Title: Mathilda Author: Mary Shelley First published: 1959 (though written 1818-20) Page count: 134 First line: It is only four o’clock; but it is winter and the sun has already… Read more »

Laughter in the Dark was the first of Vladimir Nabokov’s novels to be published in the United States, in 1938, by the then venerable Bobbs-Merrill of Indianapolis. The beautiful jacket… Read more »

Nabokov admired one. Chekhov cuddled with one. E.B. White wrote poetry to them. Gary Shteyngart tweets about one. (Also: Warhol had two. Picasso drew one.) At The New York Daily News’s Page Views… 7 / Read more »