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Post by sgard on Oct 21, 2015 20:31:20 GMT
Have you read? If yes then you tick books with like. The Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper on USSR stamps 1989: The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers ( unfortunately unknown for me ), The Prairie. The hunter Nathaniel Bumppo is the central person of all these books. That was a time of colonisation of East part of North America near the Great Lakes and stugle for influence between British and France.
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Post by sgard on Oct 31, 2015 14:26:36 GMT
I like this book better than The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. By Mark Twain of course.
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Post by sgard on Oct 31, 2015 15:02:17 GMT
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. There was interesting moment. Because this story came from position of Confederates, then it was negative for Soviet ideology. However the film was the best for one of Soviet leaders: Stalin, Hruscoff, Brezhnew. I do not remember more.
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Post by sgard on Nov 2, 2015 17:19:36 GMT
The love story from Latvia. " The Swamp Wader " by Rūdolfs Blaumanis tells the story of love between Kristine (maid of barons castle) and Edgars ( sice of barons stables ). Mr Akmentiņš is the strong and independent farmer. He want to be with Kristine, but her heart belong to Edgars. But Edgars like to drink, to play cards, to beat with sluts.....
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Post by Bombadil on Apr 3, 2018 1:32:43 GMT
Received this in the mail today, Finally !!! Out of my timeline,but being a LOTR Tolkien fanatic i could not resist this beautiful design !! 50th Anniversary of Publication of The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien . 2004 - S.G 2429-Map of Middle-Earth 2430-Forest of Lothlorien in Spring 2431-Dust-jacket for The Fellowship of the Ring 2432-Rivendell 2433-The hall at Bag End 2434-Orthanc 2435-Doors of Durin 2436-Barad-dur 2437-Minas Tirith 2438-Fangorn Forest
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Post by seigaku on Apr 3, 2018 2:02:05 GMT
Thanks for posting this, Jad. You have motivated me to try to scan and post my one-frame exhibit that was motivated long ago by Tolkein et al. Now I gotta do the work to prepare the pdfs...
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Post by tomiseksj on Apr 9, 2018 20:32:19 GMT
Alec ( seigaku ) has created a thread on the Member Exhibits board that demonstrates how topical stamps can be used to tell or illustrate a story -- in this case, literature IN stamps. His very imaginative exhibit may be viewed here.
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Post by Bombadil on May 29, 2018 3:04:16 GMT
1936,Apr.27 - 75th Anniversary,Publication of Alphonse Daudet's "Letters de Mon Moulin" ,1866.
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Post by cursus on Jul 22, 2020 19:07:19 GMT
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Post by swvl on Jan 25, 2022 2:08:58 GMT
The U.S. has issued two postal items directly referencing Herman Melville, the great 19th century American author of Moby Dick and other works: Scott U554, an embossed 6-cent envelope from 1970, and Scott 2094, a 20-cent portrait of Melville issued in 1984 as part of the Literary Arts series. Both items were issued, 14 years apart, at New Bedford, Massachusetts, a historic center of the whaling industry and the setting of a key early scene in Moby Dick. This cover combines both of those items with a cachet providing a pithy summary of the novel -- "It is the story of a search by an insane whaling captain for a ferocious white whale," indeed -- and a vivid woodblock-style illustration. It has a first day postmark from the 1984 stamp. I like it a lot. There was also a 2001 Rockwell Kent stamp (Scott 3502q), showing one of Kent's absolutely classic 1930 illustrations for Moby Dick. Haven't tracked that one down yet, but I'd like to. I suspect the cachet on this cover was an homage to his work too. Long live Melville!
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Post by swvl on Jan 29, 2022 15:23:39 GMT
Well, there’s a blizzard coming down across my corner of North America right now — good time to stay inside and look at stamps. I’ll take this excuse to post one of my favorite recent U.S. issues, the 2017 booklet celebrating Ezra Jack Keats’ children’s book The Snowy Day. I loved that book as a little kid, and enjoyed reading it with my own kids years later. These were issued right when one of mine was at the perfect age for frequent readings of The Snowy Day. The stamps turned out very nicely, with four scenes of Keats’ character Peter making a snowball, sliding down a hill, making snow angels, and noticing his footprints in the snow. I made an FDC at the time that I’m fond of, but it’s framed and won’t fit on my scanner, so this will have to do. Happy snow day!
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Post by swvl on Feb 2, 2022 14:23:40 GMT
Today, February 2nd 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses, one of my favorite books of all time. Ulysses was published on Joyce’s 40th birthday, so today is an anniversary for him too. I thought about making some kind of commemorative cover for today, but settled for tracking down these 2004 stamps from Joyce’s native country, with which he had a complex relationship. I particularly like the simple and powerful design of the 65c stamp showing the young Joyce. Joyce himself was a great letter-writer, and there’s a scene early in Ulysses in which Leopold Bloom visits a Dublin post office to carry on some sneaky correspondence under a false name. I wonder if any scholars have conjectured what sort of stamp a man in 1904 Dublin might have used for a secret love letter. (In fact, knowing how thorough-minded philatelists and Joyceans both are, I’d be willing to bet someone has.)
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Post by youpiao on Feb 2, 2022 23:44:09 GMT
Nikolai Gogol, perhaps most famous for his novel, Taras Bulba, which was the basis for the 1962 movie of the same name starring Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis. Ukraine, Scott Nr 725 (2008)
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Post by swvl on Feb 22, 2022 0:02:54 GMT
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Post by swvl on Mar 5, 2022 19:48:27 GMT
Here are FDCs for two of the better post-2000 entries in USPS’ Literary Arts series. The design of these stamps has been a little hit-or-miss in recent decades, in my opinion, but I like both of these, each of which is dedicated to a great author with ties to my hometown of New York City. Scott 3871, from 2004, celebrates James Baldwin. It’s a beautifully done stamp, with Baldwin looking away from one of the city streets he chronicled to meet the viewer’s gaze. Fleetwood did an unusually nice job with this all-over cachet highlighting two of Baldwin’s titles. Scott 5414, from 2019, shows Walt Whitman against a backdrop of the flowers he wrote about eloquently in “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” his 1865 poem of mourning for the late President Lincoln. Cachetmaker Tricia Richmond at McIntosh Cachets has done a very nice job highlighting that connection with some lines from the poem.
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Post by swvl on Mar 17, 2022 1:28:58 GMT
One author who has not yet received a USPS stamp is Toni Morrison, the Nobel-winning genius who died in 2019. She’s eligible for USPS consideration as of this year, and I would be very surprised if she does not get a stamp in her honor at some point in the near future. She certainly deserves one! In the meantime, here’s a memorial cover made by Don Neal of 6° Cachets after her death. He cleverly chose a 2018 Love stamp (Scott 5255), which happens to share a title with one of Morrison’s novels; the font used on this stamp even resembles the one on some editions of the book. Another option would have been Scott 4503, displaying the word Jazz, which is the name of one of Morrison’s best novels. I read it last year and was blown away by her virtuosic prose. I'll hold onto this cover while I look forward to eventually making one of my own when Morrison gets her own stamp....
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Post by swvl on Mar 18, 2022 22:02:52 GMT
Edward Lear was a most unusual writer; his nonsense poems, written and illustrated at the height of England's Victorian era, still provide lots of amusement 150 years later. These stamps, issued by Great Britain in 1988 for the 100th anniversary of Lear's death, have held up through the years, too, if you ask me.
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Post by eggdog on Mar 19, 2022 2:25:09 GMT
I know that most of you have been wondering what Miguel de Cervantes' name looks like in Cyrillic, and I'm only too happy to oblige. Amazing book. The last half got into a lot of existential "What is reality?" type questions of the type that Gogol and Kafka would deal with centuries later; that's the part I remember most, not so much for the narrative but for the less outwardly humorous but more surrealistic, disorienting mood it set. I'm moving more into ebooks now, which has its downside in a lot of ways, but my new little pal, a Microsoft Surface 8, has a wonderfully precise and clear screen, and with an ebook I can increase the font size to a point where I can read it, which isn't true of the old Penguin copy I've been carrying around since college. I have no idea why Bulgaria issued a Cervantes stamp, but they did a nice job on this one, giving props to some of the illustrators like Doré and Dali who have tried their hands at illustrating Quixote.
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Post by cursus on Mar 19, 2022 12:13:16 GMT
Scenes from "Don Quijote" on a 1947 Spanish issue.
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Post by cursus on Mar 19, 2022 12:31:45 GMT
On September 1998, Spain issued two sheets with 24 stamps designed by the cartoonist Antonio Mingote, showing the "Don Quijote" books. The last three ones show when the protagonist and his friend Sancho see the sea for the first time, on my own hometown (Barcelona).
Then, Don Quijote is challenged and defeated on Barcelona's beach by "The Knight of the White Moon" (actually, his own friend and neighbour, the student Sanson Carrasco)
After that, they have to return home "A place in la Mancha, whose name, I don't want to remember"...
These stamps, were postmarked, on the day of issued on a temporary post office at Barcelona'98 stamp exhibition, held very close to where the coast line was on the XVI-XVII centuries.
Cervantes himself, knew Barcelona and had our city on a high regard. Having been rescued from Algiers Moorish dungeons by Catalan Mercedary friars, an order aimed redeem captives.
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Post by eggdog on Mar 21, 2022 1:14:28 GMT
Here's Ivo Andrić, the Nobel Laureate in literature in 1961. Andric (1892-1975) wrote a total of three novels collectively known as the Bosnian Trilogy. By far the best-known is The Bridge on the Drina, a short but vast historical novel each of whose chapters takes a slice out of time over some seven centuries in Bosnian history. (Andrić himself was of Croat origin, but variously self-identified as Croat, Bosnian Serb, Serb, and Yugoslav. I don't know why, but social or political pressure seems to have taken little if any part.) Some of the stories are very domestic; a couple have fantasy elements; others are more large-scale, describing construction projects and military maneuvers. I've read it at least twice and would recommend it to anybody. Not only is it thought-provoking, it's feeling-provoking at the same time. I empathized with, even cared about, so many of the people in The Bridge on the Drina, even though most of them were only around for a chapter or two. The second novel in the trilogy is Bosnian Chronicle, which is also in English as The Day of the Consuls. It's fascinating in its own way, but it largely deals with diplomatic maneuvers among the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires in the 19th century, so a bit of background in Balkan history may be advised. The third, Woman from Sarajevo, apparently was not as well-received, and I've never seen an English version nor do I know if it was translated into any other language. Andrić also wrote poetry and, more prolifically, short stories, a few collections of which have made it into at least English and German. (Americans have been categorized as unwilling to read translated literature. I think that's rather unfair; a lot of translated literature is available in the libraries of the small and medium-sized towns around here. I think it's more that we have so many authors of our own, and many of them - especially genre (romance, mystery, SF) writers - write series that go on for 10 or 20 or 30 volumes!) The Serbian stamp shown here was part of a 2011 joint issue with Brazil, whose half of the joint issue shows a portrait of one of their own writers, Rachel de Queiroz. The South Slavic population in Brazil is not insignificant, but I think the joint issue was more about diplomatic relations than cultural affinities. Quixote update: I unearthed a hardcover copy of a 2003 translation by Edith Grossman that I'd forgotten I had. Another thing I'd forgotten is how utterly deluded the Don was - and how arrogantly full of himself he sounded to other people. But overall, I'm happy when I pick up on something Cervantes is making fun of, and I was overjoyed to learn that the name of the transcriber of an anonymous manuscript about Quixote, Cide Hamete Benengeli, translates to Don Hamid Eggplant.
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Post by swvl on Mar 21, 2022 3:08:05 GMT
Excellent post, eggdog! I just ordered a used copy of The Bridge on the Drina on the strength of this recommendation. Great stamps, too!
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Post by Linda on May 19, 2022 13:40:15 GMT
In 1997, France released a series of stamps entitled 'Famous Adventurers' celebrating 6 fictional adventurers: They are: (1) D'Artagnan (2) Le Bossu (the Hunchback) (3) Captain Fracasse (4) Cyrano de Bergerac (5) Lancelot du Lac (Lancelot of the Lake) (6) Pardaillan
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Post by seegod1 on May 23, 2022 11:07:20 GMT
Hey everyone! My mother-in-law gave me some birthday money. Since she studied Literature, I thought I would buy a selection of literature stamps with it. That having been said, I'm looking for an easy way out - is there a company that sells packets of stamps on the theme of Literature? I've looked around a little (Vista stamps) but not seen any... anyone? Thanks in advance!
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Post by swvl on Jun 24, 2022 0:47:05 GMT
Today, February 2nd 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses, one of my favorite books of all time. Ulysses was published on Joyce’s 40th birthday, so today is an anniversary for him too. I should have known that Ireland's postal service would recognize this anniversary! Indeed, I recently found out that they issued a pair of stamps in late January to mark Ulysses' centenary, one at the €1.25 domestic rate and the other carrying €2.20 for international mail. Here they are, at right, with the 2004 stamps I posted earlier in this thread. I would have loved to have tried to make FDCs for these stamps, but I only found out about them months later. Luckily for me, An Post also created a commemorative cover just this month to mark Bloomsday (the day on which Ulysses' fictional wanderings through Dublin take place). I love the cachet with the map of Dublin, and especially the pictorial postmark with the novel's opening line. Delighted to add this to my collection!
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Post by paul1 on Jun 24, 2022 7:52:03 GMT
thanks swvl, one of my favourites too - and all takes place in just 24 hours. Banned from publication in the United Kindom - couldn't get much worse really, trying to get this one past the censors in a Catholic country was always going to be a non-starter, so published in gay Paris in 1922, from memory - probably now part of mainstream school curriculum exam study! I'd hazard a guess that Molly Bloom's stream of chit chat is the longest single sentence in the English language - something over 8,000 words I think and without a stop in sight.
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Post by paul1 on Jun 24, 2022 8:07:21 GMT
coming back to seegod1's request re literature on stamps - regret can't help remotely as to suppliers of 'packs' devoted to bookish things, but ................ as far as English language stamps go, there are some U.K. commemoratives i.e. Shakespeare, Dickens, William Caxton, William Wordsworth, Agatha Christie, Alice in Wonderland ............ and I expect there are others, but I'm not a fan of commems., and though I do have the aforementioned, coloured pictorials not my area of interest - definitives more my line of stamping, and high values from the C19 (none of which I have, but if you've surplus ................. ;-)
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Post by hdm1950 on Jun 24, 2022 10:51:02 GMT
Today, February 2nd 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses, one of my favorite books of all time. Ulysses was published on Joyce’s 40th birthday, so today is an anniversary for him too. I thought about making some kind of commemorative cover for today, but settled for tracking down these 2004 stamps from Joyce’s native country, with which he had a complex relationship. I particularly like the simple and powerful design of the 65c stamp showing the young Joyce. I came across a copy of Ulysses in our condo share/recycle room and started reading it in May. I almost quit after the first 50 pages but carried on. An avid reader friend suggested to try reading it out loud and it actually helps a bit. I am now reading it more in a serial form between other books. I have progressed to near the half way point. As you probably know readers opinions on this book are quite divided. I do now think I will eventually finish it.
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Post by brightonpete on Jun 24, 2022 11:56:46 GMT
Read aloud, that's pretty much what I do, which is slow. I find if I look at the words, I never remember. Reading makes the story stay with me. Maybe I'll try Ulysses again, since I never got far into it the first couple silent readings!
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Post by swvl on Jun 24, 2022 13:19:51 GMT
That's terrific hdm1950! Reading Joyce aloud is a great idea - there's so much wordplay based on the sounds of words in his work, especially when you get to the musically-themed 11th chapter of Ulysses, known as "Sirens." That's such a beautiful piece of writing. I most recently re-read Ulysses in 2020, when the early months of the pandemic gave me a lot of time to kill; it was a welcome distraction. I realize we're well off-topic now, haha. To answer your question seegod1 - like paul1, I can't think of anyone who supplies packs of themed stamps quite like that. Your best bet might be looking into the American Topical Association's topical checklists and developing your own list of literary issues to seek out. I know they have extensive lists of literary topics on stamps, though I have not used them myself.
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