DailyLit: Culture Books

Madame de Staël

The First Modern Woman
by Francine du Plessix Gray

Few women, indeed few people, have had a greater hand in shaping their culture than the 18th century aristocrat Germaine de Staël. And few have done so in more spectacular fashion. For twenty years t ...

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Shoes, Bags, and Tiaras

Highlights from the Victoria and Albert Museum.
by V&A Publishing

Be inspired by the history and art behind some of women’s most cherished fashion accessories. A little bit of fashion heaven, one shoe, bag, or tiara at a time.

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Strange Things Happen

A Life with The Police, Polo, and Pygmies
by Stewart Copeland

Strange Things Happen has been made available for free to DailyLit readers by its publisher, HarperStudio. ... When Stewart Copeland gets dressed, he has an identity crisis. Should he put on “leathe ...

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The Ghost in the Pantry

Culinary Travels through Four Generations
by Erin Ferretti Slattery

Travel writing of the recipe kind, this cookbook and genealogy hybrid selects the best from tried-and-true, stain-spattered, dog-eared, and time-honored collections. The Ghost in the Pantry dishes up ...

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Burn This Book

PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word
by Toni Morrison (Ed.)

HarperStudio has made four of the essays in Burn This Book available for free to DailyLit readers. The version on DailyLit does not include the entire book. To read the full book, you can click on the ...

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Wikipedia Tour: Essential Opera

by DailyLit

Get introduced to the world of opera with our Wikipedia Tour of Opera Essentials: From La Bohème to Madame Butterfly, from Mozart to Wagner, we’ve pulled together all of the key composers, styles, ...

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Wikipedia Tour: 25 Great TV Shows

by DailyLit

Do you love TV? Think you hate it? Saddle up, couch potato: whether you’re revisiting old favorites or discovering what you’ve been missing, you’ll enjoy our Wikipedia Tour of 25 Great TV Shows. ...

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Wikipedia Tour: Masterpieces of Western Art

by DailyLit

The Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the Sistine Chapel—these are some of the most beautiful and iconic images in all of the art world, and they’re just a few of the pieces included in our Wikipedia ...

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Wikipedia Tour: The Roaring 20s

by DailyLit

The Jazz Age: It is a period that instantly evokes speakeasies, flappers, gangsters, and jazz. In America the 1920s were years marked by conspicuous consumption and more than a drop of illegal liquor, ...

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Wikipedia Tour: The Swinging 60s

by DailyLit

In America the 1960s had a Summer of Love and a seemingly endless war; it had Jimi Hendrix and his unforgettable music but more awful moments of shared tragedy than many care to remember; it had tie d ...

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