literature

Cicero at His Villa at Tusculum by J. M. W. Turner, 1839.

A hazy, golden Italianate landscape with cypress trees, terraced gardens, and figures on a balustraded path overlooking a distant hilltop town.

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..we are never more true to ourselves
than when we are inconsistent.

Wilde ~ A Critic as Artist

Photo Donald Boyd

Dreamlike seascape: black sky, pale blue sea, and a wide beach bordered in the center by a fence that is open at one point. Photo by Donald Boyd.

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The 12th Jaipur Literature Festival in Boulder – The Integration of Arts, Science and Culture https://www.byteseu.com/2392908/ #culture #diversity #JaipurLiteratureFestival #literary #literature #Science

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https://www.europesays.com/3269276/ The 12th Jaipur Literature Festival in Boulder – The Integration of Arts, Science and Culture #america #Culture #diversity #JaipurLiteratureFestival #literary #LITERATURE #science #technology #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA

https://theconversation.com/lessons-for-the-21st-century-from-a-200-year-old-book-by-frankenstein-author-mary-shelley-291926

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"The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me..."

Lessons for the 21st century from a 200‑year‑old book by ‘Frankenstein’ author Mary Shelley

by Eileen Hunt

The Last Man by Mary Shelley at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18247

#books #literature #postapocalypitic

The Last Man 1st ed title page.

First edition title page of "The Last Man" by Mary Shelley, credited only as "The Author of Frankenstein." Published in three volumes by Henry Colburn, London, 1826. Includes a Milton epigraph.

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Tout notre bonheur
dérive de l'attachement,
et tout notre malheur aussi.

Cioran ~ Cahiers

Léo Ferré ~ Le Temps du Tango
https://youtu.be/3V4c1ldKLWk?si=JhnV0zw4D3XDxf64

Photo Laetitia Freling

Paysage marin nocturne : sur une mer bleue et calme, un homme debout sur une planche rame ; dans le ciel bleu nuit, la pleine lune rouge. Photo de Laetitia Freling.

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More than 350 cultural figures slam Spanish festival for canceling a Jewish novelist for her Israel views

MADRID — More than 350 writers and other cultural figures have signed a petition defending the author Ariana…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Israel #anti-israelsentimentinspain #Argentina #Books #Literature #Spain
https://www.europesays.com/iran/305828/

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More than 350 cultural figures slam Spanish festival for canceling a Jewish novelist for her Israel views

MADRID — More than 350 writers and other cultural figures have signed a petition defending the author Ariana…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Israel #anti-israelsentimentinspain #Argentina #Books #Literature #Spain
https://www.europesays.com/iran/305828/

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Writers back Ariana Harwicz after Spain festival cancels her appearance https://www.byteseu.com/2396071/ #antisemitism #Antizionism #diaspora #literature #Spain

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-did-claude-monet-paint-the-same-scenes-over-and-over-again-the-impressionist-artist-was-obsessed-with-capturing-the-fleeting-nature-of-time-180989563/

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Why Did Claude Monet Paint the Same Scenes Over and Over Again? The Impressionist Artist Was Obsessed With Capturing the Fleeting Nature of Time

by Ellen Wexler

John Ruskin’s book The Seven Lamps of Architecture features fascinating descriptions of the beauties of Rouen Cathedral.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35898

#books #art #literature

Rouen Cathedral: Setting Sun (Symphony in Pink and Grey).

The Gothic façade dissolves into soft blues, pinks, and lavenders, capturing shifting light rather than architectural detail.

Rouen Cathedral Series. In the evening.

It was painted here in warm reds and oranges against a blue sky—capturing the façade at a different time of day than the pink/grey version, with light dissolving architectural form into color and texture.

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Why, all delights are vain,
but that most vain
which, with pain purchased,
doth inherit pain...

Shakespeare ~ Love's Labour's Lost

Photo Kathrin Federer

A dark brown field of deep furrows, with a tree featuring a slender trunk and a lush brown crown standing in the distance at the center. A large cloud hangs over the tree in the dark gray sky. Photo by Kathrin Federer.

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Valentine
...Love hath twenty pair of eyes.

Thurio
They say that Love not an eye at all.

Shakespeare ~ Two Gentlemen of Verona

Photo Thomas V.

A balcony on a weathered wall of an old house. The balcony is overhung by lush branches bearing red flowers. The dominant colors are shades of light blue and red. Photo by Thomas V.

https://lithub.com/remembering-grazia-deledda-the-sardinian-nobel-prize-winner-we-should-all-be-reading/

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Remembering Grazia Deledda, the Sardinian Nobel Prize-Winner We Should All Be Reading

Jeff Biggers on the Legacy of a Little-Known Writer on the 100th Anniversary of Her Prize

Books by Grazia Deledda at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/33472

#books #literature #nobelprize

Grazia Deledda in a photograph from her later years.

She's shown in a thoughtful pose, chin resting on her hand, wearing a light patterned shawl, seated near a book or writing desk.

https://flashbak.com/remarkable-and-eccentric-persons-485338/

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Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all Ages and Countries, c. 1790

These illustration plates (lithographs) are from The Book of Wonderful Characters: Memoirs and Anecdotes of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all Ages and Countries, Chiefly from the Text of Henry Wilson and printmaker James Caulfield, c. 1790.

A copy is available at @internetarchive
https://archive.org/details/bookofwonderfulc00wilsrich

Frontispiece and title page of "The Book of Wonderful Characters" (memoirs of eccentric persons), publisher John Camden Hotten, London. Left shows caricature of "The Wonderful Miss Atkinson" with a pig's head. Right title page credits Henry Wilson & James Caulfield, with portrait bust.

https://daily.jstor.org/the-women-who-sold-books-door-to-door/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_09242026&utm_content=readmore

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The Women Who Sold Books Door to Door

By Livia Gershon

Three nineteenth-century memoirs reveal the risks and rewards of life on the road as a traveling bookseller.

Original article:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/48647114?mag=the-women-who-sold-books-door-to-door&seq=1

Image of Frank Shay on his mobile book truck "Parnassus on Wheels" taken c. 1922. Autographed by Shay to Christopher Morley.

Photo postcard of Frank Shay's mobile book truck, "Parnassus on Wheels" (c. 1922), a traveling bookshop parked outside a decorative shopfront. A man sits in the vintage vehicle. Handwritten inscription reads: "To Christopher Morley — source of all inspiration, Frank Shay."

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/09/21/on-derek-captain-ahabs-evil-half-brother/?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&utm_campaign=63fed159f9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_WEEKLY_2026_01_09_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_35491ea532-63fed159f9-55433165&mc_cid=63fed159f9&mc_eid=1ab9ba5038

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On “Derek,” Captain Ahab’s Evil Half Brother

“Your worst enemy ain’t Moby Dick, it’s your half brother, Derek.”

by John Hay

Moby Dick at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701

#books #literature #movies

Still from The Sea Beast (1926), Grosset & Dunlap photoplay edition. Public domain, courtesy of John Hay.

Film still from "The Sea Beast" (1926), a Warner Bros. adaptation of Moby Dick. Caption reads: "His brother—'a treacherous, kindless villain' deceives the unfortunate, trusting Ahab." Two men sit at a table in a tavern-like interior, one leaning in conspiratorially.

https://bigthink.com/books/reading-the-classics/

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The secret to reading more classics? Don’t treat them like homework.

Classics editor Henry Eliot shares his strategies for getting started, staying motivated, and finding joy in literature’s great books.

by Kevin Dickinson

Classics of Literature at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/649

Title: Pride and Prejudice

Author: Jane Austen

Ornate gilt-decorated cover of "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Features an elaborate peacock design with fanned tail feathers in gold on dark green cloth—a well-known "Peacock Edition" binding, published by George Allen (1894).

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The fascination of a collection
lies just as much in what it reveals
as in what it conceals...

Italo Calvino ~ Collection of Sand

Les yeux noirs Django Reinhardt
https://youtu.be/Ua-MWLJvGvM?si=x-8e88tGF02PXcte

Photo Juan Brufal

Many old guitars (10) in various colors—red, yellow, light blue—displayed on an old wooden wall. Photo by Juan Brufal.

https://aeon.co/essays/before-the-canon-the-non-european-women-who-founded-philosophy?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a39fa187e5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_09_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

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First women of philosophy

Philosophy was once a woman’s world, ranging across Asia, Africa and Latin America. It’s time to reclaim that lost realm

by Dag Herbjørnsrud

Books about or by women philosophers at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=women+philosophers

#books #literature #philosophy #womeninart

Frontispiece from "Grounds of natural philosophy : divided into thirteen parts: with an appendix containing five parts / written by the thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent princess, the Duchess of Newcastle." by Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674. London : A. Maxwell, 1668.

She stands in an arched niche, flanked by Athena and Apollo figures, above a pedestal bearing a verse praising her wit over her painted likeness.

https://theconversation.com/the-wondrous-history-of-fairy-tale-art-from-wolves-and-witches-to-fallen-princesses-292490?utm_campaign=the-daily-39638&utm_content=the-daily-39638_uk%7C2%7C39638%7C41ea8a7e&utm_medium=email&utm_source=braze&utm_term=The+wondrous+history+of+fairy+tale+art+%E2%80%93+from+wolves+and+witches+to+fallen+princesses

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The wondrous history of fairy tale art – from wolves and witches to fallen princesses

by Elena Sottilotta

Fairy tales continue to nourish artistic invention because their characters embrace continual metamorphosis, discovering yet another possibility within an old story.

Books in Children's Myths, Fairy Tales at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/216