Reverie - Classics

Thirteen new books, and three new shelves. Eight of them are by women, which is what this release is really about. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence. Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market. Sappho, in the fragments that survived her. Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria. George Egerton's Keynotes. Elinor Glyn's His Hour, and the diary Mary MacLane published at nineteen and scandalised America with. They have a shelf of their own now — In Her Own Voice — as well as their places on the others. More than half the library is written by women. Four are short, for the evenings you have twenty minutes. Heloise writing to Abelard from her convent, refusing to say she was sorry. Mary Wollstonecraft to the man who left her. Keats to Fanny Brawne, in the year he was dying. And Short and Explicit — twenty-one poems by Donne, Herrick, Aphra Behn and Emily Dickinson, chosen and set together for this library. Two more shelves for them: Letters, and Read in One Sitting. The Song of Songs joins the Devotional shelf, in the Jewish Publication Society translation of 1917 — three thousand years old and still the frankest love poetry in the canon. And every book now has its own evening passage, chosen by hand rather than taken from the opening page.