Classic books worth handing down. A growing collection in one heirloom design, for family libraries and reading traditions that last. 📚
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A young man looks again at his portrait and sees something new there: a touch of cruelty around the mouth. 🖼️
Listen to the clip, then make your guess. Name that book? Drop your answer in the replies, and the reveal comes tomorrow morning! #NameThatBook #BookChallenge
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Good morning! It's THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY by Oscar Wilde (1890)! 🖼️ Dorian notices his portrait has changed. Who guessed it?
Read by John Gonzalez for LibriVox 💛
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Pip, an orphan from a little marsh village, wanting so badly to become a gentleman. Dickens wrote that ache in 1861 and it still feels familiar. F. W. Pailthorpe drew this around 1900.
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Edmund Dulac painted this little mermaid in 1911 and we could look at that blue all day. 🌊 Andersen gave us The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, and The Snow Queen, and they still read so well out loud on a cold night.
Which one did you grow up with?
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Quiet hills, a lonely farm, and a stone that fell from the sky, still hot and strangely soft. 🌌
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Good morning! It's "The Colour Out of Space" by H. P. Lovecraft (1927), from our LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR collection! ☄️ A meteorite that won't cool. Who guessed it?
Read by Phil Chenevert for LibriVox 💛
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This family was drawn by W. T. Benda for My Ántonia. Willa Cather's 1918 story of pioneer life on the Nebraska prairie, told by Jim Burden remembering his childhood friend Ántonia. One to read slowly, maybe with the grandkids. comfortable-classics.netlify…
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Grey sky, heather, wind, nobody for miles. Frank Southgate painted this moor at Haworth. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847) is Catherine and Heathcliff out on the Yorkshire moors, and it is not a gentle love story. Good one for a grey afternoon.
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Deep black holes for eyes, yellow skin stretched tight like a drum, and no nose at all. Whose face is this? 🎭
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Good morning! It's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA by Gaston Leroux (1910)! 🎭 Stagehand Joseph Buquet describes the ghost no one wants to meet. Who guessed it?
Read by Betsie Bush for LibriVox 💛
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Anyone else's dog snoring through Sunday afternoon? Makes me think of Buck. Jack London's 1903 novel follows a house dog stolen and sold as a sled dog in the Klondike Gold Rush. Short, fierce, and you'll see your own pup a little differently after.
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Saturday plan: a blanket, a cup of tea, and Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel about an orphaned governess who keeps her own mind, even when it costs her. If your looking for a classic to start this weekend, this one holds up.
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Turner painted Ulysses pulling away in a blaze of gold light, and the Cyclops is barely a shape up in the clouds. The Odyssey is ten years of trouble, and all of it happens on the way home. Some trips are like that. comfortable-classics.netlify…
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Rereading works the same way. Come back to the same old book from a new spot in your life and it shows you something it kept hidden the first time.
“The Igbo people say, If you want to see it well, you must not stand in one place.” —Chinua Achebe buff.ly/99MA3Nj
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A February snowstorm, and a stranger muffled head to foot, his hat hiding everything but the tip of his nose. ❄️
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Good morning! It's THE INVISIBLE MAN by H. G. Wells (1897)! 🧣 A muffled stranger walks out of the snow into Iping. Who guessed it?
Read by Alex Foster for LibriVox 💛
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Classics to start before the holidays:
1. Great Expectations
2. Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
3. The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights
4. Stories of Oz
5. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
6. Gulliver's Travels
Save for the long evenings. What would you add?
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Frank T. Merrill drew this for an 1880 printing of Little Women. The page is called "Hurrah for Miss March," and he's tossing his hat at the sky while the little ones stare. Every family needs someone who cheers that loud for its writer. comfortable-classics.netlify…
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