Françoise Sagan wrote great little novels and essays???
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Françoise Sagan wrote great little novels and essays???
“In his novel Sylvie and Bruno, Chapter 8, Carroll describes the difficulty of having tea inside a falling house.”
Martin Gardner
The Annotated Alice
Can‘t wait to delve into this fresh arrival!
#TheWorldbrokeInTwo #BillGoldstein #EMForster #VirginiaWoolf #TSEliot #DHLawrence #BloomsburyGroup #Twenties
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited.”
#DaphneDuMaurier #Rebecca #openinglines
“(...) and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison‘, it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.”
😂
#AlicesAdventuresInWonderland #LewisCarroll #Alice #Wonderland 🗝♥️♠️♦️♣️🃏
To have or not to have this cup of tea...🤔🐰🎩⏱
#AliceInWonderland #AlicesAdventuresInWonderland #Alice #Wonderland #kids #KidsBooks #ChildrensBooks #ChildrensLiterature
When I finished reading the book, I lay back and basked in its beauty and glory for a while. I had to catch my breath.
#ARoomWithAView #EMForster
“It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.”
#CarlSagan #Contact
Carl Sagan is my hero.⭐️👽🌜🌍🐛
Page 204, I stop and reflect on what makes this work ultimately so stirring and profound. It is just a story. Why should it command such high regard? I play the devil's advocate against myself. But the minute I ask the question, my mind answers,
“It speaks the Truth, that is why.”
And I read on, and soon Mr. Emerson says, "Yes, for we fight for more than Love or Pleasure: there is Truth. Truth counts, Truth does count."
#ARoomWithAView
Luxury fashion houses post book covers too...
#WutheringHeights #EmilyBronte
My little niece pondering the mysteries of the universe or perhaps just those of Wonderland...
#AliceInWonderland #AlicesAdventuresInWonderland #Alice #Wonderland #kids #KidsBooks #ChildrensBooks #ChildrensLiterature
E.M. Forster published this masterpiece in 1908–110 years ago! Enlightened thinking is trying to emerge in the society he describes. The author himself is wonderfully modern and enlightened. And why should that surprise me when Homer is so palpable across the ages?
#ARoomWithAView #EMForster
#OutOfIsakDinesen by #LindaDonelson: One of the dozen books I‘ve recently purchased.
The fans will recognise the house.
#IsakDinesen #KarenBlixen
Just finished the first volume—entitled Tsubaki—of The Weight of Secrets. Sober, modest, troubled. Intriguing too.
#AkiShimazaki #Tsubaki #LePoidsDesSecrets #TheWeightOfSecrets #Japan
Wonderful radio series, book, and travelling exhibition! #AHistoryOfTheWorldInAHundredObjects #NeilMacGregor #BritishMuseum #BBC #BBCRadio4
It's been a journey. The first 150 pages were a battle of wills between the book and me. I took it to Turkey and New Zealand without managing to read a page. But then it opened itself up like a flower in spring, and it spoke to me. It connected to my own loss and my personal view on history and time. By the end of it, I was hailing Ali Smith as a genius. I am grateful to the friend who made me read this.
#AliSmith #HowToBeBoth
And Mr. Alderman Ptolemy Tortoise brought a salad with him in a string bag.
#BeatrixPotter
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