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...
Luigi Pirandello’s Arte e scienza is a collection of essays published in 1908. The edition in the Rubenstein was originally from the personal collection of Professor Guido Mazzoni, a poet and contemporary of Pirandello....
Many of the articles in the collection, “Clippings and articles on James Joyce,” focus on the American interpretation of Joyce’s Irish story, Ulysses. One article that stood out to me, “A Welcome to Ulysses,” discussed...
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