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Richard 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

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The Cloud, one of the many lovely illustrations by Robert Anning Bell for a 1902 edition of Shelley poems. More here: https://t.co/slgi6JuN02 https://t.co/CPx7HHaEnS

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Born #onthisday in 1809, Edgar Allan Poe. Many illustrators have tackled Poe's dark and macabre tales but perhaps none so hauntingly and brilliantly as Irish artist Harry Clarke. See his exquisite imagery for Poe's Tales of Mystery & Imagination: https://t.co/vnaLdNF5lk #otd https://t.co/lNOB8iUsUN

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#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

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Scene 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

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Happy (?) 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

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Frontispiece 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

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Happy 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

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Happy #PublicDomainDay! See our highlights for this year's new public domain entrants, including Fritz Lang's *Metropolis*, Virginia Woolf’s *To the Lighthouse*, and the works of M. C. Escher and Edward S. Curtis — https://t.co/z3ljbiDGtq https://t.co/7nAh1X64M8

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Entering the US public domain in 2023: Hermann Hesse's *Steppenwolf*. More info behind window 11 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: https://t.co/DyLuYvcysq #PDin2023 https://t.co/XihRloODSc