Tag Archives: literature

Enluminures : base de données

Posted on November 11, 2005 by

Enluminures : base de données. It’s a free database with more than 80.000 images, as labels and digitalized, reproductions of many illuminations and more than 4000 medieval manuscripts of elements of decoration. This on-line database makes a search through hundreds … Continue reading →

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Peter Pan

Posted on November 11, 2005 by

C20th Peter Pan: a selling exhibition of memorabilia. Peter Pan history, the history of James Matthew Barrie (the author) and his other plays, memorabilia, like Peter Pan material, ranging from theatre programmes, posters, books and records to autographs of early … Continue reading →

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All-TIME 100 novels

Posted on October 18, 2005 by

The Complete List from the TIME magazine of ALL-TIME 100 Novels. Time critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. How many I read from the list? Well… let’s talk about … Continue reading →

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Frankenstein links

Posted on September 20, 2005 by

A collection of links about Frankenstein, including the book, film versions and more trivia. Boris Karloff This is the only Internet location authorized and maintained by the descendants of Boris Karloff, the great Master of Horror. Cryptoys Frankenstein and Bride … Continue reading →

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Artistic Interpretations of Literary Figures

Posted on September 15, 2005 by

Artistic Interpretations of Literary Figures is a fantastic site that put together two things that I love, literature and illustration. The site has an extensive collection of images of characters from the literature or the writers by many illustrators. illustrations … Continue reading →

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Aubrey Beardsley

Posted on September 14, 2005 by

Aubrey Beardsley was the most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau era, renowned for his dark and perverse images and the grotesque erotica, which themes he explored in his later work. His most famous erotic illustrations were on themes of … Continue reading →

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Digital Dada Library

Posted on July 28, 2005 by Bibi

Digital Dada Library: books, pamphlets and periodicals from Dada movement. Each document has been scanned in its entirety. Works from Paul Eluard, George Grosz, Clément Pansaers, Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara among others writers and artists. (via chroniques de l’inutile)

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Last Words

Posted on July 28, 2005 by

Last Words: a collection of famous last words, epitaphs, obituaries, farewells, and last stands. Yes, that was death. I died – and I awoke. Yes, death is an awakening., said the Prince Andrei Bolkowsky on the Tolstoy classic War and … Continue reading →

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Invisible Library

Posted on July 23, 2005 by

Invisible Library is a collection of books that only appear in other books. Within the library’s catalog you will find imaginary books, pseudobiblia, artifictions, fabled tomes, libris phantastica, and all manner of books unwritten, unread, unpublished, and unfound.

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Alice In Wonderland and media

Posted on July 22, 2005 by

Alice In Wonderland in stories, films, television, theatre and multimedia. There are also sections dealing with artwork, book covers, illustrations and even advertising material. Related post: Lewis Carroll – post in Portuguese, but with many links about Carroll in English.

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