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Old books

Shelves of old Victorian books in our Whitehaven Book Shop 

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12/5 | City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco

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Staff Pick of the Week

Don Quixote revisited

The last time I posted a staff pick, I featured Andrew Millar’s publication of Don Quixote from 1755. I recently found another publication that serves as a nice visual juxtaposition. This version was published as The First Part of the Life and Achievements of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha by the Illustrated Modern Library in 1946 and features 38 illustrations (both drawings and watercolors) done by Salvador Dalí. Comparing the two, one can see the diversity of visual interpretations possible from one narrative. 

The monomaniacal character of Quixote (who can be alternately seen as insane or as the only idealist in a disenchanted world) seems an ideal subject for Dalí and his paranoiac-critical method. But Don Quixote was only one of the MANY works he illustrated; in fact, Dalí was inspired by many texts across genres, from history to mythology and religious texts to fiction.

If you’re interested in learning more about Dalí and his work in book illustration, head over to the Dalí Museum’s digital exhibit, “Discovering Dali in Book Illustrations” curated by Abigail Wunderle and Shaina Harkness. 

Tumblerverse, now we want to see YOUR Don Quixote publications!

– Katie, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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Space.

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look, i’m not saying that i often confuse Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road; all i’m saying is that everyone would be saved a lot of trouble if there were just one book called (On) the Road by Cormack McKerouac

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#you wanna talk confusing books #i thought invisible man by ralph ellison #which is an incredible book about racism btw #was THE invisible man by h.g. wells #which is about a literally invisible man (x)

well, okay, but are you sure you weren’t reading (The) Invisible Man by H. Gralph Wellison, bc

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okay but how about the time some guy in my Mythology class read The Metamorphosis by Kafka, a short story about a guy who turns into a bug, instead of The Metamorphoses by Ovid, an ancient narrative poem combining Greek and Roman myths. 

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the metamorphosises by kovkid

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“Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”

— John Waters

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A Grain of Wheat (2012)

Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya’s independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952–1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village’s chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. As we learn of the villagers’ tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly story unfolds in which compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

by Ngugi wa Thiong'o  (Author), Chinua Achebe (Series Editor), Abdulrazak Gurnah (Introduction)

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Ngugi wa Thiong'o is an award-winning novelist, playwright, and essayist from Kenya whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Irvine, California, where he is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.

Abdulrazak Gurnah is the author of the Booker Prize–shortlisted novel Paradise, among other novels. He was born in Zanzibar, Tanzania, and teaches English literature at the University of Kent in England.

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Source.

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0306; Libreria Acqua Alta – Venice

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