“Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” by Isaac Bashevis Singer delineates the journey of Yentl finding her true identity. After the death of her father, she disguises herself as a man and attends a religious school,...
This blog seeks to investigate the differing controversial aspects between James Joyce’s Ulysses and Dubliners, arising from the employment of pornographic content and a critical portrayal of life in Dublin, respectively. The article “Judge...
As suggested by the title, The Original Manuscripts, Letters & Books of Oscar Wilde is a collection of original manuscripts, letters, and books of Oscar Wilde, curated by Stuart Mason. It includes an array of...
Germany and the Germans, the text of an address given by Thomas Mann in the Library of Congress on May 29, 1945, is roughly 20 pages in length with a minimalistic cover and slender...
I compared the original 1924 “Fräulein Else” text in German, published by P. Zsolnay, with the English translation that we read for class. “Fräulein Else” is a novella by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler,...
Unsurprisingly, Two Stories, an early publication from Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press, contains two stories: Leonard Woolf’s “Three Jews” and Virginia Woolf’s “The Mark on the Wall”. This draft of “The Mark on...
Mansfield’s Poems contains poems organized in five distinct periods of her life as a poet, from child verses (1907) to the later years of her life (1919). The work is framed by an introductory...
“The War and Socialism” by H.G. Wells is a very petite, thin pamphlet published by the Clarion Press. Measuring around 7 inches in length and 4.5 inches in width, this pamphlet easily fits in...
The Door in the Wall and Other Stories is a collection of eight stories by H. G. Wells, published in November 1911, which also included photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn. This particular copy was...
Camus’ short story “The Adulterous Woman” follows French housewife Janine as she is strung along by her husband through French Algeria and as she contemplates the solitude of her married life, a story of...
“A Letter to Mrs. Virginia Woolf” was written by Peter Quennell and published in 1932 by Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s publishing agency in London. In its current state, the letter is small and yellowing,...
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