For this post, I’ll analyze the first printing of Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Two Stories. The story I’ll focus on, The Mark on the Wall, depicts a narrator who contemplates the decline of tradition...
“A Dream of Armageddon” was first published as a stand-alone short story within a British weekly magazine in 1901. In the story, a man riding a train meets an elderly man who begins to...
It was my first time in the Rubenstein library, and having the experience of reading Albert Camus’s Nobel Prize speech in this library was very unique. I had previously read many Nobel prize speeches,...
I expected H.G Wells’ The War of the Worlds to come in a compact book, with a colorful comic illustration similar to modern science fiction novels and comic books. However, what I actually found was a...
H. G. Wells’ 1915 essay “The War and Socialism” is in the form of a small booklet without any illustrations or decorations. In the essay, Wells voices his support for British participation in the...
A quick summary of a ‘Dream of Armageddon’, published in 1901, is as follows: The narrator has a conversation with a man who describes his dreams in vivid detail, going as far as to...
What originally drew me towards this object was its size. This isn’t something that one can keep in a pocket to be read on the move or in-between daily chores. The sheer scale demands...
In Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince and other Fairy Stories, Wilde is aiming to teach children of christian morals and values. I specify that the book is for children because it is small in...
“At the Sweet Hour of Hand in Hand” is a collection of poetry by the renowned poet Renée Vivien. The collection itself is within a slight, unassuming paperback book that consists of pictures of...
Atalanta’s garland is a book published by the Edinburgh University Women’s Union in 1926 to celebrate its twenty-first anniversary. When I first saw it, I thought it was remarkable how modern and professional the...
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