On May 17, 1900, L. Frank Baum gave the first copy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to his sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster, marking the quiet beginning of one of the most enduring works in American children’s literature. The book, first published in…
Read More
On May 2, 1611, the first edition of what would come to be known as the King James Version emerged from the presses of Robert Barker in London, a publication event that, while at the time one among many state-directed printing enterprises, would gradually…
Read More
First published in the United Kingdom in 1884, Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” hit the book stores in the United States on February 18, 1885 as a sequel to Twain’s earlier novel, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” The novel is narrated by Huck…
Read More
When Isabella Mary Beeton’s Book of Household Management appeared on October 1, 1861, few could have anticipated the reach and endurance of what became the most famous domestic manual of the Victorian age. Selling some 60,000 copies in its first year alone, the work…
Read More
