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“He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. 'Where is it? What death?' There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.” Leo Tolstoy was born on this day (August 28 by the Julian Calendar) in 1828.
Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.” ― Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons #Indiebooks #Fiction
"The rose is a great deal more that a blushing apology for the thorn." - Rabindranath Tagore from The Literary Gardener, edited by Ulrich Baer.
Happy Birthday Booth Tarkington! The American author, was born on this day in 1869 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Choose your next summer read: 📖 Big Sur by Jack Kerouac 📖 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 📖 White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky 📖 Selected Stories of Lu Hsun
Warbler Press is delighted to publish Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine, 1796–1812. This complete, unabridged edition offers an intimate and revealing record of one of history’s most formidable figures at his most unguarded.
Zadig, first published in 1748, is classic Voltaire: witty, mischievous, and incisive.
Today marks the birthday of one of the most fearless prose stylists of her generation. Happy Birthday, Mary McCarthy! 📚 #MaryMcCarthy #WarblerPress #AmericanLiterature #WomenWriters
Happy Birthday, Ralph Waldo Emerson! Read a preview of Emerson's Essential Essays at warblerpress.com
Smedley Butler's War Is a Racket. Published in 1935 and still timely today. The book is available now from Warbler Press at the link in our bio. #warisaracket #smedleybutler #antiwar #classicbooks #warblerpress #bookstagram
Rabindranath Tagore was born on this day in 1861. A Bengali polymath, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for Gitanjali.
Marriage is complicated. Divorce is even worse. Warbler Press has published a new edition of Private Lives, a play by Noël Coward. Find out more at warblerpress.com
Spring, in book form 🌱 A stack for the season; books to return to as the days get longer.
Celebrate #NationalPoetryMonth with Warbler Press! Read a preview of these great works of verse at warblerpress.com.
A new edition of Edna Ferber’s Cimarron, just published by Warbler Press
H. L. Mencken’s A Book of Prefaces, just published by Warbler Press.
This 250th Warbler Classics anniversary edition of Common Sense includes essential and illuminating contributions by Christopher Hitchens and Robert G. Ingersoll along with a biographical timeline. #americanliterature #Politics #bookstagram #IndieBooks
Voltaire’s Letters on England is a brisk, mischievously lucid tour of English life, its Parliament and parties, its Quakers and stockjobbers, its scientists and skeptics. #WarblerPress #Voltaire #bookstagram #indiebooks
Did you know? The Price of Salt was adapted into the 2025 movie Carol (starring Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett) #WarblerPress #LGBTQBooks #bookstagram
English author and garden designer Vita Sackville-West was born on this day in 1892. A selection of writing from her column is collected in A Joy of Gardening. #vitasackvillewest #Gardening #WarblerPress #Indiebooks
Gallop into the new year with the enduring wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. Happy Lunar New Year from Warbler Press! We wish you a year full of happiness, health, and lots of good luck. #LunarNewYear #WarblerPress #YearoftheHorse #ChineseLiterature #LiteraryQuotes
Emily Dickinson on Love Read more here: https://www.book2look.com/book/nAbfureEck #emilydickinson #Bookstagram #warblerpress #Poetry #Love
On this day in 1850, the American writer Kate Chopin was born in St. Louis, Missouri. #WarblerPress #indiebooks #feminism #KateChopin
Love is in the air! What do the poets have to say that we might learn from? Shakespeare, Wilde, Rilke, Dickinson and Nietzsche: five great writers and thinkers on love. Explore the titles here: https://warblerpress.com/book-search/?_sft_genres=contemplations-series
The Irish poet, novelist and critic James Joyce was born on this day in 1882, in Dublin, Ireland. #JamesJoyce #Dublin #Indiebooks #WarblerPress #bookquotes
Warbler Press has published a new edition of Dashiell Hammett’s second novel, The Dain Curse. #bookstagram #WarblerPress #indiebooks
