The earliest English translations of six Sanskrit plays about gods, nymphs, human sacrifice, sorcery, and love.
This is just an automatic copy of Public Domain Review blog.
The earliest English translations of six Sanskrit plays about gods, nymphs, human sacrifice, sorcery, and love.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/theatre-of-the-hindus
The Public Domain Review's Mid-Year Fundraiser is launched!
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/06/launch-of-mid-year-fundraiser
Some thoughts in light of the Black Lives Matter protests about how the PDR can do better.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/06/black-lives-matter
Stunning set of images from a 16th-century treatise on comets.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-comet-book
The second of our free colouring books, including works by Walter Crane, Jessie M. King, and Arthur Rackham.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/05/free-colouring-book-2
Julian Chehirian goes looking for the history of telecommunication, and is left sitting in the slim shadow of a lightning rod, listening to a voice from beyond the grave.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/last-pole
A surprising and vividly written late Victorian compendium of local British lore and traditions.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/old-english-customs
Weighing in at a colossal 18,000 lines, Herman Melville's Clarel (1876), which centres on the theological musings of a group of pilgrims touring the Holy Land, is not for the faint-hearted. Jeff Wheelwright explores the knot of spiritual dilemmas played out in the poem and its roots in Melville's trip to the Middle East two decades earlier.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-skeptical-pilgrim-melvilles-clarel
Our postcard sets sent to Friends of the PDR in summer will be themed on "touch"
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/05/next-postcard-theme-touch
Stylised herbal including plants with faces and dragon-like roots, in addition to more naturalistic depictions.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/erbario-15th-century-herbal