Long-Lost Silent Sherlock Holmes Movie is Found [courtesy The Hollywood Reporter]
This is terribly exciting news for fans of literature, theatre, and silent cinema.
An advert for William Gillette in Sherlock Holmes, 1916
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
Cover of the Second Edition of Confessions of an English Opium Eater, 1823
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey
Princess Victoria aged Four by Stephen Poyntz Denning, 1823.
There are many amazing, often obscure works of literature available as free e-books: small slices of earthly and intellectual paradise waiting to be uncovered. Finding dusty old gems can take a bit of work and patience, but this exercise is my kind of fun. I thought it would be nice to share my discoveries with you on a regular basis. First up:
Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by His Son by Graf Ilia Lvovich Tolstoi [Project Gutenberg]
Leo’s son Ilia as an older man.
