by Dale Dalenberg | Nov 17, 2019 | Antique Book Reports, Comics
See also www.dalenbergfilmlibrary.com for The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend, directed by Edwin S. Porter (of The Great Train Robbery fame), the 1906 entry in The Dalenberg Library’s “100 Films, 100 Years.” Winsor McCay’s comic strip “Dreams of...
by Dale Dalenberg | Oct 25, 2019 | Antique Book Reports
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) is one of those authors whose personal biography is as fascinating as his fiction, born in Greece, moved to Ireland as a child, essentially abandoned in his youth, finding his way to America at 19, and earning gradual success as a...
by Dale Dalenberg | Oct 3, 2019 | Antique Book Reports, Dalenberg Library Gallery
Nowadays, William Morris (1834-1896) is remembered as the Victorian artist famous for tapestry, furniture, and stained glass designs. But in his lifetime, he was chiefly known as a poet. He also has a certain fame since the 1970’s as one of the first fantasists...
by Dale Dalenberg | Sep 17, 2019 | Antique Book Reports
After the old guard of mystery/hard-boiled/detective writers mostly died out about 10 years ago, Max Allan Collins (1948- ) has quietly assumed their mantle of greatness. I’m thinking in particular of Mickey Spillane, Ed McBain, and Donald Westlake. Collins...
by Dale Dalenberg | Aug 9, 2018 | Antique Book Reports
George Goodwin Kilburne’s painting is a perfect evocation of one of the early scenes in Tennyson’s “Enoch Arden,” a long poem that was a hit for decades among the Victorians. Two boys vie for the affections of a young girl. She marries one...
