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PRICE CHANGE - Previously sets which comprised either 2 x 800K or a
single 1.6Mb disc cost 2. This has now been changed to 1.75 for 2 x
800K or 1.50 for 1 x 1.6Mb, as before either option gives 1 Bonus
Point. Note that the price will NOT be shown for each item, just the
fact that it comprises 2 x 800K or 1 x 1.6Mb disc.

This section contains Public Domain texts and documents. Novels, plays,
poems, or works which have become Public Domain because of their age.
Others may be freely distributable because of their content.

These are different from text files which are included in the Main
Catalogue. Those will normally be short documents, technical notes, etc.
whereas the ones included here will more properly be described as
'literature', hence the name.

Files are normally sold individually and may be combined with individual
programs, Tracker tunes, etc. to make up the minimum order charge of
1.50. Prices shown are in pence.

All are compressed using ArcFS and are plain ASCII text, properly
formatted with Acorn-style LF terminated lines and expanded Tabs. Some
files may have pagination with Form Feed (ascii 12) characters.

Files may be grouped into 'compilation discs' where this seems
appropriate, and these discs will count towards Bonus Points. All
Literature compilations have an 'L' prefix and count as ONE BONUS POINT
unless specified otherwise


TEACHERS - Isn't this a LOT better than trying to stretch your
budget to to afford new books?  Consider buying these instead. It will
only cost a few pounds to print enough copies for your class. Although
they won't be as durable as a 'proper' book, your pupils can scribble
notes all over them and it doesn't matter if they get lost or damaged.

How often have you rummaged through the pages of a book trying to find
that quotation that you can't *quite* remember but know is there?
Well, if the book is 'machine readable' you can load it into your text
editor, do a quick 'search' for a keyword, and find it in seconds!


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L001  -<>- Shakespeare compilation -<>-  many of the 'popular' plays.
      Contains -
        Alls Well that Ends Well, Anthony and Cleopatra, As You Like It,
        A Comedy of Errors, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Hamlet, Henry V,
        Julius Caesar, King Lear, Love's Labour's Lost, Macbeth, Measure
        for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, Midsummer Night's Dream,
        Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Richard II, Romeo and Juliet,
        The Tempest and Twelfth Night.

        On two 800K or one 1.6Mb disc
     See also many more of Shakespeare's works at the end of this file


L002  -<>- Of Human Bondage -<>-    W.Somerset Maugham


L003  -<>- Jane Eyre -<>-    Charlotte Bronte
        Including the Authors preface to the second edition


L004  -<>- The Woman in White -<>-    Wilkie Collins
        One of the great classics from the man who 'invented' the
        detective novel.


L005  -<>- Ivanhoe -<>-    Sir Walter Scott
        The great popular English Romantic Novel from which were born
        so many of the legends of Robin Hood, King Richard, and medieval
        England beloved of Holywood scriptwriters. Even without the
        historical interest it's a tremendous story.


L006  -<>- Sherlock Holmes collection -<>-   Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
      Contains -
        Second Stain, Three Students, Six Napoleons, Adv of Abbey
        Grange, Hound of the Baskervilles,  Adv of the Beryl Coronet,
        Black Peter, Blue Carbuncle, Bascombe Valley Mystery, Bruce-
        Partington Plans, Cardboard Box, Copper Beeches, Crooked Man,
        Dancing Men, Devil's Foot, Dying Detective, Empty House,
        Engineers Thumb, Final Problem, "Gloria Scott", Greek
        Interpreter, His Last Bow, Case of Identity, Diss. of Lady
        Frances Carfax, Charles Augustus Milverton, Missing Three-
        Quarter, Musgrave Ritual, Naval Treaty, Norwood Builder, Noble
        Bachelor, Orange Pips, Golden Pince-Nez, Poison Belt, Priory
        School, Red Circle, League of Red Headed Men, Reigate Puzzle,
        Resident patient, Scandal in Bohemia, Sign of Four, Silver
        Blaze, Solitary Cyclist, Speckled Band, Stck-Broker's Clerk,
        Man with the Twisted Lip, Valley of Fear, Wisteria Lodge, Yellow
        Face and, of course, the story that introduced Sherlock Holme, A
        Study in Scarlet. Plus bibliographies of book titles and a list
        of works by other Author's in which Sherlock Holmes appears.

           On two 800K or a single 1.6Mb disc


L007  -<>- The Caterbury Tales -<>-   Geoffrey Chaucer
        One of the most original and best loved works of English
        literature. It's been turned into films, plays, and even a
        musical.
        This disc contains two complete versions. The first is a single
        large file (600K) in 'original' English. As it was written in
        1380 this can be hard going. The second version is more
        contemporary without losing the 'feel' of the original and is
        split into 'tales' for convenience.


L008  -<>- Hans Christian Andersen -<>-
        129 stories from the master children's storyteller. Including
        such favourites as The Emperor's New Suit, The Ice Maiden, The
        Little Mermaid, The Princess and the Pea, The Red Shoes, The
        Snow Man, The Ugly Duckling, and The Snow Queen.
        Getting your young children to use these is a great way of
        teaching them basic 'computer skills'.

           On two 800K or a single 1.6Mb disc


L009  -<>- Classic Children's stories -<>-
        Aesop's Fables
        Aladin and his Wonderful Lamp
        Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
        Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
        The Song of Hiawatha - Henry W. Longfellow
        The Marvellous Land of Oz - L. Frank Baum (part of the Oz collection)



L010  -<>- Little Women -<>-   Louisa May Alcott


L011  -<>- The 'Anne' Trilogy -<>-   Lucy Maud Montgomery
        Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, Anne of Avonlea.
        Three of the most famous children's books ever. Still as
        popular today as at the time they were written.



L012  -<>- Tom Sawyer collection -<>-     Mark Twain
        Contains 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn' plus two short
        novels 'Tom Sawyer Abroad'' and 'Tom Sawyer, Detective'. If you
        read these books when you were young please read them again -
        they're wasted on kids. Let me draw your attention to the
        preface to Huckleberry Finn

      Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be
      prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be
      banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
                                         By Order of the Author


L013  -<>- More Mark Twain -<>-
        Contains 'A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court', 'The
        Prince and the Pauper', and 'Pudd'nhead Wilson'.


L014  -<>- Classical Literature -<>-
        'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' by Homer, both translated by
        Samuel Butler and 'The Georgic' and 'The Eclogues' by Virgil.
                    Tightly packed onto one 800K disc


L015  -<>-  Tacitus  -<>-
        'The Annals' and 'Histories' by Cornelius Tacitus, both
        translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb.


L016  -<>-  Jules Verne  -<>-
        Three classic 'science fiction' books -
                Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
                Around the World in Eighty Days
                Journey to the Centre of the Earth


L017  -<>-  Edgar Rice Burrough  -<>-
        The Gods of Mars, Thuvia, Maid of Mars, The Warlord of Mars, and
        the book which began this popular series, A Princess of Mars. If
        you haven't read any of these books before then read A Princess
        of Mars first, otherwise you won't understand what's going on!
        Far more fun than his more famous Tarzan books.


L018  -<>-  Iain Hotchkies  -<>-
        This and the following disc are NOT Public Domain texts but
        copyright, unpublished, books by a modern author. They do
        contain some explicit sexual material (they are NOT soft porn,
        just modern novels).

        Gathering Daisies - 110,000 word novel written in 1993. The
                hero is a 17-year-old lad who loves heavy metal, has a
                rubber/latex fetish, and plays in a band with two
                friends. The novel charts two weeks in his hectic life
                in a humorous style
        The Hidden Agenda - 138,000 word novel about sex, death and
                medicine written in a 57-day frenzy of fevered
                imagination in 1994. Briefly, a 40 year old married GP
                succumbs to the advances of an attractive pharmaceutical
                rep. Guilt is not the only penalty as his life falls
                apart. How he sorts this out and finds the evil mind
                responsible for his downfall is what its all about!
                Contains only a small amount of gratuitous sex, very
                little violence (except at the end), and some humour!


L019  -<>-  Iain Hotchkies  -<>-
        Dream Home - A massive (215,000 word) horror novel. It concerns
                a gynaecologist and his family who move to an old house
                in rural Cheshire. Soon, BAD things start to happen! The
                novel was written in 1988/1989 It is divided into three
                sections: Greystones, Zachary and The Malevolence
        Eye of the Beholder - A short (65,000 word) novella, written in
                1992 about a psychopathic serial killer who believes
                that by eating body parts he can experience the
                sensations of his victims! Not for the squeamish
                and contains scenes of graphic carnage and sexual
                material of a violent nature


L020      -<>-  Iain Hotchkies  -<>-
        The contents of L018 and L019 together on one 1.6Mb disc for 1.75


L021      -<>-  The Book of Mormon  -<>-
        Project Gutenberg version of the Book of Mormon. Heavy going but
        essential reading for anyone studying American history as these
        people and their beliefs had (and still have) such influence


L022    -<>-  Jack London  -<>-
        I'm not a great fan of Jack London, but I am dismayed to note
        that his books seem to be vanishing from library shelves. People
        of the Abyss should certainly be required reading for anyone
        silly enough to give credence to the 'trickle-down' economic
        doctrine. Not always easy to read, but worth the effort.

        The People of the Abyss, To Build a Fire, The Call of the Wild,
        The Iron Heel, Selected Klondike Short Stories, The Sea Wolf,
        Son of the Wolf, White Fang, and Selected Stories.

          On 2 x 800K or a single 1.6Mb disc


L023    -<>-  Moby Dick  -<>-  Melville Herman
        You may have seen the glitsy Hollywood film, but it bears little
        resemblance to the book. A complex tale of obsession. If you
        don't want to jump in at the deep end with this rather large
        book try the much shorter work 'Billy Budd' from the same author
        who wrote about the sea and sailors in the early 19th century.


L024    -<>-  Classic Horror Stories  -<>-
        Three of the greatest tales of horror ever. Personally I think
        Frankenstein is over-rated, but there's no doubt that Dracula is
        one of the most gripping tales of suspense from any age. If you
        want something a bit shorter then Jekyl and Hyde is not too
        long. I don't think there can be many people who don't 'know'
        all of these stories - but how many have actually read them?
        You won't be dissapointed.

            Dracula  by Bram Stoker
            Frankenstein  by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
            The Strange Case of Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde  by R.L.Stevenson


L025    -<>-  War and peace  -<>-
        Leon Tolstoy's great novel set against the background of the
        French invasion of Russia.

          On 2 x 800K or a single 1.6Mb disc


L026    -<>-  Anna Karenina  -<>-
        The other well known Tolstoy classic. There's enough material on
        this disc and L025 to keep anyone in reading matter for even the
        wettest fortnight's holiday in Blackpool.

          On 2 x 800K or a single 1.6Mb disc


L028    -<>-  Edgar Allan Poe  -<>-
        Nearly 3Mb of the works of the famous horror and mystery writer.

        Three Sundays in a Weeek, Cask of Amontillado, Angel of the Odd,
        Domain or Arnheim, Thou Art The Man, The Assignation, Narrative
        of Arthur Gordon Pym, Ballon Hoax, Berenice, Black Cat, Bon-Bon,
        The Business Man, Colloquy of Monos and Una, Conversation of
        Eiros and Charmion, Criticism, Devil in the Belfry, Diddling,
        Eleonora, Four Beasts In One, The Gold-Bug, Why The Little
        Frenchman Wears His Hand In a Sling, Hans Phaal, Hop-Frog, Fall
        of the House of Usher, Imp of the Perverse, Island of the Fay,
        Tale of Jerusalem, King Pest, Duc de L'Omlette, Landor's
        Cottage, Landscape Garden, Ligeia, Lionizing, Literary Life of
        Thingum Bob, Loss of Breath, Descent into the Maelstrom, Man of
        the Crowd, Marginalia, Mystery of Marie Roget, Mellonta Tauta,
        Mesmeric Revelation, Metzengerstein, Morella, Morning on the
        Wissahiccon, MS. Found in a Bottle, Murders in the Rue Morgue,
        Mystification, Never Bet The Devil Your Head, Oblong Box, Oval
        Portrait, X-ing a Paragrab, Pit and the Pendulum, A Predicament,
        Premature Burial, Purloined Letter, Tale of the Ragged
        Mountains, Masque of the Red Death, The Thousand-and-Second Tale
        of Scheherazade, Shadow, Silence, The Spectacles, The Sphinx,
        System of Dr.Tarr and Prof.Fether, Tell-Tale Heart, Man that was
        Used Up, Facts in the Case of M.Valdemar, Von Kempelen and his
        Discovery, William Wilson, Words With a Mummy, How To Write A
        Blackwood Article,
      PLUS - over forty poems, including Annabel Lee and The Raven.

          On 2 x 800K or a single 1.6Mb disc


L029    -<>-  Classic Poetry  -<>-
        68 poems by Keats, over 400 (yes, four hundred) by Yeats, plus -

        Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard  -  Thomas Gray
        Christabel  -  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
        Kubla Khan  -  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
        The Rime of the Ancient Mariner  -  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
        Jabberwocky  -  Lewis Carroll
        The Rubaiyat -  Omar Khyyam


L030    -<>-  Ben-Hur  -<>-  Lew Wallace
        The epic tale, with chariot race, but otherwise just a little
        bit different from the hollywood version.


L031    -<>-  The Arabian Nights  -<>-  Sir Richard Burton
        Most of these stories (Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor, etc.) have
        been adopted into English culture as children's stories. In the
        process they've become so anglicised that much of the original
        magic has been lost. (Has anyone got an e-text of Richard
        Burton's other famous book?)


L032    -<>- The Voyage of the Beagle -<>-  Charles Darwin
        The history, as a journal, containing the observations on which
        he based his great work The Origins of Species which caused so
        much uproar.


L033    -<>-  Charles Dickens  -<>-
        A collection of discs, each containing one or more books.
          One reason these are so popular is that most weren't written
        as novels. Dickens wrote for weekly magazines, and what we now
        see as a 'chapter' was originally a week's instalment of the
        story. This may make for a rather unstructured novel, but ideal
        for kids as these long, complex, tales are told in managable
        chunks, often with cliffhanger endings to the chapters (and I
        suspect that sometimes Dickens wasn't quite sure what would
        happen next). Not great literature, but they are a great read!

                L033-01         Barnaby Rudge
                L033-02         Hard Times, Oliver Twist
                L033-03         The Pickwick Papers
                L033-04         A Christmas Carol, The Mystery of Edwin
                                Drood, The Uncommercial Traveller

     Each costs 1.50 separately, or the complete set is available on
     4 x 800K for 4 or 2 x 1.6Mb for 3.  (either = 1 Bonus Point)


L034    -<>-  Charles Dickens  -<>-
        Three books, each too big to fit on a single 800K disc, so they
        have been squashed onto four 800K or two 1.6Mb discs.
        David Copperfield, Dombey and Son, Our Mutual Friend.

     On 4 x 800K for 4 or 2 x 1.6Mb for 3  (either = 1 Bonus Point)


L035    -<>-  John Buchan  -<>-
        Three of his most popular novels, The Thirty Nine Steps,
        Greenmantle and Mr Standfast


L036    -<>-  L. Frank Baum  -<>-
        Although you may not know this Author's name you will have heard
        of the Wizard of Oz. I don't know if he ever wrote a book of
        that name but he wrote lots of others about the magical land.

        The Emerald City, Glinda of Oz, The Marvelous Land of Oz, The
        Lost Princess of Oz, The Magic of Oz, The Patchwork Girl of Oz,
        Ozma of Oz, The Road to Oz, Rinkitink In Oz, The Scarecrow of Oz,
        Tik-Tok of Oz, The Tin Woodman of Oz.

          On 2 x 800K or a single 1.6Mb disc


L037    -<>-  H.G.Wells  -<>-
        Ann Veronica, The Door in the Wall, The Invisible Man, When the
        Sleeper Wakes, The Time Machine, Tono Bungay, War of the Worlds.

          On 2 x 800K or a single 1.6Mb disc


L038    -<>-  Robert Louis Stevenson  -<>-
        Across the Plains, Catriona (sequel to Kidnapped), Memoir of
        Fleeing Jenkin, The Inland Voyage, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and
        Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, The Master of Ballantyne, The Silverado
        Squatters, In the South Seas.

          On 2 x 800K or a single 1.6Mb disc

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                  Novels and other texts
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   Order As     Price           Description
 ---------------------------------------------------------------
  39_Steps       20     The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan
  Abyss          40     The People of the Abyss by Jack London
  AcrosPlain     40     Across the Plains by R.L.Stevenson
  AdamDiary      10     Extracts from Adam's Diary by Mark Twain
  Aesop          20     Aesop's Fables - Gutenberg version
  Aladin         10     Aladin and the Wonderful Lamp
  AliceWLand     10     Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  AllFlesh       90     The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
  AncientMar     10     The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  ANewCrime      10     A New Crime by Mark Twain
  Annals        100     The Annals by Cornelius Tacitus
  AnneIsland     50     Anne of the Island by L.M.Montgomery
  Anne_G_G       50     Anne of Green Gables by L.M.Montgomery
  AnnVeronic     60     Ann Veronica by by H.G.Wells
  Avonlea        50     Anne of Avonlea by L.M.Montgomery
  BenCereno      20     Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
  Beowulf        20     Beowulf, translated by Francis B Gummere
  BillyBudd      20     Billy Budd by Herman Melville
  BuildFire      10     To Build a Fire by Jack London
  CallWild       20     The Call of the Wild by Jack London
  Catriona       60     Catriona by R.L.Stevenson
  CentrEarth     50     Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
  ChrisCarol     20     A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  Christabel     10     Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  Conneticut     70     Conneticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
  DoorInWall     30     The Dor in the Wall by H.G.Wells
  Dracula        90     Dracula by Bram Stoker
  Eclogues       10     The Eclogues by Virgil
  Economy        10     Political Economy by Mark Twain
  EdwinDrood     60     The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
  EightyDays     40     Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
  Elegy          10     Elegy Written In A Country Church-Yard by Thomas Gray
  EmeraldCty     30     The Emerald City by L.F.Baum
  FrankStein     40     Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  Georgics       10     The Georgic by Virgil.
  GhostStory     10     A Ghost Story by Mark Twain
  GodsOfMars     50     The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burrough
  Greenmantl     60     greenmantle by John Buchan
  Gulliver       60     Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
  HardTimes      60     Hard Times by Charles Dickens
  Histories      60     Histories by Cornelius Tacitus
  Hiawatha       20     The Song of Hiawatha by Henry W. Longfellow
  Huck_Finn      60     Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  Iliad          80     The Iliad by Homer
  InvisbleMn     30     The Invisible Man by H.G.Wells
  IronHeel       50     The Iron Heel by Jack Londod
  Jabberwock     10     Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
  JekylHyde      20     The Strange Case of Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde by R.L.Stevenson
  JungleBook     30     The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
  Keats          60     The complete archive of Keats poems from L029
  Kidnapped      40     Kidnapped by R.L.Stevenson
  Kim            60     Kim by Rudyard Kipling
  Klondike       40     Selected Klondike Short Stories by Jack London
  KublaKhan      10     Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  LandofOz       30     The Marvellous Land of Oz by L.F.Baum
  LilWmn_1       50     Little Women by L.M.Alcott - book 1
  LilWmn_2       60     Little Women by L.M.Alcott - book 2
  LookGlass      20     Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
  LordJim        80     Lord Jim by Conrad
  LostPrince     30     Lost Princess of Oz by L.F.Baum
  MaddngCrd      80     Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
  MagicDoor      30     Through the Magic Door. An 'essay' on literature
                        by Conan Doyle
  MagicOfOz      20     The Magic of Oz by L.F.Baum
  MaidOfMars     30     Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burrough
  MasBallant     50     The Master of Ballantrae by R.L.Stevenson
  My_Watch       10     My Watch by Mark Twain
  Niagara        10     Niagara by Mark Twain
  Northwind      50     At The Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
  Odyssey        60     The Odyssey by Homer
  OlivrTwist     90     Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
  OzmaOfOz       20     Ozma of Oz by L.F.Baum
  PatchGirl      30     The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L.F.Baum
  PilgrimPro     30     The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
  Pimpernel      50     The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
  Pitcairn       10     The Great Revolution in Pitcairn by Mark Twain
  Pompeii       120     The Last Days of Popmeii by E.G.Bulwer-Lytton
  PrestrJohn     40     Prester John by John Buchan
  PridePrej      70     Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  PrincePaup     40     The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
  Pudd_head      30     Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
  Rinkitink      30     Rinkitink in Oz by L.F.Baum
  RoadToOz       20     The Road to Oz by L.F.Baum
  RobCrusoe      60     Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  Rubaiyat       10     The Rubaiyat by Omar Khyyam
  SawyerAbr      20     Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain
  SawyerDet      10     Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain
  Scarecrow      30     The Sarecrow of Oz by L.F.Baum
  SeaWolf        60     The Sea Wolf by Jack London
  Sense+Sens     90     Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  SilasMarn      40     Silas Marner by George Elliot
  Silverado      20     The Silverado Squatters by R.L.Stevenson
  SleeperWak     50     When The Sleeper Wakes by H.G.Well
  SonOfWolf      30     Son of the Wolf by Jack London
  SouthSeas      60     In The South Seas by R.L.Stevenson
  Speeches       50     Mark Twain's speeches
  Stories_JL     50     Selected Stories by Jack London
  TomSawyer      40     Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  TonoBungay     80     Tono Bungay by H.G.Wells
  TinWoodman     30     The Tin Woodman of Oz by L.F.Baum
  Typee          60     Typee by Herman Melville
  UncomTravl     90     The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens
  UnderSea       70     20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
  Underwoods     10     Underwoods by R.L.Stevenson
  WarlrdMars     30     The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burrough
  WarWorlds      30     The War of the Worlds by H.G.Wells
  WhatIsMan      60     What Is Man? by Mark Twain
  WhiteFang      40     White Fang by Jack London
  WuthHeight     70     Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Bronte
  Yeats          60     The complete archive of Yeats poems from L029


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                Works of William Shakespeare
                ----------------------------

Many of these files exist in two versions (or, in one case, three). As
you may be aware there is often disagreement about which is the
'original' version of a work as they have been amended and altered many
times over the past four hundred years, often by the playwright himself
in revision. Also the spelling and punctuation in common usage in the
sixteenth century was somewhat different from that used today. A third
consideration is that the pronunciation of words has changed so that a
phrase which 'scanned' in Shakespeare's time would sound awkward now,
and so sometimes phrases have become slightly changed with time

The first version is therefore the 'simplest'. Quite often this means
that contemporary spelling is used and the text may be slightly altered
from the original. Where a second version exists this may be rather
more 'authoritive' and could be taken from original (or closer to the
original) texts. For use in schools I would recommend that the first
version should be used. It will be easier to understand and might
relieve the Teacher from the tedious task of explaining why it was OK
for Shakespeare to spell that way, but.....

As an example, the following extracts are taken from the first and
second versions of 'Sonnets' respectively.


      When forty winters shall beseige thy brow,
      And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,
      Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now,
      Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held:
      Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies,
      Where all the treasure of thy lusty days,
      To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes,
      Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.
      How much more praise deserved thy beauty's use,
      If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine
      Shall sum my count and make my old excuse,'
      Proving his beauty by succession thine!
        This were to be new made when thou art old,
        And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.


      WHen fortie Winters shall beseige thy brow,
      And digge deep trenches in thy beauties field,
      Thy youthes proud liuery so gazed on now,
      Wil be a totter'd weed of smal worth held:
      Then being askt,where all thy beautie lies,
      Where all the treasure of thy lusty daies;
      To say within thine owne deepe sunken eyes,
      Were an all-eating shame,and thriftlesse praise.
      How much more praise deseru'd thy beauties vse,
      If thou couldst answere this faire child of mine
      Shall sum my count,and make my old excuse
      Proouing his beautie by succession thine.
        This were to be new made when thou art ould,
        And see thy blood warme when thou feel'st it could,


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  AllsWell_1      10      Alls Well the Ends Well - version 1
  AllsWell_2      10      Alls Well the Ends Well - version 2
  AntonyCleo      20      Anthony and Cleopatra
  AsYouLike1      10      As You Like It - version 1
  AsYouLike2      10      As You Like It - version 2
  ComedyErr1      10      The Comedy of Errors - version 1
  ComedyErr2      10      The Comedy of Errors - version 2
  Coriolanus      20      Coriolanus
  Cymbeline       20      Cymbeline
  GentVerona      10      The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  Hamlet          20      Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
  Henry_4_1a      20      Henry IV part 1 - version 1
  Henry_4_2a      20      Henry IV part 2 - version 1
  Henry_4_1b      20      Henry IV part 1 - version 2
  Henry_4_2b      20      Henry IV part 2 - version 2
  Henry_5_1       20      Henry V - version 1
  Henry_5_2       20      Henry V - version 2
  Henry_6_1a      10      Henry VI part 1 - version 1
  Henry_6_2a      20      Henry VI part 2 - version 1
  Henry_6_3a      20      Henry VI part 3 - version 1
  Henry_6_1b      10      Henry VI part 1 - version 2
  Henry_6_2b      20      Henry VI part 2 - version 2
  Henry_6_3b      20      Henry VI part 3 - version 2
  Henry_8_1       20      Henry VIII - version 1
  Henry_8_2       20      Henry VIII - version 2
  Henry_8_3       20      Henry VIII - version 3
  J_Caesar_1      10      Julius Caesar - version 1
  J_Caesar_2      10      Julius Caesar - version 2
  KingJohn        10      King John
  KingLear        20      King Lear
  LoverCompl      10      A Lovers Complaint
  LoveLabLos1     10      Love's Labour's Lost - version 1
  LoveLabLos2     10      Love's Labour's Lost - version 2
  Macbeth         10      (The Scottish Play)
  Measure         10      Measure for Measure
  Merchant_1      10      The Merchant of Venice - version 1
  Merchant_2      10      The Merchant of Venice - version 2
  MidSummer       10      A Midsummer Night's Dream
  MuchAdo_1       10      Much Ado About Nothing - version 1
  MuchAdo_2       10      Much Ado About Nothing - version 2
  Othello         20      Othello
  PassPilgri      10      The Passionate Pilgrim
  Pericles        10      Pericles, Prince of Tyre
  PhoenixTur      10      The Phoenix and the Turtle
  RapeLucrec      10      The Rape of Lucrece
  Richard_2a      10      King Richard The Second - version 1
  Richard_2b      10      King Richard The Second - version 2
  Richard_3a      20      King Richard The Third - version 1
  Richard_3b      20      King Richard The Third - version 2
  RomeoJul_1      20      Romeo and Juliet - version 1
  RomeoJul_2      20      Romeo and Juliet - version 2
  Sonnets1        10      The Sonnets - version 1
  Sonnets2        10      The Sonnets - version 2
  Tempest         10      The Tempest
  Timon_1         10      Timon of Athens - version 1
  Timon_2         10      Timon of Athens - version 2
  TitusAndr1      10      Titus Andonicus - version 1
  TitusAndr2      10      Titus Andonicus - version 2
  Troilus         20      Troilus and Cressida
  TwelfthNig      10      Twelfth Night
  T_Shrew_1       10      The Taming of the Shrew - version 1
  T_Shrew_2       10      The Taming of the Shrew - version 2
  ShksprVar       10      Inc. Passionate Pilgrim, Sonnets to Sundry Notes
                          of Music, Love's Answer, Phoenix and the Turtle
  VenusAdon1      10      Venus and Adonis - version 1
  VenusAdon2      10      Venus and Adonis - version 2
  WintrTal_1      20      A Winter's Tale - version 1
  WintrTal_2      20      A Winter's Tale - version 2
  WiveWinds1      10      The Merry Wives of Windsor - version 1
  WiveWinds2      10      The Merry Wives of Windsor - version 2

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