Latest additions to the site:

[Logos]

I will probably update this weekly so please check back to see; newest authors added to the site and their biographies, quizzes on authors and their works, the latest short stories, poems, plays, and novels &etc.

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Most Recent quizzes:

There have been lots of new Quizzes (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?) added to site, please partake of and test your reading comprehension skills :)


:thumbs_up And a big thank you to Scher, Adelheid, Pensive, RJbibiophil, subterranean, Miss Darcy, Enjou_Garyuu, Opera Ghost, Renia, Ghostly119, Winner4600, Sunchrislit, BLACKBELTGIRL91, Nickleby, David Clearwood, Rooty, catwomen1234, asromavc, Centurion, helix_dragon, and everyone else who created them!


Sense and Sensibility was submitted by our very own Adelheid:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=263

The Bell Quiz for Hans Christian Andersen was submitted by RJbibliophil:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=258


3 recent quizzes were created by LordNightmare:

King Solomon's Mines Quiz
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=261

The Gulliver's Travels Quiz
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=260

The Jungle Book 10 Question Quiz
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=259


The Idiot Quiz was submitted by snowangel:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=257

Dante Alighieri Quiz: His Life and Works
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=266

Saint Augustine quiz
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=265

Louisa May Alcott: Her Life and Writings quiz:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=264

Emile Zola: His Life and Works
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=262


Other items recently added:

Hans Christian Andersen’s tale “The Little Mermaid” is now on the site here:
http://www.online-literature.com/hans_christian_andersen/2084/

Aristophanes’ comedic play “The Frogs” can now be found here:
http://www.online-literature.com/aristophanes/the-frogs/

[Virgil]

Logos, there is an error in the Dante quiz. Question 14,

How many terraces are there in Dante's Purgatorio?

Your answer was: 7
Correct Answer: 9
There are seven terraces in Purgatorio, not nine.

Also question 5, why was Dante banished, the answer "because of his opposition to the church" is technically correct, but it should be clarified as being over political matters, not religious matters. The Pope was supporting a different political party than Dante's.

[Logos]

Logos, there is an error in the Dante quiz. Question 14,

There are seven terraces in Purgatorio, not nine.
That was probably just a slip of selecting the wrong radio button, if you submit a quiz yourself you will see how tiny they are ;)


Also question 5, why was Dante banished, the answer "because of his opposition to the church" is technically correct, but it should be clarified as being over political matters, not religious matters. The Pope was supporting a different political party than Dante's.

Fair point, that answer has been slightly amended, thanks for pointing these out :)

[grace86]

This is a good idea Logos. I am usually online in sparse moments, so that is great that you have an update on the newer things added to the site. Thank you.

[Logos]

New author Charlotte Perkins Gilman added to the database http://www.online-literature.com/charlotte-perkins-gilman/

Biography, her novels Herland and What Diantha Did, the short story `The Yellow Wallpaper' and quiz here (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=267)

[grace86]

I like "The Yellow Wallpaper." I will check it out. Thanks again, Logos.

[Shakira]

Logos can you add Romola by George Eliot in the online books section ?

[Logos]

It is now on the list :)

[Shakira]

Thanks a lot.

[Logos]

I want to leave this topic for posting works that *have* been added, please ask for additions in the Book Request forum :)

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=11

[Logos]

New author biography and quiz added to the site for Elbert Hubbard:
http://www.online-literature.com/elbert-hubbard/

He wrote a great series of biographical sketches Little Journeys to the Homes of.. famous authors like Jonathan Swift, Walt Whitman, Victor Hugo, Shakespeare, Dickens, Tennyson, Lord Byron, Elizabeth Browning, Charlotte Bronte, Christina Rossetti, etc... American presidents, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Rembrandt, Velasquez, Titian and Oliver Cromwell and Jean Jacques Rousseau.

Jerome K. Jerome's hilarious novel Three Men in a Boat is now on the site:
http://www.online-literature.com/jerome/three-men-in-a-boat/

Irving Bacheller's Eben Holden, an adventure romance following pioneers in the 19th century can be found here;

http://www.online-literature.com/irving-bacheller/eben-holden/

Hans Christian Andersen didn't just write timeless fairy tales, his autobiography The True Story of My Life can now be found here:
http://www.online-literature.com/hans_christian_andersen/my-life/

and his non-fiction travel novel Pictures of Sweden can be found here:
http://www.online-literature.com/hans_christian_andersen/pictures-of-sweden/

Henry Adams wrote a great historical work on France and architecture, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres which can be read here:
http://www.online-literature.com/henry-adams/saint-michel-and-chartres/

Elizabeth von Arnim wrote an autobiographical work Elizabeth and her German Garden which can be found here:

http://www.online-literature.com/elizabeth-arnim/german-garden/

[Logos]

:goof: another week gone by already!

The latest site additions are the following etexts..

More Anonymous (http://www.online-literature.com/anonymous/) works have been added:

the epic 11th century French poem Song of Roland (http://www.online-literature.com/anonymous/2085/) and the four volumes of Arabian Nights (http://www.online-literature.com/anonymous/arabian-nights-vol-1/)

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Lord George Gordon Byron's (http://www.online-literature.com/byron/) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (http://www.online-literature.com/byron/childe-harolds-pilgrimage/) has been added as well.

[crisaor]

The four volumes of Arabian Nights (http://www.online-literature.com/anonymous/arabian-nights-vol-1/) have been added as well.
Good things come to those who wait.

[Logos]

Slow but sure crisaor :)

I couldn't wait until next Tuesday to let you guys know that a long-overdue-to-be-added author is now on the site..


Walt Whitman (http://www.online-literature.com/walt-whitman/) :banana:

His collection of over 380! poems, Leaves of Grass, is there too for your poem reading pleasure :D

Franz Kafka's The Trial (http://www.online-literature.com/franz-kafka/the-trial/) is also now added.

[Pensive]

Thanks Logos, this is great as I will like to try at least ten of those 380 poems!

[Admin]

This site now has an "Advance Search" to give a little more flexibility in searching the library.

http://www.online-literature.com/advancedsearch.php

[Logos]

okays.. lots of new books, short stories, essays, and poems have been added in the last week or so :)


James Barrie (http://www.online-literature.com/barrie/) the author of Peter Pan, wrote many other works including plays like The Admirable Crichton; Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (http://www.online-literature.com/barrie/peter-pan-kensington-gardens/) , and Margaret Ogilvy (http://www.online-literature.com/barrie/margaret-ogilvy/) about his mother.

Some important works of Honore de Balzac's (http://www.online-literature.com/honore_de_balzac/) have been added: The Chouans, Beatrix, Eugenie Grandet, and Louis Lambert.

Further collections of Lord George Gordon Byron's (http://www.online-literature.com/byron/) poetry, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Fugitive Pieces are now available.

For Thomas Carlyle (http://www.online-literature.com/thomas-carlyle/) his Heroes and Hero Worship and Sartor Resartus are now available.

Willa Cather's (http://www.online-literature.com/willa-cather/) Song of the Lark and more of her short stories have been added.

Many new Wilkie Collins (http://www.online-literature.com/wilkie-collins/) works have been added including: Antonina, Armadale, Basil, The Moonstone, and quite possibly his most popular novel The Woman in White.


Joseph Conrad (http://www.online-literature.com/conrad/) wrote a fascinating autobiographical work A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences, and more of his novels and short stories have been added including Gaspar Ruiz and Almayer's Folly.

George Eliot's (http://www.online-literature.com/george_eliot/) Daniel Deronda is now on the site and her collection of non-fiction essays from the viewpoint of the ancient Greek philosopher, Impressions of Theophrastus Such is here too.


Madame Bovary author Gustave Flaubert's (http://www.online-literature.com/gustave-flaubert/) epic poem The Dance of Death, and his short story Legend of Saint-Julian the Hospitaller have now been added.


Oliver Goldsmith (http://www.online-literature.com/oliver-goldsmith/) wrote many poems which are now added, as well as his famous play She Stoops to Conquer.

Also remember the Advanced Search option http://www.online-literature.com/advancedsearch.php is really helpful if you are writing a paper or just looking for a quote or reference, you can either search the entire site (forums *and* author pages) or do specific searches in books.

Ok I think that's all for now!

[Virgil]

Logos - You are doing a great job. :thumbs_up Some really good additions.

[Charles Darnay]

Hooray for The Moonstone. I bought it recently and am currently reading it, it's awsome.

[Pensive]

This seems great. I will love to try Woman In White out.

[Logos]

Ok! time for another update :)

More of James Fenimore Cooper's (http://www.online-literature.com/cooperj/) works have been added, a few of his short stories and over 20 of his novels including Wyandotte and the rest of his "Leatherstocking Tales": The Pioneers (1823), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840), and The Deerslayer (1841).

Edgar Allen Poe's (http://www.online-literature.com/poe/) novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is now on the site, as well as *dozens* and *dozens* of his poems, short stories including "Never Bet the Devil Your Head", "King Pest", and "Ligeia", and essays including "The Poetic Principal", "Life of Poe", "Edgar Allan Poe: An Appreciation", and "Death of Poe".

William Wordsworth (http://www.online-literature.com/wordsworth/) : Dozens of his poems have been added. Some are listed individually and some are also contained in collections of his works as Poetry Books. Some of them have additional notes by the author.

Oscar Wilde (http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/) : Over 60 of his poems have been added including "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", "To Milton", "The Garden of Eros", "Endymion", "The Grave Of Keats", "Portia", "Charmides", "Humanitad" and etc. great stuff, check it out! A number of his essays on various subjects including "The English Renaissance of Art" are now available; and his plays "The Dutchess of Padua", "Lady Windermere's Fan", and "A Woman of No Importance" have been added; and more short stories including "The Star Child" and "The Model Millionaire".

[Charles Darnay]

huzzah, Oscar Wilde

[Logos]

Poet Robert/Rabbie Burns (http://www.online-literature.com/robert-burns/) is now on the site; hundreds and hundreds of his songs and poems, laments, ballads, and epitaphs including "Holy Willie's Prayer", "Mary, Queen of Scots", "My Luve's Like A Red, Red Rose", "Scotch Drink", "Tam O' Shanter", "The Cotter's Saturday Night", "The Highland Widow's Lament", "The Jolly Beggars", "To a Haggis", "To A Mouse", "Auld Lang Syne" etc.

[Schokokeks]

James Barrie (http://www.online-literature.com/barrie/) the author of Peter Pan, wrote many other works including plays like The Admirable Crichton; Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (http://www.online-literature.com/barrie/peter-pan-kensington-gardens/) , and Margaret Ogilvy (http://www.online-literature.com/barrie/margaret-ogilvy/) about his mother.

Yaaaaaay !!! Thanks, Logos !!! I'm totally enjoying it ! :nod:

[Logos]

More additions :)

Robert Frost: (http://www.online-literature.com/frost/) --many more poems added including his collection titled "A Boys' Will".

William Butler Yeats: (http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/) not just a poet, his collection of Irish folk/fairy tales A Celtic Twilight (http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/celtic-twilight/) has been added as well as some of his plays and short stories, and his biographical memoir Four Years.

Stephen Crane (http://www.online-literature.com/crane/) who wrote so much about the American Civil War like in his novel Red Badge of Courage also wrote many short stories that are now added, which are based on his time as war correspondent.

Sir Walter Scott's (http://www.online-literature.com/walter_scott/) Ivanhoe and The Talisman were already on the site, but many more of his works have been added including Rob Roy and The Antiquary, as well as some of his poetry including "Pibroch of Dunald Dhu" and his famous haunting epic "The Lady of the Lake" (http://www.online-literature.com/walter_scott/2561/) which includes a Preface and Background Notes.

G.K. Chesterton (http://www.online-literature.com/chesterton/) was an author and critic, and wrote numerous plays and essays, and biographical sketches of famous authors as in his Twelve Types: A Collection of Biographies but he also wrote poetry as in his The Wild Knight and Other Poems among many other additions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's (http://www.online-literature.com/goethe/) Autobiography (http://www.online-literature.com/goethe/autobiography/) is now on the site, as well as many many more of his poems.

And last but not least :lol: for Ivan S. Turgenev (http://www.online-literature.com/turgenev/) many more of his short stories have been added including "Clara Militch" and "Three Portraits". His novels On the Eve and Rudin have also been added.

I would also like to thank those people who take the time to let us know about typos or missing chapters etc, its really much appreciated because it is such a huge undertaking to do this and there is bound to be some human error along the way.

[grace86]

Wow thank you so much Logos, what you are doing is awesome. Thanks for letting us know! I didn't realize how much has been added lately!

I am going to check this stuff out!

[bazarov]

Good things come to those who wait.

Tolstoy...Very good:lol:

[bazarov]

More additions :)



And last but not least :lol: for Ivan S. Turgenev (http://www.online-literature.com/turgenev/) many more of his short stories have been added including "Clara Militch" and "Three Portraits". His novels On the Eve and Rudin have also been added.

I would also like to thank those people who take the time to let us know about typos or missing chapters etc, its really much appreciated because it is such a huge undertaking to do this and there is bound to be some human error along the way.

Logos, you're genius!!!

[miss tenderness]

thanks logo:)good job.

[Logos]

Ok.. it's almost been a week, but got lots added so here we go :banana:

more Louisa May Alcott (http://www.online-literature.com/alcott/) works have been added, novels and short stories. She wrote under pseudonym "A.M. Barnard" Behind A Mask or, A Woman's Power and Pauline's Passion and Punishment and others, and also wrote Hospital Sketches and Work: A Story of Experience based on her service as nurse during the American Civil War.

Jules Verne's (http://www.online-literature.com/verne/) All Around the Moon and Facing the Flag are now on the site.

Emile Zola (http://www.online-literature.com/emile-zola/) wrote a trilogy of novels based on his travels to various cities, Lourdes, Paris and Rome and more of his books have been added including his famous The Fat and the Thin.

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (http://www.online-literature.com/darwin/autobiography-of-darwin/) has now been added.

Herman Melville (http://www.online-literature.com/melville/) wrote a lot of poetry, his extensive collection John Marr now added to the site as well as a few other of his novels including the two Mardi works.

Many more of Henry James's (http://www.online-literature.com/henry_james/) novels have been added including The Golden Bowl, What Maisie Knew, The Awkward Age, and The Pupil. His essay on Nathaniel Hawthorne and numerous of his short stories have been added including "A Bundle of Letters" and "The Tree of Knowledge".


Christopher Marlowe's (http://www.online-literature.com/marlowe/) Dr. Faustus, versions from the years 1604 and 1616 are now on the site, as well as his 1594 "The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage".

William Somerset Maugham's (http://www.online-literature.com/maugham/) Liza of Lambeth and The Magician have now been added.

Jean Jacques Rousseau's (http://www.online-literature.com/rousseau/) autobiographical Confessions, semi-autobiographical Emile, and his Discourse on Inequality are now added.

And. ... just for bazarov :lol: the collection of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy's (http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/) works that are available in English in the public domain should now be on the site including his trilogy Childhood (1852), Boyhood (1854), and Youth (1856). Overdue to be added was The Cossacks. Numerous of his short stories including "Ivan the Fool" and essays have been added, as well as his "A Letter to A Hindu" that was the beginning of his friendship with fellow anti-violence pacifist Mohandas Gandhi.

[Virgil]

Great job as usual, Logos.

[bazarov]

Thank you Logos, some threads should appear in short time:D Now, when you're so hard working, how about some Dostoevsky's short stories?

[Logos]

Oh gosh I haven’t updated this for almost a month now! :blush:

You can see some pages (http://www.online-literature.com/author_index.php) with the new LitNet logo on them!

There have been two new authors added to the site :)

Robert Browning (http://www.online-literature.com/robert-browning/):
His biography and an introduction to studying his works is added;
the texts of the famous correspondence between him and his poet wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning have been added, which their son Robert edited;
"The Pied Piper of Hamelin" is contained in his Shorter Works; and
Dramatic Romances includes his famous poems "In A Gondola", "A Grammarians Funeral", "Porphyria's Lover", and "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" (which inspired Steven King's `Dark Tower' series).

Alexander Pushkin (http://www.online-literature.com/alexander-pushkin/) has now been added: a biography and Boris Godunov, his poem "The Fountain of Bakhchisarai" and a few of his short stories.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh (http://www.online-literature.com/elizabeth-browning/aurora-leigh/) has now been added to the site.

Many more of Dickens's (http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/) fiction and non-fiction works have been added including:
A Child's History of England, which is really a great overview for anyone of any age!, The Battle of Life, Master Humphrey and Holiday Romance, and more of his short stories including his Christmas ones like "The Cricket on the Hearth". His short story "Sketches of Young Gentlemen" is hilarious.

More titles by Amelia Barr (http://www.online-literature.com/amelia-barr/) have been added;

more John Bangs-ian (http://www.online-literature.com/john-bangs/) stories have been added;

more for Irving Bacheller (http://www.online-literature.com/irving-bacheller/);

`It' Girl Elinor Glyn (http://www.online-literature.com/elinor-glyn/) had so many of her works adapted to film including The Man and the Moment, Three Weeks, and His Hour;

more of that wise-cracking Canadian author Stephen Leacock's (http://www.online-literature.com/stephen-leacock/) works have been added including Further Foolishness and Frenzied Fiction;

Guy de Maupassant's (http://www.online-literature.com/maupassant/) Bel Amie is now on the site;

and last but certainly not least, both of the Shelley's have more texts added: Mary's (http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_mary/) futuristic The Last Man, Mathilda, and her play Proserpine and Midas can now be read.

Percy Bysshe's (http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/) A Defence of Poetry and *dozens* of additional poems of his have been added in his The Complete Poetical Works: his wife Mary did a lovely job in adding extensive notes and background for most of the poems in that volume, its a really great resource for study.

cheers,
L

[subterranean]

Oh gosh I haven’t updated this for almost a month now! :blush:

You can see some pages (http://www.online-literature.com/author_index.php) with the new LitNet logo on them!

L

Looks very nice to me :). And, as always, thanks a bunch for your great efforts, L.

[Logos]

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/images/main-theme/statusicon/forum_new.gif ~ Well! it's been over a month, time for another update here :lol:

I really thought I'd be able to do weekly updates but there has been so much other stuff going on here lately that it is sometimes hard finding the time to post this.

First off I guess the biggest news is Admin has been busy with stuff like the recent server update, site updates, and http://www.online-literature.com/forums/images/rating/rating_5.gif Member Blogs ! (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/blogs/) http://www.online-literature.com/forums/images/rating/rating_5.gifwhich are now available and I'm happy to see so many started already.

If you have any questions about them like how to start yours, how to make changes to it etc. please post your question in this topic:
Literature Network Blogs
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19945
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The Quiz (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php) section has had some hiccups recently but it should be working fine now whether you want to submit a quiz or take one. There have been a number of new ones added including one for Alexander Pushkin, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Robert Frost and his poetry, check them out!
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For American Civil War buffs, John McElroy's (http://www.online-literature.com/john-mcelroy/) personal memoir, Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons (1879), has now been added to the site.
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More Anonymous texts have been added including Scottish Folk Lore and Legends (http://www.online-literature.com/anonymous/scottish-folk-lore-legends/)
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A new and comprehensive George Orwell (http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/) bio has been posted, as well as his commentary on Charles Dickens.
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W. H. Hudson (http://www.online-literature.com/wh-hudson/) has had more works added including Afoot in England.
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The man who is said to have coined the term 'serendipity', Horace Walpole's (http://www.online-literature.com/horace-walpole/) Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III has been added.
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Sherwood Anderson's (http://www.online-literature.com/sherwood-anderson/) defining work Winesburg, Ohio (1919) "The Book of the Grotesque" is now on the site as well as other works of his, novels and short stories.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (http://www.online-literature.com/stevenson/) didn't just write Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1886), he was also an avid historian and essayist, as evidenced in his Memories and Portraits, and his poetry books Underwoods (http://www.online-literature.com/stevenson/underwoods/) and Ballads have been added.
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Mark Twain's (http://www.online-literature.com/twain/) bio has been updated and many new works added including:

Is Shakespeare Dead?
Tom Sawyer Abroad
Tom Sawyer, Detective
Innocents Abroad
A Tramp Abroad
Following the Equator

and what is said to have been Twain's own favourite novel
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.
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Many more works for Rudyard Kipling (http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/) have been added:

Barrack Room Ballads
The Second Jungle Book
Stalky & Co.
The Light That Failed
Life’s Handicap
Puck of Pook’s Hill
Story of the Gadsbys and
Letters of Travel.
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[Admin]

A new and comprehensive George Orwell bio has been posted, as well as his commentary on Charles Dickens.

Wasn't that Dickens work on the site already?

[Virgil]

More Anonymous texts have been added including Scottish Folk Lore and Legends
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As to Scottish folk lore, any chance on placing some of the Scottish Ballads on the site. I think there were compiled a century ago by a fellow named Child. "Sir Patrick Spens" comes to mind. I once did a term paper on it and its variants.

[Logos]

Wasn't that Dickens work on the site already?Oh, yes it was I got it confused with something else.

[Laura11]

This is a laberynth for me, I'm still searching the way and trying to learn how to move here. I just want to comment it. I'm very eager to write and participate but it's so difficult for me. It's astonishing. I've been in other forums and handled it quite well.
I'd like to participate in the page where there are personal poetry and I can't find it now. It's one week already I'm reading here and reading and reading and moving and moving and still don't know the way to where I want to go.
I've to be patient.
greetings
Laura

[Laura11]

Not even able to read my private email here! Incredible!
(and of course, I don't know where I am except that I am in the literatre network)

[Laura11]

I'm gonna get mad: some times the latest messages come at the top of the page and some times they come at the bottom.
Could anybody explain what is happening?

[Logos]

Laura, there have been some technical issues going on with the site which might be why you and others are seeing odd things, please be patient.

The area for reading others' poetry or posting your own is here:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=14

The link to your private messages (PMs) is at the top right corner of the screen.

If you have other specific questions you can send me a PM :)

[Logos]

Ok, next update!

More William Butler Yeats (http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/) short stories have been added including: "Out of the Rose" and "The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows".

While he is most famous for his science fiction works like The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells (http://www.online-literature.com/wellshg/) wrote some pretty funny satire like Love and Mr. Lewisham which is among the many other works of his that have been added: Certain Personal Matters, An Englishman Looks at the World, The Food of the Gods, and "The Stolen Bacillus" and "Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation".

Dostoevsky's (http://www.online-literature.com/dostoevsky/) novel The Possessed is now on the site, as well as his short stories "The Christmas Tree and the Wedding" and "The Grand Inquisitor".

William Blake's (http://www.online-literature.com/blake/) poems "London" and "I Heard an Angel" are now on the site.

Many more works by Leo Tolstoy (http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/) include: The Kingdom of God is Within You, "A Prisoner in the Caucasus", "Ilyás", "The Bear Hunt" and "Three Hermits".

Added works by J. M. Synge (http://www.online-literature.com/synge/) include The Aran Islands and his collection of essays In Wicklow And West Kerry. More plays have been added including: "Deirdre of the Sorrows" and "The Playboy of the Western World".

Speaking of playwrights, many more of George Bernard Shaw's (http://www.online-literature.com/george_bernard_shaw/) have been added including: Androcles and the Lion, Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress, Arms and the Man, Man and Superman, Misalliance, Mrs. Warren's Profession, and Heartbreak House as well as his novel The Irrational Knot.

John Dryden's (http://www.online-literature.com/dryden/) farce/play Marriage a-la-Mode is now added.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's (http://www.online-literature.com/fitzgerald/) novel The Beautiful and the Damned, collection Tales of the Jazz Age, and short stories including "Bernice Bobs Her Hair", "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong", and "The Ice Palace" have been added.

Edith Wharton's (http://www.online-literature.com/wharton/) poetry collection Artemis to Actaeon has been added as well as more short stories in The Greater Inclination, her novel Sanctuary, her first novel The Valley of Decision, and many short stories including "The Descent of Man", "Expiation", "Madame de Treymes", "The Pot Boiler", and "The Debt".

Thomas Hardy's (http://www.online-literature.com/hardy/) collection A Changed Man and Other Tales is now on the site.

Charles Dickens' (http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/) Sketches by Boz is now on the site.

Anthony Trollope's (http://www.online-literature.com/anthony-trollope/) Framley Parsonage and The Small House at Allington have been added completing his set of of six novels in his Chronicles of Barsetshire series.

More fantastic tales from Norwegian author Jonas Lie's (http://www.online-literature.com/jonas-lie/) novels have been added: One of Life’s Slaves, The Pilot and His Wife, and The Visionary.

Canadian author Grant Allen's (http://www.online-literature.com/grant-allen/) Hilda Wade, Recalled to Life, and his scandalous best-seller The Woman Who Did have been added.

And last but certainly not least, Lord George Gordon Byron's (http://www.online-literature.com/byron/) epic satiric narrative poem Don Juan is now on the site :D

[Logos]

Oh, and more quizzes have been added:

another "Great First Lines" Quiz:
"Test your knowledge of these first lines from 20 popular novels."
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=390

Scher has created another "Word of the Day" quiz :)
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=386

Test your knowledge of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, her life and writings, including Frankenstein in this quiz:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=388

ElenaM has created a quiz on Emily Bronte's Life, you can take it here:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=366

bazarov created a quiz on Dostoevsky's works:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=348

You can test yourself on Nathaniel Hawthorne, his Life and Works here:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=340

And Mark Twain here:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=339

[subterranean]

Wow, L!

Thumbs up for you! :thumbs_up

[Logos]

Oh! it's only been about a week since last update, but got a few new things to mention :D

A new author has been added to the list-Rabindranath Tagore
http://www.online-literature.com/tagore-rabindranath/

and a number of his plays, short stories, non-fiction, and dozens of poems including his most famous "Gitanjali". There is also a quiz about his life and work here:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=393

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George Bernard Shaw's page
http://www.online-literature.com/george_bernard_shaw/
should be up to date now.

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H. Rider Haggard's
http://www.online-literature.com/h-rider-haggard/
Ayesha novels, Ayesha: The Return of She (1905) and She and Allan (1921) are newly added.

Other novels added include Allan and the Holy Flower, The Ancient Allan, Cetywayo, Colonel Quaritch, Pearl Maiden, Queen Sheba's Ring, Cleopatra, Dawn, The People of the Mist, and Red Eve and more short stories added including "The Mahatma and the Hare", "Jess", and "Love Eternal".

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Canadian author Gilbert Parker
http://www.online-literature.com/gilbert-parker/
wrote many historical novels including "Donovan Pasha" and "Cumner & South Sea Folk", now available.

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More of Canadian Grant Allen's
http://www.online-literature.com/grant-allen/
works including his essay collection "Post-Prandial Philosophy" and novel "Michael's Crag" are now added.

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Herman Melvilles' semi-autobiographical novel "The White Jacket" is now on the site:
http://www.online-literature.com/melville/white-jacket/
as well as more of his short stories including "The Encantadas; or, Enchanted Isles".

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Guy de Maupassant's
http://www.online-literature.com/maupassant/
"Pierre and Jean", what many critics considered his finest work, is now on the site, as well as more short stories including "No Quarter" and "The Corsican Bandit".

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[JackShea]

I didn't know there was a section for Playwriting? If you can tell me how to post a play I shall...entitled...LA TABLE. The play won an award from the Kennedy Center many years ago and has been rewritten. It was recently awarded 1st place in The Palm Springs Playwrights Circle new plays contest. I guess I have to build myself, or the play up, to get readers! HA!...Jack

[Logos]

Jack, there is no specific area for playwrights or plays, just for those authors whose works are in the public domain. You could post it in this section:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2352

[Logos]

Time for another update kids :D

Harriet Beecher Stowe (http://www.online-literature.com/stowe/) of Uncle Tom's Cabin fame, also wrote Lady Byron Vindicated (http://www.online-literature.com/stowe/lady-byron/) after the controversy surrounding her husband Lord George Gordon Byron (http://www.online-literature.com/byron/). Verrrry interesting! A few more of her short stories have been added as well as her novel Pink and White Tyranny and her son's biography of her, The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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Henry James' (http://www.online-literature.com/henry_james/) The Tragic Muse (http://www.online-literature.com/henry_james/tragic-muse/) has been added.

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Robert Louis Stevenson's (http://www.online-literature.com/stevenson/) The Ebb Tide and Essays have been added.

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Thomas Hardy's (http://www.online-literature.com/hardy/) A Laodicean is now on the site.

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Thomas Carlyle's (http://www.online-literature.com/thomas-carlyle/) biography of John Stirling and his 'Iliad of English woes' Past and Present with an intro by Ralph Waldo Emerson can be read.

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More from the 'Prince of Romance' Stanley J Weyman (http://www.online-literature.com/weyman/) including Count Hannibal and The Castle Inn.

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More of Julian Hawthorne's (http://www.online-literature.com/julian-hawthorne/) (Nathaniel's son's) novels have been added including Idolatry: A Romance, Hawthorne and His Circle, and The Subterranean Brotherhood, written about his experience serving time in an Atlanta Penitentiary c1914 after being charged with embezzlement.

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Voltaire's (http://www.online-literature.com/voltaire/zadig/) Zadig or, The Book of Fate--"An Oriental History Translated from the Original French of Mr. Voltaire" is now on the site.

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After reading H. G. Wells' (http://www.online-literature.com/wellshg/modern-utopia/) biography I realise he really was a fascinating guy! His A Modern Utopia is now added.

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Prolific short story author Honore de Balzac's (http://www.online-literature.com/honore_de_balzac/2989/) "Melmoth Reconciled" is now added.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne (http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/) wrote "Chiefly About War Matters" after touring American Civil War battlefields in Virginia. Doctor Grimshawe's Secret has been added as well as many more of his short stories. His memoir/collection of sketches Our Old Home (http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/our-old-home/) was his last work published while he was still alive. His first romance Fanshawe is now on the site.

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Oh and can't forget quizzy goodness :D

Phantom of the Opera quiz: (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=401)

Bram Stoker quiz: (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=403)

O Henry quiz: (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=404)

Gone With the Wind quiz: (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=407) submitted by downing.

Another Great First Lines quiz (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=390) has been added and Great Last Lines quiz (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=391).

Also, please give Scher's latest Word of the Day - Quiz 4 (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=386) a try! :)
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[dramasnot6]

wow! look at all those goodies! Thank ye so much Admin! :D

[Virgil]

Just took your First lines Quiz and you defintely have a mistake.


It said:

At the beginning of the summer I had lunch with my father, the gangster, who was in town for the weekend to transact some of his vague business.

Your answer was: Heidi, Johanna Spyri
Correct Answer: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Your answer was wrong

That is not the first line of The Great Gatsby. The correct first line is:

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.

Go to: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/gatsby/chapter1.html

[Logos]

I see. Well I didn't have a copy of Great Gatsby at home, was using my Great First Lines book by Celina Spiegel and Peter Kupfer (Fawcett Columbine, 1992). They've made a typo, that is actually the first line to The Mysteries of Pittburgh by Michael Chabon :smash:

[Madhuri]

Oh! it's only been about a week since last update, but got a few new things to mention :D

A new author has been added to the list-Rabindranath Tagore
http://www.online-literature.com/tagore-rabindranath/

and a number of his plays, short stories, non-fiction, and dozens of poems including his most famous "Gitanjali". There is also a quiz about his life and work here:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=393



You have added Rabindranath Tagore too...This is great!! I used to think no one is ever interested in Indian authors. Good, Good :)

EDIT -- will you be adding more of his works? 'The Castaway' a short story and 'Chandalika' (the Untouchable girl) a play, are also very good. :)

[Stanislaw]

Time for another update kids :D

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Voltaire's (http://www.online-literature.com/voltaire/zadig/) Zadig or, The Book of Fate--"An Oriental History Translated from the Original French of Mr. Voltaire" is now on the site.

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:thumbs_up very cool...keep it up admin team! :thumbs_up

[Logos]

okay... a few more updates here :D

Christopher Morley's (http://www.online-literature.com/morley/) novels Kathleen, Mince Pie and Parnassus On Wheels have been added.

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Many more Plato (http://www.online-literature.com/plato/) dialogues have been added: Cratylus, Gorgias, Laws, Parmenides, Phaedrus, Philebus, Protagorus, Sophist, Statesman, Symposium, Theatetus, and Timeaus.

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Many more of Frances Hodgson Burnett's (http://www.online-literature.com/burnett/) short stories and novels have been added including A Fair Barbarian, His Grace Osmonde and "In The Closed Room."

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A new author/poet has been added :banana:

Edna St. Vincent Millay (http://www.online-literature.com/millay/) The first female poet to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize, 2 of her plays and dozens and dozens of her poems have been added including her poetry collections Second April (http://www.online-literature.com/millay/second-april/) and Renascence and Other Poems (http://www.online-literature.com/millay/renascence/)



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[dramasnot6]

Thanks Logos! I will take a lookey at the poems and Plato! :D

[Jean-Baptiste]

A new author/poet has been added :banana:

Hurray for Millay! :banana: Thanks, Logos! :D

[Logos]

Next update time :)

Thomas Hardy's massive collection of poetry Late Lyrics (http://www.online-literature.com/hardy/late-lyrics/) is now on the site.

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The author of The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame (http://www.online-literature.com/grahame/) had a wry and sardonic sense of humour, check out some of his short stories and essays! like " Loafing" :p (http://www.online-literature.com/grahame/3052/)


Here the early hours of the morning are vexed by the voices of boaters making their way down the little street to the river. The most of them go staggering under hampers, bundles of waterproofs, and so forth. Their voices are clamant of feats to be accomplished: they will row, they will punt,
they will paddle, till they weary out the sun. All this the Loafer hears through the open door of his cottage, where in his shirt-sleeves he is dallying with his bacon, as a gentleman should.
I wonder if he was friends with Jerome K. Jerome (http://www.online-literature.com/jerome/)

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You can read that Victor Hugo's (http://www.online-literature.com/victor_hugo/)
long and chequered life was filled with experiences of the most diverse character--literature and politics, the court and the street, parliament and the theatre, labour, struggles, disappointments, exile and triumphs. Hence we get a series of pictures of infinite variety.

in his Memoirs. (http://www.online-literature.com/victor_hugo/memoirs-of-hugo/0/)

His "A Fight With A Cannon" and The History of a Crime are now on the site too.

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Washington Irving's (http://www.online-literature.com/irving/) Bracebridge Hall and an additional 'Geoffrey Crayon' collection of shorts The Crayon Papers including "Don Juan" has been added.

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Daniel Defoe's (http://www.online-literature.com/defoe/) "The Apparition of Mrs. Veal" can now be read here.

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Martin Luther's (http://www.online-literature.com/martin-luther/) Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians is now on the site.

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And... more quizzes have been added :D

Anne Bronte (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=430)

The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=427) submitted by tedisy

The Blithedale Romance (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=425) submitted by laxer11

Edna St. Vincent Millay (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=424)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=423)

Edith Wharton (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=420)

and last but not least
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=417) submitted by intricate.

Thank you again to all who submit quizzes!
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[Psycheinaboat]

I love it when you add new stuff. I get all excited!

[Logos]

More to get excited about Psyche :D if you like Joseph Conrad (http://www.online-literature.com/conrad/). More of his novels have been added including The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', Romance, Notes on Life and Letters, Under Western Eyes, and Victory. New short stories include "The Informer", "An Anarchist", "The Duel", Il Conde", and "Prince Roman".

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And... I'm very happy to say that the now complete 1848 version of Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (http://www.online-literature.com/brontea/wildfell_hall/) is now on the site.
the old version was incomplete:idea:
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[Logos]

Oh gee, just a few new things to mention :lol: I know many of you are busy playing word games, or working on your opus for the LitNet 2007 Short Story Competition, maybe back at your studies from spring break? or maybe you have a lovely winter cold, or maybe recovering from pneumonia like me :sick: but I'm sure you'll enjoy perusing the new titles on the site :D

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Charles Dickens' Reprinted Pieces (http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/reprinted-pieces/) and his semi-autobiographical The Uncommercial Traveller (http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/uncommercial-traveller/) are now on the site.

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Many more Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's (http://www.online-literature.com/doyle/) novels have been added including The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard, The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales, Tales of Horror and Mystery, Micah Clarke, and The Poison Belt as well as many of his poems and short stories. Yes! he wrote poetry!

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If you like gory tales of 'justice' and torture :p you'll enjoy Alexander Dumas' (http://www.online-literature.com/dumas/) Celebrated Crimes (http://www.online-literature.com/dumas/celebrated-crimes/) which includes his historical accounts of events surrounding the crimes of the famous Borgias and the execution of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots.

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If you've got a hankering for some voyeuristic reading, The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters (http://www.online-literature.com/gustave-flaubert/sand-flaubert-letters/) are now on the site.

"[Sand] shows an unguessed wealth of maternal virtue, swift, comprehending sympathy, fortitude, sunny resignation, and a goodness of heart that has ripened into wisdom. For Flaubert, too, though he was seventeen years her junior, the flamboyance of youth was long since past; in 1862, when the correspondence begins, he was firmly settled, a shy, proud, grumpy toiling hermit of forty, in his family seat at Croisset....he pours out his bitterness, she her consolation; and so with equal candor of self-revelation they beautifully draw out and strengthen each the other's characteristics, and help one another grow old."

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R. D. Blackmore's (http://www.online-literature.com/rd-blackmore/) Eremia, Mary Anerly, and Springhaven : A Tale of the Great War are now on the site.

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Dostoevsky's (http://www.online-literature.com/dostoevsky/) haunting doppelgänger tale The Double: A Petersburg Poem is now added.

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Lev Tolstoy's (http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/) novels Albert and Hadji Murad are now on the site, thanks baz ;)

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More Russian lit: Ivan S. Turgenev's (http://www.online-literature.com/turgenev/) most famous and overdue-to-be-added novel Father's and Sons, with nihilists Bazarov and Arkady is now on the site as well as Liza: A Nest of Nobles, A Sportsman's Sketches, First Love, and his tale of duels and unrequited love, Torrents of Spring (which also inspired a film adaptation).

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Back to England: Thomas Hardy's (http://www.online-literature.com/hardy/) drama The Dynasts is now on the site, more of his short stories, and his novels The Trumpet Major and Under the Greenwood Tree. More of his prodigious collections of poetry have been added: Wessex Poems and Other Verses and his epic 160 poetical pieces collected in Moments of Vision.

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T. S. Eliot's (http://www.online-literature.com/ts-eliot/) extensive critical essay Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry (http://www.online-literature.com/ts-eliot/3172/) can now be read here.

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More important and influential works long due to be on the site :) John Dryden's (http://www.online-literature.com/dryden/) Poetical Works Volumes I and II are now on the site. Vol I includes "Heroic Stanzas on the death of Oliver Cromwell", "Astræa Redux", his epic 304 -stanza "Annus Mirabilis" and "The Hind and the Panther". Vol II includes his famous Epistles; Elegies and Epitaphs; Songs, Odes, and a Masque; Prologues and Epilogues; and Tales from Chaucer.

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That Tarzan guy, Edgar Rice Burroughs' (http://www.online-literature.com/edgar_rice_burroughs/) Oakdale Affair and The Mad King are now on the site :D

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Outspoken African American lawyer, reformer, critic, and author Charles W. Chesnutt's (http://www.online-literature.com/charles-chesnutt/) 1903 essay "The Disfranchisement of the Negro", biography of fellow author Frederick Douglass (http://www.online-literature.com/frederick_douglass/) and novels including The Conjure Woman and his fictional account of the Wilmington Race Riot The Marrow of Tradition are now on the site.

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Another social reformer, critic and author Charlotte Perkins Gilman's (http://www.online-literature.com/charlotte-perkins-gilman/) Our Androcentric Culture has now been added.

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Certainly no one-hit wonder, to Anatole France's page (http://www.online-literature.com/anatole-france/) which only contained The Red Lily more works have been added including his fabulous satire of human nature and France's history, Penguin Island. Thaïs, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard and A Mummer's Tale are also on the site now.

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And last but not least . . . while D. H. Lawrence (http://www.online-literature.com/dh_lawrence/) warns, in his Foreword to his collection of essays Fantasia of the Unconscious: "The generality of readers had better just leave it alone. The generality of critics likewise. I really don't want to convince anybody. It is quite in opposition to my whole nature. I don't intend my books for the generality of readers. I count it a mistake of our mistaken democracy, that every man who can read print is allowed to believe that he can read all that is printed. I count it a misfortune that serious books are exposed in the public market, like slaves exposed naked for sale. But there we are, since we live in an age of mistaken democracy, we must go through with it." is on the site now if you wish to "rip the old veil of a vision across, and find what the heart really believes in, after all" and take the leap into the abyss :lol:

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[Virgil]

Great stuff Logos. I didn't know you were interested in putting critical essays on there too. If I come across any that meets the copywright requirement, I'll pass it on to you.

Here's a request, if you can get a hold of them electronically: D.H. Lawrence's Complete Short Stories.

Also, sorry to hear about your pneumonia. Please take care of it. It can be life threatening.

[Jean-Baptiste]

These are all very exciting additions, Logos. Somebody's been busy! Thank you! :D

[mtpspur]

Logos hope you fully recovered from pneumonia. Was impressed with the Doyle additions. Now if you could Rafael Sabatini on board here one of my hobby horses can be put out to pasture. :yawnb:

[B-Mental]

Holy smokes lots of new additions.

[Logos]

Thanks guys I've been feeling a bit better every day. Virgil yes that essay is a gem, Ezra himself is on the list to be added. And Sabatini is on the list too mtpspur :)

[mtpspur]

You do realize that I'm self congratulating me for getting Sabatini on the list. Don't feed the animals at the zoo. Now just how does this 'list' work anyway--one week, 3 months, next year?!! Nag Nag Nag.

[bazarov]

More Russian lit: Ivan S. Turgenev's (http://www.online-literature.com/turgenev/) most famous and overdue-to-be-added novel Father's and Sons, with nihilists Bazarov and Arkady is now on the site as well as Liza: A Nest of Nobles, A Sportsman's Sketches, First Love, and his tale of duels and unrequited love, Torrents of Spring (which also inspired a film adaptation).


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Actually, he wasn't nihilist.

[Logos]

I meant just Arkady :idea:

[bazarov]

I meant just Arkady :idea:

He is definitely not a nihilist:D I am not joking, I know it might sound strange, but when you read the book, you'll see what I am talking.
Great additions once again, congratulations!:thumbs_up

[Charles Darnay]

Thanks Logos!

I'm in the porcess of writing a paper on Eliot...the essay on Exra Pound (I had not heard of this essay before) is proving quite useful

[Logos]

He is definitely not a nihilist:D
shhhh don't want to give tooo much away :p

Glad that essay is a help Charles :)

[Woland]

Thanks Logos!

I'm in the porcess of writing a paper on Eliot...the essay on Exra Pound (I had not heard of this essay before) is proving quite useful

LOL Extra Pound? Extra Pound of what?
Well, I have a few ideas.

[Logos]

Additions since my last post :)

More of Upton Sinclair's (http://www.online-literature.com/upton_sinclair/) novels have been added:

The Moneychangers,
Love's Pilgrimage,
The Journal of Arthur Stirling,
Jimmie Higgins,
King Coal and
King Midas.

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Due to the unwavering enthusiasm of our dear member Niamh, a selection of Irish playwright, author, and poet J. M. Synge's Poems (http://www.online-literature.com/synge/poem-selections/) has been added :D

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More works by Sir Walter Scott have been added:
his epic poem Marmion (http://www.online-literature.com/walter_scott/marmion/)
Peveril of the Peak,
Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft and his
Journal (http://www.online-literature.com/walter_scott/journal-of-scott/) written over the last 8 years before his death.

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Christopher Marlowe's play Edward the Second (http://www.online-literature.com/marlowe/edward-the-second/) is now on the site.

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Vicar of Wakefield author Oliver Goldsmith wrote a great History of Rome (http://www.online-literature.com/oliver-goldsmith/history-of-rome/)

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Henrik Ibsen's
Early Plays (http://www.online-literature.com/ibsen/early-plays/) includes Catiline, The Warrior's Barrow and Olaf Liljekrans.

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Satirist Henry B. Fuller's Under the Skylights (http://www.online-literature.com/henry-fuller/under-the-skylights/) is now on the site.

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Poet Laureate Lord Alfred Tennyson also wrote plays including Becket (http://www.online-literature.com/tennyson/becket/).

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You can now test your knowledge of Anna Sewell and her only novel Black Beauty in this Quiz! (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=457)

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Sunchrislit1 submitted a quiz based on G. A. Henty's In Freedom's Cause: you can take it here. (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=455)

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Turquoisetiger's quiz based on Victor Hugo's Les Miserables can be found here. (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=446)

[Schokokeks]

Oooh, Logos, you must be indefatigable :nod:.
Thank you very much :).

[optimisticnad]

LitNet 2007 Short Story Competition

Can someone tell me more? How do I read recent years (so i can plagiaries. lol)? Submit mine? Is it too late?

[Logos]

Here is the forum with info etc. for Short Story comp:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=3160

[Logos]

Oooh, Logos, you must be indefatigable :nod:.

Most of the time :D thanks.

[Niamh]

Additions since my last post :)

Due to the unwavering enthusiasm of our dear member Niamh, a selection of Irish playwright, author, and poet J. M. Synge's Poems (http://www.online-literature.com/synge/poem-selections/) has been added :D


:D



on another note, my god! you really are a busy bee!

[Schokokeks]

you really are a busy bee!
Yeeeees, that is the right expression !
You should take it as your user title, Logos! Being a busy bee around here must imply that a/ you're a moderator or b/ you're name is Shannanigan :D.

[Logos]

The next round of (April) additions to be mentioned :)

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Anton Chekhov's (http://www.online-literature.com/anton_chekhov/) play The Cherry Orchard is now on the site, as are John Dryden's (http://www.online-literature.com/dryden/) plays The Wild Gallant and The Rival Ladies, and Sophocles' (http://www.online-literature.com/sophocles/) play Aias.

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Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum (http://www.online-literature.com/baum/) wrote many other works for young and older readers including American Fairy Tales. American physician, author, and poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes (http://www.online-literature.com/oliver-holmes/) wrote an extensive biography and study of the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (http://www.online-literature.com/emerson/), which can be read here: http://www.online-literature.com/oliver-holmes/emerson-biography/

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Fergus Hume's (http://www.online-literature.com/fergus-hume/) mysteries Red Money and The Silent House are now on the site as well as many more of Joseph Sheridan Lefanu's (http://www.online-literature.com/lefanu/) short stories: they include "Scraps of Hibernian Ballads", "Passage in the History of an Irish Countess", and "The Evil Guest". His celebrated novel Uncle Silas, a chilling psychological horror story is also now on the site. H. G. Wells' (http://www.online-literature.com/wellshg/) novel History of Mr. Polly is now on the site, as well as many more of P.G. Wodehouse's (http://www.online-literature.com/pg-wodehouse/) short stories and novels including My Man Jeeves and A Man of Means.


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As most of you know, Mark Twain (http://www.online-literature.com/twain/) was a prolific author. He wrote hundreds of essays, short stories, speeches, and critiques. Included among the latest additions are his "Post-Mortem Poetry", "Extracts From Adam's Diary", "Eve's Diary", "A Humane Word From Satan", "Our Precious Lunatic", "The Wild Man Interviewed", and thanks to Nightshade for requesting "The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut" :) His novels A Double Barreled Detective Story, Chapters from My Autobiography, The $30,000 Bequest, The American Claimant, Editorial Wild Oats, and The Gilded Age are now on the site.

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A new author was added to the site in April: lexicographer, translator, humorist, critic, author and poet Samuel Johnson (http://www.online-literature.com/samuel-johnson/).

His critical Notes to Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragedies are great companion reading to The Bard's works. He wrote an extensive collection of biographical essays on notable friends, poets, and various authors including Jonathan Swift, Richard Savage, Wilkie Collins, Alexander Pope, and John Dryden. One can also read his "Plan of the English Dictionary" and his poems "London" and "The Vanity of Human Wishes". There is a quiz about him you can take here :)
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=471

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Speaking of that...the site now has almost *150* quizzes!

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Thank you to member Sherlock Holmes for submitting a quiz for...you guessed it! Sherlock Holmes :)
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=481

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Nirome submitted a great quiz about Shakespeare's Hamlet:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=479 and one about poet John Keats: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=472

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And...last but certainly not least again a big thank you to Niamh (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/member.php?u=23587) for typing up and sending me more of J. M. Synge's (http://www.online-literature.com/synge/) poems, now added to the site :D :thumbs_up

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[Virgil]

Great stuff Logos. Thanks.

[Debrasue]

Ah!!!! The Cherry Orchard..........thank you Logos!

Debrasue

[Logos]

Oh yes! Debra, it was your post here (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=367738#post367738) that gave me the idea to hunt it down and add it :)

Virgil, I've got more D. H. Lawrence at the top of the list now ;) :D

[Logos]

Oh dear, I'm a bit behind here, lots of stuff to mention :idea: :lol: :D

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***More quizzes have been added to the collection!!!*** (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php) :nod:

Thanks to member Cecily for submitting another quiz for George Orwell's 1984;
thank you to member Kate the Shrew for submitting her quiz for Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew
member rolandpark94 sent us one for Jack London's Call Of The Wild;
_JadeRain_ submitted one for Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky: the Meaning Behind the Nonsense"

and our very own Admin added one for Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=521).

There also now quizzes for Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Ambrose Bierce, James Fenimore Cooper, and G.K. Chesterton.

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Many more works by P.G. Wodehouse (http://www.online-literature.com/pg-wodehouse/) have been added including William Tell, Uneasy Money, the novel Right Ho! Jeeves and more Jeeves short stories.

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Stewart Edward White's (http://www.online-literature.com/stewart-white/) The Leopard Woman, The Rules of the Game, The Grey Dawn, The Claim Jumpers, and The Sign at Six are just a few of many more novels and short stories added.

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You can now read Virgil's (http://www.online-literature.com/virgil/) Eclogues and Georgics here.

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Jonathan Swift's (http://www.online-literature.com/swift/) A Tale of a Tub, Battle of the Books and Journal to Stella, Three Sermons and Prayers" ("http://www.online-literature.com/swift/3496/), and his poems to Stella (http://www.online-literature.com/swift/3492/), the girl he became somewhat of a father to, are now on the site.

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Many more works by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (http://www.online-literature.com/chesterton/) have been added. Many essays, and novels including Heretics, The Defendant, his controversial The New Jerusalem, Orthodoxy, George Bernard Shaw, What's Wrong With the World, and Utopia.

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Trollope, Trollope, Trollope, lots of Trollope added! (http://www.online-literature.com/anthony-trollope/). Short stories and essays such as "Aaron Trow", "The O'Conors of Castle Conor" and "A Ride Across Palestine" have been added. For non-fiction, his Autobiography, Life of Cicero, and his novel /bio of William Makepeace Thackeray are now on the site. His satire of Victorian life, The Way We Live Now, is considered by many to be his masterpiece.

His Palliser novels are now all on the site:

Can You Forgive Her? (1864),
Phineas Finn (1869),
The Eustace Diamonds (1873),
Phineas Redux (1874),
The Prime Minister (1876), and
The Duke's Children (1879).

His Chronicles of Barsetshire are also now complete on the site:

The Warden (1855),
Barchester Towers (1857)
Doctor Thorne (1858),
Framley Parsonage (1861),
The Small House at Allington (1864), and
The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867).


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Wilkie Collins's (http://www.online-literature.com/wilkie-collins/) The Dead Alive, Poor Miss Finch, The New Magdalen, Queen of Hearts, Heart and Science, Jezebels Daughter, and After Dark are some of his newly added novels now on the site.

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Dostoevsky’s (http://www.online-literature.com/dostoevsky/) A Gentle Spirit, The Insulted and the Injured, and short story "A Fair Penitent" have now been added, thanks to bazarov for reminding me :)

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William Makepeace Thackeray’s (http://www.online-literature.com/thackeray/) collection here has been greatly expanded!

His poetry collection Ballads, novels Barry Lyndon, Catherine, Burlesques, The History of Henry Esmond, The History of Pendennis, The Rose and the Ring, The Virginians, The Newcomes, Paris Sketchbook, and his hilarious look at Victorian mores, The Book of Snobs contains such chapters as ‘What Snobs Admire’, ‘On Literary Snobs’, ‘Dining Out Snobs’, and ‘English Snobs on the Continent’. Try saying the word ‘snob’ over and over and over and it starts to sound absurd and nonsensical!! :lol: much like a lot of Thackeray’s satirical works. Some of his short stories added include "The Bedford Row Conspiracy", "The Fatal Boots", "The Fitz-boodle Papers", and "The Second Funeral of Napoleon".

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While the Forum Book Club (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=15) will be reading his collected short stories in July, more plays of Oscar Wilde's (http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/) have been added to the site: Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; and La Sainte Courtesaine.

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And last but certainly not least, I haven’t forgotten Janine and Virgil! I’ve now added almost 100 poems by D. H. Lawrence (http://www.online-literature.com/dh_lawrence/). His Amores and New Poems collections. Enjoy the handy dandy accessibility of having them online to read, search, copy and paste! :D

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[Abdulbagi]

Thanks Logos, can we have scientific books?

[Admin]

It is a rare scientific book that is both in the public domain and still scientifically relevant. Most 70 or 80 year old science has been trumped by more modern discoveries.

[Virgil]

Great additions Logos. Just a question. On the works that are translated into English, would it be possible if the translator was identified and what year it was translated. Both can be relevant as one reads the work. It's easy to look up the author and when he wrote the work, but I am left wondering sometimes how recent a translaton may be and by whom.

[Logos]

With new works added Virgil yes I try to make sure who translated it is mentioned. I've also been adding to works that were already on the site their publication date and translation date and translator where applicable :)

[Virgil]

With new works added Virgil yes I try to make sure who translated it is mentioned. I've also been adding to works that were already on the site their publication date and translation date and translator where applicable :)

Thanks Logos. I better look more carefully. :)

[aeroport]

Many more of Henry James's (http://www.online-literature.com/henry_james/) novels have been added including The Golden Bowl, What Maisie Knew, The Awkward Age, and The Pupil. His essay on Nathaniel Hawthorne and numerous of his short stories have been added including "A Bundle of Letters" and "The Tree of Knowledge".

I just discovered a much larger number of James works than the last time I checked. I can't believe it took me so long to discover this. (Admittedly, I've not been keeping up with this thread as I probably should have.) Thank you, Logos! :thumbs_up :thumbs_up :thumbs_up

[Logos]

Thank you, Logos! :thumbs_up :thumbs_up :thumbs_upGlad to see another happy LitNetter :D

[quasimodo1]

To Logos: Did you mention is Henry James' novel "Turn of the Screw" and Joseph Conrad' "Nostromo" were now included in this ever-expanding list of authors? quasimodo1

[Logos]

No, I actually haven't been 'slacking off' too much during the past couple of summer months :p

I've added more works by Upton Sinclair (http://www.online-literature.com/upton_sinclair/) including 4 plays, his essay collection The Profits of Religion (http://www.online-literature.com/upton_sinclair/profits-of-religion/) and his novel 100%: The Story of a Patriot.

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Many more works by Sir Arthur Quiller Couch (http://www.online-literature.com/quiller-couch/), or the mighty "Q" as is his pseudonym, are now on the site. Short stories include: "The Outlandish Ladies", "Statement of Gabriel Foot: Highwayman", "Psyche", "Old Aeson", "The Small People", "The Doctor's Foundling", "The Gifts of Feodor Himkoff", "The Paradise of Choice", "Red Velvet", "The Jew on the Moor", and "Widdershins".

Added novels include: Foe-Farrell (http://www.online-literature.com/quiller-couch/foe-farrell/), Dead Man's Rock, The Laird's Luck and other Fireside Tales, The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales, Poison Island, and Lady Good-for-Nothing

You can now read his Cambridge lecture series On the Art of Writing and On the Art of Reading, and his poetry collection Green Bays.

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Some non-fiction works by Samuel Butler (http://www.online-literature.com/samuel-butler/) have been added including his travel memoir Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino, Cambridge Pieces, Ex Voto, and God the Known and God the Unknown.

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Thomas Carlyle's (http://www.online-literature.com/thomas-carlyle/) collection Latter Day Pamphlets and Early Kings of Norway (http://www.online-literature.com/thomas-carlyle/kings-of-norway/) can now be read here.

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Most of the "Tuck-Me-In Tales" and "Sleepy-Time Tales" by Arthur Scott Bailey (http://www.online-literature.com/arthur-scott-bailey/) are now on-site. Light 'n' Easy reading :D

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Oliver Wendell Holmes's (http://www.online-literature.com/oliver-holmes/) The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table and Elsie Venner can now be read on LitNet.

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Mystery author Anna Katherine Green's (http://www.online-literature.com/anna-green/) Filigree Ball, That Affair Next Door, The Millionaire Baby, and many of her short stories are now added.

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Charles Reade's (http://www.online-literature.com/charles-reade/) novels The Woman Hater, Foul Play, The Cloister and the Hearth, and Love Me Little, Love Me Long are among more of his works added.

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For Bayard Taylor (http://www.online-literature.com/bayard-taylor/) I've added, among others, his non-fiction travel memoirs Views A-Foot and The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain.

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For Jonathan Swift (http://www.online-literature.com/swift/) his non-fiction Writings on Religion and the Church, Vol. I. has been added. A whole bunch of his poems are now on site, some which are pretty funny, rife with his trademark Swiftian bawdy satire including "The Furniture of a Woman's Mind", "The Stella Poems", "Verses Made for Fruit Women", "Helter Skelter", and "A Beautiful Young Nymph going to Bed";


Corinna wakes. A dreadful sight!
Behold the ruins of the night!
A wicked rat her plaster stole,
Half eat, and dragg'd it to his hole.
The crystal eye, alas! was miss'd;
And puss had on her plumpers p--st,
A pigeon pick'd her issue-pease:
And Shock her tresses fill'd with fleas.

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Maria Edgeworth's (http://www.online-literature.com/maria-edgeworth/) Belinda, and Tales and Novels (and much more to come!) are now on-site.

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We now have many of Nobel prize-winning playwright John Galsworthy's (http://www.online-literature.com/john-galsworthy/) plays on site including The Silver Box, The Mob, The Skin Game, The Eldest Son, The Foundations, Loyalties, and his highly lauded political work Justice (http://www.online-literature.com/john-galsworthy/justice/). You can also read his novels The Island Pharisees, Saint's Progress, The Patrician, and The Burning Spear.

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"Legend of Sleepy Hollow" author Washington Irving's (http://www.online-literature.com/irving/) novel Astoria is now added and his part memoir, part biography, and critical essays of the poet Lord George Gordon Byron in Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey recalls his stay at Byron's estate.

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Much fiction and non- by Scottish clergyman and author George MacDonald (http://www.online-literature.com/george-macdonald/) has been added. Fiction titles include:

Thomas Wingfold, Malcolm, Gutta Percha Willie: the Working Genius, Warlock O'Glenwarlock, What's Mine's Mine, The History of Photogen and Nycteris, The Vicar's Daughter, The Portent and Other Stories, Alec Forbes of Howglen, Heather and Snow, A Rough Shaking, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Salted With Fire, and Phantastes (http://www.online-literature.com/george-macdonald/phantastes/) "A Faerie Romance for Men and Women";


" .... when suddenly there stood on the threshold of the little chamber, as though she had just emerged from its depth, a tiny woman-form, as perfect in shape as if she had been a small Greek statuette roused to life and motion. Her dress was of a kind that could never grow old-fashioned, because it was simply natural: a robe plaited in a band around the neck, and confined by a belt about the waist, descended to her feet. It was only afterwards, however, that I took notice of her dress, although my surprise was by no means of so overpowering a degree as such an apparition might naturally be expected to excite. Seeing, however, as I suppose, some astonishment in my countenance, she came forward within a yard of me, and said, in a voice that strangely recalled a sensation of twilight, and reedy river banks, and a low wind, even in this deathly room:--

"Anodos, you never saw such a little creature before, did you?"

"No," said I; "and indeed I hardly believe I do now."

"Ah! that is always the way with you men; you believe nothing the first time; and it is foolish enough to let mere repetition convince you of what you consider in itself unbelievable. I am not going to argue with you, however, but to grant you a wish."

MacDonald's non-fiction titles include: The Hope of the Gospel, Miracles of Our Lord, and A Dish Of Orts which includes essays on William Shakespeare, Robert Browning, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. You can also check out his play If I Had A Father. Short Stories newly added include: "Stephen Archer", "The Gifts of the Child Christ", "The Butcher's Bills", and "Port in a Storm".

Many of his poems have been added including "A Hidden Life", "The Homeless Ghost", "Abu Midjan", "A Book Of Dreams", "A Memorial of Africa", "Better Things", "Light", "If I Were A Monk", "The Lost Soul", "A Dream Within A Dream", "A Story of the Sea Shore", "The Child-Mother", "Love's Ordeal", "A Prayer for the Past", "My Room", "Death and Birth", "Lessons for a Child", "The Mother Mary", "The Woman That Cried in the Crowd", "The Syrophenician Woman", "Pilate's Wife", and "Mary Magdalene".

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Mark Twain's (http://www.online-literature.com/twain/3531/) famous short story "The £1,000,000 Bank Note" is now added.

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Samuel Hopkins Adams's (http://www.online-literature.com/samuel-hopkins-adams/) novels Success, The Clarion, and Little Miss Grouch are now added.

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Elizabeth Gaskell's (http://www.online-literature.com/elizabeth_gaskell/) highly controversial novel about an unmarried mother Ruth, Sylvia's Lovers, and The Moorland Cottage are now added.

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Robert Louis Stevenson (http://www.online-literature.com/stevenson/)--lots added. I'll start with the fiction/novels: Catriona, Prince Otto, Weir of Hermiston, The Silverado Squatters, and St. Ives. For non-fiction, titles include many of Stevenson's travel writings: An Inland Voyage and his famous Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. And, his poetry collections: New Poems, Prayers Written At Vailima, and Songs of Travel and Other Verses are now on-site.

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[Logos]

Oh and quizzes, can't forget quizzes :D

One for Stephen Crane, author of The Red Badge of Courage has been added:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=553

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A big thank you to member downing for submitting another quiz for Gone With The Wind:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=539

and one for F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=540

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Thank you to fadingphantom for submitting The Ultimate Phantom of the Opera Quiz:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=543

:)

[Niamh]

man you have been busy!

[quasimodo1]

To Logos: I'll second that. quasi

[Nightshade]

Hurray!!! some of my favourites up there so going to read them ....

:D

[Logos]

Next update time :)

I'll start with the new quizzes: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?

Thanks to member EAB for submitting the "Animal Farm Inquisitorial Quiz" http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=562

Orwell's quizzes are among the most popular on the site, check them out! :) Other authors that have new quizzes added to their pages are:

Upton Sinclair,
Andrew Lang,
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Herman Melville,
Robert Browning,
Washington Irving,
George Eliot, and
Elizabeth Gaskell.

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Other works added include:

Daniel Defoe's (http://www.online-literature.com/defoe/) short stories "Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business", "History of the Plague in London", and "The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton".

Elizabeth Gaskell's (http://www.online-literature.com/elizabeth_gaskell/) short story "The Manchester Marriage".

John Galsworthy's (http://www.online-literature.com/john-galsworthy/) essay collections including Inn of Tranquility.

George MacDonald's (http://www.online-literature.com/george-macdonald/) Unspoken Sermons.

Edward Everett Hale's (http://www.online-literature.com/edward-hale/) The Man Without a Country and Other Tales and How To Do It.

Herman Melville's (http://www.online-literature.com/melville/) novel The Confidence Man.

Victor Hugo's (http://www.online-literature.com/victor_hugo/) novel Napoleon the Little.

Robert Louis Stevenson's (http://www.online-literature.com/stevenson/) collection of essays Lay Morals and Other Papers.

Kate Douglas Wiggin's (http://www.online-literature.com/kate-wiggin/) novels Children's Rights, Diary of a Goose Girl, Polly Oliver's Problem, A Village Stradivarius, and The Story Of Waitstill Baxter.

John Kendrick Bangs's (http://www.online-literature.com/john-bangs/) R. Holmes & Co. and amusing Autobiography of Methuselah.

George Eliot's (http://www.online-literature.com/george_eliot/) poems including "How Lisa Love the King" and "The Legend of Jubal".

Washington Irving's (http://www.online-literature.com/irving/) controversial and highly amusing Knickerbocker's History of New York, Tales of a Traveller, Life of George Washington, biography of Oliver Goldsmith and many more short stories of his including "Recollections of The Alhambra", "The Enchanted Island", and "The Legend of the Engulphed Convent".

Miguel de Cervantes' Exemplary Novels (http://www.online-literature.com/cervantes/exemplary-novels/) includes "Rinconete and Cortadillo" and "The Jealous Estramaduran".

More plays by William Congreve (http://www.online-literature.com/congreve/): The Double Dealer, The Old Bachelor, and Incognita.

More poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson. His collection May-Day (http://www.online-literature.com/emerson/mayday-and-other/) includes poems "Fate", "Freedom", and "Friendship", and translations of poems by Michel Angelo Buonaroti and Omar Chiam.

And last but not least, short story and essay collections, fiction and non-, by Andrew Lang (http://www.online-literature.com/andrew_lang/) including:
John Knox and the Reformation,
A Short History of Scotland,
Books and Bookmen,
A Monk of Fife,
Myth, Ritual, and Religion,
Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy,
The Disentanglers,
The Mark Of Cain,
Pickle the Spy,
Tales of Troy: Ulysses the Sacker of Cities,
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts, and
Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown.

Some of Lang's poetry collections now added:
Ballads in Blue China,
Ban and Arriere Ban,
Grass of Parnassus, and
Rhymes à la Mode.

Lang's poems include "Culloden", "For Mark Twain's Jubilee", and "To Robert Louis Stevenson". You'll get a taste of the Old Scots in some of them including "Ballant o'Ballantrae (http://www.online-literature.com/andrew_lang/3713/)", and check out "Rhyme of Oxford Cockney Rhymes (http://www.online-literature.com/andrew_lang/3772/)". Lang was also an avid golfer and wrote the poems "Ode to Golf", "Off My Game", "Ballade of the Royal Game of Golf" and his short sketches "The Confessions of a Duffer" in Angling Sketches and finally "Golf" in Lost Leaders.

[Virgil]

Wow, outstanding Logos.

[Logos]

*bows deeply* thank you ... :)

[bazarov]

Some Hugo's new works are now available to me! Thanks Logos!

[Logos]

Oh I've really neglected this, here is a quick update :)

There have been *many* new Quizzes posted! http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?catid=1

One for Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm author Kate Douglas Wiggin, quizzes for poets Longfellow, Keats, and Emerson, and also for authors Miguel Cervantes, E. M. Forster, Zane Grey, Charles Darwin, and Frederick Douglass. Thanks to member nicholas wright for submitting one on Shakespeare's King Henry IV Part 1, and to Lil1Loves2Read for their George Bernard Shaw quiz. Thanks to Foxesrcute for their quiz on Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, and eyemaker for their Tom Sawyer quiz. And also a big thank you to progerry who sent us a quiz on Macbeth.

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As to new e-texts added, there's been *dozens*... http://www.online-literature.com/author_index.php

Novels-fiction and non, short stories, poems, essays, and plays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Gertrude Atherton, Andrew Lang, Jonathan Swift, Leonid Andreyev, Ambrose Bierce, Tolstoy, Bret Harte, T. S. Arthur, Victor Hugo, Machiavelli, Countess Orczy, George Gissing, Goethe, Zane Grey, Rabindranath Tagore, Gene Stratton Porter, and Charles Darwin have now been added.

[AuntShecky]

This site -- and its brilliant, industrious moderators -- are
international treasures!

[quasimodo1]

To Logos: Even in delay, you are on top of things, as usual. What has been added to the Bierce collection? Any old time. q1

[Logos]

Thank you Aunt :)

[digging into my archives...] heh, quasi...what I've added of Bierce's is his Cobwebs From an Empty Skull (http://www.online-literature.com/bierce/cobwebs/), The Fiend's Delight (http://www.online-literature.com/bierce/fiends-delight/), A Cynic Looks at Life (http://www.online-literature.com/bierce/a-cynic/)[collections of "Fables and Tales" etc initially published under his pseud. "Dod Grile"], and his massive poetry collection Black Beetles in Amber (http://www.online-literature.com/bierce/black-beetles-in-amber/).

[Psycheinaboat]

I just read “The Damned Thing” and highly recommend Bierce’s work!

[Logos]

so...a few more things to mention that have been added recently :D

Lots of works by Jack London http://www.online-literature.com/london/

including A Daughter of the Snows; A Son of the Sun; Children of the Frost; The Cruise of the Snark; The Human Drift and Other Stories; John Barleycorn; Turtles of Tasman; War of the Classes; When God Laughs; Tales of the Fish Patrol; The Strength of the Strong; Night Born; On the Makaloa Mat; People of the Abyss, about his days living in London, England; Revolution and Other Essays, great biographical stuff; and The Road, about his days "....begging my way from door to door, wandering over the United States and sweating bloody sweats in slums and prisons."; also his plays Theft and The Acorn Planter.

Several more works by Italian-American author F. Marion Crawford http://www.online-literature.com/marion-crawford/

including A Tale of the Lonely, Adam Johnson, An American Politician, Don Orsini, Marietta, Marzio, Primadonna, Saracinesca, Stradella, Taquisara, Via Crucis, and Zoroaster.

More of Charles Darwin's works have been added http://www.online-literature.com/darwin/

including Geological Observations of South America and Volcanic Islands.

Also, more of Rex Ellington Beach's works have been added http://www.online-literature.com/rex-beach/

many inspired by his days in Alaska including Flowing Gold, The Spoilers, The Iron Trail, and Rainbow's End.

Also more of Prisoner of Zenda author Anthony Hope's http://www.online-literature.com/anthony-hope/

works have been added including Quisante, Simon Dale, The Secret of the Tower, and Tristram of Blent.

[quasimodo1]

Dear Logos, 4:44AM. Another indefatigable effort. I'm sure you know that Jack London had written all this and went to his end before the age of 40. Amazing. Thank You, Logos.

[Logos]

Thank you to member notleftbehind.7 for submitting their quiz "The Left Behind Series quiz books 1-5"
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=667

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[Logos]

A little update here :)

If you're interested in the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (http://www.online-literature.com/coleridge/), his Biographia Literaria is now on the site :)

Or how about Charles Lamb (http://www.online-literature.com/lamb/)'s Best Letters.

Many more plays by Henrik Ibsen (http://www.online-literature.com/ibsen/) have been added including Hedda Gabbler, Little Eyolf, and Ghosts.


Karl Marx's (http://www.online-literature.com/karl-marx/) The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte has now been added.



*Many* more novels by such authors as

Harold MacGrath (http://www.online-literature.com/harold-macgrath/) Arms and the Woman and Half A Rogue ];

Joseph A. Altsheler (http://www.online-literature.com/joseph-altsheler/) Before the Dawn, The Scouts of Stonewall, The Sun of Quebec, and The Tree of Appotamox ];

B. M. Bower (http://www.online-literature.com/bm-bower/) Skyrider, The Gringos, and The Uphill Climb ];

Richard Harding Davis (http://www.online-literature.com/richard-davis/) Cuba In War Time, Gallegher and Other Stories, and The Red Cross Girl ];

Honoré de Balzac (http://www.online-literature.com/honore_de_balzac/) A Daughter of Eve, Albert Savarus, and Analytical Studies ];


Jeffrey Farnol (http://www.online-literature.com/jeffrey-farnol/) fyttes in The Geste of Duke Jocelyn and Peregrine's Progress ];

Elinor Glyn (http://www.online-literature.com/elinor-glyn/) Maid and Man and Three Things ];


Stephen Leacock (http://www.online-literature.com/stephen-leacock/) Behind the Beyond and Winsome Winnie ];

E. Phillips Oppenheim (http://www.online-literature.com/oppenheim/) A Lost Leader, An Amiable Charlatan, and The Avenger ];

Edith Nesbit (http://www.online-literature.com/edith-nesbit/) The Book of Dragons and In Homespun ];

Ring Lardner (http://www.online-literature.com/ring-lardner/) The Real Dope ];

and last but certainly not least... :p many more works by humourist Jerome K. Jerome (http://www.online-literature.com/jerome/) have been added. If you are not yet acquainted with this guy I highly recommend you check him out. I think he's got a sense of humour and wit that transcends time and well, sometimes *sanity*. I mean just look at some of the titles of his short stories and essays; [warning: appreciation of gallows/black/cynical/jaded humour required!]

From The Angel and the Author; and Others ;]

"Literature and the Middle Classes",
"Too Much Postcard",
"If Only We Had Not Lost Our Tails!",
"Why I Hate Heroes",
"How To Be Healthy and Unhappy", and
"Marriage and the Joke of It".


From Idle Ideas in 1905;]

"Are We As Interesting As We Think We Are?",
"Should Married Men Play Golf?",
"Do Writers Write Too Much?",
"Should Soldiers Be Polite?", and
"Shall We Be Ruined By Chinese Cheap Labour?".


and from The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow;

"On the Delights and Benefits of Slavery",
"On the Care and Management of Women",
"On the Motherliness of Man", and
"On the Inadvisability of Following Advice".

:D

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[Virgil]

Logos, I noticed the other day you don't have Stephan Crane's great short story, "The Blue Hotel." It's certainly worthy of being included and it fits the criteria.

[Logos]

Ok, well, I will keep my eye out for it :)

[Logos]

Thank you quasi, I try :D

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I'd like to make a note of, and THANK, the following members for submitting yet *more* quizzes! Your efforts are truly appreciated.

Thank you pegasus332 for your Three Musketeers Quiz:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=682

and Sorceress for your Harry Potter Quiz:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=681

and nhsnoboarder17 for your Oliver Twist Quiz:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=680

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We now have almost 200 quizzes on the site. How many have you taken?? :)

And...at risk of being too repetitive, I will say again, if you have any problems when submitting a quiz to the site, please don't hesitate to contact me via private message and we can work it out.

cheers,
/Logos

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[muhsin]

Great job, Logos!

[Logos]

Thank you muhsin :)

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More additions to note here ! :D ...

A quiz for John Donne has been added;
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=685

There's also now a quiz for Oscar Wilde (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=687), John Milton (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=688), Henry David Thoreau (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=689), and PG Wodehouse (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=686)

More Wodehouse works have been added including his autobiographical Not George Washington (http://www.online-literature.com/pg-wodehouse/not-george-washington/) and The Man Upstairs (http://www.online-literature.com/pg-wodehouse/);

many more works by Charlotte M. Yonge (http://www.online-literature.com/charlotte-yonge/) including her histories series, My Young Alcides: A Faded Photograph, John Keble, Lady Hester, A Young Telemachus, and Heartsease;

Charles Kingsley's (http://www.online-literature.com/charles-kingsley/) many sermons, essays, and his play The Saint's Tragedy are now on site;

many more short stories by Edith Wharton;
http://www.online-literature.com/wharton/

Oliver Wendell Holmes's The Professor at the Breakfast Table (http://www.online-literature.com/oliver-holmes/professor-at-breakfast/), A Mortal Antipathy, and Over the Teacups are included among other new works added;

many more Bobbsey Twins books are now added;
http://www.online-literature.com/laura-hope/

many more of W. W. Jacobs' (http://www.online-literature.com/ww-jacobs/) works have been added including Captains All, A Master of Craft, and Salthaven;

more of detective author Émile Gaboriau's (http://www.online-literature.com/gaboriau/) works have been added including File No. 13;

J. S. Fletcher's (http://www.online-literature.com/js-fletcher/) The Herapath Property is among more works of his added;

new works by John Fox Jr. (http://www.online-literature.com/john-fox/) include A Mountain Europa and Crittenden;

Jane Austen's (http://www.online-literature.com/austen/) Love and Freindship and Other Early Works can now be read here;

Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie's (http://www.online-literature.com/barrie/) A Widow in Thrums, Better Dead, and My Lady Nicotine are among others now added;

Frances Hodgson Burnett's (http://www.online-literature.com/burnett/) That Lass O' Lowrie's and Vagabondia are among others now added;

Samuel Butler (http://www.online-literature.com/samuel-butler/) compares evolutionary theories in Evolution, Old & New, one of a few more added to his page;

more pseudonymous works by Stratemeyer (http://www.online-literature.com/stratemeyer/) have been added including more Rover Boys books;

Louisa May Alcott's (http://www.online-literature.com/alcott/) The Abbot's Ghost, Jimmy's Cruise, and Shawl Straps are now on-site;

Hans Christian Andersen's (http://www.online-literature.com/hans_christian_andersen/) fictional novels The Ice Maiden and O. T.: A Danish Romance have now been added;

Aristotle's (http://www.online-literature.com/aristotle/) Ethics and Politics are now on site;

Jerome K. Jerome's (http://www.online-literature.com/jerome/) essays on "Clocks" and "Dreams", and many more short stories have been added including "Told After Supper", "Tea-table Talk", and "The Soul of Nicholas Snyders; or, The Miser of Zandam", and also his novel Paul Kelver;

Grace S. Richmond's (http://www.online-literature.com/grace-richmond/) A Court of Inquiry, Under the Country Sky, and more of her Doctor Pepper series are now added;

Sax Rohmer's (http://www.online-literature.com/sax-rohmer/) Bat Wing, Brood of the Witch Queen, Hand of Fu Manchu, and Tales of Chinatown are among many more of his works added;

Margaret Pedler's (http://www.online-literature.com/margaret-pedler/) Moon Out of Reach and The Vision of Desire are among more of her books added;

E. Phillips Oppenheim's (http://www.online-literature.com/oppenheim/) novels The Profiteers, The Great Secret, Mr. Grex, Nobody's Man, and Pawns Count are among many others now added;

Alice Hegan Rice's (http://www.online-literature.com/alice-rice/) novels Mr. Opp, Miss Mink, Quin, and The Honorable Percival have now been added;

Heidi author Johanna Spyri's (http://www.online-literature.com/spyri/) novels Cornelli, Veronica, and Gritli's Children are now added;

King Kong author Edgar Wallace (http://www.online-literature.com/edgar-wallace/) also wrote Angel of Terror, Green Rust, The Man Who Knew, Tam O' the Scoots, and The Book of All Power and more, now added;

Mordant wit Christopher Morley's (http://www.online-literature.com/morley/) In the Sweet and Dry, and collection of short stories, sketches, and essays under such titles as "The Perfect Reader", "Secret Transactions Of The Three Hours For Lunch Club", "The Club of Abandoned Husbands", "Fulton Street, and Walt Whitman", "[George] Gissing", "Mr. [Joseph] Conrad's New Preface", and "Tadpoles" can be found in Plum Pudding and Shandygaff, which includes "The Haunting Beauty of Strychnine", "The Art of Walking", "The Literary Pawnshop", "Confessions of a Smoker", and "Suggestions For Teachers"--"It is recommended that it be introduced to students before their minds have become hardened, clotted, and skeptical." are now added;

murder mystery author and journalist Mary Roberts Rhinehart's (http://www.online-literature.com/mary-rinehart/) Tish, Tenting, Bab, and When A Man Marries are among other works of hers now added;

many more of Elbert Hubbard's (http://www.online-literature.com/elbert-hubbard/) novels have been added, as well as his Little Journey's volumes including Vol. 8: Great Philosophers, Vol. 10: Great Teachers, and Vol. 13: Great Lovers, which includes "Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Osbourne", "William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft", "Dante and Beatrice", "Parnell and Kitty O'Shea", "Petrarch and Laura", "Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal", and "Balzac and Madame Hanska";

*many* more plays (and many of which Moliere himself acted in) by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere (http://www.online-literature.com/moliere/) have been added including Sganarelle, or The Self-Deceived Husband, The Blunderer, The Bores, The Imaginary Invalid, and The School For Husbands are now on site;

The Mabinogion (http://www.online-literature.com/anonymous/the-mabinogion/) by Anonymous is now on-site;

and last but not least,
Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire's (http://www.online-literature.com/voltaire/) Philosophical Dictionary is now on the site, "It was a horrible thing to betray with a kiss; it was that that made Cæsar's assassination still more hateful. We know all about Judas' kisses; they have become proverbial." ... as well as a quiz!
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?quizid=684




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[Charles Darnay]

These are fantastic!! Yay for Mabinogion, and Philosophic Dictionary!!!

[Niamh]

Christ Logos! you have been really busy!!!!

[kiz_paws]

Wowzers! :eek:

I am going to have a peek at The Mabinogion, sounds cool! :thumbs_up

Good work, and thanks, Logos! :)

[Logos]

Thanks everyone :)