Early Shakespeare, other rare books online
The Rare Book Room features high-res scans of books (and scores) by Galileo, Newton, Beethoven, Milton, Shakespeare, and others.
The Rare Book Room features high-res scans of books (and scores) by Galileo, Newton, Beethoven, Milton, Shakespeare, and others.
“Evelyn Waugh regrets to announce that he has lost a walking stick made of oak, preposterously short with a metal band around it.”
Vladimir Nabokov once translated Alice in Wonderland — badly, according to Victor Sonkin. (Via.)
The NBCC has announced its 2007 award winners, who include Kiran Desai for fiction and Daniel Mendelsohn for autobiography.