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Celebrating Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë’s birthday with beautiful quotes.
Remembering Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest literary lights, on what would have been his 117th birthday. Ernest Hemingway did more to influence the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. He died in 1961.
Happy Birthday, W.B. Yeats!
William Butler Yeats is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Last year was the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Nobel Prize winning poet.
Yeats was a maker of extraordinary love poems and an architect of
modernism, and many of his most powerful lines have entered the
language.
His most famous poems include When You Are Old, A Dialogue of Self and Soul, Blood and the Moon, He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven, and many more!
If you like Gone with the Wind, why not try…
- The Light Between Oceans by M.L Stedman
- The Railwayman’s Wife by Ashley Hay
- In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.”
Happy #RoaldDahlDay everyone!
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Happy 125th Birthday, H.P Lovecraft!
A Periodic Table of Classic Novels
(via booksarefriends)