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'German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.'
― #Pygmalion #GeorgeBernardShaw, born #OTD in 1856
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#Irish #playwright #theatre
#BookRecommendations: Three Years by #AntonChekhov. A novella which helped cement #Chekhov’s reputation as a major figure in #Russianliterature.
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#BooksWorthReading #reading360 #literary
Revealing one of the beautiful illustrations by Peter Bailey to accompany our new #translation of #Pinocchio by Stephen Parkin. Coming soon
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#CHILDRENSBOOK #childrensillustration #kidlit
'What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it’s the story that’s easiest to believe.'
#EdithWharton, The House of Mirth, coming soon...
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#quoteoftheday #LiteraturePosts #quote #ReadWomen #TheGildedAge
'No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.'
#EdithWharton, The House of Mirth
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@EdithWhartonSoc #quoteoftheday #LiteraturePosts #quote #ReadWomen #TheGildedAge
Soon available with a new #bookcover: The Kiss and Other #Stories, an indispensable collection of #shortstories by #AntonChekhov
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#book #booklovers #BookWorm #readingcommunity #Chekhov #Literature
All about him the city was hustling for hustling’s sake' -#Babbitt by #SinclairLewis. Coming soon...
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#books #Americanliterature #Literature #readingisfun #booklovers #BookWorm #BookBuzz
#StefanZweig died #OTD in 1942. His last story, ‘A Game of Chess’ was written in exile in Brazil and explores its author’s anxieties about the situation in Europe following the rise of the Nazi regime.
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#Zweig #BookRecommendations #Literature
E. T. A. Hoffmann, one of the masters of #gothic and #fantasy genre, was born #OTD in 1776. Don't miss our recently published #novella The Sandman
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#Literature #horror