RE: FN-FORUM: Father's Day

date posted 16th June 2003 16:48


> What do you get the man for Father's day who is trying to
> read all the books
> in the BBC BigRead list ?
>
> 1. F Scott Fitzgerald - The great Gatsby
> 2. Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
> 3. Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong
> 4. Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
> 5. George Eliot - Middlemarch
> 6. Mario Puzo - The Godfather
>
> That's my summer reading sorted
>
> If I'd started this sponsorship Next Week I'd probably have
> got some socks!
>
> Nick Stanton

Here's another one for you:

"The TUC Library Collections at London Metropolitan University launch
the second phase of their website today - the full original manuscript
of the novel The
Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell.
Voted one of the nation's 100 best-loved books in the BBC's recent Big
Read event, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is an influential
classic of working
class literature. This unique resource, numbering 1,700 fragile pages,
has previously only been accessible to researchers who had to make the
trip to London. Now,
thanks to a grant from the New Opportunities Fund, readers around the
world can access the manuscript online and read the book as the author
intended, both with
and without the publishers' amendments.

Accompanying the online manuscript are photographs, documents and other
ephemera from the Tressell family archive.

You can view the manuscript of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists at :
http://www.unionhistory.info/ragged/ragged.php "


Now, you decide - online read of the original or read a printed copy?