Portal:Literature/Selected picture archive/2009 archive
This is an archive of images that have appeared in the Selected picture section of Portal:Literature in 2009. For past archives, see the complete archive page.
Felbrigge Psalter, by Anne de Felbrigge.
Image: Till Niermann
The grave of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland. The quote is the final line of The Great Gatsby.
Image: JayHenry
Title page of the 1757 Latin edition of the erotic dialogue, The School of Women, published in French as L'Académie des dames and written by Nicolas Chorier, which was written during the seventeenth century. It included scenes of tribadism, group sex, and vaginal intercourse and was one of the earliest works of erotic literature.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman was a ground-breaking English comic novel. Told in a stream-of-consciousness narrative style, the novel weaves its way through the lives of many characters and their singular adventures - finally getting to Tristram's birth in the third volume of nine - in sitcom-like domestic upsets and problems.
In this illlustration by George Cruikshank, we see two of the major characters, Trim (left), and Uncle Toby. Toby's hobby-horse, the novel's term for a particular obsession, is the military, and in this scene, he gets himself and Trim so excited by his discussion of military matters that they begin acting them out.
The Ellesmere manuscript is an early 15th century manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, held in the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California (MS EL 26 C 9). It is considered one of the most significant texts of the Tales.
"Tragic Life Stories" bookshelf at W H Smith, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Image: Rcawsey
National Library of Finland (Kansalliskirjasto/Nationalbiblioteket), Helsinki, Finland. Formerly Library of the University of Helsinki. Carl Ludvig Engel, 1840.
Image: BishkekRocks
A 1833 engraving of a scene from Chapter 59 of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Mr. Bennet is on the left, Elizabeth on the right.
Image: Pickering & Greatbatch
"The Journey" by Elizabeth Shippen Green. Published in: "The Little Past: the Journey" by Josephine Preston Peabody, Harper's magazine, 108:95 (Dec. 1903).
Image: Elizabeth Shippen Green, edited by Durova
Crowds among the books on display at the 41st Cairo International Book Fair, February 2009.
Image: Mohd Tarmizi
Toronto Public Library's Bookmobile Two.
Image: CeciliaPang