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"The Spider and the Fly" by Mary Howitt (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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The Vegetarian
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • “[Han] Kang viscerally explores the limits of what a human brain and body can endure, and the strange beauty that can be found in even the most extreme forms of re…Audible
#TIL that in 1929, JM Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, gifted his work's copyright to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
"Through this gift, Peter Pan’s magic made an unprecedented leap from the realm of fiction into reality and the hospital began to receive royalties every time a production of the play was on, as well as from the sale of Peter Pan books and other products."
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#history #literature #books #bookstodon #PeterPan #philanthropy
This one arrived yesterday 😊 Looking forward to reading it!
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"Instead of the perfect human, Frankenstein created a monster."
#OTD in 1910.
The first movie version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) is released in the U.S. by Edison Studios. One of the first horror films, it features unbilled the actor Charles Ogle as Frankenstein's monster, & Mary Fuller as the doctor's fiancée.
The short film Frankenstein is available at @internetarchive
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley at PG:
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#books #literature #movie
Frankenstein (1910) [Restored] : J. Searle Dawley : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Months ago, i learned about the restoration of the first film version of Frankenstein carried out by the Library of Congress and noticed that the picture...Internet Archive
Lebanese writer, poet and visual artist Kahlil Gibran was born #OTD in 1883. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages. His principal works in English (besides the above mentioned) are The Madman, The Forerunner, Sand and Foam, and Jesus, the Son of Man.
Kahlil Gibran at PG:
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Books by Gibran, Kahlil (sorted by popularity)
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The Piano Tuner
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. An extraordinary first novel that tells the story of a British piano tuner sent deep into Burma in the 19th century.Audible
"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."
Dracula
Irish novelist and critic, who created Count Dracula, Bram Stoker was born #OTD in 1847. Dracula is an epistolary novel, written as a collection of realistic but completely fictional diary entries, telegrams, letters, ship's logs, and newspaper clippings, all of which added a level of detailed realism to the story.
Bram Stoker at PG:
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#audible #literature #books #reading
Project Gutenberg partnered with Microsoft to make over 5000 new audiobooks.
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as well as popular podcast download sites. Read more about this effort, and see a video of Project Gutenberg CEO Greg Newby talking about it:
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"The face, which, duly as the sun,
Rose up for me with life begun,
To mark all bright hours of the day
With hourly love, is dimmed away —
And yet my days go on, go on."
De Profundis (1862)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning died #OTD in 1861. Her work had a major influence on prominent writers of the day, including Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson. via @Wikipedia
Books by Elizabeth Barrett Browning at PG:
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Books by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (sorted by popularity)
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The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue
Based on a scandal that gripped Britain in the 1860s, this domestic thriller – my sixth novel - explores a feminist spinster’s reluctant involvement in a sordid divorce.www.emmadonoghue.com