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,...
One object to be found in the David M. Rubenstein Library Rare Book & Manuscripts Library is the “Bibliography of the Works of H.G. Wells 1893-1925 (with some notes and comments)” written by Geoffrey...
Thomas Mann’s Stories of Three Decades wears its age beautifully. Published by Alfred A. Knopf in New York in 1936, when the author was 51, its quilted, beige cover, taupe lettering, and minimalist green...
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