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Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

Monday, June 14, 2010

E.D.E.N. Southworth and Literature Festivals!!

Hello!

We've been really busy this past week, and so this blog has sort of fallen off the face of the earth :P

Well...first of all... yesterday we attended a literature festival with tons of old booksellers and speakers and authors!!! It was tons of fun browsing through all those old books--especially the ones that were marked over $600!!

Whilst browsing near the end of the day, imagine my joy to find a 1908 edition of E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Lost Lady of Lone!!

I was so excited that I read the entire book within a couple of hours.

However!! Imagine my surprise, horror and frustration when I discovered that The Lost Lady of Lone is merely the first book in a two-part story.

And so, after scouring the internet for a long time this morning--including being distressed at not being able to even find a copy on Ebay--I found an online version at Project Gutenburg for free (and there isn't a copyright--probably because no one has bothered to renew it!)

I am having it printed and professionally bound (I don't know about you, but it is very difficult to curl up in a cosy chair with your computer screen--and no book binding smell!!)

So... the long and short of it is: I very much enjoyed the festival, E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Lost Lady of Lone and am looking forward to the sequel when it arrives in hard copy. Need summer reading: I highly recommend Southworth!!

Cheers!

~Laura