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Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Is there an online link somewhere to the complete list?


message 2: by Fred (last edited Jul 24, 2012 02:05PM) (new)

Fred Themis-Athena wrote: "Is there an online link somewhere to the complete list?"
I had a look for you and found it here:
http://theprintaddict.wordpress.com/t...
It is worth reading the original book though, as it has a brief discussion on the reason for the books' inclusion, and comments on the books.


message 3: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (last edited Jul 25, 2012 07:29AM) (new)

Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Thanks! I asked (in part) because this is the kind of GR list where you may well get some additions down the road that aren't actually on Mr. Flyn's original list -- so if there's an online reference to check against, that just makes it easier to help keeping this list in synch with the original that inspired its creation in the first place ...

ETA: In the online list, there's an entry entitled "Sentimental Journey by Gustave Flaubert." That's a conflation of two books -- is it Flaubert's Sentimental Education or Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey that's on the original list? (I'm betting on Flaubert but am of course willing to be proven wrong! :) )


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