Classic Literature Club

[image] “When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits.” -Ernest Hemingway

[image] But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2. -Shakespeare

[image] A Prayer In Spring by Robert Frost Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts

[image] The Man of Gusto! “We like people who enjoy life. 'Mirth' is one of the commonest words in Pepys’ diary: we like Pepys better than Boswell, or Johnson either, because he is healthier. It is the unending charm of that old reprobate, John Falstaff. The pale, the faded, the sad are

[image] “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears” by William Shakespeare (from Julius Caesar, spoken by Marc Antony) Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with

[image] David Copperfield (1850): Charles Dickens “Of all my books, I like this the best. It will be easily believed that I am a fond parent to every child of my fancy, and that no one can ever love that family as dearly as I love them. But, like many fond parents, I have in my heart of

[image] British author, historian, and politician Horace Walpole (1717-1797), Earl of Orford, was born #OTD 24 September 1717 in London. He’s best known for his novel The Castle of Otranto and his Letters. Engraving after Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) #books