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October’s featured text
Scene.—A great terrace in the Palace of Herod, set above the banqueting-hall. Some soldiers are leaning over the balcony. To the right there is a gigantic staircase, to the left, at the back, an old cistern surrounded by a wall of green bronze. The moon is shining very brightly.
THE YOUNG SYRIAN
- How beautiful is the Princess Salomé to-night!
THE PAGE OF HERODIAS
- Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.
THE YOUNG SYRIAN
- She has a strange look. She is like a little princess who wears a yellow veil, and whose feet are of silver. She is like a princess who has little white doves for feet. One might fancy she was dancing.
Current collaborations
The Monthly Challenge for October contains 70 works. You can help by reading the guide and contributing to the current challenge.
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The current Proofread of the Month has been completed. Here is a list of small works that need a little help:
Recent collaborations: Creation by Evolution, Recollections of Full Years, The Heart of Jainism, The Silent Prince, A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet, The Tower, Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, The Story of the Flute, The Art of Kissing, Frenzied Fiction |
New texts
Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 5 (1706)
Poems (1911) Loss of the Essex, Destroyed by a Whale: with an Account of the Sufferings of the Crew, Who Were Driven to Extreme Measures to Sustain Life (1884) The Man Who Knew Coolidge (1928) Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 (1971) Massage Establishments Act 2017 (2018) Poems (1867)Highlights
Poetry from ancient and medieval to romantic and modern, in love and war
Texts, laws, constitutions of many countries
Documents from US history, including Revolution and Civil War
US law: Supreme Court decisions, government documents, presidential addresses
General literature: modern novels and short stories, horror stories, children’s literature, science fiction, drama
Original, encyclopedic, popular articles on relativity, physics, biology, and other sciences