Alan Alexander Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. 'If I May' is a collection of short essays on desultory subjects that first appeared in The Sphere, The Outlook, The Daily News, The Sunday Express (London) and Vanity Fair (New York). These essays display Milne's vivid imagination and literary ability to elaborate on almost any subject in an engaging manner. Milne's literary style and humor - often self deprecatory - endear his writings as much to modern readers as they used to enthrall readers of his age. ( Wikipedia, S K)
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Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/Essays & Short Works; *Non-fiction/Humor
Keywords that describe the book: essays
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Thank you, Anne! No hurry - please take your time.
This work has 41 essays. I think the average duration of an essay will be around 7-8 minutes. Would like to have your opinion on how to structure this - 41 sections or 2-3 essays in one section? I also wanted to have an abridged version of the 'public domain' announcement for section 2 and onwards.
All solos have a shortened disclaimer after the first section so what you have is fine.
Personally I'd read the sections seperately. I always feel that they are meant to leave you thinking about them and having the break gives you time to do that .
Sanjay - you don't need to do the word counts for a Solo , and for this in particular . If they are written for magazines , you'll find they are all about the same - the editor orders 1500 words or something and that's what he gets
Note: In Section 01, at about 6:29 there is the sentence, "But you are still getting ting no further". I am not sure whether that is a spelling mistake. I looked at another version of the book available online - these exact words are used. So I guess there may be a meaning to it that I am not able to figure out. Anyway, I have read it as it is.
craigdav1 wrote:Sanjay,
I enjoyed your reads. As BC you can edit the ~ out of your first post (now that you have a PL).
Dave
Thanks Dave. I can remove the tilda. But out of curiosity - what is the significance of it? I am still learning the ropes here being a relative new comer.
It's a way of showing a project needs someone to volunteer to PL (proof listen) . There isn't much room in the heading line so saying DPL wanted isn't possible - but the tilde shows up well, and seems to work.
Anne
I've copied and pasted your first url link and file duration into the MW. Just click on the BC Admin button below the MW to open it. Let us know if you have any further questions.
