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The Standard Ebooks Blog
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The Bookish Vacation That Reshaped Pop Culture
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Published: July 15, 2026 15:00
This article first appeared in the July 2026 edition of our email newsletter. The year: 1816. The night: dark and stormy. The players: Two illustrious poets, two wild young women with more raging em…
Public Domain Day 2026
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Published: January 1, 2026 09:00
Philosophy’s Cold Comfort
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Published: December 17, 2025 16:00
This article first appeared in the December 2025 edition of our email newsletter. Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy is today little read in comparison to the works of one of the chief influence…
Number Theory in the First Dramas Since the Fall of Rome
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Published: November 1, 2025 00:00
This article first appeared in the November 2025 edition of our email newsletter. Born around 935, Hrotsvit, or Roswitha of Gandersheim, was a secular canoness of Gandersheim Abbey in Lower S…
The Bridges of San Luis Rey
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Published: October 1, 2025 00:00
This article first appeared in the October 2025 edition of our email newsletter. Thornton Wilder’s 1927 novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey recounts a Franciscan friar’s attempt to find divi…
The Orthodoxy of Thursday
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Published: August 1, 2025 00:00
This article first appeared in the August 2025 edition of our email newsletter. G. K. Chesterton’s thirty-fifth year, 1908, was not his most prolific, but it was nevertheless notable. It sa…
Aesop’s Fabulous Nature
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Published: July 1, 2025 00:00
This article first appeared in the July 2025 edition of our email newsletter. While it’s not certain that Aesop existed, the fables attributed to him might be the most popular tales ever to…
The Book That Solved Philosophy
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Published: June 1, 2025 00:00
This article first appeared in the June 2025 edition of our email newsletter. Ludwig Wittgenstein, born in 1889, was a member of one of the most prominent families of late nineteenth-century …
A Kind of Bolshevism in an Uncanny Bookshop
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Published: May 1, 2025 00:00
This article first appeared in the May 2025 edition of our email newsletter. Disenchantment by C. E. Montague considers the effects of the First World War on the minds of English people; its …
The Ugly Duckling and the Carmelite in Middlemarch
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Published: April 1, 2025 00:00
This article first appeared in the April 2025 edition of our email newsletter. The other ducklings in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale “The Ugly Duckling” might only be supporting ch…
Of Human Bondage, Spinoza, and the Meaning of Life
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Published: March 1, 2025 00:00
This article first appeared in the March 2025 edition of our email newsletter. The creation story of W. Somerset Maugham’s book Of Human Bondage has, at least superficially, to do with Spin…
Death and Beauty in the Alps
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Published: February 1, 2025 00:00
This article first appeared in the February 2025 edition of our email newsletter. Edward Whymper’s Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860–69 recounts the first successful ascent of …
Public Domain Day 2025
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Published: January 1, 2025 09:00
Edith Wharton’s Vision of Literary Art
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Published: January 1, 2025 00:00
This article first appeared in the January 2025 edition of our email newsletter. Newland Archer, the protagonist of Edith Wharton’s 1920 novel The Age of Innocence, is shown, on one occasio…
Joyce’s Ulysses, the Rubáiyát, and “Yes”
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Published: December 1, 2024 00:00
This article first appeared in the December 2024 edition of our email newsletter. Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám shot to fame about a decade before James Joyce’s birth in…