1860s

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...

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

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

In the fall of 1868, Hans Christian Andersen spent several days or perhaps even weeks in seclusion. During this time...

“But are not all facts. Dreams as soon as we put them behind us.’’ Emily Dickinson, daguerrotype, c. 1847

BoWo Studio, Human Cartography: Herman Melville / New York / Paper Cut Map (2017) > (Writers On Their Hometowns). Not Kenesaw high-arching,...

Julius Kirschner, Blind Children Studying the Globe, 1914 "In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut...

L'Education sentimentale, Gustave Flaubert, 1869 . “Never had he beheld such a magnificent brown skin, so entrancing a figure, such...