#TranslatorsThursday: "Außerdem wurde dem Land mehrere Jahre in Folge eine reiche Ernte beschert, so dass Jung und Alt sich auf die prallen Bäuche trommelten und dazu sangen." Luo Guanzhong und Eva Schestag, Übers., Die #DreiReiche, Kap. 87. #ChineseLiterature #China #classicnovel
John Williams, the author of Stoner, wrote a phenomenal Literary Western. Have you read Butcher’s Crossing? #literature #bookreview #classicnovel #booksky
Covers Covered: Les Miserables, Cosette.
#painting #lesmiserables #lesmis #classicnovel #acrylic #acrylicpainting #cosette
Covers Covered: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
#painting #art #acrylic #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #classicnovel #paint #traditionalart
Swiss Family Robinson book 1920 illsutrated copy
A pretty book. Burt stopped publishing in 1937 so this dates before then - a nicely illustrated gift edition reprint of the classic novel, maybe 1920's?
#antiquebooks
#vintageillustration
#classicnovel
White book cover with stylized image of a Black woman in a flame-colored long sleeve dress and head wrap: "Brilliant, endlessly rich... pairs well with 1984 or The Handmoid's Tale." -JOHN GREEN, New York Times Parable of the Sower With a new foreword from award-winning author N. K. JEMISIN NEW YORK TIMES OCTAVIA E BUTLER
Graphic novel cover in reds and oranges with drawing of a Black girl with dreadlocks and flames: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings OCTAVIA E. BUTLER'S PARABLE OF THE SOWER From the award-winning, #I New York Times bestselling team of Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Have y’all read “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler? I’m (finally) reading it right now for the first time, and I HIGHLY recommend it - especially for this time, right now 👀🔥
(Published in 1993 but set NOW 😳)
(It’s now available as a graphic novel, too) #scifi #classicnovel #BookSky #reading
Coming soon.
#OliverTwist #CharlesDickens #VictorianLiterature #OrphanTale #FaginAndDodger #LondonUnderworld #SocialReform #DickensClassic #ClassicNovel #VictorianEngland
Far from the Madding Crowd, By Thomas Hardy - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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This was the perfect summer read for me. A classic that really opened up a world of literature that I had never really crossed before.
#booksky #bookreview #classicnovel #romance #englishliterature 💙📖📚💙
On this day in 1960, Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" was published—and it went on to win the Pulitzer Prize, becoming an American classic. #RandomFact #DailyFact #ToKillAMockingbird #PulitzerPrize #ClassicNovel
Coming soon.
#MillOnTheFloss #GeorgeEliot #MaggieAndTom #VictorianLiterature #SiblingRivalry #RiverDorlcote #ClassicNovel #19thCenturyFiction #BritishLiterature #TragicHeroine
I have until this evening to decide and am looking forward to ruminating on this decision all day. Hehe.
Juniper nose booped Jude the Obscure, so we have one vote there! 🐈⬛😂🐈⬛
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@itsemilykaty.bsky.social
#BookSky #BookSky📚 #ASD #autism #classicnovel #library
30 day book challenge
Day 5
Favorite classic novel
I haven’t read too many classics. But my aunt gave me a copy of Little Women when I was about 11 and it was my first classic novel and favorite to date.
#Booksky
#30daybookchallenge
#LittleWomen
#LouisaMayAlcott
#ClassicNovel
Coming soon.
#DonQuixote #Cervantes #SpanishLiterature #WorldLiterature #KnightErrant #LiteraryMasterpiece #SanchoAndQuixote #ClassicNovel #Chivalry #FirstModernNovel
Coming soon.
#AnnaKarenina #Tolstoy #RussianLiterature #ClassicNovel #19thCenturyLiterature #LiterarMasterpiece #ImperialRussia #TragicHeroine #TolstoyClassic #RussianAristocracy
Coming soon.
#ScarletLetter #NathanielHawthorne #AmericanLiterature #HesterPrynne #PuritanSociety #ClassicNovel #SymbolismInLiterature #SinAndRedemption #19thCenturyFiction #AmericanRomanticism
Coming soon.
#Middlemarch #GeorgeEliot #VictorianLiterature #DorotheBrooke #ProvincialLife #ClassicNovel #19thCenturyFiction #BritishLiterature #LiteraryMasterpiece #SocialRealism
Coming soon.
#MadameBovary #GustaveFlaubert #FrenchLiterature #LiteraryCritic #RealismLiterature #EmmaBovary #ClassicNovel #19thCenturyLiterature #FlaubertClassic #FemmeFatale
A Legend Lives
Sleepy Hollow, New York - Nikon D300 - forever thrilled that I was able to get this capture that Halloween weekend. #headless_horseman #horse #halloween #washingtonirving #sleepyhollow #photo #photograph #photography #bnw #bnwphotography #legend #classicnovel
❓What is your favorite classic novel? Is there a particular classic author whose works you keep coming back to, even after all these years?
#Question #WeeklyWondering #Reading #ReadingCommunity #WritingCommunity #Books #Poetry #Classic #ClassicNovel
Democracy Book Challenge. Day 39 of the MAGA Dystopia. It Can’t Happen Here – Sinclair Lewis, 1935. A classic novel. It can Happen Here. Right now. Today. This reads like a primer for the fascist trump regime. I read it again in 2017.
#bookchallenge #books #booksky #democracy #politics #ClassicNovel
The image is a gorgeous Penguin Clothbound edition of Wutheting Heights by Emily Brontë. It features a dark grey background covered with lines of blue wild thistles.
30-day book challenge (that I forgot I was doing!). 📚💙
Day 5: Favourite Classic Novel
#WutheringHeights 🏚📖💔🌬 #Brontë #ClassicNovel #LiteraryFiction 🖊📚💙 #30DayChallenge #Books #Reading
I had the pleasure of spending time inside each character's head in this deep study of human behaivour.
#RevolutionaryRoad #RichardYates #classicnovels #classicnovel #books #booksky
Read my #bookreview at https://buff.ly/3ErXmQv
Beautiful Little Fools poetry anthology celebrates, reimagines, and responds to The Great Gatsby themes of opulence, decadence, corruption, desire, and more. Then and Now. Submit February 1-28. Details: shorturl.at/xipDH
Get Ready! #Submissions open #Saturday for this #FScottFitzgerald #ClassicNovel themed anthology abt decadence, glamour, deceit, desires then & now. Co-editors: @alanparry83.bsky.social & me @brokenspinearts.bsky.social shorturl.at/xipDH #BeautifulLittleFools #PoetsofBlueSky #PoetryCommunity
June 23, 1977 - Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius as novelized by Terrence Dicks was first published.
#DoctorWho #BrainofMorbius #TerrenceDicks #novelization #classicnovel
Christie smiles softly from behind her asmr microphone and holds up the book Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
I heard you like a good whispered story before bed, I’ve got chapter two of this #classicnovel done #asmr style premiering at 6pm ET
Check it out: youtu.be/l3HwsqZD0fI
I started reading There’s no home by Alexander Baron. It’s set in Sicily and the opening chapter is British Infantry moving into Catania at the end of the Sicily campaign. I used a well known photo for reference
#ww2 #alexanderbaron #imw #classicnovel #sicily #catania #art #history
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (2/20)
#booksky #classicnovel #bookchallenge #20daybookchallenge
It’s finally time to do something I have never done before!
Read Sherlock Holmes.
#Sherlock #ClassicNovel #Literature
