Oh gee, just a few new things to mentionI 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
but I'm sure you'll enjoy perusing the new titles on the site
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Charles Dickens' Reprinted Pieces and his semi-autobiographical The Uncommercial Traveller are now on the site.
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Many more Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 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 tortureyou'll enjoy Alexander 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 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 Eremia, Mary Anerly, and Springhaven : A Tale of the Great War are now on the site.
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Dostoevsky's haunting doppelgänger tale The Double: A Petersburg Poem is now added.
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Lev Tolstoy's novels Albert and Hadji Murad are now on the site, thanks baz
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More Russian lit: Ivan S. Turgenev's 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 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 extensive critical essay Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry can now be read here.
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More important and influential works long due to be on the siteJohn Dryden's 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' Oakdale Affair and The Mad King are now on the site
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Outspoken African American lawyer, reformer, critic, and author Charles W. Chesnutt's 1903 essay "The Disfranchisement of the Negro", biography of fellow author 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 Our Androcentric Culture has now been added.
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Certainly no one-hit wonder, to Anatole France's page 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 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
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