I’ve read just about everything by British novelist Cecil Scott Forester (author of the “Horatio Hornblower” series), including his war novels, sea stories, mysteries, and other stuff. I even dug up a Horation Hornblower story that has never to my knowledge been reprinted since its initial magazine appearance – “Hornblower and the King”. The only work of his I wasn’t able to complete was his history of the War of 1812. For some reason, the author of my favorite Sea Stories managed to write a dull naval history. I’ve read everything that I know he’s written.
I’ve read almost everything I know of by SF/Fantasy novelist Jack L. Chalker, one of my guilty pleasures. I’ve even read **An Informal History of Scrooge McDuck[/b} and The Devil’s Voyage, his sole historical fiction (about the U.S.S. Indianapolis). I only know of one of his books I’ve missed.
I’ve read all of mystery novelist Toni L.P. Kelner’s books, but not all her short stories.
There is a collection of Vergiliana that contains spurious attributions, questionable attributions, snippets, the Katalepton, and other fun stuff.
Most of it, to be perfectly honest, is interesting predominantly for its antiquarian value. It’s got nothing on the Eclogues, Georgics, or the Aeneid.
I haven’t read them all in Latin in their entirety. All of the Eclogues, Georgic 2 and 4, and about a half dozen books of the Aeneid. There’s still plenty more left to go.
And I’ll pass on the commentary on the Principia. I know when I’m out of my element.
I’ve read the published portions. Interesting stuff - like Valis and Radio Free Albemuth without the pretense of providing a coherant plot. Speaking of RFA, have you read Dick’s correspondance with the FBI that he referred to in that novel?
Not so. Although it’s not generally printed alongside the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, academic editions of the Authorised Version do include the Apocrypha. Oxford World Classics do a good solid edition for about a tenner, edited by Carroll and Prickett.
If I were to go off and hunt down all the information on this subject and the 2000 year debate which has surrounded canon… why, I might end up writing more than the essay on Islam I’m supposed to be doing right now instead of hanging around the SDMB. Suffice to say, the Apocrypha is in the KJV, it’s just left out a lot.
Maud Hart Lovelace destroyed most of her diaries (how awful!), but some parts remain. They are enchantingly similar to the social stuff that goes on in the Betsy high school books. The Betsy-Tacy Society and the Blue Earth Historical Society in Mankato, MN have the portions that remain (and I confess I’m not clear on who exactly has ownership of what, because there seem to be a lot of joint efforts). Harper-Collins had an excellent display in their NY offices of her diaries, dance programs, photographs, and letters two years ago to celebrate the series.
I also had the privilige of meeting her daughter Merian before her death a few years ago. A resident of New York, Merian had many things that belonged to her mother, and she was delighted to share them with fans of Lovelace’s work.
There are actually two organizations dedicated to her writing, the Betsy-Tacy Society and the Maud Hart Lovelace Society, and members of both organizations have collected quite a number of her letters and have tracked down short stories that haven’t been published in over 50 years.
Feel free to email me if you would like more info on either of these groups and their activities!
