Why, in spite of all, should I go back, go back for all the rest of my days to toil and stress, insults and perpetual dissatisfaction, simply to save hundreds of millions of common...
Written like a manifesto and formatted like a propaganda pamphlet, H. G. Well’s The War and Socialism depicts socialism as a system of ethics capable of vindicating modern society from its culture of conflict. After all,...
Albert Camus received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. The English translation of his Nobel acceptance speech was published in 1958 by Knopf. This publication is a very thin paperback booklet of only...
I looked at Atalanta’s Garland: Being the Book of the Edinburgh University Women’s Union in conversation with Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party.” As the prefatory note of the book details, Atalanta’s Garland was published...
I examined a first edition copy of H.G Well’s The Door in the Wall and Other Stories. This was one of 600 copies printed by Norman T.A. Munder & Company in November 1911 on...
I examined a first-edition copy of Atalanta’s Garland, a book published by T. and A. Constable Ltd. in 1926 to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the establishment of the Women’s Union at Edinburgh University....
Virginia Woolf’s writing desk is an oak desk with paint originally designed by herself. The table is customized as a 26.5*49.5*34.5 inches standing table. The bulk of the table is gray and off-white in...
I studied a 1943 Hogarth Press copy of A Haunted House and Other Stories, a short story collection by Virginia Woolf. This edition is a small hardcover book bound in red cloth with a...
Two Stories is an old and thin book, consisting of only 32 pages with a linen cover of red and white geometric patterns. As the first book written and printed by Virginia Woolf and...
The original German edition of Fräulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler is overall very similar to the English translation. The English edition of the story retained much of the same syntax, word choice, and meanings...
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