This cover design. 🤌

The Great Gatsby [1926, 1949, 1974 y 2013] #BOTD Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Man Ray, Paul Éluard and André Breton, Paris 1930.

"for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world." Albert Camus, The Stranger.

Have you ever seen Emil Cioran and Jack Nance in the same room?

"Fitzgerald was a better just plain writer than all of us put together. Just words writing." (John O'Hara in a letter to John Steinbeck) F. Scott Fitzgerald, born 24 September 1896.

"Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning." Samuel Beckett; photo by Brassaï.

Horace Walpole (with scenes from the 1977 Jan Švankmajer film adaptation of the Walpole novel "The Castle of Otranto") - BOTD

Horace Walpole - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

F. Scott Fitzgerald (with scenes from the Joan Micklin Silver adaptation of the Fitzgerald short story "Bernice Bobs Her Hair") - BOTD

F. Scott Fitzgerald (with Zelda) - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

The Lady's Companion, a series of small kits containing things a Victorian woman would have carried in the mid-19th century: sewing kit, notions, small notebook, scent bottle, corkscrews, and ear picks. Currently on display at the Tatter Library in Brooklyn IG tatterbluelibrary

Yves Navarre - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Robert Lewis Taylor - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Kahlil Gibran's “The Prophet” was published on September 23, 1923. “To belittle, you have to be little.”

Emma Orczy - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Per Olov Enquist (with scenes from the HaDivadlo production of Per Olov Enquist's play "The Night of the Tribades") - BOTD

Per Olov Enquist - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Pour que les pensées prennent leur envol dans le cerveau d'un idiot, il faut que beaucoup de choses se produisent, et des choses très cruelles. Louis-Ferdinand Céline "Voyage au bout de la nuit"

Anne Desclos (aka Pauline Réage) - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Fay Weldon - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

“Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.” – Thornton Wilder

🦇A colony of bats took up residence at the University of Coimbra in Portugal over 125 years ago. They are thriving today "singing" to the librarians on rainy days and keeping book eating insects at bay. 🦇 #libraries #books #bats

Rosamunde Pilcher - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Canonical Stefan Zweig & Joseph Roth photo

Yes, my strength is in solitude. I'm not afraid of pouring rains or great gusts of wind, for I too am the darkness of the night. -Clarice Lispector

J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" was published on September 21, 1937.

H.G. Wells on the set of "Things to Come" (with Raymond Massey and Pearl Argyle) - BOTD

BTD - H. G. Wells - The Many Covers of THE INVISIBLE MAN - 1897

"I hate and despise a shrewish suspicion of foreigners and foreign ways; a man who can look me in the face, laugh with me, speak truth and deal fairly, is my brother, though his skin is as black as ink or as yellow as an evening primrose." H.G. Wells, born 21 September 1866.

H. G. Wells (with scenes from the film "Island of Lost Souls", adapted from Well's novel "The Island of Doctor Moreau") - BOTD

H. G. Wells - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Stephen King (with scenes from the Stanley Kubrick film adaptation of the King novel "The Shining") - BOTD

Stephen King - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

#OTD in 1962m "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" is published 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Allen Lane (who with his brothers founded Penguin Books in 1935) - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Born #onthisday in 1866, the "father of science fiction" H. G. Wells. Read our essay by Peter J. Bowler on the writer's many musings on the future of humanity: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/h-g-wells-and-the-uncertainties-of-progress #otd

Javier Marías - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Arnold Newman Arthur Miller, New York City, 1947.

"American capitalism is predatory, and American politics are corrupt: The same thing is true in England and the same in France..." Writer Upton Sinclair - born 20 September - from a letter to John Reed, c. 1918.

"Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion." Roland Barthes.

#Caturday Famous cats of kiterature: Willa Cathair & Oscar Wildecat.

Javier Marías - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Stevie Smith (with scenes from the 1978 Stevie Smith biopic, "Stevie ") - BOTD

Stevie Smith - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Potter, Beatrix, Pickles is at present a gamekeeper, 1909

Albert Camus #Caturday

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Upton Sinclair - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky