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The oldest whales in the ocean were alive before 'Moby-Dick' and have the harpoons to prove it
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/whales-older-than-moby-dick-ex1
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https://www.cyclingeu.com/699508/the-barbarism-of-berlin-by-g-k-chesterton-%f0%9f%95%b5%ef%b8%8f%e2%99%82%ef%b8%8f%f0%9f%8c%8d/ The Barbarism of Berlin by G. K. Chesterton 🕵️♂️🌍 ##audiobook #BerlinMystery #Bicycling #Biking #BikingSerbia #ClassicDetectiveStories #ClassicLiterature #CrimeAndPunishment #CrimeStory #Cycling #DetectiveFiction #DetectiveLiterature #DetectiveStories #GkChesterton #GkChestertonFan #justice #LiteraryClassics #MoralDilemmas #mysterynovel #PhilosophicalFiction #serbia #storytime #SuspenseThriller #unsolvedmystery #VintageMysteries #yt:cc=on
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You can check out this nice overview of some #coverart he did for #LiteraryClassics
https://lithub.com/edward-goreys-illustrated-covers-for-literary-classics/
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75 years ago today (June 8) in 1949, George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' was published.
#books #history #GeorgeOrwell #fiction #novels #literature #LiteraryClassics
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Before I moved to America, I spent time in university reading classic American writings. Whether it’s Walt Whitman, Nathanial Hawthorne, or Ursula K. Le Guin, there’s something here for everyone.
(10 Internet Points to anyone who knows a fun fact that connects Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau!)
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#AmericanLiterature #NortonAnthology #LiteraryClassics #MarkTwain #EmilyDickinson #FScottFitzgerald #ToniMorrison #SandraCisneros #DavidFosterWallace #JunotDiaz #LouiseErdrich -
Before I moved to America, I spent time in university reading classic American writings. Whether it’s Walt Whitman, Nathanial Hawthorne, or Ursula K. Le Guin, there’s something here for everyone.
(10 Internet Points to anyone who knows a fun fact that connects Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau!)
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#AmericanLiterature #NortonAnthology #LiteraryClassics #MarkTwain #EmilyDickinson #FScottFitzgerald #ToniMorrison #SandraCisneros #DavidFosterWallace #JunotDiaz #LouiseErdrich -
“Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.”
- H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
#HGWells #TheWarOfTheWorlds #ScienceFiction #SciFiClassics #HorrorFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.”
- H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
#HGWells #TheWarOfTheWorlds #ScienceFiction #SciFiClassics #HorrorFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.”
- H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
#HGWells #TheWarOfTheWorlds #ScienceFiction #SciFiClassics #HorrorFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.”
- H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
#HGWells #TheWarOfTheWorlds #ScienceFiction #SciFiClassics #HorrorFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.”
- H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
#HGWells #TheWarOfTheWorlds #ScienceFiction #SciFiClassics #HorrorFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.”
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla 🦇 🎩 🕯️
#JosephSheridanLeFanu #Polidori #Carmilla #TheVampyre #VampireClassics #VampireFiction #GothicHorror #HorrorFiction #HorrorClassics #VictorianLiterature #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.”
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla 🦇 🎩 🕯️
#JosephSheridanLeFanu #Polidori #Carmilla #TheVampyre #VampireClassics #VampireFiction #GothicHorror #HorrorFiction #HorrorClassics #VictorianLiterature #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
All Serene - an ejaculation of acquiescence. Some years back a popular street cry. With or without application to actual fact, the words all serene were bawled from morning to night without any reference to the serenity of the unfortunate hearers.—See SERENE
- John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
#JohnCamdenHotten #TheSlangDictionary #19thCentury #Etymology #Slang #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
All Serene - an ejaculation of acquiescence. Some years back a popular street cry. With or without application to actual fact, the words all serene were bawled from morning to night without any reference to the serenity of the unfortunate hearers.—See SERENE
- John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
#JohnCamdenHotten #TheSlangDictionary #19thCentury #Etymology #Slang #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
All Serene - an ejaculation of acquiescence. Some years back a popular street cry. With or without application to actual fact, the words all serene were bawled from morning to night without any reference to the serenity of the unfortunate hearers.—See SERENE
- John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
#JohnCamdenHotten #TheSlangDictionary #19thCentury #Etymology #Slang #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
All Serene - an ejaculation of acquiescence. Some years back a popular street cry. With or without application to actual fact, the words all serene were bawled from morning to night without any reference to the serenity of the unfortunate hearers.—See SERENE
- John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
#JohnCamdenHotten #TheSlangDictionary #19thCentury #Etymology #Slang #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
All Serene - an ejaculation of acquiescence. Some years back a popular street cry. With or without application to actual fact, the words all serene were bawled from morning to night without any reference to the serenity of the unfortunate hearers.—See SERENE
- John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
#JohnCamdenHotten #TheSlangDictionary #19thCentury #Etymology #Slang #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“Your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes that is the best help of all.”
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess ⭐ ❄️ 🎄
#FrancesHodgsonBurnett #ALittlePrincess #ChildrensClassics #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“I acquired the habit of laying my egg and burning myself every five hundred years–and you know how difficult it is to break yourself of a habit.”
- E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet
#ENesbit #ThePhoenixAndTheCarpet #Mythology #ChildrensAdventureBooks #ChildrensBooks #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“I acquired the habit of laying my egg and burning myself every five hundred years–and you know how difficult it is to break yourself of a habit.”
- E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet
#ENesbit #ThePhoenixAndTheCarpet #Mythology #ChildrensAdventureBooks #ChildrensBooks #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“I acquired the habit of laying my egg and burning myself every five hundred years–and you know how difficult it is to break yourself of a habit.”
- E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet
#ENesbit #ThePhoenixAndTheCarpet #Mythology #ChildrensAdventureBooks #ChildrensBooks #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“I acquired the habit of laying my egg and burning myself every five hundred years–and you know how difficult it is to break yourself of a habit.”
- E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet
#ENesbit #ThePhoenixAndTheCarpet #Mythology #ChildrensAdventureBooks #ChildrensBooks #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
"Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is method in his madness.”
- Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles 🎄
#AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot #TheMysteriousAffairAtStyles #ClassicDetectiveFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
"Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is method in his madness.”
- Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles 🎄
#AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot #TheMysteriousAffairAtStyles #ClassicDetectiveFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
"Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is method in his madness.”
- Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles 🎄
#AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot #TheMysteriousAffairAtStyles #ClassicDetectiveFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
"Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is method in his madness.”
- Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles 🎄
#AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot #TheMysteriousAffairAtStyles #ClassicDetectiveFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“Persons and Things do turn up so vexatiously in this life, and will in a manner insist on being noticed. Let us take it easy, and let us take it short; we shall be in the thick of the mystery soon, I promise you!”
- Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
#WilkieCollins #TheMoonstone #19thCentury #VictorianLiterature #ClassicDetectiveFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours.”
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World
#ArthurConanDoyle #TheLostWorld #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #ClassicSciFi #ScienceFiction #MoncreiffePress #BookQuotes #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“In the sunken woods that traverse the neighbourhood of the burying-ground the last glimmer failed them, and it became necessary to kindle a match and re-illumine one of the lanterns of the gig. Thus, under the dripping trees, and environed by huge and moving shadows, they reached the scene of their unhallowed labours.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body-Snatcher
#RobertLouisStevenson #BurkeandHare #HorrorClassics #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookstodon -
“Are you surprised at the knowledge of the law which this way of writing betrays in an ignorant woman? I have been learning, my dear: the Law and the Lady have begun understanding one another.”
- Wilkie Collins, The Law and The Lady
#WilkieCollins #VictorianFiction #VictorianLiterature #19thCenturyLiterature #FemaleSleuths #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth—a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow.”
The King in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers
#RobertWChambers #Supernatural #SupernaturalFiction #HorrorStories #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #AmericanLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth—a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow.”
The King in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers
#RobertWChambers #Supernatural #SupernaturalFiction #HorrorStories #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #AmericanLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, save for the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
#HGWells #TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau #ScienceFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, save for the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
#HGWells #TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau #ScienceFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, save for the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
#HGWells #TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau #ScienceFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, save for the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
#HGWells #TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau #ScienceFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, save for the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
#HGWells #TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau #ScienceFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“My dear fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. “
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
#SherlockHolmes #ArthurConanDoyle #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #DetectiveClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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🇪🇸 The Carnivorous Lamb by Agustín Gómez-Arcos
🦋 A most disturbing classic novel first translated to English back in 1984 by William Rodarmor
#FrenchLiterature #LiteraryClassics #BookReview #TranslatedLitChallenge