Can you name the book?
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A fish with legs and an umbrella. |
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Portrait of author drawn by his children. |
"How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children." - quote by the author
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Illustration of Gog and Magog in the city. |
As a young man, the author was a student of divinity. However, after the death of the author's children and seeing the human misery caused by slavery, the author became an agnostic.
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1837 notebook sketch by the author. |
The book, published on Nov 24, 1859, was extremely controversial and continues to cause an uproar.
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Portrait of the author as a young man. |
Aware of the potential controversy, he waited 20 years to publish.
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Art by an anonymous German artist 1874. |
"Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved." - Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
"Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching." - Jean Baudrillard
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Original title page of the first edition. |
After the book was published, Darwin's children were given the original mauscript of Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection for drawing paper.
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Charles Darwin's home called Down House, with a slide down the stairs. |
"The recollections later in life would describe in detail the joy of swinging from a rope fastened to the ceiling on the first-floor landing: the ultimate achievement was to end their swing by standing on the newel posts of the stairs to the second floor.
An equally favoured pastime was throwing lead darts at one another along the corridor – dangerous maybe, but Charles and Emma did give them wooden shields with which to defend themselves."
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Charles Darwin (age 33) and his eldest son, 1842 |
By the Darwin children's account, the home they lived in was cheerful, chaotic, and loving.
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