# literature

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BIPOC Authors in Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

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John Looker

@johnlooker.bsky.social

about 16 hours ago

All good books come to an end. I’ve been rereading Middlemarch and here is George Eliot's closing page. Just look at her final sentence and its paean to the ordinary woman or man! #books #literature

Book extract: the closing page of Middlemarch by George Eliot.

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Project Gutenberg

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The Women Who Wrote Noir By David Hudson Martin Scorsese lauded Ida Lupino’s 1949–1953 films as a singular cinematic feat, praising her clear, documentary-style approach to tough topics. www.criterion.com/current…. #books #literature #roman_noir #movies #culture

Photo of Ida Lupino from an appearance on the radio program Cavalcade of America.

A glamorous black-and-white studio portrait of a woman with short, curly, light-tinted hair and dark lipstick, gazing off to the side. She wears jeweled earrings, a small cross necklace and a white V-neck top with a bold printed pattern, before a shimmering sequined backdrop.

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Project Gutenberg

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about 20 hours ago

Agatha Christie: A World of Mystery is a brilliant exploration of the life of the queen of crime by Nadia Atia theconversation.com/agath…. Books by Dame Christie at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/…. #books #literature #culture #fictionbooks

Agatha Christie as a young woman.

A vintage sepia photograph of a young woman with tousled, upswept hair leaning out of an open leaded-glass casement window in a stone wall. She wears a striped blouse with a polka-dot scarf and gazes off to the side, with a shield-shaped pane visible behind her.

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Project Gutenberg

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8 Classic Books That Are Still Perfect From Start to Finish By Safwan Azeem collider.com/classic-book... Some of these are already in our catalog: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84 www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/… www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1260 www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342 #books #literature #classics

The peacock-design cover of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” illustrated by Hugh Thomson. A gold peacock stands on a pedestal at left, its tail fanned in a wide arc of feathers against a deep blue-green background, with the title and names in gold script.

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Project Gutenberg

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King Arthur and Ramayana: ancient stories that speak to the moral dilemmas of today’s leaders by Harsh Trivedi theconversation.com/king-…. Books about King Arthur & Ramayana at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/…. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/…. #books #literature #history #mythology

King Arthur by Charles Ernest Butler (1903).

A Victorian oil painting of a young knight in chain mail and plate armor, a red cloak at his back, raising a gold jeweled crown overhead and gazing up. He stands on a rocky mountain slope under a stormy sky, a helmet at his feet and a sword at his side.

Ramayana manuscript from 17th cen. Mewar depicting Rāma's battle with Rāvaṇa.

An illuminated Indian manuscript opening from the Ramayana: red-ruled Sanskrit text in Devanagari above, and a painted battle scene below. Rama and Lakshmana fire arrows from a white-horsed chariot at the many-armed, ten-headed Ravana, as severed heads fall and monkey allies look on.

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Catpaw 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇬🇪 ** A nasty Canadian!

@bittergrounds.bsky.social

about 13 hours ago

Happy Birthday #BramStoker #stamps #philately #reading #literature bittergrounds.com/tale-of….

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A tale of two Draculas – Romania & Ireland take on the myth - Bitter Grounds Magazine

Dracula has appeared on stamps around the world. He’s a popular theme, and rightfully so. The most intriguing portraits come from his twin birthplaces,

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🐻 Han 🦊

@koolkathan.bsky.social

I have been on a book slump for months, but have finally decided to read Treasure Island! It’s also special edition cover! I’m already on chapter three and I’m absolutely loving it! Have you ever read it? 🥺💛 #booksky #treasureisland #reading #book #books #robertlouisstevenson #Literature

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bookquotespages

@bookquotespages.bsky.social

From Misdlemarch, by George Eliot #booksky #writingcommunity #literature

Poor Mr. Casaubon had imagined that his long studious bachelorhood had stored up for him a compound interest of enjoyment, and that large drafts on his affections would not fail to be honored; for we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. And now he was in danger of being saddened by the very conviction that his circumstances were unusually happy: there was nothing external by which he could account for a certain blankness of sensibility which came over him just when his expectant gladness should have been most lively, just when he exchanged the accustomed dulness of his Lowick library for his visits to the Grange.

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roia

@roiah.bsky.social

No beginning anywhere ever is really as good as the beginning of the Call of Cthulhu. #quotes #booksky #HPLovecraft #literature #horror

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Project Gutenberg

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Was one of the great novels of the Enlightenment written by a man who thought he was a werewolf? by Tobias Grey www.theguardian.com/books…. More information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The…. #books #literature #cult #movies #culture

Jan Potocki, by Anton Graff, 1785.

An 18th-century oval oil portrait of a young man with wavy, shoulder-length brown hair and blue eyes. He wears a dark coat over a white open-collared shirt with a ruffled jabot, his arms folded and a faint smile on his face, against a gray-green background.

Title page of Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie (Polish translation), 1847

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Wakefield Libraries

@wflibraries.bsky.social

Today's Lines at Lunchtime is 'On The Ning Nang Nong' By Spike Milligan #poems #LinesAtLunctime #library #librarian #literature #SpokenWord #SlamPoetry #poet #Poetry #BookSky

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SPILLWORDS.COM

@spillwordspress.bsky.social

4 minutes ago

A Scene from a Sicilian Horror Movie written by: Paula Puolakka The seven swords pierce The Virgin Queen’s dark mantle inside the Sicilian chapel. Somewhere, somebody is listening to Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte,” and the high #Literature #Poetry #WritingCommunity #Fiction #Spillwords

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A Scene from a Sicilian Horror Movie

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SPILLWORDS.COM

@spillwordspress.bsky.social

about 1 hour ago

The Fire written by: Danny Barbare In the dark of the woods a fire appears and disappears as if someone is there but no one is and to this day it has been a mystery a flash of fire unexplained. #Fiction #Literature #Spillwords #Poetry #WritingCommunity

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The Fire

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Book dedications bot

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about 1 hour ago

Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt #books #literature #dedication

For teachers... who see the child before the student, who remind us that we all have special gifts to offer the world, who foster the importance of standing out rather than fitting in.

And for kids ... who find their grit to conquer life's challenges-no matter what those challenges may be.

You are heroes. This book is for you.

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SPILLWORDS.COM

@spillwordspress.bsky.social

Self Portrait written by: Nichole Turnbloom A kind of blindness encroaches, the days decrease in light, but not in length. In the mirror clay, water flour stone smear. A painter's knife delineates the line of a jaw, #Poetry #Fiction #Spillwords #WritingCommunity #Literature

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Self Portrait

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Nathan Francis

@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social

“That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.” 📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 9 November 1920, #DHLawrence's novel "Women in Love" was first published by Thomas Seltzer in New York.

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Nathan Francis

@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social

"In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. You do in mine." ✒ #StiegLarsson, Swedish author, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," passed away #OTD 9 November 2004. #Literature

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Nathan Francis

@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social

"So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten." ✒ #HowardPyle, American author, illustrator, and painter, #DOTD 9 November 1911. #Art #Literature

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Nathan Francis

@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social

"My aim is to restore antiquity to Britain, and Britain to his antiquity." ✒ #WilliamCamden, English historian ("Brittania"; "Annales"), #DOTD 9 November 1623. #History #Literature

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Nathan Francis

@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social

"Only in this hoarded span will love persevere. Whether you are pretty or not, I outlive you, bend down my strange face to yours and forgive you." Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/…. ✒️ #AnneSexton, American poet (Pulitzer 1967), was #BOTD 9 November 1928. #Poetry #Literature

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Nathan Francis

@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social

"If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin." ✒ #IvanTurgenev, Russian novelist, poet, and playwright ("Fathers & Sons"), was #BOTD 9 November 1818. #Poetry #Theatre #Literature

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Nathan Francis

@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social