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A Lost Chapter Of The World’s First Novel Discovered In A Japanese Home

It's one of 54 chapters from a transcription of The Tale of Genji, written in the 11th century.

By Natasha Ishak

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The Tale Of Genji at PG:
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Portrait-Icon of Murasaki Shikibu (Murasaki Shikibu zu), 17th century, by Tosa Mitsuoki. Murasaki Shikibu appears poised to begin writing her tale, pausing as if in mid-thought. Her head tilts away from her desk, while her trancelike stare is directed slightly upward, toward the calligraphy sheets in the upper portion of the painting. The inscriptions list the four stages of Tendai Buddhist contemplation (shimon) that Murasaki was said to have mastered, along with two of her waka (thirty-one-syllable poems) that speak to life’s impermanence (mujōkan). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji#/media/File:Tosa_Mitsuoki%E2%80%94Portrait_of_Murasaki_Shikibu.jpg

Lost Chapter Of 'The Tale Of Genji,' The World's First Novel, Discovered

Written in 1010 by a medieval Japanese woman, a poet transcribed the novel 200 years later — and now, we have one of those long-lost chapters.
Natasha Ishak (All That's Interesting)
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Hiro Arikawa's The Passengers on the Hankyu Line (translated by Allison Markin Powell) is coming to the VPL soon. There are 10 holds on 13 copies.

Just sayin'.

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THE PASSENGERS ON THE HANKYU LINE — Vancouver Public Library

THE PASSENGERS ON THE HANKYU LINE — Arikawa, Hiro — Welcome aboard the Hankyu train! Come along on a heartwarming, funny, and a perfectly cosy voyage with the charming and relatable passengers--including one dashing dachsund--whose lives intersect …
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Many of the locations of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' can still be seen today. Scrooge's counting house is thought to be in Newman's Court, in the City of London. "The ancient tower of a church" is described, whose "gruff old bell was always slyly peeping down at Scrooge out of a #gothic window." That church has been identified as St Michael's Cornhill, which looms over Newman's Court. In addition, Bob Cratchit heads home via nearby Cornhill, where he "went down a slide" on the ice "at the end of a line of boys, twenty times, in honour of it being Christmas Eve." Scrooge's "usual melancholy tavern" where he takes his "melancholy dinner" is thought to be Simpson's Tavern in nearby Ball Court, which has been trading since 1757. The door knocker which turns into the ghostly head of Jacob Marley was apparently inspired by one in Craven Street, near Charing Cross, where Dickens worked as a boy in a shoe-blacking factory. #Christmas #literature #history #folklore #Yule #books #London
The ornate tower of St Michael's Cornhill, in white stone, with gothic windows. The tower looms over later redbrick buildings, while a glass-fronted office block can be seen behind.
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Just finished the latest book by Richard Powers called "The Playground". Wow, if you are into #ai #philosophy and good fiction, you may want to read this as well... Those of you who read his earlier "The Overstory" may guess what you would be signing up for. His writing and snorytelling is absolutely amazing! #literature audible.com/pd/B0D3WKKT9B?sour…

Playground

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment.
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"What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.
What are brief? today and tomorrow.
What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.
What are deep? the ocean and truth."

Christina Rossetti, who died #OTD in 1894, was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember".

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Christina Rossetti at PG:
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"Portrait of Christina Rossetti; head and shoulders, turned slightly to left, hair drawn up into a plaited chignon." (see British Museum)

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So glad to learn that Han Kang got this year's Nobel Prize in #literature. I read “The vegetarian” a few years ago and it left quite an impression in my mind. Very creative, and sometimes perversiveideas... Challenging the culture that is not easily challenged! . audible.com/pd/B01AKPENR0?sour…

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…
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#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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The history of Peter Pan and Great Ormond Street

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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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The Edison Kinetogram Catalogue featuring a still from Frankenstein (1910 film) Thomas Edison / J. Searle Dawley - Sean M. Palfrey (2014-10-20). Screams in the silence: Horror films of the silent era (Part 1). Intravenous Magazine.

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...
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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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Kahlil Gibran, Photograph, Al-Funoon, 1, No. 1 (April 1913)
First edition cover of The Prophet (1923)
The Slave, 1920 (Harvard Art Museums)

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"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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Bram Stoker (1847-1912), novelist born in Ireland, author of "Dracula".
Dracula, by Bram Stoker - First Edition cloth cover, 1897 British Library Board
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Wow, what a wonderful book. The author is a discovery as well, mostly known for her best-seller "Saint X". But this is so much deeper with an amazing language and imagery. The narrator Ell Potter may also be known to some readers, esp. if you read Hamnet...
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Elsewhere

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. "The audiobook narrated by Ell Potter is riveting." -- Buzzfeed on Elsewhere Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and the imaginative depth of Margaret At…
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Project Gutenberg partnered with Microsoft to make over 5000 new audiobooks.

They are freely available at
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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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Project Gutenberg brings free audiobooks to the global community with AI-generated book narration

The oldest digital library and a leading distributor of free eBooks, Project Gutenberg wanted to make its collection more accessible to a broader community of members, including people who have visual impairments and those around the world who might …
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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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Elizabeth Barrett Browning. via @wikipedia
Title page of Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56621

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