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.
(Source: margaritka2005)
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 you’re not following @betterbooktitle (me) on Twitter, then you’re missing out on stupidity like this.
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via larmoyante)
Jane Austen: What books were on her reading list? →
Pride and Prejudice was published two hundred years ago. But what were the popular novels of the time? Who was Jane Austen reading, and who influenced her writing?
(via FingalLibraries)
A book of my cartoons will be out in late April.
Once upon a midnight DEAL WITH IT.
I give a fuck, nevermore.
merely a bro, nothing more.
#suddenly there came a swagging as of someone gangsta rapping #rapping at my chamber door
Quoth the raven, “Swag galore”
not one fuck found, nay beneath the floorboards
(Source: venusaurphobia)
Jane of Thrones
A superior crossover meme. Janeites and GRRM fans, check out this tumblr!
BUT DARCY DOESN’T CARE WHO YOU ARE OR WHERE YOU’RE FROM OR WHAT YOU DID AS LONG AS YOU LOVE HIM.
KNIGHTLY DOESN’T WANT TO HEAR YOU SAY THAT YOU WANT IT THAT WAY
