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The Manuscript of Beowulf (1000 AD) Can Now Be Viewed Online for the First Time

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Made around the year 1000, most likely during the reign of King Æthelred the Unready (978-1016), this manuscript committed to parchment a tale that (in some modern scholars’ opinions) had been passed down for centuries, between generations of storytellers.

In its present state, the poem,…

books0977: Lord of the Flies (1954). William Golding (1911-1999). London: Faber and Faber. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in white. First edition. Novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Golding about a group of British boys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results. Subjects of human nature and individual welfare versus the common good “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.” ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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Lord of the Flies (1954). William Golding (1911-1999). London: Faber and Faber. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in white. First edition.

Novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Golding about a group of British boys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results. Subjects of human nature and individual welfare versus the common good

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.” ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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The Penguin Press: Happy 200th Birthday to "Pride and Prejudice"

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William Deresiewicz writes up a nice encomium on the novel for The New Yorker’s Page-Turner blog:

Austen is inscrutable. As with Shakespeare, the magnitude of the achievement is incommensurate with the life that produced it. But in Shakespeare’s case, there is a lot we do not know. In…

When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.
Victor Hugo; Les Misérables
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
William Blake; Auguries of innocence
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert; Dune
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