just saying...

Anything worth a thought is worth sharing.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017

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The Many Illustrators of A Tale of Two Cities 11: Harry Furniss (1/2)

These speak for themselves.

This week's set is a particularly iconic one - at long last, we've arrived at Harry Furniss's illustrations for the 1910 Charles Dickens Library edition of A Tale of Two Cities!

1 / 2 || 2 / 2

Furniss created hundreds of illustrations for this series, which was meant as a centennial celebration of Dickens's birth. For A Tale of Two Cities in particular, he made 32! In this post, we'll be looking at the first 19.

Also, a note for the full set, just as a heads-up: A few of the Internet Archive versions - which are the primary source used here - were cropped, so I edited in the missing pieces using (if I remember correctly) these versions from HathiTrust.

There really isn't much more to say concerning these thorough, thoughtful illustrations - I waited patiently to begin to work on posts for them until I found quality versions that would do them justice, and I'm so delighted to finally have done so. Without further ado, enjoy!

See you soon for Part 2!

& the standard endnote for all posts in this series:

This post is intended to act as the start of a forum on the given illustrator, so if anyone has anything to add - requests to see certain drawings in higher definition (since Tumblr compresses images), corrections to factual errors, sources for better-quality versions of the illustrations, further reading, fun facts, any questions, or just general commentary - simply do so on this post, be it in a comment/tags or the replies!💫

[weltenwellen]

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

[caats]

[mournfulroses]

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

[weltenwellen]

Nicole W. Lee, from "Even the Dust"

[tinylilvalery]

GETCHO FUKN DAWG MANNN

[weltenwellen]

Jericho Brown, from Another Elegy (”This is what our dying looks like”)", The New Testament

[weltenwellen]

Kaveh Akbar, from "Heritage", Calling a Wolf a Wolf

[lifeinpoetry]

“How many ways must I ask my oppressor to pronounce me properly? How much more evidence of western intelligence must I accumulate? I am so sick of morphing my body and becoming unfamiliar to myself.”

— — Angel Dominguez, from “[Dear Diego],” Desgraciado

[soulfortrade]

[beif0ngs]

“Powder’s gone, Vi. All that’s left is Jinx.”

[queencalanthes]

OH, THE MISERY everybody wants to be my enemy

The women of Arcane | Season One

[rudebunny-g]

Gadajace glowy (1980)  - Krzysztof Kieslowski

People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.

[quotespile]

“This was love, I supposed, and eventually I would come to know it. Someday it would choose me and I would come to know its spell, for long stretches and short, two times, maybe three, and then quite probably it would choose me never again.”

— Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs

[aether-xx]

Kimi no Na wa | Your Name

The way I cried three times when I first watched this film

[quotespile]

“Instead of the word ‘love’ there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.”

— Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival