Wells’ “A Dream of Armageddon” and The War and Socialism at first glance provide seemingly contradictory points about the morality and the necessity of war. “A Dream of Armageddon“details a man’s recount of his own...
When I visited the Rare Books collection, I got the privilege of seeing Hogarth Press’ first publication Two Stories, containing Virginia Woolf’s “The Mark on the Wall” and Leonard Woolf’s “Three Jews”, published as...
I compared the French text of the 1965 edition of Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Le mur” [“The Wall”] with Lloyd Alexander’s English translation. The story follows three men who are sentenced to death for their alleged...
H.G. Wells’ iconic and prototypical science fiction novel The War of the Worlds was published in 1898, just three years prior to the publication of Wells’ short story, “A Dream of Armageddon.” Both works...
Cover Page of The Happy Prince and Other Tales Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince And Other Tales is a collection of children’s stories first published in 1888. It contains the stories “The Happy Prince,”...
I visited the Rare Books collection to see Virginia Woolf’s “A Haunted House & Other Stories” compiled post-humorously by her husband Leonard Woolf and published by the Hogarth Press in London, 1943. The object...
The Happy Prince, and Other Fairy Stories was a small book with thick, pulpy pages. When I held it in my palm, I felt a flood of sentimentality rush through me, making the already...
“At the Sweet Hour of Hand in Hand” is a poetry collection by Renée Vivien, a British poet who frequently wrote in French. The work itself is a modest and thin paperback of small...
The compiled newspaper clippings and articles on James Joyce shows how the world interacts with the author as a cultural figure. When holding the book, it feels as if it has been created by...
Upon first glance, I immediately noticed the small pamphlet’s sepia stain, which, to my millennial eyes, indicates an old, dated text. In fact, this particular version of H.G. Wells’s “The War and Socialism” was...
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