#classicbooks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #classicbooks, aggregated by home.social.
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📅 This Day in Literature — August 25
Published on this day: Don Quixote Part 2 (1615)
Cervantes wrote the sequel partly because someone else published a fake Part 2 first.
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This made me giggle this morning. (Garrison Keillor - Lake Wobegone Days. Yes. I read #Classicbooks. Just to be clear: I support #teachers!)
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📅 This Day in Literature — August 11
Born on this day: Enid Blyton (1897)
The most translated British author after Shakespeare. Over 700 books.
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📅 This Day in Literature — August 9
Born on this day: P. L. Travers (1899)
Creator of Mary Poppins. She famously disliked the Disney film.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 30
Born on this day: Emily Brontë (1818)
Wrote one novel — Wuthering Heights — and changed literature forever.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 26
Born on this day: George Bernard Shaw (1856)
Won both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar. Only person to achieve both.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 21
Born on this day: Ernest Hemingway (1899)
Six-word story: 'For sale: baby shoes, never worn.' Master of less is more.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 12
Born on this day: Henry David Thoreau (1817)
Lived deliberately at Walden Pond. Still teaching us to simplify.
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📅 This Day in Literature — July 11
Born on this day: E. B. White (1899)
Charlotte's Web and The Elements of Style — one book for the heart, one for the mind.
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#storygraphchallenge #translatedbooks #classicbooks #books
Classic Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Anderson
Beowulf - Unknown
The tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
The ARt of War - Sun Tzu
The Prince - Niccollo Machiavelli
Fairy Tales - Brothers Grimm -
📅 This Day in Literature — July 4
Remembered today: Thomas Jefferson (1826)
Author of the Declaration of Independence. Died on its 50th anniversary.
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Re-reading a favorite book from your past is like catching up with an old, dear friend. The plot doesn't change, but because you did, you always discover something brand new. 🔄✨
#ClassicBooks #Reading #BookLovers -
Re-reading a favorite book from your past is like catching up with an old, dear friend. The plot doesn't change, but because you did, you always discover something brand new. 🔄✨
#ClassicBooks #Reading #BookLovers -
📅 This Day in Literature — June 25
Published on this day: The Little Prince (1943)
Saint-Exupéry's beloved fable — written in a New York apartment, published in the US first.
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📅 This Day in Literature — June 16
This day in literature: Bloomsday (1904)
The day Leopold Bloom wanders through Dublin in James Joyce's Ulysses.
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📅 This Day in Literature — June 11
Published on this day: Walden (1854)
Thoreau went to the woods. Two years of deliberate living became a classic.
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📅 This Day in Literature — June 5
Published on this day: Frankenstein concept (1816)
Mary Shelley, 18 years old, dreamed the story during a stormy night at Lake Geneva.
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📅 This Day in Literature — May 25
Born on this day: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803)
The father of Transcendentalism. Mentor to Thoreau and inspirer of Whitman.
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📅 This Day in Literature — May 22
Born on this day: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859)
Created Sherlock Holmes, tried to kill him off, and was forced to bring him back.
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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.