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Smith & Taylor Classics

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⚒️ Unnamed Press' new classics imprint co-founded by editors Allison Miriam Smith and Brandon Taylor. 🪡 We publish celebrated and overlooked classics paired with esteemed readers in conversation. We hope you join in! linktr.ee/unnamed.press

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Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Some fresh new titles @unnamedpress.bsky.social @sandtclassics.bsky.social!
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Fallonthropy @movabletypo.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Spotted at Chaucer’s Bookstore in Santa Barbara, the @sandtclassics.bsky.social beautiful editions of Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” and Elizabeth Gaskell’s “North and South.”
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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I'm writing the forward to a new edition of John Cleland's Fanny Hill, arguably the most important, earliest, and strangest piece of British porn. It's published by @sandtclassics.bsky.social and features a conversation with @stoya.bsky.social. My mother would be so proud.
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Fanny Hill: Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure — Unnamed Press
by John Cleland Published: January 06, 2026 ISBN: 9781961884731 Paperback $17.95
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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
It's nice to use my Ph.D. training in the long eighteenth century for artistic, capitalist, and low-key anti-fascist good (because don't forget, they're coming for your porn).
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
It's an honor to serve. 💅
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Learn more about our fabulous contributors and preorder now at unnamedpress.com!
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Thought to be the first English prose erotica, paving the way for our right to write and read scandalously spicy material, our edition of the ever illustrious and sensuous FANNY HILL (1749) is ✨coming✨ 1/6/26. Introduction by @chelseagsummers.bsky.social and conversation with @stoya.bsky.social <3
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
BOGO SUMMER SALE ON NOW! ➡️ unnamedpress.com
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Bianca ⚔️🍉 @bookhoarding.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Celebrated finals by picking up my copy of North and South ( @barelytolerable.bsky.social’s Version) at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social today!
Bianca holding beautiful pink cover edition of North and South in front of Green Apple Books
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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Wrote about @unnamedpress.bsky.social's new edition of The Country of the Pointed Firs! www.pressherald.com/2025/05/08/r...
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Review: A new edition of ‘Country of the Pointed Firs’ offers reasons to return to the classic
Sarah Orne Jewett's book hasn't lost its relevance or beauty.
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Unnamed Press @unnamedpress.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
"A new edition of ‘The Country of the Pointed Firs’ offers reasons to return to the classic." Thank you @tobiascarroll.bsky.social! Read here: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/08/r... @brandyjensen.bsky.social
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Review: A new edition of ‘Country of the Pointed Firs’ offers reasons to return to the classic
Sarah Orne Jewett's book hasn't lost its relevance or beauty.
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Jennifer Adcock @jenkatwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Book mail from @sandtclassics.bsky.social! The classics ARE for everyone!
New editions of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon.A letter from the publisher.
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This is exactly what we do it for 🤍 Hope you enjoy!
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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
It’s pub day! You can now purchase this new edition of North & South featuring a conversation between myself and actor/activist Morgan Spector wherever books are sold! “He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.” @sandtclassics.bsky.social #northandsouth #thorntonthursday #gaskell
A picture of a book. The cover is pink and features a top hat and a wide-brimmed hat. The title is North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. At the bottom, it says “in conversation with Adrienne Garcia-Specht and Morgan Spector”Picture of Adrienne. She is wearing a black turtle neck. She has short hair, round glasses, brown skin and eyes. She is smiling. Picture of Morgan. He is looking intently at the camera. He has a beard and full head of black hair.
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Unnamed Press @unnamedpress.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Celebrating a happy publication day! Two new @sandtclassics.bsky.social NORTH AND SOUTH & LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET, as well as their brilliant conversational afterwords, are on shelves now. Enjoy~
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Fallonthropy @movabletypo.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I had the pleasure of being at the Unnamed Press & Rare Bird Books booth where I met the Smith of @sandtclassics.bsky.social ! I bought the soon-to-be released publication of Elizabeth Gaskell’s “North and South” 🥰 Shout out to another book from Unnamed Press, “But the Girl” by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
Unnamed Press & Rare Bird Books at LA Festival of Books. A woman in yellow holds up the imprint’s copy of “North and South” by Elizabeth Gaskell.Copy of Elizabeth Gaskell’s “North and South” in my hand.Array of books published by Unnamed Press and Smith & Taylor Classics.
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Thank you for stopping by!
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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This is out in a week, which is wild to me because it felt so far away in November and yet here we are. It’s exciting, and also I’m not doing enough to celebrate.
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Oh, by the way: trans women are women. Trans men are men. Biological determinism is a eugenic prison.
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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Both novels are certified bangers. Also! LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET features a conversation between the brilliant @sarahweinman.com and yours truly.
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Banger conversation for a banger novel absolutely!! <3
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
yes yes yes yes
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The monthly Substack is ready for your eyes! Mr. Thornton comes bearing our wares as well: sandtclassics.substack.com/p/north-and-...
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North and South
ft. an exclusive conversation excerpt and bonus material
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L.R.S. Hagerty @lrshagerty.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Union strikes and scabs! Conscientous objectors! Class conflict! Cultural divides! North and South deserves more fans. Check out this print edition from Smith & Taylor coming out May 6th. And watch the 2004 BBC miniseries (free of Prime, Tubi, and Roku).
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Two new additions to our shelf! NORTH AND SOUTH and LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET will be on YOUR shelves this May 6. 🌸 Swipe to read the note from the editors featured in each book. All copies available for order at your favorite bookshop or at unnamedpress.com including our 2025 Subscription! #classics
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Finished books are in 👀 (they're gorgeous)
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
New Substack :) Read here: substack.com/@sandtclassics
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Unnamed Press @unnamedpress.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We demand Mahmoud Khalil's immediate release and encourage you to do the same. Link below.
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
We are pleased to announce this year's new titles, stunning covers by Jaya Nicely, AND the 2025 S&T Classics YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION! 🎉 Six newly revisited classics in conversation sent straight to your doorstep all year: spring, summer, fall. Only at unnamedpress.com
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Edith Wharton's TWILIGHT SLEEP returns to the THE ATLANTIC in all her glory. 🥂 Thank you @rhiansasseen.bsky.social! www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
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Six Older Books That Deserve to Be Popular Today
In recent years, these titles have found themselves justifiably rescued from oblivion.
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Once described by Henry James as being “as dangerous and uncanny as she is intelligent,” Vernon Lee’s ghost stories haunt as much as they reveal an obsession with art, architecture, and deadly, queer desires. More information and conversation partner announcements to come. 🤍
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
... a painter, hired to capture the likeness of a reclusive couple, slowly uncovers a mysterious love affair; and a man with a voice that is as deadly as it is beautiful eats away at the health of those who hear him sing, troubling a composer years later.
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Shipwrecked before a remote Italian coastal village, a young girl discovers the ability to command love and incite madness; a Polish historian is drawn to the enigmatic allure of a medieval Duchess with a deadly past;
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
HAUNTINGS (1890) is a collection of bewitching ghost stories from seminal short story writer Vernon Lee. Included in our 2025 subscription service, this title is also now available for individual preorder. COMING NOVEMBER 11 unnamedpress.com
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
She is known for a brief but brilliant career as an essayist, poet, and novelist of REUBEN SACHS (1888) and MISS MEREDITH (1889). More information and conversation partner announcements to come.
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Amy Levy was an Anglo-Jewish poet and novelist born in Clapham, London. She was educated at Newnham College and frequented the London circles of Eleanor Marx and Olive Schreiner. In 1886 she met Vernon Lee in Florence, Italy and from then on they exchanged sapphic love poems to each other.
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Penniless and reliant on each other, they decide to open a photography studio at 20B Baker Street (unrelated to Sherlock Holmes... unless?). A novel of sisterhood, love, the female gaze and postmortem photography, Levy deftly balances along the thin lines of romance and realism, art and commerce.
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Amy Levy’s THE ROMANCE OF A SHOP (1888) follows the four Lorimer sisters in the wake of their father’s death as they run a photography studio in London. Included in our 2025 subscription service, this title is also now available for individual preorder. COMING NOVEMBER 11 unnamedpress.com
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
It does, and we want to talk about it to encourage further conversation and understanding!
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Published the year full emancipation was legalized by the UK’s Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, PYM captures the relentless anxiety and violence of pre-Civil War American expansion. Join Americanists Nathan Wolff and Joseph Rezek as they discuss Poe's legacy, shadowy influence, and more.
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
In Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992), Toni Morrison explores the depiction of African characters in white American lit, especially ARTHUR GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET claiming "no early American writer is more important to the concept of American Africanism than Poe".
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
In his only novel, THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET (1838), Poe carries his knack for the mysterious and macabre, spilt blood and cryptic messages onto the South Seas. Our version of a penguin classic also includes selected Poe writings and lit beef. Coming 7/22 unnamedpress.com
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adrienne @barelytolerable.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
At one point Morgan yells “WHAT?” at me and you have to read to find out why 😂 #Gaskell #northandsouth
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Astronautpants @astronautpants.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Happy Valentine's Day to me only!
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
💘
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Lovingly referred to as "Pride and Prejudice for socialists" this is a heartstopping romance fueled by debate, stubbornness, humor, and passion for a cause that continues to highlight our struggles today. Included in our 2025 subscription, NORTH AND SOUTH is available now for individual preorder.
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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Vulnerability and change make way for more as Margaret Hale and John Thornton, a mill-owner, navigate the rapidly changing social, spiritual, and moral landscape of England's industrial revolution.
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