Perspectives on Pandemics
By Lapham’s Quarterly
By Lapham’s Quarterly
In the weeks ahead, as the world continues to reckon with and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, our website will feature voices from the past who told stories that rhyme with the one unfolding before us—stories dealing with quarantine, unfathomable deaths, isolation, dread, and attempts to find community when the rest of the world feels far away. These books offer more from those voices.
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
$22.00 $19.80Includes the story “The Masque of the Red Death”
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter
$17.95 $16.51Includes “Pale Horse, Pale Rider”—a story of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
The Secret Garden: The 100th Anniversary Edition with Tasha Tudor Art and Bonus Materials
Frances Hodgson Burnett and Tasha Tudor
$8.99 $8.27
An Apology for Idlers and Other Essays
Robert Louis Stevenson
$40.74Includes the essay “On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places.”
Lapham’s Quarterly embodies the belief that history is the root of all education, scientific and literary as well as political and economic. Each issue addresses a topic of current interest and concern—war, religion, money, medicine, nature, crime—by bringing up to the microphone of the present the advice and counsel of the past. Subscribe today!