1860s

Das Kapital, 1867 / Karl Marx, 1861 . “Nature does...

James Joyce, age six, 1888 ...

A vintage postcard illustration featuring a stylish lady walking along a footpath overlooking the White Cliffs of Dover, 1900. The...

Claude Monet, Nympheas, 1897–1898 . "It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the...

Man Ray, Eyes, 1935 . “She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.”...

What Is to Be Done?, 1905 Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828-1889) . “But does it...

unknown . My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like...

Édouard Manet, Young Lady, 1866 "She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you...

anon . "I stood in the snow, gazing into the troubled darkness and pondered this."And will it not be better?"...

Gerardo Sacristán Torralba, Scrambled books, Study of light, 1939 "What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures...