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Menad bal pük bal !<br><br>
Not quite what you think. Yes, Charles E. Sprague’s 1888 <i>Handbook of
Volapük</i> is available online:<br><br>
<a href="http://personal.southern.edu/~caviness/Volapuk/HBoV/" eudora="autourl">
http://personal.southern.edu/~caviness/Volapuk/HBoV/</a><br><br>
. . . and there are other resources on Volapük available online:<br><br>
<a href="http://personal.southern.edu/~caviness/Volapuk/" eudora="autourl">
http://personal.southern.edu/~caviness/Volapuk/<br><br>
</a>But what I'm talking about here is a recent, novel--yes, a
novel!--published in 2006: <i>A Handbook of Volapük</i> by Andrew
Drummond.<br><br>
Here is the amazon.com entry, <br><br>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Volapuk-Andrew-Drummond/dp/1904598676/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251030403&sr=1-1" eudora="autourl">
http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Volapuk-Andrew-Drummond/dp/1904598676/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251030403&sr=1-1</a>
<br><br>
but more importantly, Andy Drummond has his own web site with a section
on the novel:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.andydrummond.net/volapuk.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.andydrummond.net/volapuk.html</a><br><br>
The full title:<br><br>
<i>A Hand-Book of Volapük and an Elementary Manual of its Grammar and
Vocabulary,<br>
Prepared from the Gathered Papers of Gemmell Hunter Ibidem Justice; <br>
Together with an Account of Events Relating to the Annual General Meeting
of 1891 <br>
of the Edinburgh Society for the Propagation of a Universal
Language</i>.<br>
Edited for the First Time by Dr. Charles Cordiner, <br>
Emeritus Professor of Phrenology at Fraserburgh University. <br><br>
Partisans of Volapük, Esperanto, and rival international language
projects battle it out in late 19th century Europe. A whodunit of
historic proportions.<br><br>
There are links to other pages, including an extract, reviews, and a web
guide to materials on Volapük:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.andydrummond.net/Volapuk/Materials.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://www.andydrummond.net/Volapuk/Materials.htm</a><br><br>
See also this review: <br><br>
"Universal Languages" by Hannah Adcock<br>
<a href="http://textualities.net/hannah-adcock/universal-languages/" eudora="autourl">
http://textualities.net/hannah-adcock/universal-languages/<br><br>
</a>I've never seen this book, let alone read on, but I'll be on the
lookout. Might be a good book for a reading club, perhaps?<br><br>
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