Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet.
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Your daily dose of dutch art by Vincent van Gogh.
Sower, The (after Millet) (1889)
In museum: Collection Stavros Niarchos, Paris, Athens, Greece, France.
Dimensions: height 81cm, width 66cm.
Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet.
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Your daily dose of dutch art by Vincent van Gogh.
Street in Auvers-sur-Oise (1890)
In museum: Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland.
Dimensions: height 74cm, width 93cm.
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If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure, heat and cold,
If schooners, islands, and maroons
And Buccaneers and buried Gold,
And all the old romance, retold
Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old,
The wiser youngsters of to-day…
—Robert Louis Stevenson’s introductory poem to TREASURE ISLAND
If this don’t fetch the kids, why, they have gone rotten since my day.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, writing to W.E. Henley about TREASURE ISLAND (24 Aug 1881)
Matthew Bevis on TREASURE ISLAND & some of its spinoffs, in the London Review of Books, 25 Oct 2012
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v34/n20/matthew-bevis/kids-gone-rotten
London Review of Books · Matthew Bevis · Kids Gone Rotten: ‘Treasure Island’
Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet.
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Names of Craters on Phobos, discovered in 1877. You may recognize some of them? #Swift #TeamEnglish #literature #satire #astronomy #science #telescope #scifi #moon #JonathanSwift #18thcentury #19thcentury #cartography #lunar
Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet.
#art #french #monet #impressionism #19thCentury
Your daily dose of dutch art by Vincent van Gogh.
Chaumes de Cordeville (1890)
In museum: Musée d'Orsay, 7th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Dimensions: height 730cm, width 920cm.
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Free ebook editions of Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books, & a linked index to all the stories in all twelve volumes, are available to download from @gutenberg_org
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Project GutenbergThe Fairy Books of Andrew Lang by Andrew LangFree kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
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“The taste of the world, which has veered so often, is constant enough to fairy tales… we are still repeating to the boys and girls of each generation the stories that were old before Homer sang…”
—from Andrew Lang’s Introduction to THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK (1889)
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“I have three extra physical sets and I travel with an ebook version of them in my iPad. These stories started their journey with me when I was very young.”
—Guillermo del Toro on Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books
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The Guardian · Guillermo del Toro: the books, TV, films and music that brought me to Crimson Peak
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“To me, Lang himself is a hero of literature. Besides being the champion of Robert Louis Stevenson & Haggard, he was the first critic to produce a study of Kipling’s work, found a publisher for the young Arthur Conan Doyle’s first major novel… & repeatedly informed the English that Mark Twain was one of the world’s great writers”
—Michael Dirda on Andrew Lang, in the Washington Post
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The Washington Post · More than a century later, the wonderful work of Andrew Lang holds up remarkably well
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“His own fairy narratives, however, and their success in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, suggest… that fairies persist, & become figures of fascination in this period, not because they offer an escape into the past, but because they speak powerfully, if indirectly, about present concerns”
—Andrew Teverson on Andrew Lang & the Fairies
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/12/a-shy-and-fugitive-people-andrew-lang-and-the-fairies/
The Bottle Imp · 'A Shy and Fugitive People': Andrew Lang and the Fairies - The Bottle ImpFor Andrew Lang, the realm of fairy land was synonymous with escape. Writing in The New Princeton Review in 1888, the same year in which he assembled his authoritative edition of Perrault’s fairy tales and completed his own novel about fairy abduction The Gold of Fairnilee, Lang lamented the insistence in modern writing upon the ‘ugly, manly face […]
Andrew Lang (1844–1912) was born #OTD, 31 March. An extraordinarily prolific anthropologist, writer & literary critic, he is best remembered today for collecting & editing fairy stories from around the world
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University of Glasgow Library Blog · The Man of Letters in Fairyland: Andrew LangNineteenth-century Scottish writer Andrew Lang (1844-1912) could be described using various different labels: folklorist, anthropologist, historian, critic, poet, and translator. His name recurs in…
Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet.
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Your daily dose of dutch art by Vincent van Gogh.
Arles: View from the Wheat Fields (1888)
In museum: Musée Rodin, 7th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Dimensions: height 73cm, width 54cm.
Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet.
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Your daily dose of dutch art by Vincent van Gogh.
The Bridge of Trinquetaille