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When is a series a series and when is it a list?
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It's not a series by goodreads standards and should be deleted. The German description says it is a series of audio-books.
Thank you.That's what I thought, but I didn't want to do anything major until I had clarification.
I have no experience of editing series, so I'm going to leave this one to someone who knows what they are doing.
"Gruselkabinett" (literally: "creepy cabinet") is a chamber (typically at a school fair) through which you walk, where spooks, ghouls, spiders and squishy things accost you while you are trying to find your way out of the labyrinth. The meaning has been extended to the figurative, to include collections of things that "creep you out" (in good Teen). So if someone says the stuff that is happening in some war zone is a real "Gruselkabinett", you get the idea.In a Goodreads "Gruselkabinett" you'll expect to find a shelf full of spooky tales.
:-) Did that answer your question?
Sandi's answer was perfect, but thank you for the elucidation Lyz.
I've found another non-series, Barnes and Noble.
Petra X wrote: "I've found another non-series, Barnes and Noble."If you're talking about a "series" called "Barnes & Noble Classics Series", it's gone now (because it wasn't a series)
Next time please post the link, it will be easier
On the Shakespeare author page there are three "series" which are really just lists. Please remove!http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
"Shakespeare im Verlag Neues Leben" is certainly a list, I'm not sure about the others, so I'll leave them for some librarians more expert about Shakespeare
I searched for Henry James selecting 'author' and he turned up as the 4th, 7th, 17th and 20th results. The first three results were Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott. Also in this list of results were Aesop, Stephen Crane, Aesop, Robert Louis Stephenson and others with no relevance to Henry James at all.
I did not think a series was a list of books issued by a publisher and I would like some clarification on that please.
I was looking at a book I reviewed, Turn of the Screw by Henry James, an American author, is now #5 in a series called "Gruselkabinett", which is obviously German. The definition of Gruselkabinett is also in German so I can't understand it but I see it is a list of books. I understand that some like Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is no. 40/41 on this list and it is written differently, gruselkabinett-40-41---northanger-abbey with the title of the 'series' first.
So clarification please, when is a series a series and when is it a list? When is the series title to come first and when is it to be in brackets after the title?
Thank you.