Happy Birthday D.H. Lawrence! “For him the novel was not the exposition of a thesis about people, but an adventure of the soul.” – Richard Aldington on D.H. Lawrence [caption id="attachment_34600" align="aligncenter" width="450"] D.H. Lawrence: a complete list of his works...
"All across America we travel, on and on and I remember Heather saying, All I need is a post office and a liquor store, but the sky is good, with reasons drawn clear like afternoon light." Parking Lots Clarence Major Illustrations by Laura Dronzek Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1992 PS3563 A39 P3 1992 Clarence Major was born in...
Life can get busy, so it can be hard to keep up with the latest literature in your favorite field of study. Luckily, Librarian Allyson Mower has come up with 5 great ways to stay current....
You with the Darkness - Slingshot, you with the stone: It is over evening, I throw light behind myself. Fetch me down, take us Seriously. Four Poems Paul Celan (1920-1970) New York: Granary Books, 1999 PT2605 E4 S313 1999 Paul Celan was born Paul Antschel in Czernovitz, Romania to German-speaking Jewish parents. His surname was later...
Virginia Woolf said “…the pursuit of reading is carried on by private people.” So, too, is the pursuit of fine bookmaking. As the quality of bookmaking declined in the nineteenth century due to mass production, a few dedicated book lovers became book makers in order...
"God forbid that any native country, whose boast is to be free and happy herself, should cease to afford to the sons and daughters of sorrow, fleeing from the wrongs and miseries of European depotism, a hearty welcome and a happy home!" -- Enoch S....
"I here present the English Reader with the most diverting as well as instructive Book that France has produced these many Years. It is wrote with a Strength of Reasoning, a Freedom of Thought, and a Vein of just Humour, which that Nation was hardly...
"But surely the book is now everything. It has become in our time what the cathedral with its frescoes and stained glass used to be, what the palaces and museums, where people went to look and learn, used to be. The book has become the...
“At two P.M we set sail, and the men voluntarily launched out to make a traverse of fifteen miles across Melville Sound, before a strong wind and heavy sea. The privation of food, under which our voyagers were then laboring, absorbed every other terror; otherwise...
Rare Books salutes The Great American Read by inviting you to visit the Special Collections Reading Room on level 4 of the J. Willard Marriott Library to hold first editions of some of the classics included on the 100 list....