20 Photos of Famous Authors in Awesome Costumes [COURTESY FLAVORWIRE]
Be sure to stop back here and tell us your favourite! Check out a very young Elsa Lanchester in the image with Evelyn Waugh. She is enchanting!
“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”-Katherine Mansfield
“I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.”-Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield (aka, KathMans) was born on 14th October 1888.
Katherine Mansfield by Anne Estelle Rice, 1918.
“I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.”-Katherine Mansfield
Miss Auras by Sir John Lavery, 1900.
Miss Auras by Sir John Lavery, circa 1900.
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”-Oscar Wilde
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The Unicorn in the Garden. Columbus.
You can read the James Thurber story here.
Mark Twain Quote
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”-Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe Hipster (Sunglasses) Art Print Poster by Cool Poster. $16.47
Edgar Allan Poe Eye Chart by The Pressing Pigeon. $8.99
Edgar Allan Poe died on 7 October 1849.
Edgar Allan Poe’s Grave, Baltimore.
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”-Edgar Allan Poe
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