1. “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” 2. “So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.” 3. “The older one grows, the more one […]
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Amazon currently spots just a single copy, handsomely priced at $12,900! Salvador Dali, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his work, illustrated one of the greatest and most surreal literary works of all time: Alice in Wonderland. In 1985, 20 thousand shiny and carefully crafted new books were distributed with the title Alice’s
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013 Place of birth: Mvezo, Cape Province, South Africa Best thing about him: The President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999 and an anti-apartheid revolutionary and philanthropist. He was also South Africa\’s first black president Most important work: Long Walk to Freedom (autobiography) Interesting facts:
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Julia Horeftari for Art-Sheep Greetings, my brave reader. ‘Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?’ – \”Going Postal\” [33rd Discworld novel] Terry Pratchett, Terry Pratchett, Terry, Pratchett… My childish and certainly feeble attempts to help keep Terry Pratchett alive are nothing compared to the legacy
Here’s Flannery O’Connor reading her short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find\” at Vanderbilt University in 1959.
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Ezra H. Murray for Art-Sheep Japanese artisan Nobuo Okano has been restoring shredded books for 33 years now, bringing back them back into life and making them look like new. When one of his customers presented him with an old Japanese-English dictionary that looked like it had survived a lot of rough years, Okano worked
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Ezra H. Murray for Art-Sheep It\’s not easy to write a full-length novel. It takes a lot of love to do it and most authors who set out to write that best-selling story that will sweep people off of their feet more often than not have mixed feelings regarding their work, but they still do
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There may be no more a macabrely misogynistic sentence in English literature than Edgar Allan Poe’s contention that “the death… of a beautiful woman” is “unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.” (His perhaps ironic observation prompted Sylvia Plath to write, over a hundred years later, “The woman is perfected / Her dead /
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In this recording from 1950, Ernest Hemingway describes his novel Across the River and Into the Trees. He sounds drunk, which may explain the interesting vocal modulation and bursts of random yelling. Best part: “[she] enjoys herself very much, looking out of the upper windows and studying the action OF THE PIGEONS.”
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Samuel Beckett 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989 Place of birth: Foxrock, Republic of Ireland Best thing about him: He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969 Most important book: Waiting for Godot, 1952 Interesting facts: He worked as James Joyce’s amanuensis – until the two writers fell out He was a talented cricketer
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