Completed reads for August:
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell
A Visit from St. Nicholas (poem), by Clement Clarke Moore
Old Santeclaus with Much Delight (poem), by Anonymous
Peter and Wendy, by J.M. Barrie
The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi
Of the Kings of the Uplands, by Anonymous
The Saga of Asmund the Champion Slayer, by Anonymous
The Tale of Eirek the Traveller, by Anonymous
How Norway was Settled, by Anonymous
The Saga of Grim Shaggy-Cheek, by Anonymous
Frithiof’s Saga, by Anonymous
Gautrek’s Saga, by Anonymous
The Saga of Illugi, the Foster-Son of Grid, by Anonymous
The Tale of Toki Tokason, by Anonymous
The Tale of V ö lsi, by Anonymous
The Tale of Helgi Thorisson, by Anonymous
The Tale of Ragnar’s Sons, by Anonymous
The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving
The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende
Peer Gynt (play), by Henrik Ibsen
Peter Gynt, as collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Pinocchio is the W.S. Cramp translation.
Of the Kings of the Uplands and Illugi are the Chappell translations. The Saga of Asmund is Hardman’s. Eirek the Traveller, Grim Shaggy-Cheek, Toki Tokason, Helgi Thorisson, and Ragnar’s Sons are Tunstall’s. How Norway was Settled is Dasent’s. Frithiof is Morris and Magnusson.
The Neverending Story is Manheim’s translation.
August saw a lot of editing work done on Old Phuul. Having made various narrative alterations, and fixed up in-universe geography, I have been concentrating on tightening up the manuscript. I have managed to cut the overall length from 99,000 words to 90,000 at this point. The biggest remaining issue is adding the extra chapter – though I am leaving that until I have finished my current edits, so the story is fresh in my mind before I write it.
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