Marina Amaral Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Lady Windermere's Fan (1892): Four-ACT Comedy
Oscar Wilde
... panned as immoral by Victorian critics, but is now considered one of his most notable works. As a dramatist, many of Wilde’s plays were well received including his satirical comedies Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893)... https://t.co/zRwou6ELFS
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Around The World in 80 Days
Jules Verne
🧵 When pioneering journalist Nellie Bly proposed to her boss that she would like to try to break Jules Verne's fictitious globetrotter Phileas Fogg's record in 'Around the World in 80 Days,' she was met with an incredibly sexist response: https://t.co/tewFbXdKLK
Paperback, 1995
$10.95$5.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Don Quijote: A Norton Critical Edition
Miguel De Cervantes
#OnThisDay in 1605, the first edition of "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha" (Book ne of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid. https://t.co/4DhkjKrdfK
Paperback, 2020
$29.50$14.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Parallel Lives: Vol. I
Plutarch
The Parallel Lives by Plutarch https://t.co/LwTbnbOmtN
Paperback, 2012
$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter
#OnThisDay 1902, Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" is published by Frederick Warne & Co. in London. https://t.co/xtV7bVvDHK
Paperback, 2004
$5.99$2.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tomb of Tutankhamen
Howard Carter
#OnThisDay in 1922, Howard Carter discovers a step leading to the tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. 📷 Colorized by me: Carter examining the coffin of Tutankhamun. https://t.co/gYaaS384AP
Paperback, 2010
$35.95$17.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Around the World in 80 Days: (Original Edition)
J. Verne
At a loss one weekend, she wished she was half the world away on holiday. So she decided that she would aim to beat the record set by Jules Verne's fictional globetrotter Phileas Fogg in 'Around the World in 80 Days'.
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A Voice From The South
A. Black Woman of the South
One of the inspiring women we profile is Anna J. Cooper. Born a slave in 1858, Cooper became an educator, writer, and prominent activist for women's suffrage and civil rights. She was the fourth Black woman to earn a PhD and wrote the acclaimed book "A Voice from the South." https://t.co/lVPqc7VMaI
Paperback, 2013
$13.25$6.63 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Writings of Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
Charles Dudley Warner
(Colorized by me) Mark Twain and his long-time friend John T. Lewis, the inspiration for the character "Jim" in "Huckleberry Finn", New York, 1903. John T. Lewis was born in 1835. In 1853 as a Black freeman living in a slave-holding society, he was allowed to join... 🧵 https://t.co/njfZCcnUmw
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
O. Wilde
Wilde was a popular literary figure in late Victorian England. After graduating from Oxford University, he lectured as a poet, art critic and a leading proponent of the principles of aestheticism. In 1891, he published The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel which was...
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