Autodidact

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"I have good reason to be content, for, thank God, I can read."
- John Keats

Hello, and welcome to my website. If you would like to learn more about me, then you can visit the About Me page. The Literature page contains reviews of books that I have read as well as my progress through various lists of "The Top 100 Books" of the last century. My Rants page contains various thoughts, ideas and opinions on a variety of topics. When you've tired of this site, you can visit my Links page.

Recent Updates

29th April, 2005: Added the list of The Top 100 Best Novels of the Last Century as voted by the readers of The Modern Library. See it on My Literature Page.

24th April, 2005: Added Daniel's Ulysses and the Siren to My Quotes Page.

25th February, 2005: Added Lawrence's 'To S.A.', Yeats' He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven and Wilde's De Profundis to My Quotes Page.

20th January, 2005: Added Esenin's Do Svidanya, Droog Moi to My Quotes Page.

20th January, 2005: Added a Fanlistings Page to my Links Section.

18th January, 2005: Added Poe's Annabel Lee to My Quotes Page.

8th January, 2005: I just realised that the free web serving host that I am using adds advertisements of variable sizes to the top of all my pages. I already knew that they added banners to the tops of page, but I had assumed that they were always the same size and had adjusted my layout (which relies on pixel-perfect positioning) to fit in with the advertisement displayed at the time I first uploaded my site. Since the size of the banners keeps changing, the menu on the left will change position, sometimes running over the title. I apologise for this and ask you to bear with me as I rectify this problem. Although it may affect the aesthetics of the site, this problem should not affect its functionality.

6th January, 2005: Added a hit counter and an Iraq Body Count banner to this page.

22nd December, 2004: Added Swinburne's Hymn to Proserpine to My Quotes Page.

21st November, 2004: Added The Independent's Top 100 Novels of the Century page and The Modern Library's Top 100 Novels of the Century (The Board's List) page.

12th November, 2004: This site created.