The Haunted Bookshop Commonplace

“That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me. There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and that is to read it.” - Christopher Morely, The Haunted Bookshop

[velartis]

Franz Kafka, 1912

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"How beautiful she grew in her happiness,"

~ Charlotte Brontë, Villette (1853)

[cinematic-literature]

Les Sœurs Brontë (1979) by André Téchiné

Book title

Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë, originally published under the pen name Ellis Bell

Agnes Grey (1847) by Anne Brontë, originally published under the pen name Acton Bell

Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë, originally published under the pen name Currer Bell

[darkclassicwithin]

A bookish day in Haworth is not complete without a visit to the Brontë Parsonage and a walk in the moors to Brontë falls.

[laurentinasskull]

No coward soul is mine

Emily Bronte

(30 July 1818 - 19 December 1848)

[tomoleary]

Alberto Vargas (1896-1982) Disney's "Swiss Family Robinson" (1960) Source

[theselkiesea]

Swiss Family Robinson, Illustrated

By Johann David Wyss

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Dedication from 1892

[carlmeredith]

[reading-like-a-kid]

"People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?"

Anne Shirley

[weltonboys]

I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.

-Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

[weltonboys]

Sometimes I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.

-Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

[hauntedbybooks]

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

- Norman Maclean

[classicbooks101]

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean

[snowangelsoul]

"Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding."

~ A River Runs Through It

By Norman Maclean

[mmw8054]

“To love another person is to see the face of God.”

—Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

[resqectable]

“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in—what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”

— Victor Hugo

[metamorphesque]

Piranesi, Susanna Clarke