Latest additions to the site:

[Logos]

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

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/for...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/for...lay.php?f=2352

[Logos]

Time for another update kids

Harriet Beecher Stowe of Uncle Tom's Cabin fame, also wrote Lady Byron Vindicated after the controversy surrounding her husband Lord George Gordon 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' The Tragic Muse has been added.

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Robert Louis Stevenson's The Ebb Tide and Essays have been added.

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Thomas Hardy's A Laodicean is now on the site.

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Thomas Carlyle's 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 including Count Hannibal and The Castle Inn.

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More of Julian Hawthorne's (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 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' 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 "Melmoth Reconciled" is now added.

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Nathaniel 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 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

Phantom of the Opera quiz:

Bram Stoker quiz:

O Henry quiz:

Gone With the Wind quiz: submitted by downing.

Another Great First Lines quiz has been added and Great Last Lines quiz.

Also, please give Scher's latest Word of the Day - Quiz 4 a try!
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[dramasnot6]

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

[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.../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

[Madhuri]

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

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/for...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

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Voltaire's 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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very cool...keep it up admin team!

[Logos]

okay... a few more updates here

Christopher Morley's novels Kathleen, Mince Pie and Parnassus On Wheels have been added.

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Many more 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 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

Edna St. Vincent 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 and Renascence and Other Poems



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[dramasnot6]

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

[Jean-Baptiste]

A new author/poet has been added

Hurray for Millay! Thanks, Logos!

[Logos]

Next update time

Thomas Hardy's massive collection of poetry Late Lyrics is now on the site.

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The author of The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame had a wry and sardonic sense of humour, check out some of his short stories and essays! like " Loafing"

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

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You can read that Victor Hugo's

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.

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 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 "The Apparition of Mrs. Veal" can now be read here.

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Martin Luther's Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians is now on the site.

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And... more quizzes have been added

Anne Bronte

The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde submitted by tedisy

The Blithedale Romance submitted by laxer11

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Edith Wharton

and last but not least
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne 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 if you like Joseph 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 is now on the site.
the old version was incomplete
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