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French Impressionist Painter Claude Monet born #OnThisDay in 1840*

Claude Monet Reading by Pierre-Auguste Renoir*

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#OnThisDay in 1851* Moby-Dick was published in the US*

·See the room where Herman Melville finished Moby-Dick*

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Moby-Dick or The Whale is published in New York #OnThisDay 1851*

Moby-Dick editions from Herman Melville's library*

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'People who read are people who dream.' #Picasso*

·Woman Reading by Pablo Picasso, 1953*

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“The more we read, the more we discover our ignorance” ―Percy Bysshe Shelley*

-Poetical Works, 1880*

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Famous Authors Autographs* Can you recognize them all.. Hemingway, James Joyce, CS Lewis, Orwell, Mark Twain, Poe...*

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Happy Birthday, Robert Louis Stevenson, born in Edinburgh #OnThisDay 1850* Treasure Island Map by RL Stevenson, 1883*

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Herman Melville's publishing contract for Moby-Dick, made 163 years ago with Harper and Brothers, New York*

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'Reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop.'

--Ray Bradbury / Happy day, readers!*

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The “Whitman” Daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe was taken #OnThisDay in 1848* Image from Edgar Allan Poe Society*

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"Wine is bottled poetry." - Robert Louis Stevenson born in Edinburgh #OnThisDay 1850*

-RL Stevenson in Samoa, 1892*

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Danish-French Impressionist painter Camille Pisarro was born #OnThisDay in 1830*

Jeanne Pissarro reading, 1899*

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"Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own." -Mark Twain / Twain reads*

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'The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean'

·R. L. Stevenson born #OnThisDay in 1850*

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'I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.'

-Robert Louis Stevenson born #OnThisDay 1850*

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"Of all the habits I have reading is my favorite." - #Tolstoy*

--Leo Tolstoy telling a story to his grandchildren*

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Édouard Manet’s Ex libris for an 1875 French translation of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’ by Stéphane Mallarmé*

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'All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost' #Tolkien

--- Illustration by JRR Tolkien*

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'Always be a poet, even in prose.' #Baudelaire*

·Les Fleurs du mal, Charles Baudelaire, (1857-58)*