By Nora Quintanilla New York City, Apr 21 (EFE).- With 15 pages and 10 poems, a tiny book written in 1829 by Charlotte Brontë attracted the attention of bibliophiles on Thursday due its historical value, and also its price: $1.25 million. The recently rediscovered “Book of Rhymes” fits in the palm of a hand and …
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As 2021 kicks off, publishers with an eye for the high school English syllabus market are celebrating:
Suddenly detached from pesky copyright concerns, new editions of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel are going to print at multiple publishers. But the opportunity to re-release
Gatsby brings with it a new challenge: figuring out how to package a book whose original cover has become iconic.
“Everybody knows the original with the spooky eyes,” says Greil Marcus, the author of
Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby. Francis Cugat’s guache 1925 cover, with its enormous eyes peering out of a deep blue sky, weeping a line of green down over a red mouth and a glittering fairground, is one of the most instantaneously recognizable book covers ever created. In part, that’s because it so precisely evokes the same sense of Jazz Age decadence that Fitzgerald’s novel conjures. “There’s a s
By Madeleine Muzdakis on January 17, 2021
1925 first edition copy of “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, cover illustration by Francis Cugat. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons [Public domain])
In intellectual property law, public domain is a term used to denote a work free from copyright or whose copyright has expired. There are many ways a work of art, literature, or film may enter the public domain. Each year, many classic works become public simply due to the passing of time. Works published between 1923 and 1977 pass into the public domain on January 1, 95 years after their respective year of publication. This year, a batch of celebrated works from 1925 are now open to free public use, distribution, and adaptation. These works include F. Scott Fitzgerald s