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From PU Princeton University Library on June 21st, 2021
0 likes 41 playsWas Jane Austen the best-selling novelist of her time? Are all her novels romances? Did they depict the traditional world of the aristocracy? Is Austen’s writing… -
From PU Princeton University Library on May 3rd, 2021
0 likes 8 playsJoan Wallach Scott, American historian and professor emerita in the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, will discuss her latest book, "On… -
From PU Princeton University Library on April 19th, 2021
0 likes 239 playsOn Jan. 2, 2020, a collection of 1,131 letters from Nobel laureate and renowned writer Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot to his lifelong friend Emily Hale were unsealed at… -
From PU Princeton University Library on March 29th, 2021
0 likes 23 playsTerry Seymour will describe and show us his extraordinary collection of the books, papers, and artworks identified with the protean Scottish biographer, traveler, and… -
From PU Princeton University Library on March 26th, 2021
0 likes 22 playsPerched on the northern tip of Manhattan, The Met Cloisters focuses on the art, architecture, and gardens of the European Middle Ages. In this virtual field trip, C.… -
From PU Princeton University Library on March 22nd, 2021
0 likes 14 playsSerious historians of the book may recall that Catherine the Great was among the Russian rulers who continued the formation of a world-class imperial library and… -
From PU Princeton University Library on March 17th, 2021
0 likes 15 playsRare book dealer Heather O’Donnell, founder of Honey & Wax Booksellers in Brooklyn, spent three years at Princeton as a member of the Society of Fellows in the… -
From PU Princeton University Library on March 3rd, 2021
0 likes 101 playsThis is a collection of things that cannot be. It has been described as an exhibition of imaginary books, a bibliophilic entertainment, and a post- structuralist… -
From PU Princeton University Library on February 22nd, 2021
0 likes 45 playsMark Samuels Lasner, a member of the Friends of the Princeton University Library and Council, is a recognized authority on art and literature of the late Victorian era.… -
From PU Princeton University Library on February 1st, 2021
0 likes 33 playsJennifer Larson, professor of classics at Kent State University, will discuss the types of books 17th-century printers considered suitable for miniature and small… -
From PU Princeton University Library on January 19th, 2021
0 likes 41 playsRobert J. Ruben ’55, world-renown bibliophile, presents from his collection of transforming medical and scientific works. He will share stories attached to their… -
From PU Princeton University Library on January 11th, 2021
0 likes 90 playsDorothea and Johannes von Moltke, grandchildren of Count Helmuth James von Moltke and his wife, Freya, discuss, “Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence Between… -
From PU Princeton University Library on November 24th, 2020
0 likes 34 playsAdam Frankel '03, former speechwriter for President Obama, discusses his recent memoir on family, the Holocaust, trauma, and identity, “The Survivors: A Story… -
From PU Princeton University Library on November 17th, 2020
0 likes 121 playsRichard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian at the University of Oxford, presents an exploration of the deliberate destruction of knowledge – especially of libraries… -
From PU Princeton University Library on October 26th, 2020
0 likes 49 playsG. Scott Clemons '90 presents from his collection to illustrate the history and influence of the Aldine Press, founded in 15th-century Venice, on the worlds of…
