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A selection of endpapers used in bookbinding by historian Helen Landreth (1892-1981) during her 30 year career as a librarian at BC.Burns Library’s Bernard Shaw Letters to Bernard Partridge have been digitized!An illustration from Irish author Flann O'Brien's copy of Lovely is the Lee, by Irish artist Robert Gibbings.From Kinder- und Hausmärchen (an edition of Grimms' Children's and Household Tales) published in 1893. Illustrated by Anton Robert Leinweber.Follow us on Twitter!
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Tag Archives: Juvenile fiction
Mysteries in the Stacks; or, The Allan P. Kirby Jr. Collection
Dime novels were hastily written, formulaic and sensational stories marketed to teenage boys. Examples of the genre held in Burns Library are the related “nickel weeklies.” Popular subjects include detectives, pirates, inventors, and heroes of American history. Publishers employed an … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adventure Stories, American Revolution, Detective Fiction, Dime Novels, Juvenile fiction, Nickel Weeklies, Pirates, Popular Literature
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Cinderella: Big Tale, Little Misses
Transcending space and time, Charles Perrault’s Cinderella has withstood countless transformations to become the most widely recognized fairy tale of all time. Stemming from an original, albeit much more violent, telling of the story of Cinderella by Giambattista Basile of … Continue reading →
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