| Re: Book Hauls!
Another library haul -- a small one, this time:
Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; a Longman Cultural Edition, which not only includes some of the variant passages between the 1818 and 1831 editions, but also sets the book in its cultural matrix, including a lot of the philosophical, literary, and sociohistorical sources that influenced Mary (such as portions of her journals, letters, pieces by Burke, Shelley, Byron, etc.), but also contemporary reviews of the novel and portions of an early drama based upon the book.
Marginalia, by H. P. Lovecraft, et al.; containing some stories and essays by HPL, but also a lot of memoirs of the man, some early analyses, and lots of illustrations connected with him, such as photographs of various colleagues and correspondents, photographs of his residences and study, maps he drew of fictional cities, and the letter he wrote to Robert Bloch giving him permission to kill HPL off in his story "The Shambler from the Stars", signed by Alhazred, the Tcho-Tcho Lama of Leng, Friedrich von Junzt (author of the Unaussprechlichen Kulten) and Gaspard du Nord (translator of the Livre d'Eibon)... and his own drawing of Pickman's Model...... |