Fuck Yeah British Lit!

A tumblr for bibliophiles and anglophiles alike! British literature is some of the best ever, so rejoice in James Joyce and all of the wonderful work to have come out of the U.K. and Ireland.

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teachingliteracy:

theunseeliequeen:

These Are a Few of My Favorite Books → The Adventures of Shelock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 19 February 1925 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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amandaonwriting:

Oscar Wilde’s most enduring epigrams

amandaonwriting:

Oscar Wilde’s most enduring epigrams

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April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain.

T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland (via batteredshoes)

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rabioheab:

william shakespeare hasn’t come out with a new play in a while did he retire or something

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