Happy 174th birthday, Thomas Hardy!
Here’s a nice little caricature:
Thomas Hardy in Vanity Fair, 4 June 1892.
Writers in Art: Thomas Hardy
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Category Archives: Fiction
Shopping for the Bookworm: A Literary Road Trip #4-Lost Generation, Found
In case you are just joining us: A Literary Road Trip #1-A Dream of Travel, A Literary Road Trip #2-The Beat Travels On, and A Literary Road Trip #3-Poetic Travels, Classic American-Style
LOST GENERATION, FOUND
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”-Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
This week, we are again turning to the past. Our eyes are in the rear view mirror, looking back at the 1920s. The Lost Generation is our starting point, but let’s not take it too seriously. Enjoy!
“You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.”-Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
Tote Bag: 1922 Life Magazine Cover, The Flapper, by Whimsy Bags. $12.00+.
The Selected Works of Djuna Barnes at Pipi Pompon. $16.00.
So, I Wanted to Buy a Couple of Books for My Upcoming Road Trip…
I love a good bargain book. Yesterday I went into Half Price Books thinking that I’d pick up a volume or two for my upcoming road trip. You can blame their storewide 20% off sale for my, um, enthusiastic results.
Book and Magazine Pile
Art Books
Magazines
Miscellaneous Books
DETAILS:
- Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters by Barbara Erlich White
- Master of Shadows: The Secret Diplomatic Career of Peter Paul Rubens by Mark Lamster
- History of Art (Second Edition) by H.W. Janson
- Vogue Australia April 2010
- Marie Claire April 2014
- Allure April 2014
- The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Keystone: The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett by Simon Louvish
- Doctor Who: The Complete Guide by Mark Campbell
- The Times We Had: Life with William Randolph Hearst by Marion Davies
- Nero Wolfe: The Mother Hunt by Rex Stout
TOTAL: $19.09
Tell me in the comments about your most recent book bargain!
[Book Nerd Links] Literary Links for a Dull Wednesday
- LEGO Undershaw [courtesy Sherlock Holmes Books]
- 20 Great Biographies of Famous Authors [courtesy Flavorwire]
- Subscribe Now, Get a Vintage Issue from 1959 [courtesy The Paris Review]
- Romanian Historian Radu Florescu Dies at 88 [courtesy Huff Post Books]
Mr. Darcy Cookie Cutter!
Does your Jane Austen cookie cutter need a companion? If you said yes, then today is your lucky day.
Go here!
Shopping for the Bookworm: A is for Austen, Jane
A is for Austen, Jane:
Jane Austen Watercolor Portrait by Bluehour Studio. $18.00.
Happy Birthday, Lionel Barrymore: Actor, Artist, Novelist…
…director, composer, screenwriter, and inventor. His novel, Mr. Cantonwine: A Moral Tale, was published in 1953. I read it as a high schooler (in the 1990s). Why, yes, I was that teenager. Here is Mr. Barrymore as a younger man:
Lionel Barrymore: Born 28 April 1878.
A Reading List a Mile Long: Daedalus Books New Arrivals Late Spring 2014
- The Unreliable Life of Harry the Valet: The Great Victorian Jewel Thief by Duncan Hamilton. $4.98.
- Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal. $6.98.
- Gilded Youth: Three Lives in France’s Belle Époque by Kate Cambor. $4.98.
- A Brief History of the Holy Grail: History, Myth, Religion by Giles Morgan. $4.98.
- The Paintings of John Duncan: A Scottish Symbolist by John Kemplay. $6.98.
- Schott’s Sporting, Gaming, and Idling Miscellany by Ben Schott. $3.98.
- The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder. Robin G. Wilder & Jackson R. Bryer, eds. $5.98.
- The Language Wars: A History of Proper English by Henry Hitchings. $6.98.
- Scotland’s Books: The Penguin History of Scottish Literature by Robert Crawford. $5.98.
- The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker by Alice Walker. $4.98.
- Henry James: The Mature Master by Sheldon M. Novick. $3.98.
- Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries by Cecil Beaton. $6.98.
- Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt by Robert Gottlieb. $6.98.
- Cleopatra: The Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley. $5.98.
- The Archeology of Home: An Epic Set on a Thousand Square Feet of the Lower East Side by Katharine Greider. $5.98.
- An Edwardian Housewife’s Companion: A Guide for the Perfect Home by Rowena Davison & Reuben Davison. $3.98.
Celebrate Charlotte Brontë’s Birthday with This Jane Eyre Google Doodle
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11 April: John O’Hara
John O’Hara died on 11 April 1970.
John O’Hara, 1945
“They say great themes make great novels…but what these young writers don’t understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.”-John O’Hara
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