Mary Ann R

Mary Ann R edited the characters of Oliver Twist Wednesday, December 28, 2011.

• Edited the description of Mrs. Bumble: Originally introduced as Ms. Corney until she marries Bumble. She learns a secret about Oliver's past and work with Monks to cover those tracks.

Mary Ann R edited the characters of Oliver Twist Thursday, December 22, 2011.

• Edited the description of Mr. Fagin: Throughout the novel he is referred to as "The Jew." He takes charge of Oliver when the artful Dodger introduces them. Fagin teaches Oliver to pick pocket

Mary Ann R edited the characters of Angels & Demons Thursday, September 1, 2011.

• Edited the description of Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: The pope'sPope's Camerlengo and the one performing the rites during the conclave. The youngest Camerlengo.

Mary Ann R edited the characters of Angels & Demons Thursday, September 1, 2011.

• Edited the description of Vittoria Vetra: The adopted daughter of Leo VetraLeonardo Vetra and employee of CERN

Mary Ann R edited the overview of Leo Tolstoy Wednesday, May 18, 2011.

• Leo Tolstoy or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer widely regarded as among the greatest of novelists. His masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina represent in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of realist fiction.

  Tolstoy's further talents as essayist, dramatist, and educational reformer made him the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mary Ann R edited the summary of Leo Tolstoy Wednesday, May 18, 2011.

• Leo Tolstoy or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer widely regarded as among the greatest of novelists. His masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina represent in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of realist fiction.
  
  Tolstoy's further talents as essayist, dramatist, and educational reformer made him the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
   

  
  Bibliography

  
  Novels and Novellas
  
      * Childhood (1852)
      * Boyhood (1854)
      * Youth (1856)
      * Family Happiness (1859)
      * The Cossacks (1863)
      * War and Peace (1865–69)
      * Anna Karenina (1875–77)
      * The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)
      * "The Kreutzer Sonata" (1889)
      * Resurrection (1899)
      * The Forged Coupon (1902-1904, published 1911)
      * Hadji Murat (written in 1896-1904, published 1912)
  
  Short stories
  
      * "The Raid" (1852)
      * "Sebastopol Sketches" (1855–56)
      * "Albert" (1858)
      * "Ivan the Fool: A Lost Opportunity" (1863)
      * "Polikushka" (1863)
      * "A Prisoner in the Caucasus" (1872)
      * "God Sees the Truth, But Waits" (1872)
      * "Father Sergius" (1873)
      * "Kholstomer: The Story of a Horse" (1864, 1886)
      * "What Men Live By" (1885)
      * "The Three Questions" (1885)
      * "Wisdom of Children" (1885)
      * "Where Love is, God is" (1885)
      * "Quench the Spark" (1885)
      * "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" (1886)
      * "Promoting a Devil" (1886)
      * "Repentance" (1886)
      * "The Grain" (1886)
      * "Master and Man and other stories" (1893)
      * "Too Dear!" (1897)
      * "Work, Death, and Sickness" (1903)
      * "Alyosha the Pot" (1905)
      * "Three Deaths" (1859)
      * "Two Hussars" (1856)
      * "Strawberries" (1906)
      * "Korney Vasilyev" (1906)
      * "Croesus and Fate"
  
  Plays
  
      * The Power of Darkness (1886), drama
      * The Fruits of Culture (play) (1889)
      * The Living Corpse (published 1911), drama
  
  Philosophical works
  
      * A Confession (1882)
      * What I Believe (also called My Religion) (1884)
      * The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894)
      * The Gospel in Brief (1896)
      * What Is Art? (1897)
      * Letter to the Liberals (1898)
      * A Calendar of Wisdom (1910)
  
  Pedagogical works
  
      * Articles from Tolstoy's journal on education, "Yasnaya Polyana" (1861-1862)

Mary Ann R edited the description of Moscow to the End of the Line Wednesday, May 18, 2011.

• A satirical novel of alcohol, politics, Soviet society, and love. The story of a cable fitter who is fired from his job for charting his co-workers' jobs against the amount of alcohol they have consumed.

  Alternate title: Moscow-Petushki

Mary Ann R edited the ridiculously simplified synopses of Moscow to the End of the Line Wednesday, May 18, 2011.

• Added: A drunk rides the train from Moscow to Petushki.

Mary Ann R edited the first sentence of Moscow to the End of the Line Wednesday, May 18, 2011.

• Everyone says, "The Kremlin, the Kremlin."

Mary Ann R edited the table of contents of The Jungle Books Wednesday, June 30, 2010.

• The Jungle Book:

  1. Mowgli's Brothers

  2. Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack

  3. Kaa's Hunting

  4. Road-Song of the Bandar-Log

  5. "Tiger! Tiger!"

  6. Mowgli's Song

  7. The White Seal

  8. Lukannon

  9. "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"

  10. Darzee's Chaunt

  11. Toomai of the Elephants

  12. Shiv and the Grasshopper

  13. Her Majesty's Servants

  14. Parade-Song of the Camp Animals

  The Second Jungle Book:

  1. How Fear Came

  2. The Law of the Jungle

  3. The Miracle of Purun Bhagat

  4. A Song of Kabir

  5. Letting in the Jungle

  6. Mowgli's Song Against People

  7. The Undertakers

  8. A Ripple Song

  9. The King's Ankus

  10. The Song of the Little Hunter

  11. Quiquern

  12. "Angutivun Tina"

  13. Red Dog

  14. Chil's Song

  15. The Spring Running

  16. The Outsong