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Closeup of a purple crocus with an orange center.
Cluster of three purple crocus with orange centres.
Today's #MobyDick quote:
"Avast there, avast there, Bildad, avast now spoiling our harpooneer," cried Peleg. "Pious harpooneers never make good voyagers—it takes the shark out of 'em; no harpooneer is worth a straw who ain't pretty sharkish."
🌱 #crocus #purple #ClassicLiterature
Writing mode: OFF. ✍️
Reading mode: ON. 📖
Unpacking my library sale treasures today. First up: The House of the Seven Gables. Served with a side of monkey bread and milk, of course. 🐒🍞
#ReadingTime #Bookstagram #ClassicLiterature #LibrarySale #monkeybread
Aesop The Greek
Aesop was a legendary storyteller from ancient Greece, known for timeless fables told through animals.
Simple stories. Powerful lessons.
Wisdom that still holds true today.
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#AesopsFables #livingbooks #ClassicBooks #Homeschool
#ClassicLiterature
Closeup of a purple and yellow iris flower
View of several purple and yellow iris flowers in full bloom. Two are in focus. There is a white picket fence in the background.
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Meanwhile Captain Bildad sat earnestly and steadfastly eyeing Queequeg, and at last rising solemnly and fumbling in the huge pockets of his broad-skirted drab coat, took out a bundle of tracts, and selecting one entitled, "The Latter Day Coming;...
🌱 #ClassicLiterature
Picture of a page from Moby Dick, showing Queequeg's mark: An infinity symbol. Around it is written "his mark" and above reads, "Quohog".
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
When all preliminaries were over and Peleg had got everything ready for signing, he turned to me and said, "I guess, Quohog there don't know how to write, does he? I say, Quohog, blast ye! dost thou sign thy name or make thy mark?"
But this...
#ClassicLiterature
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” #RayBradbury #Fahrenheit451 #LiveIntentionally #LiteraryQuotes #ClassicLiterature #BradburyQuotes #Bibliophile #CarpeDiem
D503 (We) & Winston Smith (1984)
Offred (The Handmaid’s Tale)
Guy Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
The Savage (Brave New World)
Me and the boys when we’re lowkey living in a dystopia #books #booksky #literature #classicliterature #fanart #art #illustration #digitalart #procreate
Book-themed Christmas tree with Charles Dickens’s Christmas Books volume in the foreground. 📚💙 Folio Society edition
When I finally read A Christmas Carol a few years back, it was heartening to realize how many direct quotes were used in the movie. #ClassicLiterature
Author Forecast screen with quote from Charles Dickens. 💙📚
Who knew Charles Dickens would someday report the weather? #weather #AuthorForecast #ClassicLiterature #NowReading
I loved this Emma box from @theaustenbox #classicliterature #janeausten #booktok #bookstagram #bookbox
Seems I was a tad too optimistic the next #ThePurgatorialMan #ClassicLiterature #podcast. I want each reading to retain the #drama, #mystery, and convey beauty of the text as best as I can. I’m definitely a #perfectionist, but I don’t think seeking perfection through passion is necessarily bad.
Purple crocus buds with dew drops all over them and their stems.
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Without saying a word, Queequeg, in his wild sort of way, Joe's upon the bulwarks, from thence into the bows of one of the whale-boats hanging to the side; then bracing his left knee, and poising his harpoon, cried out in some such way...
🌱 #crocus #ClassicLiterature
Coaster with a drawing of a skull and flowers, seen through the bottom of a drinking glass.
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
"Splice, thou mean'st *splice* hands," cried Peleg, drawing nearer. "Young man, you'd better ship for a missionary, instead of a fore-mast hand; I never heard a better sermon. Deacon Deuteronomy—why Father Mapple himself couldn't...
#ClassicLiterature #HermanMelville
As part of the "Where Can Classics Take You?" campaign, highlighting the modern importance of #ClassicBooks, authors Emily Hauser and Helena Taylor explore how women are steering Classics in bold new directions.
Discover more: https://bit.ly/3O5IaOi
#ClassicLiterature @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social
"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."
- Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
#classicliterature #books #reading #ebooks #writing #penandink
Closeup of a purple and white orchid flower with a touch of yellow in its "throat".
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
"I don't know anything about Deacon Deuteronomy or his meeting," said I, "all I know is, that Queequeg here is a born member of the First Congregational Church. He is a deacon himself, Queequeg is."
"Young man," said Bildad sternly...
#orchid 🌱 #purple #ClassicLiterature
As my dad slipped away five years ago, book lovers from around the world sent their loving support: toomuchbrudders.com/2021/04/22/b... 📚💙 #FamilyHistory #NowReading #bibliophile #ClassicLiterature #FolioSociety
Slightly blurry pic of two yellow , white, and purple crocus buds amid brown bracken.
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Here be it said, that many tattooed savages sailing in Nantucket ships at last come to be converted into the churches.
"First Congregational Church," cried Bildad, "what! that worships in Deacon Deuteronomy Coleman's meeting-house?"..
#ClassicLiterature 🌱 #crocus #spring
Painted my own design for Edward Hyde in my less cartoony artstyle! 🎩🧪
#jekyllandhydeart #jekyllandhyde #edwardhyde #mrhyde #jekyllandhydefanart #drjekyllandmrhyde #painting #artwork #classicliterature #classiclit #art #myart
Three turtles sunning themselves on a small concrete jetty.
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
After all, I do not think that my remarks about religion made much impression upon Queequeg. Because, in the first place, he somehow seemed dull of hearing on that important subject, unless considered from his own point of view; and, in the...
#turtle #ClassicLiterature
Green copper roof with a lion motif and the date 1901.
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
I then asked Queequeg whether he himself was ever troubled with dyspepsia; expressing the idea very plainly, so that he could take it in. He said no; only upon one memorable occasion. It was after a great feast given by his...
#ClassicLiterature #architecture #montreal
The 52 Book Club’s 2026 Reading Challenge Frankenstein By Mary Shelley ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Prompt: Written in the 1800s
Frankenstein
By Mary Shelley
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Prompt:
Written in the 1800s
#2026readingchallenge #52bookclub #the52bookclub #booksky #books #reading #Horror #ClassicLiterature #reader #BookSky💙📚
A few years back, I came across the original schedule for the release of the Bleak House installments and decided to read my copy following the same monthly calendar. Here’s how it went: toomuchbrudders.com/2024/05/31/a... 📚💙 #ClassicLiterature #Dickens #BookRecommendation
I feel like more people should read War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. #WarAndPeace #LeoTolstoy #ClassicLiterature
Moon over the ocean, with a sandy beach in the foreground.
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
"Queequeg," said I, "get into bed now, and lie and listen to me." I then went on, beginning with the rise and progress of the primitive religions, and coming down to the various religions of the present time, during which I labored...
#ocean #moon #zen #ClassicLiterature
I haaate that there are probably ghosts in the shower that you can’t see. #ghosts #classicliterature
Rediscover the works of Malcolm Lowry 📖
University of Ottawa Press presents definitive editions of Malcolm Lowry’s most ambitious works, perfect for students and lovers of classic literature.
🛒 Find Malcolm Lowry's classics here: www.scriptbooks.co.uk/campaign-pag...
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This week, we're recapping a seriously underrated romance: Moby Dick by Herman Melville!
#romancelandia #romancebooks #romance #heavingbosoms #romancepodcast #queerromance #mmromance #classicliterature #mobydick #booksky
New post alert! I'm diving into classic lit this week with a few titles I NEED to read in the near future. What classic titles do you need to read but haven't yet?
#ReadingHasRuinedMyLife #bookblog #classiclit #classicliterature #booksky
www.readinghasruinedmylife.com/post/more-cl...
