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Subject: 2015 Classics Challenge--rough draft #2
Date Posted: 11/10/2014 9:17 AM ET
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I've made some adjustments and would appreciate comments (loved the first set of opi more...
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book that won an award. a more...
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Date Posted: 11/10/2014 5:54 PM ET
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I did have winner of a literary award in my first rough draft. I could put it back in more...
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Maybe my l more...
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Date Posted: 11/10/2014 6:40 PM ET
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Valerie, someone suggested I do a colonial category, but stressed that it could be a colony of an more...
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Quite more...
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Date Posted: 11/10/2014 6:45 PM ET
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questions: 1. re #9 "set in colonial history"...doe more...
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Date Posted: 11/10/2014 7:14 PM ET
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I think I agree with Valerie. Numbers 8 and 9 do se more...
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1) I was going to make the same suggestion as Janet about changing "novel" to "classic" more...
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Janet, you're right--I'll change pre-19th century "novel" to classic. more...
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Barbara, as I told Valerie (and Janet), the colonial reference is to any country, not just th more...
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So... Can anyone give me more...
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I would consider all the lands that technically belonged to the British Empire as "colonies"--India, parts more...
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RE classic set in the colonial period of any country in the world This is all  mostly -fiction or fictionalized memoir. Burmese Days - George Or more...
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I may be more...
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Matt B., thank you for more...
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ObsessedR, thanks for clarification on th more...
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Thank you Matt B. Fo more...
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And for Dutch coloni more...
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Than more...
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To add to Matt more...
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I know that I have not given an more...
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Can anyone give more...