Thank you, lovely Barbara! I'm very happy to have you on board.

Barbara2 has very generously agreed to PL.

If you like PLing, English-language poetry and are only familiar with Binyon's more famous First World War poems, this collection might introduce you to a different stage in his work as many of them are about WWII. At the risk of overselling such a short collection, his Wikipedia entry says that the ...

I forgot a photo to prove it's out of copyright. Here it is:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b68RXh ... sp=sharing

The Burning of the Leaves and Other Poems by Laurence Binyon (*1869 - † 1943)[**TRANSLATORTXT**]

(to come)...
(Summary by Newgatenovelist)

Text source: http://hard copy (please only read from this text!)

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Section 25 is PL OK. Hearty congratulations!

If you want this catalogued quickly you might want to PM Viktor to let him know it's ready.

Section 24 is PL OK. I don't know what was going on with the uploading process, but I was able to download it without any trouble.
You're right, George Sand could do with some attention. If you'd like me to PL, put me down for that in the project thread and let me know that it's launched.
At the ...

Section 23 is PL OK.

Do you have another book in mind for your next project?

Erin

Ha, I could have worded that better. I know the worst is yet to come! In spite of it being over 8.5 hours, it feels as if it's been perhaps 3 at most.

Sections 21 and 22 are PL OK.

For general reference:
https://www.lexico.com/definition/senile

Erin

Rob - just querying very quickly that the first sentence hasn't perhaps omitted a word:
...after the death of his [?] Oscar Wilde.

It makes sense as it is, so do ignore if that's not helpful!

Section 20 is PL OK. If it doesn't sound too perverse to say so after the last chapter, I have really been enjoying this.

A general note: this pronunciation apparently shifts only when it’s lunatically, rather than lunatic
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/lunatic
https://howjsay ...

No problem at all. I was asking in case you did have something up your sleeve you intended to launch shortly. I tend to respond to notifications rather than browsing the forum and can easily be late to the party, as I was with this project.

Good luck with whatever you've got on and any Wildean ...

Section 19 is PL OK.

For general reference:
https://www.lexico.com/definition/desultorily
https://howjsay.com/how-to-pronounce-desultorily

Erin

Sections 45, 46 and 47 are spot PL OK. This is ready to be catalogued. Congratulations!

I confess not to knowing how many friends Douglas retained by the end of his life, but it seems like he stayed busy burning bridges. What a wild ride this has been. Do you have any later texts by him for Legamus ...

Sections 17 and 18 are PL OK. Sorry to keep you waiting for a PL!

It's easy for me to say because I wasn't recording it, but that didn't feel like a longer chapter at all.

For future reference:
https://www.lexico.com/definition/indefatigably

https://www.lexico.com/definition/cyclical

https://www ...

39 is spot PL OK and 42, 43 and 44 are PL OK. One note each for the last three sections:

45

2.57-3.07, top half p 306, false start + self-correction
The trial [snap] The trial came on just before Plain English expired [snap] The trial came on just before Plain Speech expired.


46

2.41-2.49, top ...

38, 40 and 41 are PL OK.

One note for 39:

1.58-2.10, pp 259-260, false start
Less than four months after our separation Olive rang me up- Less than four months after our separation Olive rang me up one day on the telephone.


I would have guessed that his earlier works when he was surrounded by ...

Section 16 is PL OK. If you need to divide the next section, by all means do so.
Erin

Chapters 4, 30 and 32 are spot PL OK. Chapters 35-37 are PL OK.

I'll defer to your knowledge of his prison poems. I've been underwhelmed by the samples presented so far. I know it's easy to be critical and hard to write, but life is too short to keep reading in the hope of finding the gems he ...

Chapters 33 and 34 are PL OK. I really don't know what he's going to say when he gets to Churchill.