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This is one of the oldest things in my house. It was published in 1899, and I found it in a used bookstore in Sweden many, many years ago. The gold-leaf is worn off on the cover, the language is slightly antiquated, and it still has a somewhat musty, dusty, old-bookish smell; but oh, oh,… Continue reading This old book: a beauty from 1899
For several years, I've made it one of my missions to read "old books", meaning all those classics I'd read about and heard about, and maybe even read excerpts from when I was in school. My main criterion for these "old books" was that in order to count, they had to be REALLY old: as… Continue reading 8 classics I enjoy reading, a lot
Maria Haskins 