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Dear LitNutters--
Some day when you don't have anything to post in the writing forums, or weighing in on someone else's work, or have already played the games, or don't really feel like getting into a heavy discussion in the chat threads, take a look at the comprehensive list of authors whose complete works are available right here-- for free-- on the LitNet.
Just this past Spring I found a Lewis Carroll work I was looking for on this website and spent a most enjoyable afternoon reading-- and "lol'ing"-- a hard-to-find book by a beloved author.
This past Saturday night when I watched Katherine Hepburn's performance in Alice Adams on Turner Classic Movies, I heard the host of the broadcast remark how the book was quite different from the film version.
I took a cursory look around the apt. to see if we owned a copy of the original Booth Tarkington novel-- Nope. But guess what-- it's right here on the LitNet. I'm going to read it here online the end of the week, as soon as I finish my projects.
One thing that struck me about the movie--dating way, way back to 1935, a long time ago even for me!-- is how relevant it is to today's economic and social environment. By that I mean, don't automatically dismiss a book just because it's old or in the public domain. You can always find something enlightening and entertaining if you keep an open mind.
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That's a wonderful suggestion Aunty!
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How about Thomas Love Peacock and Ronald Firbank?
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Oh, I didn't see this thread. Whoops.
E. L. James please.
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I've just noticed that I can't see Alexander Pope among the Specific Authors.
Not everyone would like him (British understatement) but he was the poetic giant of the eighteenth century, dominating poetry until Wordsworth published Lyrical Ballads. I'm afraid I find Wordsworth boring.
He should be there.
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Hubert Selby Jr.!!!
Borges
Celine
Camus
Sartre
Vonnegut
Kafka
Bukowski
Irvine Welsh
Dostoevsky
Rushdie
John Fante
Hesse
Julio Cortazar
Heidegger
Kierkegaard
Woody Allen
David Foster Wallace
Jeff Noon
Craig Clevenger
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Proust, we need Marcel Proust.
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Nikolai Gogol, C.S. Lewis, George Macdonald, G.K. Chesterton.
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except for Lewis... all above named authors are already on the site.
Link below to the index of almost 300 AUTHORS with etexts on the site... :)
http://www.online-literature.com/author_index.php
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Oh, sorry about that. I thought this was just for the forum threads. Thanks for clearing that up. :)
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ok! :) just here to help :wave:
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