“The Nightingale and the Rose” by Oscar Wilde
This hardcover version of “The Nightingale and the Rose” was published in 1927 by Windsor Press in San Francisco, and as the story was initially published in a collection in 1888, the reprint as...
Monthly Archive: December 2019
Fräulein Else: German Edition by Cass T.
Object—Fräulein Else (1924, Deutsch) The object associated with Arthur Schnitzler is a small, green edition of Fräulein Else, published in 1924. Set in its original German, the novelle stands at over a hundred pages,...
Virginia Woolf’s Writing Desk by Carly M.
I was initially drawn to the idea of studying Virginia Woolf’s writing desk primarily because I was surprised that Duke had it. I am not much of a reader in any sense of the...
“The Dead” and a Scrapbook on Joyce by Cathy C.
I examined a huge green scrapbook of clippings and articles about James Joyce. The scrapbook pages are not in perfect chronological order, skipping around from about 1920-1950, and contain items like portraits, literary reviews,...
The Materialism in Oscar Wilde’s Love by Aimi W.
At first glance, “The Nightingale and the Rose” by Oscar Wilde seems to simply be a metaphor for the lack of acknowledgement of people’s– or in this case, a nightingale’s– sacrifices for love. Before...
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