The Public Domain Review 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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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
$25.95Member price:$23.35 + Free shipping10% off
Poems
John KeatsThe Public Domain ReviewThe 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
Paperback, 2025
$25.95Member price:$23.35 + Free shipping10% off
Tales of Mystery & Imagination
Edgar Allan PoeThe Public Domain ReviewBorn #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
Paperback, 1993
$7.95Member price:$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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
$12.95Member price:$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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
$6.99Member price:$3.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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
$5.00Member price:$2.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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
$7.99Member price:$7.19 + Free shipping10% off
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Mary WollstonecraftThe Public Domain ReviewBorn #onthisday in 1759, the radical philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft. While best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, her last book was a fictionalised account of a journey she took to Scandinavia in search of stolen treasure. Read it here https://t.co/SxipG0qwhB #OTD https://t.co/PJcnX2cdfo
Paperback, 2001
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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, 2025
$26.95Member price:$24.25 + Free shipping10% off
To the Lighthouse
Virginia WoolfThe Public Domain ReviewHappy #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
Paperback, 1989
$9.99Member price:$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book