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Harriet Beecher Stowe, author and abolitionist, born June 14, 1811.

"In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's."

Happy Hans Christian Andersen's birthday!

You know what's a good book?

Little Women is a good book.

Wilkie Collins, born January 8, 1824.

"People who read stories are said to have excitable brains."

Fanny Kemble—actress, poet, playwright, memoirist—born November 27, 1809.

"I want to do everything in the world that can be done."

Pamela Lyndon Travers, which is to say P. L. Travers, author of the Mary Poppins books, born August 9, 1899.

Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason, born July 17, 1889.

We're so proud to see three of our @ModernLibrary Torchbearers volumes go on sale...today!

Collect them all!

Happy Maurice Sendak's birthday, everyone!

Happy 200th birthday, Walt Whitman!

"To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle."