Posts tagged Henry David Thoreau
Vintage Books & Anchor Books
Books. Books!
Literary bedrooms…
1. Victor Hugo : Dark, rich and red - Hugo’s bedroom at his home on the Place de Vosges in Paris is all that you would expect from a writer heavily influenced by the Romanticism movement.
2. Ernest Hemingway: Light floods the Nobel Prize-winning author’s bedroom at his Key West home.
3. Flannery O’Connor: The author did most of her writing at the desk in her bedroom. The aluminum crutches were used to help her get around her parents’ dairy farm.
4. Sylvia Plath: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author stayed for several months at the Barbizon Hotel for Women. This image is taken from an advertisement for the hotel and suggests what Plath’s room may have looked like at that time.
5. Henry David Thoreau: Intent on simple living, Thoreau furnished his 10’x15’ home with only the necessary basics - a bed, a table, a desk, and three chairs.
6. Virginia Woolf : Full of details — the bookshelves house the author’s artful collection of books, many of which she recovered with colored paper.
7. Emily Dickinson: Most of the poet’s writing was done at a small writing table in her bedroom.
8. Marcel Proust: A victim of asthma and severe allergies, Proust’s bedroom was a masterwork in shelter and seclusion. All apertures were shielded or sealed, and the walls and ceiling were covered in cork to protect the author from the dust and noise of the outside world.
9. William Faulkner: More of an office with a bed — the Nobel prize-winning author outlined the plot of The Fable on the walls of the room and then shellacked his notes to preserve them.
10. Truman Capote: The author’s bedroom at his Hamptons beach house is simple, but elegant.
More here.
“Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you’ll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you’ll be in as much trouble as I am!”
—Henry David Thoreau
(from The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail — a two-act play by Robert Edwin Lee and Jerome Lawrence)
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations…. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.”
–Henry David Thoreau, from WALDEN
