-name/

No Name by Wilkie Collins at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1438

#books #literature

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47d

The Secret Lives of Insects

Can fruit flies have dialects? Can dung beetles navigate by the stars? Find surprising answers in this collection of stories about bugs and people.

By: The Editors

https://daily.jstor.org/the-secret-lives-of-insects/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_07232026

La vie des abeilles & The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38527
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4511

#books #literature

Locusts in the fifteenth century

Illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle, by Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514)

It shows several large, stylized flying locusts with detailed wings and legs, colored in green, gold, and gray tones, hovering over grassy terrain.

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47d

🎉PUBLICATION DAY!🥳

NAMING THE SNAKES
New Writing Scotland 44
Edited by Chris Powici, Allan Radcliffe & Anna C. Frater

The best new short fiction & poetry from forty-three writers who are Scottish by birth, residence, or inclination. Available now from all good bookshops (& the evil one too, if you must)!

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/newwriting/nws44/

#Scottish #literature #shortfiction #poetry #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #writingcommunity

Book cover:

Naming
the
Snakes

New
Writing
Scotland
44

Edited by Chris Powici and Allan Radcliffe
Gaelic Editor: Anna C. Frater

The cover image shows a mix of overlapping yellow, orange, and purple fabrics, semi-transparent, on top of a drawing of a hand holding a disc which rests on top of a pillar. The head of a snake coils up from below to rest on the disc.

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47d

David Keenan & Andrew O’Hagan: Boyhood

“A book of great joy, of laughter in the face of horror and delight in storytelling… BOYHOOD is a hymn to the resilience of youth, to the brave dreams of artists and lovers and a love letter to Glasgow – a city where magic happens.”

In this London Review of Books podcast, David Keenan reads from his latest novel BOYHOOD, & talks with Andrew O’Hagan

@bookstodon

https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-video/podcasts/david-keenan-and-andrew-o-hagan-boyhood

#Scottish #literature #novel #Glasgow

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47d

Hit wis da swans, dat’s whit it wis.
Dat’s whit set da day apairt.

Twa cygnets, happit in emsket,
a midder, a faider. A peerie geo

aa ta wirsels, whaar waves yockit
sands saftly, maas cried oot abun,

an da sun drappit waarmest hugs
apö wir shooders…

—Maxine Rose Munro, “A fine day”
published in NEW SHETLANDER #295, 2021

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/a-fine-day/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #Shetlandic #Shetland

A fine day
Maxine Rose Munro

Hit wis da swans, dat’s whit it wis.
Dat’s whit set da day apairt.

Twa cygnets, happit in emsket,
a midder, a faider. A peerie geo

aa ta wirsels, whaar waves yockit
sands saftly, maas cried oot abun,

an da sun drappit waarmest hugs
apö wir shooders, glinkin atween

white cloods o oo. Bit da swans,
no buddered be dat, skoited at wis tochtfully,

saw a faider, a midder, twa bairns,
an lat wis in. As wir bairns played

da cygnets circled, curious, comin closs,
closser, skeetin awaa, owre shy efter aa,

ta hoid anunder midder’s wing. Wir bairns
wis much da sam, unsure o da uncan.

Lookin up fae wipin sand fae a peerie
een’s face, I lockit een wi midder swan

an richt den I kent shö wis seein hersel.
An richt den I kent I saw mesel tö.

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Upon his guilded chariot led by hours,
With radiant glories darting throw the air,
The sun, high sprung in his diurnal course,
Shed down a day serenely sweet and fair…

—Allan Ramsay (1684–1758), “The Eclipse”

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #eclipse #astronomy #18thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage

The Eclipse
Allan Ramsay

Upon his guilded chariot led by hours,
With radiant glories darting throw the air,
The sun, high sprung in his diurnal course,
Shed down a day serenely sweet and fair.
The earth mair beautiful and fertile grew;
The flow’ry fields in rich array,
Smil’d lovely on the beamy day,
Delightful for the eye to view;
Ceres, with her golden hair,
Displaying treasure ilka where,
While useful plenty made her stalks to bow.

A thousand little suns glanc’d on the wave;
Nature appear’d to claim the sun’s respect,
All did sae blyth and beauteously behave.
“Ah!” cry’d the moon, “too much for him ye deck;
“My aking een cannot this glory bear;
“This sun pretends nane in the sky
“Can shine but him, then where am I?
“Soon I the contrary shall clear:
“By ae bauld strake,
“With him I’ll make
“My equal empire in the heaven appear.”

“’Tis me that gives a lustre to the night;
“Then should not I my proper right display,
“And now, even now dart down my silver light?
“I give enough, this sun gives too much day.”
The project fram’d, pale Cynthia now to shaw
Her shining power, right daftly run
Directly ’tween the earth and Sun.
Unwise design! the warld then saw,
Instead of light, the Moon
Brought darkness in at noon,
And without borrowing, had no light at a’.

Thus many empty and imprudent men,
Wha to their ain infirmities are blind,
Rax yont their reach, and this way let us ken
A jealous, weak and insufficient mind.

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47d

We're ready to help get your bills down.
We're ready to break down your door
And gift you a pre-payment meter
To stop you from shivering more…

—Nuala Watt, “Important Information Enclosed”
published in The Department of Work & Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish (Blue Diode, 2024)

https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/the-department-of-work-and-pensions-assesses-a-jade-fish-by-nuala-watt

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #benefits #Disability #DisabilityBenefits #satire

Nuala Watt
Important Information Enclosed

We're ready to help get your bills down.
We're ready to break down your door
And gift you a pre-payment meter
To stop you from shivering more.

Perhaps you did not learn to budget,
But we can assist you with that.
And can we suggest, in the meantime,
You stay in one room in your flat?

We see you've restarted your asthma.
There's not enough gas for a bath.
You cough when you go to the bathroom.
A more parsimonious path

Could help you to quash all these problems.
And follow our energy plan.
We do understand, and we promise
To help you as much as we can.

Perhaps you could turn down your boiler.
Is your jacket too thin? Buy a spare.
The weather created this crisis.
We want you to know that we care.

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46d

Beyond Greece and Rome

A dramatic shift in perspective is producing a much bigger, broader and more exciting view of ‘the ancient world’

by Carlos Noreña

https://aeon.co/essays/uncovering-a-global-ancient-history-beyond-greece-and-rome?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=19c4c2cc0a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_04_27_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

Books about Ancient World at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=ancient+world

#books #literature #history

Myths of Greece and Rome

Author: H. A. Guerber

This is an old historical map of ancient Greece and the surrounding Aegean region, showing Epirus, Macedonia, Thrace, the Greek mainland, and various islands (including Crete at the bottom), bordered by the Mediterranean and Euxine (Black) Sea. It includes an inset map showing the "Vicinity of Rome" in the lower left corner.

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46d

Out now!

STEVENSON AND PLEASURE
Ed. Julie Gay, Lesley Graham & Nathalie Jaëck

Looking at physical, creative, & intertextual/intermedial pleasures, these 10 essays explore how pleasure – sensory, intellectual & aesthetic – influenced Robert Louis Stevenson’s work & its reception.

Available from bookshops worldwide (£24.95 / €29.95 / $29.95) & digitally via Project MUSE

@litstudies

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/stevenson-and-pleasure/

#Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #Victorian #19thcentury #literarystudies

Book cover

Stevenson and Pleasure
Edited by Julie Gay, Lesley Graham and Nathalie Jaëck

Cover image: Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887. Painting by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), oil on canvas. The painting shows Robert Louis Stevenson sitting relaxed in an orange wicker armchair, one long leg crossed over the other. Stevenson is wearing a dark velvet smoking jacket and grey, baggy trousers. One thin hand rests on his thigh and the other golds a cigarette up near his mouth. He has a drooping moustache and a pale face, and he looks out at us with an amused expression. The chair sits on a wildly furry light brown rug in front of a piece of dark wooden Victorian furniture.

Contents

Introduction (Julie Gay, Lesley Graham, and Nathalie Jaëck)
I. PLEASURES OF THE BODY AND MIND
1. An ‘invalid marching to and fro upon the roads’: Pleasure and Exertion in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Early Travels (Kévin Cristin)
2. Pleasure for Profit: Opium in The Wrecker (Audrey Murfin)
3. Desire Free from Malice: Pleasure and Ethics in Stevenson and Melville (Lucio De Capitani)
II. CREATIVE PLEASURES
4. Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pleasure of Nightmares (Jean-Pierre Naugrette)
5. Stevenson and Charm (Richard Dury)
6. The Pleasures, and Perils, of Collaboration: Robert Louis Stevenson and Belle Strong in Samoa (Hilary J. Beattie)
III. THE PLEASURES OF INTERTEXTUALITY AND INTERMEDIALITY
7. The Pleasure of the Intertext: Aesthetic Self-Fashioning in ‘Providence and the Guitar’ (Burkhard Niederhoff)

8. ‘But somehow it was never Treasure Island to me’: The Elusive Climactic Map of Treasure Island (Xavier Amelot and Nathalie Jaëck)
9. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde on Screen: Experiments in Pleasure (Gilles Menegaldo)
10. Playing the Classics? The Jekyll and Hyde Videogame Adaptations (Nicolas Labarre)
Notes on contributors
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Widening the Horizon – Scotland’s translators for the stage
27 August, Summerhall, Edinburgh. £2.50–£5

A panel event celebrating Scotland’s translators of international plays for UK stages. Chaired by Joyce McMillan, & featuring writer-translators Jo Clifford, Liz Lochhead, Alan McKendrick, Katherine Mendelsohn & Mariem Omari, the event will explore the importance of this vibrant aspect of Scottish theatre.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/widening-the-horizon-scotlands-translators-for-the-stage-tickets-1994150609153

#Scottish #literature #theatre #drama #translation

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