I can sympathize with everyone who wants to practice but doesn't want to "mess up" someone else's work (especially if it's notes from a meeting I wasn't at or something)! So I figured I'd make things easy for whoever comes after me, and create something obviously messed up. So please, catch and fix my bloopers (and maybe leave some or add some of your own for the next person to fix?), pretty it up with formatting, whatever you like!
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (but I like the wrong ones too!)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - Read the book here on Gutenberg
The Red Bad of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Awakening by Kat Chopin
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
First Avenue by Sinclair Lewis
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Oranges of Anger by John Steinbeck

Cry the Beloved County by Alan Paton
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Fifty Years of Solitude by Garbiel Garcia Marquez
My Name is Asher Lev by Chiam Potok
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Chimpanzee
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling too much fun by fairpan
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (never the abridged version mind you ...)
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Comments (4)
Anonymous said
at 10:37 am on Feb 25, 2008
Thanks for setting this page up, makes it a lot easier (and less nerve-wracking) to play around and edit.
Anonymous said
at 8:54 pm on Feb 29, 2008
This seems easy enough. Setting up and doing something for real seems much more difficult.
Anonymous said
at 3:26 pm on Mar 4, 2008
What fun, I loved figuring out the correct titles and authors. I corrected one and added one.
Anonymous said
at 11:13 am on Mar 6, 2008
I added the best classic of all Pride and Prejudice. And changed a title. Lots of fun
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