Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe

January 19th is the birth date of Edgar Allan Poe, the American author and poet. Orphaned as a young man, Poe had a difficult life and died poor and heartbroken at age 40. According to Jeffrey Meyers, author of Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy, Poe’s death has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.

Poe fans, the team at Rock Point Gifts & Stationary is thrilled to introduce the beautiful, hardcover Edgar Allan Poe Keepsake Journal, which pays homage to the author and his most famous works. Filled with 120 beautifully designed pages and adorned with some of his most famous quotes, this would be the ideal gift for any literature lover or aspiring writer. Not only does it provide a space in which to record original works, but it also acts as inspiration for creativity. Bonus material within the journal includes a short biography of the author and ten unique card stock prints of famous quotes from Poe’s speeches, poems and stories.

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The Knickerbocker Classics collection features a full-cloth binding, ribbon marker, and will fit neatly in an elegant slipcase for your personal library collection. Gorgeous, and completely collectible.

10 Best Lines from Children’s Classics

Get nostalgic with these classic quotes from children’s literature. Some of the best insight comes packaged in the the most delightful and well-loved tales for kids.

10) “I deny your right to put words into my mouth.” — Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

9) “He who is too well off is always longing for something new.” — Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.

8) “There is no place like home.” — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.

7) “To die would be an awfully big adventure.” — Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie

6) “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” — The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

5) “Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don’t you think?” — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.

4) “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” — Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie

3) “Then her envious heart had peace, as much as an envious heart can have.” — Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.

2) “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” — Aesop’s Fables

1) “Dead men don’t bite” — Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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The new line of children’s classics from Knickerbocker Classics are bold, beautiful, and totally collectible. Get the little reader in your life started on the classics with these gorgeous, totally collectible editions.

Artist Arthur Rackham (1867–1939) Featured In Alice’s Wonderland

Arthur Rackham (1867–1939)

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In 1907, the copyright for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland expired and there was a mad rush by publishers to deliver new editions, most of them unremarkable and blatant in their slavish adherence to Tenniel’s illustrations. One notable exception was Arthur Rackham’s version. Rackham was already renowned for his book illustrations for Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J. M. Barrie when the publishing house Heinemann commissioned him to illustrate Alice in Wonderland. His drawings, with their sinuous lines and muted, somber colors, were very different from Tenniel’s. Rackham’s Wonderland is ominous and foreboding, full of frightening trees with knotty trunks and twisty branches, and creatures with sharp beaks and claws.

For more on Arthur Rackham, see the pages below from Alice’s Wonderland: A Visual Journey through Lewis Carroll’s Mad, Mad World