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artandchocolate · 2 years

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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

#sylvia plath #the unabridged journals of sylvia plath #dark academism #dark academic aesthetic #dark academia aesthetic #dark academia #literature #english literature #american lit #typography #typographyedit #lit #quotes #classic literature #books #female

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cheesy-bagels · 6 months

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this image haunted me until i made it real

#the great gatsby #jay gatsby #great gatsby #my sense of humor is so adjective #classic literature #american literature

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better-to-reign-in-hell · 6 months

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Nick Carraway really said: I don’t like people but have I mentioned 💖💕💖Gatsby 💖💗💕

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lilithsorchid · 2 years

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The Secret History by Donna Tartt

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

#the secret history #donna tartt #a little life #hanya yanagihara #dark academia #literature #light academia #classic academia #modern classics #book recommendations #book excerpt #book quotes #books #quotes #romanticism #dark academia blog #dark academia books #american literature

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burningvelvet · 9 days

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36 chapters into moby dick. some thoughts:

- take a shot every time he expresses his love for nantucket or whaling trivia

- i know everyone said it was queer and usually i've come to expect that as hyperbole but this time they weren't joking

- CHILDE HAROLD REFERENCE?!?!?!?!?! BYRON QUOTED?!?!?!?! not surprised bc it is the romantic genre which byron & chp helped inspire & he was the best selling writer in early 19c usa & is noted for his oceanic refs & he & esp childe harolds pilgrimage esp are both noted on wikipedia's "nautical fiction" page but like. i had no idea they were immortalized in moby dick

- "Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian." AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

- does gay cannibal tumblr know about queequeg & ishmael?

- utterly obsessed with captain ahab for numerous reasons but does anyone else notice how similar he is to captain flint from black sails? like he's literally him but a bit older & combined with silver's leglessness.

- the part where ahab calls stubb a dog lmao

- ishmael getting worried for queequeg when he couldn't find him omg...

- "Where's that girl ? — there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and tell him to paint me a sign, with — 'no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;' — might as well kill both birds at once." MRS. HUSSEY!!!!

- i'm sure that all the focus on queequegs spirituality & his consultation with his god yojo wherein he was informed that ishmael had to pick their boat bc yojo demaded it TOTALLY won't prove to have any prophetic and symbolic consequences later on or anything

- love how the chapters are nice and short but on the flip side that means theyre tricking me into thinking i have less to go than i actually do... as long as i get more ahab i'm good i guess

-melville, at random: and now we take a break from our regularly schedule programming to give you . . . WHALE FACTS! [whips out multiple books on the history of whales and whaling, begins to recite]

#moby dick #currently reading #book reviews #book thoughts #book opinions #literature #american literature #classic literature #herman melville #childe harold’s pilgrimage #captain flint #captain ahab #ishmael #queequeg #lit #classic lit #novels #books

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chloepiphany · 8 months

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[Quote by Maya Angelou / The Guiding Light by Andrea Fossati]

alt text: "You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

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benitariums · 3 months

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to the guanacos at the syracuse zoo, chen chen (from “when i grow up, i want to be a list of further possibilities”)

#chen chen #love poems #classic literature #literature #poets on tumblr #poems and words #dark academia quotes #dark academia #asian literature #asian american literature #from the shelf #bookblr #writeblr #prose #light academia #quotes #lit #light academia quotes #love poem

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thelastrenaissance · 6 days

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Harper Lee (April 28, 1926) was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature.

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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juneacademia · 3 months

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“Most of us … are slaves of longing.”

— Bell Hooks, Communion

#academia #bell hooks #dark academia #light academia #classic literature #literature #booklr #academic #dark academia aesthetic #study aesthetic #american literature #studyblr #feminism #yearning academia aesthetic #yearning aesthetic

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checkoutmybookshelf · 10 months

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Ah yes, the two reasons to write: making your crush notice you and getting the hell away from Lord Byron.

*checks closet and under the bed for Byron*

Ok, we're good guys! Feel free to keep writing!

#books #literature #classic literature #british literature #american literature #dracula #moby dick #frankenstein or the modern prometheus #mary shelley #bram stoker #herman melville #nathaniel hawthorne #lord byron #books & libraries #books and reading #books and novels

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lunamonchtuna · 2 years

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so when are you gonna tell me that i’m the bane of your existence and the object of all your desires?

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jackxo · 14 days

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𝑶𝒍𝒅 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂 🇺🇸

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p1325 · 1 year

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My book collection so far

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Edith Wharton - The Age Of Innocence

Jane Austen - Emma

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter

Charlotte Bronte - The Professor

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (Part 1)

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (Part 2)

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Anne Bronte - Agnes Grey

Thomas Hardy - Far from The Madding Crowd

William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (Part 1)

William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (Part 2)

Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos - Dangerous Liaisons

Alexandre Dumas fils - The Lady of the Camellias

Henry James - Washington Square

Louisa May Alcott - A Garland For Girls

Henry James - The Portrait of A Lady (Part 1)

Henry James - The Portrait of A Lady (Part 2)

Jane Austen - Lady Susan. The Watson. Sanditon

Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D’Urbeville

Edith Wharton - The Mother’s Recompense

Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders

Henry James - The Wings of the Dove

Edith Wharton - The Customs of the Country

Kate Chopin - The Awakening

Jane Austen - Juvenilia

George Eliot - Middlemarch (Part 1)

George Eliot - Middlemarch (Part 2)

George Sand - Nanon

Henry James - The Ambassadors

Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford

Thomas Hardy - Under The Greenwood Tree

Edith Wharton - Summer

George Sand - Indiana

Henry James - The Bostonians

George Eliot - Silas Marner

Henry James - The Golden Bowl (Part 1)

Henry James - The Golden Bowl (Part 2)

Edith Wharton - The Twilight Sleep

Emily Eden - The Semi-Attached Couple

Edith Wharton - The Glimpses of the Moon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lady Audley’s Secret

George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss

Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton

Fanny Burney - Evelina

George Sand - Little Fadette

Emily Eden - The Semi-detached House

Charlotte Brontë - Shirley I

Charlotte Brontë - Shirley II

Daniel Defoe - Lady Roxana

Theodor Fontane - Effie Briest

Edith Wharton - The Cliff

Thomas Hardy - Two on a Tower

Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Lady of Quality

Louisa May Alcott - Moods

Edith Nesbit - The Incomplete Amorist

Frances Trollope - The Widow Barnaby (Part 1)

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lilithsorchid · 2 years

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The Secret History by Donna Tartt

#dark academia #the secret history #richard papen #camilla macaulay #dark academia blog #dark academia books #donna tartt #american literature #light academia #classic academia #romantic academia #classics #book quotes #book excerpt #books #bookblr

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classicliteratureprincess · 22 days

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Feeling tired & unmotivated to do school assignments.

Going to read Dracula, since it seems like a fairly easy read compared to war & peace (my current read)

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amicus-noctis · 7 months

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“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. ― Hunter S. Thompson

Painting: Edward Hopper "Hotel Room" 1931

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