“The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe. 1845.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne. 1870.
Day Jobs of the Poets
I’ve been summing up books and movies on Twitter this way because I clearly have too much time on my hands.
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. 1960.
Actually, the photographs are spaced ten years apart, not sixteen.
1912 to 1922.
The young, homeless (but no less dapper) wanderer shown in the first survived the sinking of the Titanic and swam to the shores of West Egg. There he built a life and a large, empty house, in an effort to win the heart of the wealthy, upper class woman he’d fallen in love with a decade earlier and had been separated from against his will.
He shed his earlier identity, and changed his name to reflect his new station. Jack was now known as Jay Gatzby, the eccentric millionaire who threw parties every night in the hopes that one day his love would show up and spin with him as they had long ago in the dance hall of the lower decks.
Ehr-Mah-Gehrd.
#and he still ends up dead floating in the water
Go to your room.
Gatsby headcanon accepted.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson. 1886.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1850.
what do you say when someone asks what you’re doing and you’re reading homosexual fanfiction based off of a book written 150 years ago
Tell them you’re reading a transformative work based on late Victorian literature that questions traditional views of gender and sexuality.
Tumnus’ Journal by Joshua Brunet
A handwritten memory journal belonging to Mr. Tumnus’ the faun, illustrating his encounters within the world of Narnia.
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
If Dr. Seuss created Star Wars by Jason Peltz – the best speculative Star Wars since if Darth Vader raised little Luke, and the best speculative Seuss since if Dr. Seuss stories embraced political incorrectness.
May the Fourth be with you.
the sexual tension when u and ur crush are online on fb at the same time and u just stare at their lil green dot
and suddenly you know what gatsby felt like
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