Wood, Seascraper (2025)

Benjamin Wood.
Seascraper.
London: Viking (Penguin Random House UK), 2025.
New York: Scribner (Simon & Schuster), 2025.

Book Information : Publisher UK; Publisher USA; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com, UK ed; Amazon.com, USA ed.

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Author Information :

• Benjamin Wood, benjaminwood.info, author's website.
• Seascraper at benjaminwood.info.
• "Seascraper" song by Thomas Flett at benjaminwood.info.
• Benjamin Wood (b. 1981), Wikipedia.
• Seascraper (2025), Wikipedia.
• 2025 Booker Prize, Wikipedia.
  (Seascraper was Nominated (long list) for the 2025 Booker Prize.)
• Walter Scott Prize.
  (Seascraper was Nominated for the 2026 Walter Scott Prize.)
• Benjamin Wood, GoodReads.com.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• British literature: 21st-century literature.

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Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (1994)

William Shakespeare.
Twelfth Night, or What You Will.
Edited by Roger Warren and Stanley Wells.
Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford World's Classics.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, 2008.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.

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Editors: Roger Warren and Stanley Wells

• Roger Warren was a Senior Lecturer of English, University of Leicester.
• Roger Warren edited four additional individual plays in The Oxford Shakespeare series: Cymbeline; Henry VI, Part Two; Pericles; The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
• Warren, Roger, 1943-, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
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• Stanley Wells, his website.
• Stanley Wells (b. 1930), Wikipedia.
• Stanley Wells has written and edited many, many books related to Shakespeare. Some of them are described in the Books section of the Stanley Wells website.
• Stanley Wells, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Wells, Stanley, 1930-, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).

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Wikipedia Articles :

Shakespeare :

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Twelfth Night, probably written in 1601; first documented performance 02 February 1602; first printed in 1623 (First Folio).
• Chronology of Shakespeare's plays: Twelfth Night (1601).
• Shakespearean comedy.
• Shakespeare's influence.
• List of idioms attributed to Shakespeare.

English Renaissance Literature, Drama :

• English Renaissance, 16th - 17th Centuries.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English literature: Jacobean period (1603–1625).
• English Renaissance theatre.

England during Shakespeare's Time :

• Tudor period, 1485–1603.
• Elizabeth I (1533–1603); Queen of England and Ireland 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan government.
• Elizabethan [religious] settlement, "implemented from 1559 to 1563".
• English society: Tudor society.
• Elizabeth I: Later years.
• James VI and I (1566–1625); King of Scotland as James VI 1567–1625; King of England and Ireland as James I 1603–1625.
• Jacobean era, 1603–1625.
• Stuart period, 1603–1714.
• Early modern Britain, 16th – 18th Centuries.

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Discussions of Shakespeare and Twelfth Night :

• Erik McCarthy, Introduction to William Shakespeare, YouTube, 21 January 2025.
  (The literary, social, and political context of Shakespeare; Shakespeare biography; book production; printing the plays. A very good survey.)
• Erik McCarthy, William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, YouTube, 15 February 2025.
• David Kern, Angelina Stanford, and Tim McIntosh, Twelfth Night, "Close Reads Podcast" at SubStack, "The Play's The Thing" at Apple Podcasts, 2017.
  Note: This podcast series on Twelfth Night was published on two different platforms under two different podcast names: Close Reads Podcast at SubStack and The Play's The Thing at Apple Podcasts. (The Apple Podcasts episodes may have advertisements.)
  1. Twelfth Night: Act I, Substack link, Apple Podcasts link, 24 November 2017.
     Angelina recommends :
     • E. M. W. Tillyard. The Elizabethan World Picture. London: Chatto & Windus, 1943; New York: Vintage Books, 1959.
       [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
     • Harold C. Goddard. The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 1. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.
       [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
     • Harold C. Goddard. The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 2. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.
       [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
     See also:
     • Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks, The Literary Life Podcast. Episodes also at Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
  2. Twelfth Night: Act II, Substack link, Apple Podcasts link, 01 December 2017.
  3. Twelfth Night: Act III, Substack link, Apple Podcasts link, 08 December 2017.
     (The restraints on Angelina's and Tim's religious enthusiasm are released for a moment in this episode. An interesting digression.)
  4. Twelfth Night: Act IV, Substack link, Apple Podcasts link, 15 December 2017.
  5. Twelfth Night: Act V, Substack link, Apple Podcasts link, 22 December 2017.
  6. Twelfth Night: Q&A, Substack link, Apple Podcasts link, 29 December 2017.
     (While the Close Reads Podcast folk are puzzled by the animus towards Malvolio, Paul Cantor's lectures present a very clear explanation of the political, social, and religious differences between the followers of the Church of England and the radical separatist Puritan sect (Brownists). Cantor also cites plays by Ben Jonson, The Alchemist (1610) and Bartholomew Fair (1614), which also feature the ridicule of Puritan characters. Cantor addresses the Malvolio and Puritanism topic(s) in both of his lectures.)
     See also History of the Puritans under Elizabeth I.
• Paul Cantor, "Twelfth Night", Shakespeare and Politics, recorded Spring 2015, posted to YouTube 01 March 2017.
  1. Twelfth Night (Lecture 1 of 2).
     (The first 15 minutes of this lecture finishes the discussion of a previous lecture on As You Like It and the All the world's a stage / seven ages of man speech.)
  2. Twelfth Night (Lecture 2 of 2).
  Paul Cantor information:
  • Paul Cantor (1945–2022), Wikipedia.
  • In Memoriam: Wide-Ranging Literary and Pop Culture Critic Paul Cantor, College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia, 08 March 2022.
  • In Memoriam, Virginia Magazine, Summer/Fall 2022.
• Jonathan Bate, Shakespeare's Lover's, Third Lecture in the Series Classic Shakespeare, Gresham College, 23 January 2018, YouTube 29 January 2018.
• Jonathan Bate, Shakespeare's Politics, Fourth Lecture in the Series Classic Shakespeare, Gresham College, 27 February 2018, YouTube 02 March 2018.
  (Not about Twelfth Night but provides some political context of Shakespeare, which may be of interest in light of Paul Cantor's lecture series Shakespeare and Politics.
  Bate's lecture mainly refers to Shakespeare's Roman history plays and doesn't directly say much about the politics of the Elizabethan era.)
• Jonathan Bate, Shakespeare's Fame, Sixth and Final Lecture in the Series Classic Shakespeare, Gresham College, 08 May 2018, YouTube 10 May 2018.
• Melvyn Bragg, Pascale Aebischer, Michael Dobson, Emma Smith, "Twelfth Night, or What You Will," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 28 December 2023.
  (Reading List, References in Episode Notes.
  Unfortunately, these once free programs now require a subscription.)

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Some Other Recent Editions of Twelfth Night :

• William Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, or What You Will. Edited by Keir Elam. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Shakespeare. Twelfth Night: or What You Will, Third Edition. Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Essays about Twelfth Night :

• Harold Jenkins, "Shakespeare's Twelfth Night," pages 72-87 in Shakespeare: The Comedies: A Collection of Critical Essays, Edited by Kenneth Muir, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1965.
  [Archive.org; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  (Roger Warren's and Stanley Wells' Introduction to The Oxford Shakespeare edition of Twelfth Night refers to this essay several times.)
• Stanley Wells, editor. Twelfth Night: Critical Essays. New York: Garland Publishing, 1986; Routledge, 2015.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Note :
I previously read Twelfth Night in 2024. My 2024 blog post is here.

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Defoe, Moll Flanders (1722; 2011)

Daniel Defoe.
Moll Flanders.
Text Edited by G. A. Starr and Linda Bree.
Introduction and Notes by Linda Bree.
Book Series: Oxford World's Classics.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.

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Editors: G. A. Starr and Linda Bree

• Professor George Starr Remembered, Department of English, University of California at Berkeley, 19 August 2024.
• In Memoriam, George A. Starr, 1934–2024, Academic Senate, University of California.
• G. A. Starr, GoodReads.com.
• G. A. Starr, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Starr, G. A. (George A.), LC Name Authority File (LCNAF), The Library of Congress.
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• Linda Bree, @LindaBree1, Twitter / X.
• Linda Bree, GoodReads.com.
• Interview with Linda Bree, Cambridge University Press, YouTube, 17 December 2013.
• Linda Bree, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Bree, Linda, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF), The Library of Congress.

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Wikipedia Articles: Author, Book; English Literature; England during Defoe's times; William Hogarth

• Daniel Defoe (c.1660 – 1731).
• Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1722).
• Spiritual autobiography.
• Picaresque novel.
• Literary realism.
• Unreliable narrator.
  (Despite Moll Flanders' seemingly candid and unrestrained telling of her story, on several occasions she describes instances where she deceived others, or at least withheld important details in order to manipulate others' perception of herself. I think we should expect that the reader is receiving a similar treatment from the narrator.)
• Rogue literature.
  (Disappointingly short article.)
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• English literature: Stuart Restoration (1660–1714).
• Restoration literature.
• English literature: Georgian era (1714–1837).
• English literature: Augustan literature (1714–1745).
• Augustan literature.
  (A good survey; provides context of Daniel Defoe.)
• Augustan prose.
• English novel: Early novels in English.
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• 1722 in Great Britain.
• English society: 17th century.
• English society: Georgian society: 1714–1837.
• Kingdom of England: Early modern history, 1603–1707.
• Kingdom of Great Britain, 1707–1800.
• History of England: 17th century.
• Early modern Britain: Early Stuart era: 1603–1660.
• Early modern Britain: Later Stuart era: 1660–1714.
• Stuart Restoration, 1660–1688.
• Glorious Revolution, 1688.
• Nine Years' War, 1688–1697.
• War of the Spanish Succession, 1701–1714.
• Early modern Britain: 18th century.
• Georgian era, 1714 to c.1830–1837.
• Economic history of the United Kingdom: 16th–17th centuries.
• Economic history of the United Kingdom: 18th century.
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• English overseas possessions.
• British Empire: English overseas possessions (1583–1707).
• British colonization of the Americas.
• British America.
• Colony of Virginia, 1606–1776.
  (Moll Flanders' third husband owns a plantation in Virginia; she lives there for several years.)
• Province of Maryland, 1632–1776.
  (Moll Flanders is sentenced to Transportation, arriving in Virginia, she and her husband settle in Maryland.)
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The works of William Hogarth provide a view of London during the first half of the Eighteenth Century. Perhaps they allow us to visualize the world of Moll Flanders as she would have known it (although Defoe sets Moll Flanders' story as occurring during the Seventeenth Century).

• William Hogarth (1697 – 1764).
• List of works by William Hogarth.
• William Hogarth, A Harlot's Progress (1732).
  (Plate Three in this collection was used for the cover art of the 2011 Oxford World's Classics edition of Moll Flanders.)
• William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress (1735).
• William Hogarth, Marriage A-la-Mode (1743-1745).
• William Hogarth, Industry and Idleness (1747).
  (Plate One in this collection shows a broadside version of Moll Flanders; the story was widely known.)
• William Hogarth, Beer Street and Gin Lane (1751).
• William Hogarth, The Four Stages of Cruelty (1751).
• William Hogarth at Archive.org.

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Some other editions of Moll Flanders :

• Daniel Defoe. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders. Edited by David Blewett. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 1989.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Daniel Defoe. Moll Flanders. Edited by Edward Kelly. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1973.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Daniel Defoe. Moll Flanders. Edited by Albert J. Rivero. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Daniel Defoe. Moll Flanders, Second Edition. Edited by Albert J. Rivero. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2024.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Miscellaneous Discussions of Daniel Defoe and/or Moll Flanders :

• John Mullan, Convincing Fiction: Daniel Defoe to Ishiguro and Knausgaard, First Lecture in the Series The Powers of the Novel, Gresham College, 28 October 2020, YouTube 11 November 2020.
  (Discusses Robinson Crusoe.)
• John Mullan, Crime in Fiction: Defoe and Dickens to Spark, Highsmith and McEwan, Second Lecture in the Series The Powers of the Novel, Gresham College, 24 February 2021, YouTube 02 March 2021.
  (Discusses Moll Flanders.)
• Erik McCarthy, Daniel Defoe and the Novel, YouTube, 27 March 2023.
  (Good introductory survey of Daniel Defoe, the novel, and Moll Flanders.)
• Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks, Episode 325: Introduction to Alexander Pope and the Neo-Classical Poets, The Literary Life Podcast, 21 April 2026.
  (Loosely discusses the Eighteenth Century period when and after Defoe was writing. See the Wikipedia article Neoclassicism, a label which is used more to describe architecture and visual arts rather than literature.
  Augustan literature seems to be the more commonly used appellation for this period of English literature.)

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Mori, The Wild Geese (1911–1913; 1959)

Mori Ōgai.
The Wild Geese.
Translated by Kingo Ochiai and Sanford Goldstein.
Tokyo; Vermont; Singapore: Tuttle Publishing, 1959.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.

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Author Information :

• Mori Ōgai (1862–1922), Wikipedia English.
• 森 鷗外 (1862–1922), Wikipedia Japan.
• The Wild Geese (1911–1913), Wikipedia English.
• 雁 (1911–1913, 1915), Wikipedia Japan.

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Japanese Literature :

• Japanese literature: Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa-period literature (1868–1945), Wikipedia English.
• 日本の近現代文学史#明治時代の文学 [History of modern Japanese literature: Literature of the Meiji Era], Wikipedia Japan.
• 日本の近現代文学史#大正時代の文学 [History of modern Japanese literature: Literature of the Taisho Period], Wikipedia Japan.

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Some other English translations of The Wild Geese :

• Mori Ōgai. The Wild Goose. Translated by Burton Watson. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1995.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Mori Ōgai. Gan [Geese]. Translated by Glenn Anderson. Long Island City, New York: One Peace Books, 2014.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Some other works in English translation by Mori Ōgai :

• Mori Ōgai. Vita Sexualis. Translated by Sanford Goldstein. Tuttle Publishing, 1972, 2011.
  [Wikipedia English; Wikipedia Japan; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Mori Ōgai. Youth and Other Stories. Edited by J. Thomas Rimer. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Mori Ōgai. The Historical Fiction of Mori Ogai. Edited by David A. Dilworth and J. Thomas Rimer. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Mori Ōgai. Not a Song Like Any Other: An Anthology of Writings by Mori Ogai. Edited by J. Thomas Rimer. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719; 2007)

Daniel Defoe.
Robinson Crusoe.
Edited with an Introduction by Thomas Keymer.
Notes by Thomas Keymer and James Kelly.
Book Series: Oxford World's Classics.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 2008.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.

Book Series: Oxford World's Classics.

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Editor: Thomas Keymer

• Thomas Keymer, his website.
• Thomas Keymer, Department of English, University of Toronto.
• Professor Thomas Keymer FBA, The British Academy.
• Thomas Keymer, GoodReads.com.
• Thomas Keymer, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Keymer, Thomas, 1962-, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF), The Library of Congress.

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Wikipedia Articles: Author, Book, English Literature, British History

• Daniel Defoe (c.1660 – 1731).
• Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719).
• Robinsonade, "a literary genre of fiction wherein a person or a group of persons is suddenly separated from civilization".
• Allegory.
• Bildungsroman.
• Daniel Defoe, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719).
• Daniel Defoe, Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe (1720).
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• English literature: Stuart Restoration (1660–1714).
• Restoration literature.
• English literature: Georgian era (1714–1837).
• English literature: Augustan literature (1714–1745).
• Augustan literature.
  (A good survey; provides context of Daniel Defoe.)
• English novel: Early novels in English.
  (Robinson Crusoe is recognized as one of the earliest English novels.)
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• 1719 in Great Britain: Publications.
• English society: 17th century.
• English society: Georgian society: 1714–1837.
• Kingdom of England: Early modern history, 1603–1707.
• Kingdom of Great Britain, 1707–1800.
• History of England: 17th century.
• Early modern Britain: Early Stuart era: 1603–1660.
• Early modern Britain: Later Stuart era: 1660–1714.
• Stuart Restoration, 1660–1688.
• Glorious Revolution, 1688.
• Nine Years' War, 1688–1697.
• War of the Spanish Succession, 1701–1714.
• Early modern Britain: 18th century.
• Georgian era, 1714 to c.1830–1837.
• Maritime history of England: Seventeenth century.
• Barbary corsairs.
  (Early into the character Robinson Crusoe's career as a sailor the ship he is on is captured by Barbary pirates; he becomes a slave and lives for two years at Salé, in present day Morocco.)
• Economic history of the United Kingdom: 16th–17th centuries.
• Economic history of the United Kingdom: 18th century.
• British Empire: English overseas possessions (1583–1707).
  
• British Empire in fiction: Period fiction.
• History of Brazil: Early Brazil.
  (After Robinson Crusoe escapes from couple years as a slave to a Barbary pirate he is picked up by a passing Portuguese trading vessel on its way to Brazil and Crusoe then spends a few years in Brazil establishing a plantation.)
• History of the Caribbean: Early colonial history.
  (After becoming established as a plantation owner in Brazil, Robinson Crusoe and some other Brazilian planters and merchants mount an expedition to bring a shipload of slaves to Brazil. Early into the outbound voyage a storm wrecks the ship and Crusoe is stranded on an island in the Caribbean Sea perhaps near the northern coast of South America in the area of present day Venezuela.)
• Historiography of the British Empire.

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Miscellaneous Discussions of Defoe and Robinson Crusoe :

• John Mullan, Convincing Fiction: Daniel Defoe to Ishiguro and Knausgaard, First Lecture in the Series The Powers of the Novel, Gresham College, 28 October 2020, YouTube 11 November 2020.
  (Discusses Robinson Crusoe.)
• John Mullan, Crime in Fiction: Defoe and Dickens to Spark, Highsmith and McEwan, Second Lecture in the Series The Powers of the Novel, Gresham College, 24 February 2021, YouTube 02 March 2021.
  (Discusses Moll Flanders.)
• Michael Sugrue, Great Authors - Literature of the Renaissance - Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, recorded 1990s, posted to YouTube 10 October 2020.
• Michael Sugrue, Kristy Goboel, Marie Thurroid, Robinson Crusoe: Bibliotheca Webinar, YouTube, 01 April 2022.
• Susan Oliver, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, University of Essex, YouTube, 13 January 2014.
• Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks, Episode 325: Introduction to Alexander Pope and the Neo-Classical Poets, The Literary Life Podcast, 21 April 2026.
  (Loosely discusses the Eighteenth Century period when and after Defoe was writing. See the Wikipedia article Neoclassicism, a label which is used more to describe architecture and visual arts rather than literature.
  Augustan literature seems to be the more commonly used appellation for this period of English literature.)

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Some other editions of Robinson Crusoe :

• Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe. Edited by John Richetti. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 2001, 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe, Second Edition. Edited by Michael Shinagel. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Dunlop, trans, A Late Chrysanthemum: Twenty-One Stories from the Japanese (1986)

A Late Chrysanthemum: Twenty-One Stories from the Japanese.
Translated by Lane Dunlop.
Etchings by Tanaka Ryohei.
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1986.

Book Information : Archive.org; Google Books; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.

Another edition of this book was published by Tuttle in 1988.
[Google Books with Preview; Amazon.com.]

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Translator Information : Lane Dunlop

• Lane Dunlop, American Translator, 1937–2013, The Arts of Japan.
• In Remembrance: Charles Lane Dunlop ’58, died 31 August 2013, Yale Alumni Magazine.
• Dunlop, Charles Lane, The New York Times, 22 September 2013.
• Lane Dunlop, GoodReads.com.
• Volumes of translations by Lane Dunlop of single Japanese authors (Shiga Naoya, Kawabata Yasunari, Hayashi Fumiko) are noted separately below.
• The Best Japanese Short Stories: Works by 14 Modern Masters: Kawabata, Akutagawa and More. Translated by Lane Dunlop. Tuttle Publishing, 2023.
  [Previously published under the title Autumn Wind and Other Stories, Tuttle Publishing, 1994, 2007.]
  [Publisher Autumn Wind; Publisher The Best Japanese Short Stories; Google Books Autumn Wind; Google Books The Best Japanese Short Stories; GoodReads.com Autumn Wind; GoodReads.com The Best Japanese Short Stories; Amazon.com Autumn Wind; Amazon.com The Best Japanese Short Stories.]

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Some More Recently Published (and currently in-print) Anthologies of Japanese Short Stories:

• The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories. Edited by Theodore W. Goossen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, 2010.
  [Publisher; Google Books; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.]
  My post for The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories is here.
• The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories. Edited by Jay Rubin. Book Series: Penguin Classics. New York: Penguin Books, 2018.
  [Publisher; Google Books; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.]

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Wikipedia Articles : Japanese Literature

• Japanese literature: Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa-period literature (1868–1945), Wikipedia English.
• Japanese literature: Postwar literature (1945–onwards), Wikipedia English.
• 日本の近現代文学史#大正時代の文学 [History of modern Japanese literature: Literature of the Taisho Period], Wikipedia Japan.
• 日本の近現代文学史#戦前昭和時代の文学 [History of modern Japanese literature: Prewar Showa period literature], Wikipedia Japan.
• 日本の近現代文学史#現代文学（戦後の文学） [History of modern Japanese literature: Contemporary Literature (Postwar Literature)], Wikipedia Japan.

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Contents of A Late Chrysanthemum: Twenty-One Stories from the Japanese:

1. Shiga Naoya, 志賀直哉 (1883–1971).
   1. Infatuation.
   2. A Gray Moon [灰色の月 (1946)].
   3. At Kinosaki [城の崎にて (1917)].
   4. The Razor [Kamisori (1910)].
   ~~~~~ Shiga Naoya, short story collections and other works in English ~~~~~
   • Shiga Naoya. The Paper Door and Other Stories. Translated by Lane Dunlop. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987; New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
     [Publisher; Google Books; GoodReads.com; Amazon, 1987; Amazon, 2001.]
   • The short story "Night Fires" (aka "Bonfire") (1920) appears in The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (1997, 2010).
   • Shiga Naoya. Reconciliation [和解 (1917)]. Translated by Ted Goossen. Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2020.
     [Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; GoodReads.com second entry for same book; Amazon.com.]
   • Shiga Naoya. A Dark Night's Passing [暗夜行路 (1921-1937)]. Translated by Edwin McClellan. Kodansha, 1976, 1993.
     [Google Books; Wikipedia Japan; Wikipedia English; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com 1976; Amazon.com 1993.]
2. Ozaki Shiro, 尾崎 士郎 (1898–1964).
   1. The Wagtail's Nest.
   2. River Deer.
3. Kawabata Yasunari, 川端 康成 (1899–1972).
   1. The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket (1924); also appears in Palm-of-the-Hand Stories (2006).
   2. The Silverberry Thief (1925); also appears in Palm-of-the-Hand Stories (2006).
   3. The Young Lady of Suruga (1927); also appears in Palm-of-the-Hand Stories (2006).
   ~~~~~ Kawabata Yasunari, short story collections in English ~~~~~
   • Kawabata Yasunari. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories. Translated by Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Macmillan), 2006.
     [Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.]
   • Kawabata Yasunari. The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories. Translated by J. Martin Holman. Berkeley, California: Counterpoint Press, 1997.
     [Google Books; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.]
   • The short story "The Dancing Girl of Izu" [伊豆の踊子 (1926)] appears in The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (1997, 2010) as "The Izu Dancer".
   • The short story "The Silver Fifty-Sen Pieces" (1946) appears in The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories (2018) and Palm-of-the-Hand Stories (2006).
4. Shimaki Kensaku, 島木 健作 (1903–1945).
   1. The Red Frog (1946).
   2. The Centipede.
   3. The Black Cat (1945).
   4. The Wasps.
5. Hayashi Fumiko, 林 芙美子 (1903–1951).
   1. A Late Chrysanthemum [晩菊 (1948)].
   ~~~~~ Hayashi Fumiko, other works in English ~~~~~
   • The short story "The Accordion and the Fish Town" [風琴と魚の町 (1931)] appears in The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (1997, 2010).
   • Hayashi Fumiko. "I Saw A Pale Horse" and Selected Poems from "Diary of a Vagabond". Translated by Janice Brown. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997, 2010, 2011.
     [Publisher; Google Books; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.]
   • Hayashi Fumiko. Floating Clouds [浮雲 (1951)]. Translated by Lane Dunlop. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
     [Publisher; Google Books; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.]
   • Series of translations by J. D. Wisgo:
     1. Hayashi Fumiko. Downfall and Other Stories (Hayashi Fumiko Book 1). Translated by J. D. Wisgo. Arigatai Books, 2020.
        [Publisher; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.]
     2. Hayashi Fumiko. Days and Nights (Hayashi Fumiko Book 2). Translated by J. D. Wisgo. Arigatai Books, 2021.
        [Publisher; Google Books; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.]
     3. Hayashi Fumiko. The Accordion and the Fish Town (Hayashi Fumiko Book 3). Translated by J. D. Wisgo. Arigatai Books, 2024.
        [Publisher; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.]
6. Dazai Osamu, 太宰 治 (1909–1948).
   1. Memories (1940).
   2. A Golden Picture.
   3. The Garden Lantern.
   4. Chiyojo [千代女 (1941)]; also in No One Knows (2025).
   ~~~~~ Dazai Osamu, some recent short story collections in English ~~~~~
   • Dazai Osamu. Early Light. Translated by Donald Keene and Ralph McCarthy. New York: New Directions, 2022.
     [Publisher; Google Books; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.]
   • Dazai Osamu. Self-Portraits: Stories. Translated by Ralph McCarthy. Kodansha, 1991; New York: New Directions, 2024.
     [Publisher; Google Books; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.]
   • Dazai Osamu. No One Knows. Translated by Ralph McCarthy. New York: New Directions, 2025.
     [Publisher; Google Books; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.]
   • The short story "Merry Christmas" [メリイクリスマス (1947)] appears in The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (1997, 2010) and also Self-Portraits: Stories (2024).
7. Abe Kōbō, 安部 公房 (1924–1993).
   1. The Red Cocoon [赤い繭 (1951)].
   2. The Flood [洪水 (1951)].
   3. The Stick [棒 (1955)].
   ~~~~~ Abe Kōbō, short story collections in English ~~~~~
   • The short story "The Bet" (1960) appears in The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (1997, 2010).
   • Abe Kōbō. Beyond the Curve. Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter. Kodansha International, 1991.
     [Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.]

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Weir, Project Hail Mary (2021)

Andy Weir.
Project Hail Mary.
New York: Ballantine Books (Penguin Random House), 2021.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.

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Author Information : Andy Weir

• Andy Weir (b. 1972), Wikipedia.
• Andy Weir, Penguin Random House.
• Andy Weir, andyweirauthor.com (author's website).
• Andy Weir, @andyweirauthor, X / Twitter.

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Austen; Spacks, ed., Sense and Sensibility: An Annotated Edition (1811, 1813; 2013)

Jane Austen.
Sense and Sensibility: An Annotated Edition.
Edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2013.
(Sense and Sensibility was first published in 1811; a modestly revised second edition was published in 1813; this book uses the text of the 1813 edition.)

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.

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Editor: Patricia Meyer Spacks

• Patricia Meyer Spacks, Department of English, University of Virginia.
• Patricia Meyer Spacks, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Patricia Meyer Spacks (b. 1929), Wikipedia.
• Patricia Meyer Spacks, The Hudson Review. (some articles)
• Patricia Meyer Spacks, University of Chicago Press.
• Patricia Meyer Spacks, Harvard University Press.
• Patricia Meyer Spacks, Penguin Random House.
• Patricia Meyer Spacks, GoodReads.com.
• Patricia Meyer Spacks, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Spacks, Patricia Meyer, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF), The Library of Congress.

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Wikipedia Articles: Author, Book, English Literature, British History

• Jane Austen (1775–1817).
• Timeline of Jane Austen.
• Styles and themes of Jane Austen.
• Georgian society in Jane Austen's novels.
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• Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811).
• Charles West Cope (1811– 1890).
  (Charles West Cope's painting Hope Deferred, and Hopes and Fears that Kindle Hope (before 1877) was used for the dust jacket art of the Spacks edition.)
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• Augustan literature: After 1740: Sentimental novel.
• English literature: Age of Sensibility (1745–1798).
• Sentimental novel.
• Sentimentalism (literature).
• Sensibility.
• Novel of manners.
• English literature: Romanticism (1798 –1837).
  (Note: The "Romanticism" literary movement is different from stories about personal "romantic" relationships between individuals. Jane Austen was an early realist writer.)
• English novel: Romantic period.
• English literature: Romantic novel.
• Romantic literature in English: Romantic novel.
• Literary realism.
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• Early modern Britain: 18th century.
• History of the United Kingdom: 18th century.
• History of the United Kingdom: 1800 to 1837.
• Georgian era, 1714 to c.1830–1837.
• Regency era, c.1795 to 1837.
• 1811 in the United Kingdom: Publications.

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Discussions of Sense and Sensibility :

• David Kern, Heidi White, and Karen Swallow Prior, "Sense and Sensibility", Close Reads Podcast, SubStack, 2019 :
  1. Sense and Sensibility: Vol. 1, chapters 1-8, 26 May 2019.
  2. Sense & Sensibility: Vol. I, chapters 9-15, 03 June 2019.
  3. Sense & Sensibility: Volume I, chapters 16-22, 10 June 2019.
  4. Sense & Sensibility: Volume 2, chapters 1-7, 18 June 2019.
  5. Sense & Sensibility: Volume 2, chapters 8-14, 25 June 2019.
  6. Sense & Sensibility: Volume 3, chapters 1-8, 02 July 2019.
  7. Sense & Sensibility: The Final Chapters, 08 July 2019.
  8. Sense and Sensibility Q&A Episode, 17 July 2019.
• Katie Lumsden, Books and Things, YouTube :
  1. Tips for Reading Jane Austen, 01 July 2023.
  2. Are Jane Austen's Novels Love Stories?, 21 July 2023.
     (Explains why four works are not love stories: Lady Susan; Northanger Abbey; Sense and Sensibility; Mansfield Park. Focus on Sense and Sensibility 23:54 - 37:04.)
  3. Sense and Sensibility and Siblings, 24 July 2024.
  4. Coming of Age Stories within Jane Austen, 13 July 2022.
     (Sense and Sensibility discussed 8:45 - 12:45.)
  5. Let's Talk About Mrs Jennings, 30 July 2024.
  6. Let's Talk About Mr Willoughby [and Mr. Wickham in Pride and Prejudice], 24 July 2023.
  7. What does age matter in Jane Austen?, 29 July 2019.
     (Prompted by John Mullan's book What Matters in Jane Austen? (2012, 2025).
     [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.])
  8. Falling in Love with Sense and Sensibility, 25 July 2022.
  9. Discussing Sense and Sensibility with Nick, 28 July 2025.
• Octavia Cox, Analysis of Sense and Sensibility, YouTube :
  1. Jane Austen's Narrative Voice Explained | Direct, Indirect & Free Indirect Discourse [with examples from Sense and Sensibility], 11 May 2020.
  2. Elinor and Marianne Dashwood (Engagements & Hair), 15 May 2020.
  3. Eliza Brandon, Colonel Brandon, & Gothic Fiction, 12 February 2021.
  4. What does Jane Austen’s Lucy Steele tell us about Regency Society?, 24 September 2021.
  5. Money & Inheritance in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility — Mrs Ferrars, Edward & Robert, 01 October 2021.
  6. Jane Austen & Mary Wollstonecraft - Sense and Sensibility & A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 21 January 2022.
     • Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Wikipedia.
     • Robert Bage (1730–1801), Hermsprong (1796), Wikipedia.
  7. Jane Austen on the Sales, Money, & Profits of her Novels — Publication History of Jane Austen’s Novels, 19 February 2022.
  8. Jane Austen reading — "A Beautiful Description of the Different Effects of Sensibility on Different Minds" (c.1793), 29 April 2022.
  9. Did Lucy Steele know about Elinor Dashwood?, 17 June 2022.

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Some other editions of Sense and Sensibility :

• Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility, Third Edition. Edited by Claudia L. Johnson. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility. Edited by Ros Ballaster. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility, Third Edition. Edited by John Mullan. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

I read a different edition Sense and Sensibility in 2023. My 2023 blog post is here.

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