“The Duke returned from the wars today & did pleasure me in his top-boots.”

Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660-1744), wife of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough & favourite of Queen Anne.
Portrait by Charles Jervas, c.1715

15 94

The Dream Walker
The silence of the street seemed to close in around him whilst his own thoughts were riddled with disquiet.
link: https://t.co/Jzj9fVS3Eu
amreading fantasy ILikeBigBooks epicfantasy mustread swordandsorcery

1 0

Remedy Teaser
One needed only to reveal themselves as a messenger from the Gods to invoke adoration and unquestioning loyalty.
https://t.co/kTnNX1eOCD
IAN1 IARTG Bookboost fantasy readers kindlebooks heroicfantasy epicfantasy ilikebigbooks bookworms

0 0

Njál Thorgeirsson’s home at Bergþórshvoll is probably the most famous of all Icelandic saga domiciles because it was utterly and poetically burnt to the ground. 🖼 Sigurjón Jóhannsson

6 21

"Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts..."

- Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
🎨 by Tore Billing

13 38

“I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
🎨Arthur Rackham & Harry Clarke

11 82

"Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness."
- J.R.R. Tolkien
🖼️Rodney Matthews

4 21

Remedy Teaser
One needed only to reveal themselves as a messenger from the Gods to invoke adoration and unquestioning loyalty.
https://t.co/kTnNX1eOCD
IAN1 IARTG Bookboost fantasy readers kindlebooks heroicfantasy epicfantasy ilikebigbooks bookworms

0 0

malk mint MIKEL TEZ 1/1 5.67
Honor to colony, bookworms, mouse computers or sewers.
¨the last to leave the ship¨


https://t.co/hhJokZ0XqE

1 2

The Dream Walker
The silence of the street seemed to close in around him whilst his own thoughts were riddled with disquiet.
link: https://t.co/Jzj9fVS3Eu
amreading fantasy ILikeBigBooks epicfantasy mustread swordandsorcery

2 0

"It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live." ~ Les Misérables (1862), Victor Hugo.
[Cover by Jenny Frison.]

1 6

I always loved the tiny door: 🚪

“But at last she came upon a tiny little door: and oh, how glad she was, when she found the key would fit it! So she unlocked the tiny little door…& looked through it, and what do you think she saw? Oh, such a beautiful garden!”

13 65

"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy...The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural & wonderful existence. It is nothing but love & emotion; it is the Living Infinite."

-Jules Verne
🎨 Max Jensen

19 36

The Dream Walker
The silence of the street seemed to close in around him whilst his own thoughts were riddled with disquiet.
link: https://t.co/Jzj9fVS3Eu
amreading fantasy ILikeBigBooks epicfantasy mustread swordandsorcery

2 0

"The notes fell into the stillness like drops of golden light...Gently, austerely, sparingly, sweetly, the lovely separate voices met and mingled...making the room and the night hour vast as the universe."
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse

2 5

"Life has not ceased to be a riddle, nor has death lost its sting, and again man sighs amid moans of torment: "Wherefore?"" (Stanisław Przybyszewski, 1868)

🎨 Jacek Maleczewski "Thanatos II" (1899)

10 45

Remedy Teaser
One needed only to reveal themselves as a messenger from the Gods to invoke adoration and unquestioning loyalty.
https://t.co/kTnNX1eOCD
IAN1 IARTG Bookboost fantasy readers kindlebooks heroicfantasy epicfantasy ilikebigbooks bookworms

0 0

🌿🗝️🌿"If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world."

📖C.S. Lewis

15 63

The Dream Walker
The silence of the street seemed to close in around him whilst his own thoughts were riddled with disquiet.
link: https://t.co/Jzj9fVS3Eu
amreading fantasy ILikeBigBooks epicfantasy mustread swordandsorcery

1 0