Oscar Wilde died on 30 November 1900. He was 46 years old.
Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”-Oscar Wilde
I love bookish goodies almost as much as I love actual books, and reading. Being a bookworm is not a hobby: it is an all-enveloping, personality-defining lifestyle. The holiday season is in full-swing, which means that it is time to go shopping-the literary way! Over the next two weeks, I am going to take you on a virtual bookish shopping spree to some of my favourite lit sites! Let’s get started.
EDWARD GOREY HOUSE STORE
There is no better way to show your love for one of America’s most unusual creative talents than by purchasing merchandise directly from the Gorey House in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts. The creator of the iconic The Gashlycrumb Tinies lived in the house for twenty-one years; it is now a museum.
The selection of Gorey goodies offered is impressive. Be sure to spend time perusing all of the categories, or you’ll risk missing the perfectly whimsical gift for that someone special.
A FEW HIGHLIGHTS:
Gashlycrumb Tinies Lunchbox. $16.99. Image from The Gorey House Store.
Dracula Toy Theater. $27.95. Image from The Gorey House Store.
The Doubtful Guest (with scarf) Mug. $13.50. Image from The Gorey House Store.
DETAILS:
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL OF MY AMERICAN READERS! I’LL BE PLAYING FOOTBALL WITH BILLIE DOVE.
Billie Dove on the cover of The Flapper Magazine, Thanksgiving 1922 Issue
Dans la Bibliothèque by Auguste Toulmouche, 1872
Dans la Bibliothèque by Auguste Toulmouche, 1872
Eugene O’Neill died on 27 November 1953. He was sixty-five. Here he is, as a wee laddie…
Eugene O’Neill as a Child
Too adorable!
“Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.”
Reading Suggestions: Bound East for Cardiff; The Long Voyage Home; Beyond the Horizon; Anna Christie; Desire Under the Elms; Strange Interlude; Mourning Becomes Electra; Ah, Wilderness!; The Iceman Cometh; Long Day’s Journey Into Night; A Moon for the Misbegotten
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
Portrait of Christina Rossetti by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1866
REASON: When snow started falling today, my mind immediately turned to Christina Rossetti. Her words, no matter how passionate, are of the winter.
“And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.”
If you missed My Top Six Cold Weather Writers, go here.
“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”-F. Scott Fitzgerald
Guarding the remote, just like his (human) papa…
Duncan with the Remote Control
“The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.”-James Thurber
George Eliot was born on 22 November 1819.
George Eliot
George Eliot was rebellious in ways that actually meant something. She had guts, too, and a wide talent.
“The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.”-George Eliot
Novels: Adam Bede; The Mill on the Floss; Silas Marner; Romola; Felix Holt, the Radical; Middlemarch; Daniel Deronda
Émile Zola by Édouard Manet, 1868
Émile Zola, 1902
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”-Émile Zola
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 