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Athelstan was wise in tackling a Saki short story 16 years ago. There
are plenty of these, they are only a few pages long so they can be
translated much more quickly than a novel, and they are short enough
that a lot of relatively novice Lojbanists would be inclined to try to
read the text (I don't expect that there will be much market for the
Lojban translations of "War and Peace" or "Les Miserables" for a good
while).
I've drafted a translation of Saki's "The disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh". It still has a long way to go, but it will appear at some point. Anyone who's dying to work on that particular Saki, please let me know & we'll finish it together.