#classicLit
LightNews LightNews
bookmarkandburn.bsky.social
Some classic novels deserve a warning: emotionally devastating, proceed with tissues.

We're talking tragic love, impossible choices and endings that stay with you for years.

What's your most heartbreaking literary recommendation?

#BookSky #ClassicLit #LiteraryFiction #ReadingCommunity
November 2, 2026 at 10:49 AM
alexcarrick.bsky.social
Fusion humor combining classic literature, #mythology, and a cartoon video. #AIcomedyreels #funnyvideo #classiclit #cyclops #gatsby @donnacarrick.bsky.social
October 30, 2026 at 11:03 AM
nerisiren.bsky.social
I’m going to try a daily micro-book-blogging challenge this month. A no-pressure, low-energy challenge I made up. Today I started re-reading “The Dancing Men” after rewatching some Granada Sherlock episodes.

Retroactive dramatic irony is a brutal thing.

#booksky #novemberreads #classiclit
November 2, 2026 at 2:43 AM
pgwodehousebot.bsky.social
"Like so many substantial Americans, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag."

— Summer Moonshine (1937)

#PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
October 31, 2026 at 1:17 PM
zarionzory.bsky.social
“We are all failures—at least all the best of us are.”

J.M. Barrie, Sentimental Tommy

#ZarionZoryStory #literature #hiddenGems #classicLit #writersOfInstagram #bookTok #prose
October 31, 2026 at 11:08 AM
cherriesgamedev.bsky.social
#tooearlyforcherries' first antagonist design! Welcome to the stage a certain Hildred Castaigne! #characterdesign #costumedesign #ocposting #indieVN #indiegame #visualnovel #myoc #classiclit #horrorgame #indiehorror #solodev #horrorgamedev
OP's design for Hildred Castaigne. He wears a yellow tracksuit with striping down the side seam, an expensive watch, a carhartt beanie, and a yellow ruana with plaid and black stars on the interior. He has a long ponytail, and one drooping eye.
November 1, 2026 at 3:46 PM
pgwodehousebot.bsky.social
_On the subject of ageing gracefully:_

"There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine."

— Narrator, The Old Reliable (1951)

#PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
November 3, 2026 at 10:13 PM
pgwodehousebot.bsky.social
_The Hon. Galahad Threepwood, on the practical advantages of imprecision:_

"I have found in life that a little inexactitude saves a world of explanation."

— Galahad Threepwood, Summer Lightning (1929)

#PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
November 1, 2026 at 2:01 PM
cherriesgamedev.bsky.social
And just like that, NaNoWriMo is upon us! My month will mostly be code-ifying what I've already written in Word--here's a little taste of the beginning of the game! #indiegamedev #renpycoding #visualnovel #wip #horrorgame #indiehorror #indieVN #classiclit #kinginyellow #solodev #mywriting
A screenshot of a chunk of coding from Too Early for Cherries, in which Peyton (the protagonist) confronts Hildred (her antagonist).
November 1, 2026 at 4:00 AM
pgwodehousebot.bsky.social
"The laughs, which had started well, faded like a bugle call in a distant wood."

— Carry On, Jeeves (1925)

#PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
November 2, 2026 at 11:48 PM
pgwodehousebot.bsky.social
**Bertie**

"Aunt Dahlia is the one decent aunt left to me — a large, hearty woman who hunts and shoots and is a bit free with the language but fundamentally sound."

— Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

#PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
October 29, 2026 at 1:56 PM
floydthelion.bsky.social
www.reddit.com/r/classiclit...
Reddit
From the classicliterature community on Reddit: The Master and Margarita has the prettiest covers
www.reddit.com
November 1, 2026 at 5:57 AM
pgwodehousebot.bsky.social
_Bertie, mid-crisis, seeking some form of moral support:_

**Bertie:** "Jeeves, I have a feeling that Fate is against me."

— The Mating Season (1949)

#PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
October 28, 2026 at 9:32 PM
pgwodehousebot.bsky.social
**Bertie**

"Gussie Fink-Nottle is a man who, having devoted his life to the study of the newt, has not always found the social graces coming naturally."

— Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

#PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
October 29, 2026 at 9:40 PM
pgwodehousebot.bsky.social
"He looked like a sheep with a secret sorrow."

— The Code of the Woosters (1938)

#PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
October 31, 2026 at 8:24 PM
pgwodehousebot.bsky.social
"She looked at me the way my Aunt Agatha looks at a caterpillar she has found in her head of lettuce."

— The Mating Season (1949)

#PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
November 2, 2026 at 4:49 PM
zarionzory.bsky.social
"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

#ZarionZoryStory
#moby-dick #hermanmelville #classiclit #overlookedquotes #deepliteraryquotes #wordsofwisdom
November 2, 2026 at 7:05 AM
pgwodehousebot.bsky.social
On Plans:

"It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being a bit doubtful about how it will work out in practice."

— Bertie, The Code of the Woosters (1938)

#PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
October 30, 2026 at 1:50 PM
pgwodehousebot.bsky.social
_Bertie, after yet another last-minute deliverance:_

**Bertie:** "You know, Jeeves, you're a genius."

— Very Good, Jeeves (1930)

#PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
October 28, 2026 at 1:49 PM
pgwodehousebot.bsky.social
_Bertie, on his family's pioneering contribution to nutritional science:_

"My Uncle George discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought."

— Bertie, Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

#PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
October 27, 2026 at 12:58 PM
cherriesgamedev.bsky.social
#tooearlyforcherries' third and final POV MC, Eugi, reporting for duty! She's our beloathed Underground Man. Base by Luciferaza. #characterdesign #costumedesign #ocposting #indieVN #indiegame #visualnovel #myoc #classiclit #horrorgame #indiehorror #solodev #horrorgamedev
OP's design for the Underground Man in his video game. She wears a disheveled postal uniform with an envelope-shaped pocket, fingerless gloves, and a chambray work shirt, which is partially untucked. Her hair is very long and unkempt, and she looks like she hasn't slept since she was born.
October 27, 2026 at 11:31 PM
kgink.bsky.social
it's weird but i STILL read
MORE #ClassicLit than ANYTHING else.
i do include at least one modern bio a year.

My dad has #Parkinsons
thanks #MichaelJFox

Geddy Lee
Rob Halford
Elton John
Stacy Keach
Ingmar Bergman
Mick Fleetwood
Andre Agassi
Trevor Noah
Willie Nelson
Bob Dylan

to name a few
October 29, 2026 at 3:34 AM
pgwodehousebot.bsky.social
"It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine."

— Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935)

#PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #ClassicLit
October 26, 2026 at 9:29 PM
slluttrell.bsky.social
Our "scary word" for today is from H. P. Lovecraft. It's "cyclopean," meaning "a style of stone construction marked typically by the use of large irregular blocks."

Usage example: "The Haunter of the Dark" (1936):
www.hplovecraft.com/writings/tex...

#ClassicLit #EarlyModernEnglish
www.hplovecraft.com
October 29, 2026 at 9:50 AM
slluttrell.bsky.social
Our "scary word" for today is from Edgar Allan Poe. It's "metempsychosis," meaning "the passing of the soul at death into another body."

Usage example: "Metzengerstein," first published in 1832:
en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poe%27s...

Happy Halloween! See you Monday!

#ClassicLit #EarlyModernEnglish
Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination/Metzengerstein - Wikisource, the free online library
en.wikisource.org
October 30, 2026 at 9:28 AM