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2023: 800,000 Page Challenge
by William Shakespeare101 pages
Group Total: 244,084
Three by William Shakespeare318 pages
Group Total: 244,402
Apr 5
Hamlet
124 pages
Apr 13
Macbeth
128 pages
Apr 20
A Midsummer Night's Dream
66 pages
BTW: Possible Worlds was published in 1989 /I>Apologies for that - I have no idea what I was thinking of. Thanks for spotting it, Karen.
Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice by Elias Canetti
121 pages - 13/05/23
Total to Date : 245,179
John wrote: "BTW: Possible Worlds was published in 1989 /I>Apologies for that - I have no idea what I was thinking of. Thanks for spotting it, Karen."
No problem
Молчание by Leonid Andreyev 16 pagesThe Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir 752 pages
The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata 208 pages
Group total: 246,155
312 pages Mary Poppins Comes Back
by P.L. Travers
478 Watership Down
by Richard Adams
Group total=247,812 pages
Quick catch-up: - The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann: 716 pages
- I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal: 241
- The Time Machine by HG Wells: 108
- A Dog's Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov: 125
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: 206
- A Streetcar Named Desire by Tenessee Williams: 111
- Faust (I + II) by Goethe: 412
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys: 156
Total to date: 251,018
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 251,018 + 516=
251,534 updated total
The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie - 240 pgs
Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson - 242 pgs
Lost Horizon by James Hilton - 231 pgs
Somebody at the Door by Raymond W. Postgate - 233 pgs
Total to Date: 252,883 pgs
Solenn wrote: "Le Roi se meurt 178 pagesSonnets 70 pages
Total: 248
New grand total is 244,145"
Is there a reason you subtracted roughly 10,000 pages?
Greg wrote: "Solenn wrote: "Le Roi se meurt 178 pagesSonnets 70 pages
Total: 248
New grand total is 244,145"
Is there a reason you subtracted roughly 10,000 pages?"
Well spotted Greg. That was obviously just a typo on Solenn's part. The revised total, including my 66 pages, should be - 254,211
According to my calculations, the new total should be 254,311
The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1: The Golden Days by Cao Xueqin. 542 pages. Total: 254,853
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Radiant Illusion? Middle-class recruits to Communism in the 1930s by Nicholas Deakin
187 pages - 21/05/23
Total to Date: 256,704
A Time for Trolls: Fairy Tales from Norway by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe p. 82
Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees p. 288
The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories by Tove Ditlevsen p. 192562
Group Total: 258,109
About love by Anton Chekhov unknown number of pages
The President by Miguel Ángel Asturias 286 pages
Salut Galarneau! by Jacques Godbout 158 pages
Paris Spleen 118 pagesGroup total: 259,878
Destination Unknown by Agatha Christie
316 pages
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
194 pages
The Trees by Conrad Richter
320 pages
Total to date: 260,708
The Club of Queer Trades by G.K. Chesterton 146 pages
Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss 62 pages
Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish 72 pages
Mouse Soup by Arnold Lobel 64 pages
A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond 174 pages
Mouse Tales by Arnold Lobel 64 pages
The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss 36 pages
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss 63 pages
Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus 32 pages
Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban 32 pages
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss 64 pages
Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie 253 pages
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss 61 pages
The ABC Murders Agatha Christie 324 pages
George and Martha by James Marshall 41 pages
Christmas in the Barn Margaret Wise Brown 32 pages
The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss 32 pagesTotal Pages Read: 1,552
Total Group Pages To-Date: 262,260
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Josephine Tey - 224The Best of Simple: Stories
Langston Hughes - 256256 + 224 + 262,483 = 262,963 Group Total to date
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Ideias: O Livro de Le Grand by Heinrich Heine
86 Pages
Group Total: 243,983