#classic-books — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #classic-books, aggregated by home.social.
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📅 This Day in Literature — May 15
Born on this day: L. Frank Baum (1856)
Creator of Oz — he wrote 13 sequels but the first remains magic.
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The idea of Marc Andreesen reading _Infinite Jest_ is funny, not because it’s hard (it’s not) but because a lot of it is just inept imitations of Ronald Reagan’s speaking style and Ivy League basketball coverage. It gets treated like an epic profound mediation on addiction but it’s one of the frattiest #books imaginable. #bookstodon #ClassicBooks
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📅 This Day in Literature — May 1
Published on this day: The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Hemingway's first major novel defined the Lost Generation.
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📅 This Day in Literature — April 28
Born on this day: Harper Lee (1926)
Published one perfect novel and vanished from public life for decades.
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📅 This Day in Literature — April 26
Born on this day: Marcus Aurelius (121)
Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher. Meditations remains a timeless guide to life.
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📅 This Day in Literature — April 23
Born & died on this day: William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Born and died on the same date. Also World Book Day (UNESCO).
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📅 This Day in Literature — April 21
Born on this day: Charlotte Brontë (1816)
Also the birthday of Mark Twain's first voyage on the Mississippi.
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📅 This Day in Literature — April 15
Born on this day: Henry James (1843)
Master of the psychological novel. The Turn of the Screw still terrifies readers.
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📅 This Day in Literature — April 14
Remembered today: Abraham Lincoln (1865)
At Ford's Theatre watching a play. His love of Shakespeare was legendary.
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📅 This Day in Literature — April 10
Published on this day: To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
Harper Lee's debut became the most-taught novel in American schools.
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Tried something different with The Wealth of Nations—built a reader instead of just reading it.
Inspired by Karpathy’s idea of interacting with text using LLMs:
https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886200943471157418My latest vibecoding experiment:
https://mrdee.in/vibecoding/vibecoding-012-wealth-of-nations-reader/Classic texts are dense. Linear reading feels… limiting.
This is an attempt to turn reading into something more interactive, exploratory—almost conversational.
Less “consume”, more “engage”.
#vibecoding #learninginpublic #toolsforthought #ClassicBooks #reading
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📅 This Day in Literature — April 3
Born on this day: Washington Irving (1783)
America's first internationally famous author — Rip Van Winkle sleeps on.
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📅 This Day in Literature — April 2
Born on this day: Hans Christian Andersen (1805)
From The Little Mermaid to The Ugly Duckling — the master of fairy tales.
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Re-reading To Kill a Mockingbird and finishing it in one sitting—again.
It remains one of the most challenged books in the U.S., largely due to its portrayal of race and injustice.
That discomfort is precisely the point.
Literature that endures tends to ask questions people would rather avoid.
#BannedBooks #Literature #ToKillAMockingbird #FreedomToRead #ClassicBooks
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📅 This Day in Literature — March 31
Born on this day: Charlotte Brontë (1816)
Jane Eyre revolutionized fiction with its fierce, independent heroine.
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📅 This Day in Literature — March 25
Published on this day: The Great Gatsby (1925)
Fitzgerald's masterpiece was a commercial failure — he died thinking it forgotten.
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📅 This Day in Literature — March 24
Remembered today: Jules Verne (1905)
The father of science fiction predicted submarines, space travel, and the internet.
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📅 This Day in Literature — March 21
Published on this day: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel that Lincoln reportedly said started the Civil War.
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📅 This Day in Literature — March 20
Born on this day: Henrik Ibsen (1828)
Father of modern drama. A Doll's House shocked audiences and changed theater forever.
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📅 This Day in Literature — March 14
Published on this day: The Hobbit concept (1930)
Tolkien scribbled 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit' on a blank exam paper.
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📅 This Day in Literature — March 12
Born on this day: Jack Kerouac (1922)
Beat Generation icon who typed On the Road on a continuous 120-foot scroll of paper.
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📅 This Day in Literature — March 9
Born on this day: Vita Sackville-West (1892)
Poet, novelist, and garden designer who inspired Virginia Woolf's Orlando.
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📅 This Day in Literature — March 3
Born on this day: Alexander Graham Bell (1847)
Also the birthday of literature itself — it's World Book Day in the UK!
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After 7 years in Portugal I finally visited the famed Livraria Lello in Porto last week. (It was February and raining, so the queues were acceptable.) The interior was as beautiful as I expected, but their selection of books was surprising. I shared pics and my thought in this blog post: https://judybackhouse.com/fiction/an-old-bookshop-for-old-authors/
#books, #bookshop #Authors, #Fiction, #publishing #selfpublishing #classicbooks #classics #literature #cookbooks #Portugal #Porto -
I can't believe it...
Saw it in a website, the 1897 first edition book of Dracula by Bram Stoker and signed by himself! Can be possible?
Wish to be a millionaire, I would have this book in my personal library. LOL.#BramStoker #Dracula #Books #ClassicBooks #Gothic #HorrorBooks
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I can't believe it...
Saw it in a website, the 1897 first edition book of Dracula by Bram Stoker and signed by himself! Can be possible?
Wish to be a millionaire, I would have this book in my personal library. LOL.
#BramStoker #Dracula #Books #ClassicBooks #Gothic #HorrorBooks