The collection The Muse of the Violets (1977) contains poetry centered around lesbian love, feminine virtue, and virginity written by Renée Vivien. The title and the delicate, wispy violets adorning the cover allude to...
I examined a 1965 French edition of Sartre’s “Le Mur,” published in a collection of other stories by Sartre (in fact, the collection was also titled Le Mur), in an imposingly large tome. In...
I first searched Weston LaBarre’s scrapbook, a dense trove of exclusively James Joyce-related clippings, for something that would reveal to me some new secret about Dubliners. Instead, I found a wealth of commentary on...
Past Readers: This rare copy of “The Nightingale and the Rose” (object PR5818 .N5 1927 c.1) by Oscar Wilde is a special edition published in 1927 by Windsor Press in San Francisco. This edition...
As the title implies, this work is a written account, translated into English from the original French, of the speech famous philosopher, artist, writer, and dramatist Albert Camus delivered after being awarded the Nobel...
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