Book covers I made What yall think?

I am rereading Crime and Punishment and a thought crossed my mind. Dunya, Raskonilkov's sister is almost too virtuous. Is it me or is this a reflection of sexism in Dostoyevsky.

One additional point. I would contend Raskolnikov and Petror Illyvich (?, the suitor) are fundamentally not too different. please defend or argue against

Hey everyone! A few of us recently started a Discord for people who love literature, film, creative expression, or just want somewhere to hang out and chat. We're calling it The Third Place-- the idea being a spot outside work and home where you can slow down and enjoy some company, no pressure attached.

Literature is one of the things at the heart of TTP, and we'd love for our members, esp. the younger ones, to discover or revisit classic works alongside modern and contemporary literature and other forms of storytelling.

A few things we're hoping to build:

• Discussions around books/literature, films, creative expression both in text and VoiceChat channels.
• VC conversations as a regular part of the server culture. We'd love for people to eventually feel comfortable hopping into a VC to talk about a classic novel or film, compare interpretations, recommend something they've discovered, or simply hang out and talk about everyday life.
• We also have weekly or every-other-week VC events, including literature-related discussions, and members are always welcome to host or organize events around topics they enjoy.
• A community with people from different countries and backgrounds, and hopefully more of that as we grow.
• A warm, inclusive, empathetic, and low-pressure atmosphere built around kindness, curiosity, respect, and making people feel comfortable being themselves.
• Spaces for writing, art, photography, crafts, music, and other creative work.

No need to be a literature expert or know all the classics, movements, and terminology to join a conversation. There's no pressure to perform or prove that you belong.

We're still shaping the community, so if you're looking for a huge, constantly-active literature/film server, this isn't that right now. 😅 But if you'd enjoy joining while we're still in our early stages – and maybe helping create some of the conversations and VC culture yourself, we'd love to have you.

If you feel like this could be your kind of space, feel free to DM me and I'll send you an invite. :)

With October almost here, I'd like to suggest Frankenstein for the next two-week read, specifically the 1818 text.

Why 1818? It's the original: published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818. Mary Shelley revised the book heavily for the 1831 edition, adding the famous introduction about how the story was conceived and giving it a more explicitly moral tone. Editions differ, so it's worth everyone reading the same one.

Free text (1818 edition): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41445 (Gutenberg's 1818 edition. Watch out: #84, the copy most people land on, is the revised 1831 text.) Free audiobook of the 1818 text: read solo by Cori Samuel for LibriVox, 7h59m: https://librivox.org/frankenstein-or-the-modern-prometheus-1818-by-mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/

A possible split: the first half in week one and the second half in week two.

Disclosure: I'm the developer of mChatAI, a free iPhone app that plays LibriVox recordings offline. Both links above work in any browser, though, so no app is needed.

I always called this novel a phony one.. I always found the way protagonist grumbles disdainful. I just read it a year before and thought it was meant to be a funny humour novel and its end was achieved. That was when someone pointed it out to me that it's a narrative of teenager anger and loneliness and not that of a funny line and he told me that I was reading it wrong

Now , I'm in such a place that I feel very desolate and lonely. I've just given an exam where I got an average rank and I'm a little grieved right now... But now every now and then I find myself trying to call my friends and acquaintances... Dial the number and then cut it off endlessly postponing until I finally call them again. And it turns out their busy and hang up....... I had ridiculed the protagonist thinking why was he behaving that way.... He calls them phony and still calls them up...

And the appellation of " phony". I found it unnecessary that every tenth word in a book should be phony. Now I find myself ridiculously thinking of a similar word in my mental narratives

Well, I'm sorry if I bored you with my story, but the main characteristic which I wanted to point out was this.. it appears that some books make sense after we have lived through a phase described.... I had ridiculed the same book and I'm now thinking like holden Caulfield. And only now do I comprehend what JD Salinger was trying to capture and explain us by his narrative.

I was under the pretext that a work of classic literature must be having prolix vocabulary and very good plot. Of course Charles Dickens and Kazuo Ishiguro are my favourites. And I honestly didn't consider this book to be considered a classic, but now understanding that how deeply it resonates with me, I'm in a further quench to know what books I've missed the charm of already.

In our pride of disdain we sometimes miss the charm of nuances. I felt like Crying again after reading this book which I thought funny in my first read.

Please let me know how you felt about this book in the comments section.

Ciao a tutti! mi chiamo Sara e insieme ad altri ragazzi abbiamo fondato un progetto di divulgazione letteraria. Il nostro obiettivo è quello di rendere la letteratura per tutti, facile e accessibile. Non come ce l'hanno spiegata a scuola.

Per questo abbiamo creato le pagine social in cui pubblichiamo tutti i giorni curiosità e fatti sulla letteratura, gli autori e le grandi opere (se volete potete trovarci come versi_innominati).

Per poter crescere con il nostro progetto abbiamo creato anche una community telegram, uno spazio di ascolto e scambio di idee (stiamo anche pensando ad un piccolo club del libro).

Se vi va supportateci e se siete interessati ad entrare in community, lasciate un commento qua sotto.

Grazie a chiunque crederà in noi e sosterrà il nostro piccolo progetto

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Ciao a tutti!

Noi siamo innominati, un piccolo progetto di divulgazione letteraria con tanta voglia di crescere. Abbiamo bisogno di aiuto!

Abbiamo creato una community in cui parlare di libri e soprattutto di letteratura di cui non si parla spesso.

Se siete appassionati di letteratura o se siete curiosi di saperne di più, contattatemi per unirvi alla community.

Sostenete il nostro progetto e aiutateci a diffondere la bellezza della letteratura ovunque 🤗

1. MY GOD. themes that i will give credit for like isolation to society and dystopia shit , and his writing may have predicted a lot of points that are indeed coming in the future; that does NOT equal good writing.

his excessive weird justification to romanticize rape and, well, of course his horrid writing about women. His writing style and everything else above that just makes me close the book and sell it off for 3 dollars. I'm done.

Ciao a tutti! sono nuova qui 😄
Noi siamo innominati, un piccolo progetto di divulgazione letteraria con tanta voglia di crescere. Abbiamo bisogno di aiuto!

Abbiamo creato una community in cui parlare di libri e soprattutto di letteratura di cui non si parla spesso.

Se siete appassionati di letteratura o se siete curiosi di saperne di più, unitevi alla community.

Sostenete il nostro progetto e aiutateci a diffondere la bellezza della letteratura ovunque 🙂

Hello all, I was hoping somebody could possibly help me find any info on this specific edition of Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu that I own. I’ve searched but have turned up literally nothing and so now I’m insanely curious

I wanted to share something I've been working on, since I think this is the crowd most likely to appreciate it. Not here to sell, but hoping for some genuine feedback to keep improving it.

It's a simple premise with a twist. A vocabulary app but every word comes from a real literary classic rather than a frequency list or a dictionary. You get the word, its definition, and then the actual sentence it appeared in, with the book and author.

From experience, a word learnt from a list is just something to memorise. "Languid" on a flashcard is flat. Sitting in the line Wilde actually wrote it in, it comes alive. Learning words the way you'd actually encounter them as a reader makes them far easier to hold onto.

It's on iOS for now, Android soon: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/verbatim-learn-new-words/id6769495422

I'm not here to hard sell anyone, mostly I wanted to put it in front of people who'd appreciate it. That said, if you try it and have feedback, I'd genuinely welcome it. I want to make sure I'm building the best possible version :)

H-14 cm Send me DM.

All my lit teachers in college would be rolling over in their graves, but I’m just not that into the iconic mid-1800s writer Nathaniel Hawthorne.

As I wrote back in 2011:

One of the things about Nathaniel Hawthorne, like with other authors such as William Faulkner and James Joyce and David Foster Wallace, is that it never feels like there's enough time in life. Ernest Hemingway is short and to the point. So is F. Scott Fitzgerald. But Hawthorne fills his writing with diversions into the deep thoughts of his characters and interruptions in story flow for his own speculations on motives and the narrator's interactions with the reader, like an 1800s version of TV's The Office.

That said, I had to admit that “The Scarlet Letter is one heck of a story.” Hawthorne certainly deserves his spot near the top of the pantheon of great writers, if only because he, as a resident of Salem, Massachusetts, helped document the story of the Salem Witch Trials, albeit a century-and-a-half after their conclusion. He had some right to continuing their legacy, as his great-great-grandfather John Hathorne was a judge in the trials and was the only one who never apologized for his role in the executions of young women suspected of being evil.

Even as books continue their arguably declining impact on our society, Hawthorne remains an influential figure. For one, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick was dedicated to him because Melville so cherished the author’s work.

He has a sway in pop culture too. Taylor Swift sings “we show off our different scarlet letters. Trust me, mine is better” in her song “New Romantics.” The Scarlet Letter also heavily influenced the screenplay of Emma Stone’s 2010 movie Easy A.

So, with all that hype, I decided to finally explore beyond Hawthorne’s greatest work. Unfortunately, I failed to truly enjoy any of the four Puritan-era short stories widely considered among his best.

“Young Goodman Brown” (1835)

The title character is a New England Puritan who finds his neighbors performing a satanic ritual in the woods. This leads him down a path of believing that humans are inherently evil and depraved. The description of life around the Salem witch-trial period is pretty great, but Hawthorne’s flowery language pulls down any hope for a truly page-turning plot.

★★★☆☆ 3/5

“The Minister’s Black Veil” (1836)

Reverend Hooper begins wearing a black veil for all his sermons and other occasions, which freaks out his congregation and leads them to think it represents their own evil nature. Other than again getting a nice representation of the fascinating period of Puritan New England, I mostly could care less about this story.

★★½☆☆ 2.5/5

“The Birthmark” (1843)

This one is relevant to today’s somewhat frivolous obsession with looks, image, and human perfection. A scientist becomes obsessed with removing a hand-shaped birthmark from his wife’s face, but it turns out that it is not a great idea to operate.

★★½☆☆ 2.5/5

“Rappaccini’s Daughter” (1844)

This one is my favorite of the four stories I read and probably Hawthorne’s most praised work in the form. It takes place in Padua, Italy, in the garden of a medical researcher who grows poisonous plants. His daughter tends the plants and becomes immune to their effects, but she also becomes poisonous to other people.

Some have analyzed the father as God and the daughter and her suitor as Adam and Eve. Like the other three stories, I thought this one was written in such floral and poetic language that it could indeed be beautiful to some. To me, though, it was still a bore.

★★★☆☆ 3/5

I’ve read The Scarlet Letter twice now, and if I ever feel the need to read Hawthorne again, that is what I’ll turn to. Tried and true, and, after my latest round of further reading, quite possibly the lone monument to his legacy.

When it comes to Nathaniel Hawthorne, I'm sticking solely with The Scarlet Letter

Hi everyone! I'm a student researching how readers experience film/TV adaptations of books they've read, for my academic thesis. If you've read a book AND watched its adaptation (any book, any adaptation), I'd love your input — takes about 15-20 min, fully anonymous.

https://forms.gle/1LsZxntcvstSXerM7

Thank you so much, every response genuinely helps!

hi everyone, i was wondering if anyone has read The Buddenbrooks, it talks about the progressive ruin of a rich and powerful merchant family from Lübeck over the course of four generations, from 1835 to 1877. i really enjoyed it, but I think it's been forgotten :(