Today, Renee Vivien is regarded as one of Europe’s most prolific and well-respected poets and writers of the 19th century, esteemed for the eloquence and passion in her verse. Masked by her renowned pen...
Published in 1917, Two Stories resembles an unassuming pamphlet, adorned with a plain cloth cover, oblivious to the legacy of its authors. Despite its modest and amateur appearance, Two Stories was the first story...
The collection The Muse of the Violets (1977) contains poetry centered around lesbian love, feminine virtue, and virginity written by Renée Vivien. The title and the delicate, wispy violets adorning the cover allude to...
I examined a 1965 French edition of Sartre’s “Le Mur,” published in a collection of other stories by Sartre (in fact, the collection was also titled Le Mur), in an imposingly large tome. In...
I first searched Weston LaBarre’s scrapbook, a dense trove of exclusively James Joyce-related clippings, for something that would reveal to me some new secret about Dubliners. Instead, I found a wealth of commentary on...
Past Readers: This rare copy of “The Nightingale and the Rose” (object PR5818 .N5 1927 c.1) by Oscar Wilde is a special edition published in 1927 by Windsor Press in San Francisco. This edition...
As the title implies, this work is a written account, translated into English from the original French, of the speech famous philosopher, artist, writer, and dramatist Albert Camus delivered after being awarded the Nobel...
Why, in spite of all, should I go back, go back for all the rest of my days to toil and stress, insults and perpetual dissatisfaction, simply to save hundreds of millions of common...
Written like a manifesto and formatted like a propaganda pamphlet, H. G. Well’s The War and Socialism depicts socialism as a system of ethics capable of vindicating modern society from its culture of conflict. After all,...
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...
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