The Childhood Art of Famous Authors [courtesy Flavorwire]
Does any of your childhood art survive?
The Childhood Art of Famous Authors [courtesy Flavorwire]
Does any of your childhood art survive?
The 7 Best Graphic Adaptations of Classic Literature [courtesy Barnes & Noble]
King Lear for the win, please. Do you have a favourite?
Natalie in Fur Cape by the writer’s mother, artist Alice Pike Barney.

Natalie in Fur Cape by Alice Pike Barney
An illustration from The Yellow Book-Volume 6. 1895.

The Yellow Book, 1895.

Anton Chekhov, 1898, by Osip Braz.

Last Chapter by Robert Martineau, 1863

Yevgeny Zamyatin by Boris Kustodiev, 1923.
The well-groomed Samuel Pepys died on 26 May 1703. He was seventy.

Samuel Pepys, 1666.
QUOTE: “But me thought is lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.”
KNOWN FOR: His incredibly diary.
A KEEPSAKE:

Samuel Pepys’ Diary at Lady Frans Library. $19.00

Charles Bukowski Unisex T-Shirt by PunkNRockPlus. $14.52

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night Quote Charm by The White Space. $13.95
Girl Reading by Winslow Homer, circa 1879.

Girl Reading by Winslow Homer, circa 1879.