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"Goodreads is actually useless and doesn't have the Robert Baldick translation listed. I've been on the lookout for years for this and finally splurged on a used copy shipped from Australia. Pierre Louÿs didn't invent lesbianism but he did act as Paul to Sappho's lady loving Jesus when he published his popular literary forgery Songs of Bilitis and put the terms lesbian and sapphic into circulation." — Mar 03, 2026 10:14PM
"Goodreads is actually useless and doesn't have the Robert Baldick translation listed. I've been on the lookout for years for this and finally splurged on a used copy shipped from Australia. Pierre Louÿs didn't invent lesbianism but he did act as Paul to Sappho's lady loving Jesus when he published his popular literary forgery Songs of Bilitis and put the terms lesbian and sapphic into circulation." — Mar 03, 2026 10:14PM
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""A renowned clerical and philological conductor of a weekly publication of this kind, whose surprising proficiency in Greek, Hebrew, and Chaldaic, to which he had devoted by far the greater part of his life, peculiarly fitted him to pronounce unerring judgement upon works of taste in the English..." Moby Dick and Pierre wrecked Melville's career. Moby Dick was reappraised. I get why Pierre wasn't. But it's funny!" — Mar 04, 2026 08:23PM
""A renowned clerical and philological conductor of a weekly publication of this kind, whose surprising proficiency in Greek, Hebrew, and Chaldaic, to which he had devoted by far the greater part of his life, peculiarly fitted him to pronounce unerring judgement upon works of taste in the English..." Moby Dick and Pierre wrecked Melville's career. Moby Dick was reappraised. I get why Pierre wasn't. But it's funny!" — Mar 04, 2026 08:23PM
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