The Fascinating Self-Portraits of Famous Authors* Charles Baudelaire, 1960* Edgar Allan Poe, date unknown*

What a place to be in is an old library! --Jane Austen* British Library / @britishlibrary*

Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey* Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Browning, Tennyson, Byron, Keats and Shelley*

Sketch of the 'Starry night over the Rhône' by Vincent van Gogh, 1888*

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.” -- #Proust*

Literature Flowchart* From Cervantes, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dostoevsky, to Hemingway, James Joyce, Plath, Huxley, Orwell...

Happiness is a book that changes your life. Happy week, readers!

"I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most." ~Margaret Atwood born #OnThisDay 1939* @MargaretAtwood

Marcel Proust, best known for his 3000 page masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu, died #OnThisDay in 1922*

Shakespeare and Co. offers beds to aspiring writers. Book heaven in Paris* @Shakespeare_Co*

F. Scott FitzGerald drew the party in Paris (organized by Sylvia Beach) where he met his hero, James Joyce* (1928)

Ernest Hemingway inside Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 1922*

"A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself." -F. Scott Fitzgerald* Shakespeare & Co. (Inside)

Happy Birthday, Shakespeare and Company bookstore, opened in Paris by Sylvia Beach, #OnThisDay 1919* @Shakespeare_Co*

French sculptor, Auguste Rodin, died #OnThisDay in 1917 (aged 77). Rodin in front of 'Victor Hugo' & 'The Thinker'*

Niccolò Machiavelli, 'The Prince', original manuscript (1513)

Ophelia, one of the most inspirational characters by William Shakespeare* Ophelia, John Everett Millais, 1852*

American Sylvia Beach opens the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris #OnThisDay 1919* Sylvia & James Joyce*

Story of Shakespeare and Company, by Sylvia Beach* Hemingway, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce & Ulysses*

Octavio Paz & Jorge Luis Borges in Mexico, 1981*