The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams. —Henry David Thoreau
I have a way of attracting books. A visit to the bookstore this morning turned up two enticing volumes, which are now here on my desk. One is a used Library of America edition of travel writing by Henry James: Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America. The book appears to be unread, and is in its original slipcase. This is a lucky coincidence, because, two or three days ago, I ordered the companion volume, which contains his travel writings on Europe. The other book we brought home is Bees and Their Keepers: A Journey Through Seasons and Centuries, written by Lotte Möller and translated from the Swedish by Frank Perry. A beautifully designed hardcover, this new, remaindered volume was published by Abrams Image, New York.
Read the seventy-sixth, seventy-seventh, seventy-eighth, and seventy-ninth chapters of Middlemarch.
October 27, 2023.
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Categories: If It Had A Name
Tags: Bees, Bees and Their Keepers, Books, Frank Perry, George Eliot, Henry James, Journals, Library Notes, Library of America, Lotte Möller, Middlemarch, Reading, Swedish, Thoreau, Translations
William Michaelian 