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booksactually : > “I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender > curiosity.” > > — from The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
> Edgar Allan Poe is a literary legend who went through his share of > troubles. The author of The Tell-Tale Heart experienced great > poverty in his youth. At one po...
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- CHRIS CLEAVE, Little Bee (2008)
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“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” - Fernando Pessoa, The Book of...
“I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had...
You know, I didn’t really care for On Beauty. I felt like the characters weren’t as...
Well I have a few books that I’m still trying to finish. I’m currently reading Chuck...
- VLADIMIR NABOKOV, Lolita (1955)
“A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all...
> Mary Anne Evans, known by her pen name GEORGE ELIOT, was an English > novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of > the Victorian Era. She use...
One of my prized possessions is this copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. It comes with a matching bookmark, which I thought was pretty neat. The wonderful design is by Coralie Bic...
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age...
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” - F....
I stumbled across Vanity Fair’s feature on Joe Wright’s film adaptation of Anna Karenina and I loved the sketches by costume designer Jacqueline Durran. I thought they would look great on an...