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Happy 150th Anniversary to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, published on this day in 1876 ๐บ๐ธ
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Happy birthday to the great John Steinbeck, whose Nobel Prize-winning voice and unforgettable characters echo through generations of readers and writers alike ๐
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Zami by Audre Lorde is a "must-read queer classic" and one of the Best New Queer Books Out in February according to @BookRiot! ๐
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Book clubs everywhere are getting ready for Emerald Fennell's film adaptation of Emily Brontรซ's gothic novel, WUTHERING HEIGHTS ๐น
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โAs happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.โ โJohn Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, published on this day in 1937
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โThe stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon.โ โKen Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, published on this day in 1962.
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Happy 125th birthday to Langston Hughes, who was born #onthisday in 1901! ๐
Join us in celebrating Hughes' legacy by reading Not Without Laughter, his award-winning first novel about a black boyโs coming-of-age in a largely white Kansas town ๐ https://t.co/Ur1s2tfRlM
Listen to bestselling author @abe_verghese on the latest installment of 'Writers Talking Writers' about the influence Ernest Hemingway's A FAREWELL TO ARMS has had on his own writing. (via @PublishersWkly) https://t.co/o2ejlaRONG
Prepare to be swept away. Watch the official trailer for Emerald Fennell's adaptation of Emily Brontรซโs timeless masterpiece, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. โWuthering Heightsโ only in theaters this Valentineโs Day. #WutheringHeightsMovie
Now available for the first time from Penguin Classics: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, with a new foreword by @abe_verghese, the bestselling author of The Covenant of Water and Cutting for Stone!
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In celebration of the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth this December, we're thrilled to share THREE new Deluxe Editions editions of Austen's beloved novels: Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, and Mansfield Park!
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The National Book Foundation is awarding Roxane Gay, editor of THE PORTABLE FEMINIST READER, with its annual Literarian Award for her service to the American literary community. (via @latimes) https://t.co/jP2GDJtZ5H
On sale today: Witi Ihimaera's bestselling modern classic and Mฤori coming-of-age novel The Whale Rider, featuring a foreword by actress @lily_gladstone, an introduction by author @shilokino, and contributions by scholar Loriene Roy!
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New to Penguin Classics: Tamas by Bhisham Sahni, an essential novel about the 1947 Partition in a newly revised translation by Booker Prize-winning translator Daisy Rockwell with a foreword by Siddhartha Deb (@debhartha)!
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Xochitl Gonzalez on finally reading A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN: "What had once been to me nothing but a totem to feminist history revealed itself to be what I should have realized it was all along: a piece of another womanโs soul." https://t.co/LY7feNTAFL
โIn one afternoon, Woolf became known to me, and all my years of blind grievance melted away. Her honesty and fire and rage at the limitations put on womenโs minds dissolved all the distance between us,โ Xochitl Gonzalez writes: https://t.co/A4ywou2ACL