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?
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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?
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/for...splay.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 :)
Ok, next update!
More William Butler 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 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 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 poems "London" and "I Heard an Angel" are now on the site.
Many more works by Leo 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 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 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 farce/play Marriage a-la-Mode is now added.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's 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 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 collection A Changed Man and Other Tales is now on the site.
Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz is now on the site.
Anthony Trollope's 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 novels have been added: One of Life’s Slaves, The Pilot and His Wife, and The Visionary.
Canadian author Grant Allen's 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 epic satiric narrative poem Don Juan is now on the site :D
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/for...php?quizid=390
Scher has created another "Word of the Day" quiz :)
http://www.online-literature.com/for...php?quizid=386
Test your knowledge of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, her life and writings, including Frankenstein in this quiz:
http://www.online-literature.com/for...php?quizid=388
ElenaM has created a quiz on Emily Bronte's Life, you can take it here:
http://www.online-literature.com/for...php?quizid=366
bazarov created a quiz on Dostoevsky's works:
http://www.online-literature.com/for...php?quizid=348
You can test yourself on Nathaniel Hawthorne, his Life and Works here:
http://www.online-literature.com/for...php?quizid=340
And Mark Twain here:
http://www.online-literature.com/for...php?quizid=339
Wow, L!
Thumbs up for you! :thumbs_up
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/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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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
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
Time for another update kids :D
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 :D
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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wow! look at all those goodies! Thank ye so much Admin! :D
Just took your First lines Quiz and you defintely have a mistake.
It said:
That is not the first line of The Great Gatsby. The correct first line is:Quote:
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
Go to: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au.../chapter1.htmlQuote:
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
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:
You have added Rabindranath Tagore too...This is great!! I used to think no one is ever interested in Indian authors. Good, Good :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Logos
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. :)
:thumbs_up very cool...keep it up admin team! :thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by Logos
okay... a few more updates here :D
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 :banana:
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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Thanks Logos! I will take a lookey at the poems and Plato! :D
Hurray for Millay! :banana: Thanks, Logos! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by 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" :p
I wonder if he was friends with Jerome K. JeromeQuote:
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.
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You can read that Victor Hugo'sin his Memoirs.Quote:
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.
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 :D
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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I love it when you add new stuff. I get all excited!
More to get excited about Psyche :D 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:idea:
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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 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 torture :p you'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 site :) John 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 :D
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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 :lol:
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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.
These are all very exciting additions, Logos. Somebody's been busy! Thank you! :D
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:
Holy smokes lots of new additions.
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 :)
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.
Actually, he wasn't nihilist.Quote:
Originally Posted by Logos
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Logos
Great additions once again, congratulations!:thumbs_up
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
shhhh don't want to give tooo much away :pQuote:
Originally Posted by bazarov
Glad that essay is a help Charles :)
LOL Extra Pound? Extra Pound of what?Quote:
Originally Posted by Charles Darnay
Well, I have a few ideas.
Additions since my last post :)
More of Upton Sinclair's 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 has been added :D
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More works by Sir Walter Scott have been added:
his epic poem Marmion
Peveril of the Peak,
Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft and his
Journal written over the last 8 years before his death.
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Christopher Marlowe's play Edward the Second is now on the site.
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Vicar of Wakefield author Oliver Goldsmith wrote a great History of Rome
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Henrik Ibsen's
Early Plays includes Catiline, The Warrior's Barrow and Olaf Liljekrans.
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Satirist Henry B. Fuller's Under the Skylights is now on the site.
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Poet Laureate Lord Alfred Tennyson also wrote plays including Becket .
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You can now test your knowledge of Anna Sewell and her only novel Black Beauty in this Quiz!
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Sunchrislit1 submitted a quiz based on G. A. Henty's In Freedom's Cause: you can take it here.
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Turquoisetiger's quiz based on Victor Hugo's Les Miserables can be found here.
Oooh, Logos, you must be indefatigable :nod:.
Thank you very much :).
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?
Here is the forum with info etc. for Short Story comp:
http://www.online-literature.com/for...lay.php?f=3160
Most of the time :D thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schokokeks
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Originally Posted by Logos
on another note, my god! you really are a busy bee!
Yeeeees, that is the right expression !Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
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.