Early film about a cigarette-smoking jester who plays havoc with the world around her.
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Early film about a cigarette-smoking jester who plays havoc with the world around her.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-jester-1908
Startling Baroque paintings of imaginary ruins and other fantastic architecture by a proto-surrealist master.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/francois-de-nome-imaginary-ruins
Images have long provided a means of protesting political regimes bent on censoring language. In the 1830s a band of French caricaturists, led by Charles Philipon, weaponized the innocent image of a pear to criticize the corrupt and repressive policies of King Louis-Philippe. Patricia Mainardi investigates the history of this early 19th-century meme.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/of-pears-and-kings
The strange, unhappy life of W. W. Denslow, the illustrator of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/w-w-denslow-illustrations-wonderful-wizard-of-oz-1900
Groundbreaking study of humanity’s affect on physical geography by the American statesman, philologist, and conservationist George Perkins Marsh.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/man-and-nature-1864
Our top pick of those whose works on 1st January 2020 enter the public domain in many countries around the world.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/01/public-domain-in-2020
A Christmas classic about two children who get lost in the blinding snow, by the Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter, beloved by W. G. Sebald, W. H. Auden, Hannah Arendt, and Thomas Mann.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rock-crystal-adalbert-stifter
John Milton’s Paradise Lost has been many things to many people — a Christian epic, a comment on the English Civil War, the epitome of poetic ambiguity — but it is first of all a pleasure to read. Drawing on sources as varied as Wordsworth, Hitchcock, and Conan Doyle, author Philip Pullman considers the sonic beauty and expert storytelling of Milton's masterpiece and the influence it has had on his own work.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-sound-and-the-story-exploring-the-world-of-paradise-lost
Hand-coloured cards engraved by Sidney Hall representing the constellations, from Aquarius to Ursa Major.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/uranias-mirror-or-a-view-of-the-heavens
A book of Greenlandic Inuit folktales collected by the legendary explorer and anthropologist Knud Rasmussen.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/eskimo-folktales