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...
Albert Camus’ Speech of Acceptance Upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature complements Camus’ philosophy. The small pamphlet decorated with thin yellow and blue lines on a cream background creates a very...
While one may think “The Nightingale and the Rose” is the ultimate fairy tale for hopeless romantics, it turns out to be a tragically realistic story in which the guy, unfortunately, does not get...
The original German first edition print of Arthur Schnitzler’s “Fräulein Else” was published by the Austrian publishing company Paul Zsolnay Verlag in 1924. Created in 1923, the Paul Zsolnay Verlag was one of the...
This first edition of A Haunted House and Other Stories by Virginia Woolf was published in 1943, two years after Virginia Woolf’s death. In this work, Leonard Woolf attempts to carry out his wife’s...
“A Haunted House and other stories” is a collection of Virginia Woolf’s stories that was published in 1943. The cover displays a monochromatic illustration of a vase of flowers underneath the title. Inside the...
The object I looked at, “The Happy Prince, and other Fairy Stories,” featured “The Nightingale and the Rose” in addition to four other short stories: “The Happy Prince”, “The Selfish Giant”, “The Young King”,...
The collection of poems At the Sweet Hour of Hand in Hand and the short story “Prince Charming” emphasize the themes of love, death, and secrecy. “Prince Charming” follows the story of a tomboyish girl...
The English translation of Thomas Mann’s “Stories of Three Decades,” published by Alfred A. Knopf, includes a total of 24 stories, spanning around 600 pages. In terms of size, it is similar to contemporary...
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