#macrolit

[thearcticf0xx]

My books from @macrolit came in 🥰😍 beyond thankful

[blossominthewoods]

Your shores can calm my waves

in ways no other ever could.

And I'm sure that I ain't lying

saying: like no other ever would.

original picture sources: Pixabay (edited versions)

[thatstudyblrontea]

What an air of probability sometimes runs through a dream! And at others, what a heap of absurdities it is!

Emma | Jane Austen

[freckles-and-books]

My winnings from last month’s @macrolit giveaway!

[onlywings]

I won one of @macrolit contests here on Tumblr.

Here’s my awesome lil bunch.

If you love collecting books, like good ole classics, like I do, check it out.

📚

[acidh0ney]

Thank you, Macrolit! I can’t decide where to begin ❤️

[stefito0o]

@macrolit this post is for you inspired by the classic + food game. Have you heard of this series? You might've not as it's childrens books but when I came across them again today at work I thought of you.

[mood-swings-and-roundabouts]

I stumbled across a great Tumblr macrolit.Tumblr.com, seeing all of the wonderful and different editions of classics, and thought "Hey, I have some books is like to share".

My first is the Kelmscott Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It's not an original, it's a facsimile published by World Publishing. It's not priceless (to anyone but me), but it's a beautiful edition, drawings by Edward Burne-Jones and hand-lettered. It also keeps the Middle English text.

I've been muddling through the Riverside edition, and it's fascinating; the different spellings (not even always the same), that this was written during the great vowel shift (look it up) making the pronunciations different, me attempting on my own to try to learn it (thank you 2020). I've heard/read that Shakespeare wouldn't be able to understand someone speaking Middle English (true or not I'm never sure).

Below are a few pics for you to enjoy (or not).