Publisher's Synopsis
With an extraordinary blend of short fiction, poems, philosophy, and beyond, The Dover Anthology of Very Short Literature rediscovers the value of the commonplace book. Since the days of antiquity, readers, writers, students, and scholars have used commonplace books as aids for remembering useful concepts or facts, moments of introspection, quotes, thoughts, and passages from reading. Encompassing a broad range of subjects, styles, themes, and moods, this volume compiles literature's most memorable authors along with their unique commonplace contributions - from Wordsworth to Nietzsche, Melville to Tychicus, Philip K. Dick to Alexander Hamilton.
