Latest additions to the site:

[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/for...lay.php?f=3160

[Logos]

Oooh, Logos, you must be indefatigable .

Most of the time 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 has been added

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 .

[Logos]

The next round of (April) additions to be mentioned

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Anton Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard is now on the site, as are John Dryden's plays The Wild Gallant and The Rival Ladies, and Sophocles' play Aias.

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

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Fergus Hume's mysteries Red Money and The Silent House are now on the site as well as many more of Joseph Sheridan Lefanu's 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' novel History of Mr. Polly is now on the site, as well as many more of P.G. Wodehouse's short stories and novels including My Man Jeeves and A Man of Means.


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As most of you know, Mark 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.

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/for...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/for...php?quizid=481

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

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And...last but certainly not least again a big thank you to Niamh for typing up and sending me more of J. M. Synge's poems, now added to the site

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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 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

[Logos]

Oh dear, I'm a bit behind here, lots of stuff to mention

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***More quizzes have been added to the collection!!!***

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 .

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 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 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 Eclogues and Georgics here.

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Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub, Battle of the Books and Journal to Stella, Three Sermons and Prayers", and his poems to Stella, 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 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!. 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 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 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 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!! 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 will be reading his collected short stories in July, more plays of Oscar Wilde's 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. His Amores and New Poems collections. Enjoy the handy dandy accessibility of having them online to read, search, copy and paste!

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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.