The Public Domain Review Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: and THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS and What Alice Found There
Lewis CarrollThe Public Domain ReviewOver the next few days we'll be posting the Top 10 most read of this year's pieces. In at no.10, illustrations by Lewis Carroll himself from the first manuscript version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: https://t.co/YLQK0fHL5b (Full Top 10 here: https://t.co/BHRsJ3pQe9) https://t.co/XUuCcC6rdY
Paperback, 2019
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After London
Richard JefferiesThe Public Domain ReviewRichard Jefferies’ After London (1885) is one of the most important early examples of “post-apocalyptic fiction”. The story tells of how London becomes a swampland after an unspecified natural disaster delivers England over to the mercy of nature: https://t.co/nsrohGhUxs https://t.co/HdixLCDGiA
Paperback, 2023
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Frankenstein
Mary ShelleyThe Public Domain ReviewAfter a long struggle with illness, Mary Shelley died #onthisday in 1851. Read about the science behind her most famous novel, Frankenstein, including investigations into resuscitation, galvanism and the possibility of states between life + death: https://t.co/HHuHpCqxV6 #otd https://t.co/07IMomtl00
Paperback, 2017
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Alice: The Classic Victorian Play for Children: Adapted from "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
Lewis CarrollThe Public Domain ReviewFrom fairy-rings to Lewis Carroll's Alice, mushrooms have long been entwined with the supernatural in art + literature. @MikeJayNet on early reports of mushroom-induced trips and how one species became established as a stock motif of Victorian fairyland. https://t.co/L4301v5olB https://t.co/A6ARRQ2B68
Paperback, 2015
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Ulysses: Second Edition
James JoyceThe Public Domain Review#Bloomsday reading: The late Frank Delaney's 2012 essay "Seeing Joyce" in which he explores the visual qualities in James Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake... https://t.co/GpbT2yVA3j #Bloomsday2022 Pictured: James Joyce's own sketch of "Poldy" (Leopold Bloom) from his notes. https://t.co/H2SFLbyExS
Paperback, 2022
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
William ShakespeareThe Public Domain ReviewScene from A Midsummer Night's Dream (ca. 1850) by Edwin Landseer. See our collection of art inspired by Shakespeare's plays, including works by William Blake, Henry Fuseli + George Cruikshank: https://t.co/1vPbmvdhHs https://t.co/DNh1AqlHYy
Paperback, Mass Market, 2004
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The Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose BierceThe Public Domain ReviewHappy (?) birthday Ambrose Bierce! The American journalist, born #onthisday in 1842, is best known for his satirical dictionary The Cynic’s Word Book also known as The Devil’s Dictionary. Read it here: https://t.co/sJflnnks9W #otd https://t.co/jU4GnUa1fe
Paperback, 1993
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Waves of Sand and Snow and the Eddies Which Make Them
Vaughan 1862-1948 CornishThe Public Domain ReviewAfter a transformative moment on the Devon coast, Vaughan Cornish devoted his life to the study of waveforms. Read about his Waves of the Sea and Other Water Waves (1910) and Waves of Sand and Snow and the Eddies Which Make Them (1914): https://t.co/n1IOCJ21yH https://t.co/itbJMnZ3FT
Paperback, 2021
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Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Lafcadio HearnThe Public Domain ReviewFrontispiece to Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), a classic collection of Japanese ghost stories compiled and translated by Lafcadio Hearn, who died in Tokyo #onthisday in 1904. Read its wonderful stories here: https://t.co/fgwf2NNyln #OTD https://t.co/VDmVrkw77s
Paperback, 2020
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Journal
Henry David ThoreauThe Public Domain ReviewHappy birthday to the essayist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau, born #onthisday in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. Here's a typically rhapsodic entry for Christmas Day from his journals. #otd (More Christmas Day journal entries here: https://t.co/UBIDOso2Vv) https://t.co/WzuvGgpoxt
Paperback, 2012
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