Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Collaboration/Stalled
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The following is a list of stalled nominations for the Novels Collaboration of the Month. These candidates garnered little or no support over a period of at least six months from the date of nomination. Most project selections receive at least 3 nominations before they are selected. The novels nominated below have received no more than two votes of support (including the original nomination), and have been moved here to reduce clutter among current nominations. Should one of these novels receive a third vote of support, it should be transferred back to the active candidates list.
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[edit] The Tower of Ravens
The Tower of Ravens is a fantasy novel by Kate Forsyth. It needs some more help and might as well be the only one of Kate Forsyth's books that are articles.
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- Needs the rest of the plot summary since my memory is a bit rusty and I'm basically working single-handedly on this one. User:Lady Nimue of the Lake 08:02, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Maia (novel)
Maia is a really good book, but not many people read it. At the moment it is in need of very big help from Maia readers.
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- just need the rest of the plot summary Lady Nimue of the Lake 08:02, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Crown of Shadows
Crown of Shadows is a fantasy novel by C.S. Friedman. Published in 1995 not of huge note but the article is really only "Plot summary". In need of some more tender loving care.
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- a bit more than a stub - but could do with more information and analysis. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 16:54, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Red Rabbit
Red Rabbit is the latest of the thriller novels by Tom Clancy. Published recently not of huge notability but the author deserves more than a stub "Plot summary".
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- Kevinalewis (talk · contribs)
- Imasleepviking (talk · contribs)
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- a bit more than a stub - but could do with more information and analysis. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 10:35, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
- I'm a big fan, not his in his best work, but expanding any of Clancy's books deserve to be expanded. I think he is rather important to modern lit. Imasleepviking ( talk ) 01:13, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Anna of the Five Towns
Anna of the Five Towns is a classic novel by Arnold Bennett. Published at the turn of the century and of some note but deserves more than a stub "Plot summary".
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- Kevinalewis (talk · contribs)
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- really just a stub - but could do with more information and analysis as well. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 10:35, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] María
María is a novel written by Colombian writer Jorge Isaacs between 1864 and 1867. It is a costumbrist novel representative of the Spanish romantic movement. Despite being Isaacs' only novel, María is considered one of the most important works of 19th century Spanish literature.
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- Another stub, needs an info box, multiple sections - lots of work. - Runch 16:18, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Nana
Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Emile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series, which was to tell "The Natural and Social History of a Family under the Second Empire".
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- Contains a lot of good information, but lacks an info box, proper sections, and mostly needs a lot of expansion and reorganizing. - Runch 16:18, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Belarmino and Apolonio
Belarmino and Apolonio is a novel by Spanish author Ramón Pérez de Ayala. Belarmino y Apolonio (1921) (translated as "Belarmino and Apolonio") is one of his most well known works.
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- An article on this novel does not yet exist. - Runch 16:18, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party
This book is one of M. T. Anderson's finest, and is written in the 18th century diction, it is told from the point of view of a science experiment/slave, and others. It tells the life of said science experiment.
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- Great book - SteamRocket 00:37, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Gone with the Wind
Important novel; this article is very lacking. ۞ ░ 04:04, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
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Comments Particularly significant "Americana", not perhaps a great novel but made more notable by the impact of the film adaptation. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 08:26, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Hotel du Lac
This novel from Anita Brookner could use a lot of additions and improvements given that it is a Booker Prize winning work. Skumarla (talk) 08:13, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] A Fable
Where to begin. This article very obviously needs work. No one can deny that. As is, it is a stub article with a poorly written summary. This has not been seen, critically, to be Faulkner's best novel, but Faulkner's own opinion differed. He considred it his masterpiece, his magnum opus, and spent more than a decade working on it. It won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award, and was his last, important works, and was, aruguably, his only non-Yoknapatawpha work of any major significance and an important part of his overall legacy. Robert Waalk (talk) 04:19, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
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- Robert Waalk (talk · contribs)
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- An important piece of Faulkner's work that needs to be written. I already have an idea for how it should be rewritten and structured, and can provide a lot, except in the section, (yet to exist), on the characters and the plot, because it's been so long since I read it. But I am familiar enough with it's origins and how Faulkner himself felt about it. I think that of all the books on this list thisone should be of the uptmost priority and we should get together on it as soon as possible.
- I haven't read any of his books, but when I do I will promise that I will help you. But I would like to know what it is about. User:kitxkat (talk)
- Basically, in a nutshell, its about a Christlike soldier who gets the two sides to decide to simply refuse to fight, with everyone realizing that there has to be a conscious agreement to fight to carry out a war. Once he does this the soldier is taken up by the general, a godlike or devil like figure that shows compassion and offers him mercy and eventually sentences him to death because he stands up for what he believes. This general then meets with the German general to try to figure out a way to get their soldiers to fight each other again and restart the war. The soldier is killed, and his remains eventually make it back to America where he is celebrated as the original unknown soldier in the tomb of the unknown soldier. It was considered at turns brilliant and mystifying, spectacular and exhausting, fast paced and frozen in time. That being said I think it is the most under-appreciated of Faulkner's works. It is the kind of novel that I think would be rediscovered and reevaluted sometime in the next century. By the way, mind if I add you to the support list?--Robert Waalk (talk) 16:55, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
[edit] V.
The article still needs some work. The layout of the plot, it needs a background of the critical reception, culutral influence, and a note on the beginnings of Thomas Pynchon's career, which it started. It's an important work, it ignited the career of one America's greatest living writers, and a possible future Nobel Prize winner. It's a very important work. Robert Waalk (talk) 05:42, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Humboldt's Gift
This is arguably Saul Bellow's most important book, and Saul Bellow is a titanic figure in 1950s-1970s literary scene, and will go down as one of three major figures in American Literature in latter half of the twentieth century. It won the Pulitzer Prize, and is a very highly considered figure. In addition, the article has need, it is lacking and empty. Let's get to work on this and other pieces. Robert Waalk (talk) 23:25, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
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- Kevinalewis (talk · contribs)
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