Letter, Diaries

In ‘Dear Enemy, ‘ Jean Webster crafts an epistolary novel that explores the transformative journey of Judy Abbott, a spirited young woman who has outgrown the orphanage that raised her. Written in a …

In ‘Lady Susan, ‘ Jane Austen crafts an incisive and witty epistolary novel that delves into the complexities of romantic entanglements and societal norms of the Regency era. The narrative revolves a …

This book contains the complete Andersen’s 127 fairy tales and stories in the chronological order of their original publication. Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author and poet. Although a proli …

Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist artist, whose primary subject was the female body. His paintings, murals, and sketches are marked by a sensual eroticism, which is especially apparent in his pe …

‘Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.’ Camille Pissarro Camille Pissarro was French artist, the only painter to show in all eight of the Impressi …

Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (1791 – 1824) was an influential French painter and lithographer, known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings. Although he died young, he was one of the p …

Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), often referred to as The Communist Manifesto, was first published on February 21, 1848, and is one of the world’s most …

Francisco de Goya was the most potent and creative Spanish artist of his time. Over the course of his long career, Goya moved from cheerful and optimistic to totally pessimistic and searching in his …

When, more than ten years ago, I wrote the first article on Remy de Gourmont which, so far as I know, appeared in America—North America, bien entendu, for the author of La Culture des Idées and Le Ch …

This Art Book with Foreword by Maria Peitcheva contains 272 selected color plates of drawings and paintings from François Boucher.François Boucher was French Rococo painter, engraver, and designer, w …