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Persuasion
Published1817
Itemstwo
Approvedone of two
Continue afterchs. 1 & 7
Regency social comedy in free indirect style; the earliest voice in the corpus.
Sixteen novels, 1817–1929, all in the U.S. public domain.
Holdings: 16 novels · 24 items drafted · 10 approved · items marked approved form the current examination set
The corpus spans 112 years, from Regency domestic realism to hard-boiled crime.
Year of publication, per novel
24 items are drawn from the sixteen novels; 10 of them approved so far; the rest are drafts awaiting review.
Benchmark items per novel · 24 drafted, 10 approved
One bookplate per novel: year, items, approval state, continuation points, and the voice each one tests.
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Regency social comedy in free indirect style; the earliest voice in the corpus.
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Early detective novel told through successive narrators; the item continues Betteredge’s account.
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Epistolary gothic: journals, letters, and telegrams in several registered voices.
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Scientific romance in a measured, reportorial first person; its timeline is a continuity-trap source.
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Impressionist psychological realism; carries the shortest word range in the corpus (1,200–1,800).
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Detective adventure; Watson’s first-person case narration, one item early and one on the moor.
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Naturalist adventure narrated from a dog’s limited point of view, a strict constraint on interiority.
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Political novel built on sustained authorial irony, the corpus’s test of tonal control.
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Edwardian comedy of manners; one item in Florence, one at the Piazza Signoria.
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Children’s classic in close third person with Yorkshire dialect; a continuity-trap source.
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Planetary romance; brisk pulp first person with dense invented terminology to keep straight.
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Prairie elegy; retrospective first-person narration where atmosphere outweighs plot.
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Golden-age whodunnit; Hastings narrates, and clue placement demands strict continuity.
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Farcical comedy; the corpus’s test of sustained comic voice and timing.
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Modernist understatement; dialogue carries the weight and rewards restraint.
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Hard-boiled crime; clipped first-person interrogation scenes, the corpus’s latest voice.