"Words and Peace" is a blog I've been following for a couple of years and I have always found some interesting new (or olde) books there, especially French ones.
On her page, I found the posts by "The Classics Club" asking us to create a post, this time before next Sunday 21st July 2024, and list our choice of any twenty books that remain "to be read" on our Classics Club list. They'll then post a number from 1 through 20 and we have time until Sunday 22nd of September 2024 to read it.
This time, I read two books from my old list (Classics Spin #37) ("Growth of the Soil" and "Rebecca"). But there are always some new books that I can add to my challenge. The books are all in chronological order.
1. Aristophanes "Lysistrata and Other Plays" (Lysistrata) - 411BC
2. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von "Urfaust. Faust Fragment. Faust I" (Faust) - 1772-1808
3. Dickens, Charles "Nicholas Nickleby. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" - 1838/39
4. Dumas, Alexandre fils "Camille: The Lady of the Camellias" (La Dame aux Camélias" - 1848
5. Flaubert, Gustave "Madame Bovary" (Madame Bovary/ Madame Bovary) - 1857
6. Turgenjew, Iwan Sergejewitsch "Fathers and Sons" (Отцы и дети/Otzy i deti) - 1862
7. Conrad, Joseph "Victory: An Island Tale" - 1915
8. Hamilton, Cicely "William - an Englishman" - 1920
9. Hesse, Hermann "Wir nehmen die Welt nur zu ernst" [We just take the world too seriously] - 1928
10. Faulkner, William "The Sound and the Fury" - 1929
11. Hemingway, Ernest "A Farewell to Arms" - 1929
12. Meigs, Cornelia "Invincible Louisa" - 1933
13. Krleža, Miroslav "On the Edge of Reason" (Na rubu pameti) - 1938
14. Némirovsky, Irène "Les biens de ce monde" (All Our Wordly Goods) - 1941
15. Cela, Camilo José "The Family of Pascal Duarte" (La Familia Duarte) - 1942
16. Zweig, Stefan "Schachnovelle" (The Royal Game/Chess) - 1942
17. Steinbeck, John "Cannery Row" - 1945
18. Wilde, Oscar "Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast" - 1946
19. Huxley, Aldous "Ape and Essence" - 1948
20. Hemingway, Ernest "Across the River and into the Trees" - 1950
#17 was picked this time, so for me it's:
Steinbeck, John "Cannery Row" - 1945
This is a great idea for all of us who want to read more classics. Go ahead, get your own list. I can't wait to see what I get to read this time.
Here are all the books on my original Classics Club list.
And here is a list of all the books I read with the Classics Spin.
I've actually read three of these: #s 5, 11, and 12. I didn't like A Farewell to Arms, but then I'm not a huge Hemingway fan. I liked the other two, though Madame Bovary is very sad.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lark. I will see which one I get. I do like Hemingway but we can't all like the same authors.
DeleteI have two from your list on mine - the Dickens and the Flaubert. I think I'd prefer to get the former, but both are a bit heavier than I'm wanting right now!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Kelly. I like heavy, gives me something to think about and to appreciate my own life, I guess. But I am a Dickens fan and would love to read all of them, only a few left.
DeleteTwo of my favorites are on your list. Nicholas Nickleby (the most hilarious from Dickens) is highly entertaining, and Cannery Row is a short but sweet story - not sweet as in romances - but a poetic, quiet, and heartwarming one.
ReplyDeleteMy CC Spin list: https://klasikfanda.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-classics-club-spin-38-ccspin.html
Thanks, Fanda. Oh, I'm really looking forward to the Dickens now. My favourite so far is David Copperfield. And Cannery Row has been on my wishlist for ages, so I will see whether I get one of them this time.
DeleteAnd thank you for your list. I'm looking forward to it.
The Herman Hesse title cracked me up! I have Steppenwolf on my spin this time, but if I like his writing I may have to add this one to my next Classics Club list. All the best with your spin!
ReplyDeleteIt certainly is a funny one, Gail. Steppenwolf is actually my favourite by Hesse, so I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.
DeleteThanks for your wish for my spin, I wish the same for you.
Good choices. I almost went with William--An Englishman since I have it. I liked Across the River because I like older man/younger woman relationships. I reviewed it a couple of years ago. I'd be interested in your thoughts when you do read it. I hope you enjoy your book.
ReplyDeleteOh, I definitely want to read all of them at some time. I just said to another blogger, we have too many books, first world problem. We are lucky.
DeleteLooking forward to what we are getting and wish you luck with your choice.
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ReplyDeleteI'm reading Madame Bovary, very slowly, in French with Emma of Words and Peace. Good luck on the spin!
ReplyDeleteOh, I had not seen that, Deb. Though, I really don't have the energy at the moment to read something with a group. But it would have been fun. My edition is in French, as well.
DeleteThanks for your comment.
Great #17! I enjoy a lot this author, even though I haven't read this one yet!
ReplyDeleteSame here, I have read a few of his books but this one is still on my list. And it's a short one.
DeleteI see you got Steinbeck. I have not read that one, but am sure it is good. I have a thick book with his novels, which I am determined to read one day. I have only read Of Mice and Men which I loved, and, of course, watched The Grapes of Wrath. Hope you will like it.
ReplyDeleteThis will be my fifth novel by him, Lisbeth. Apart from the ones you mention, I also read "East of Eden", a great novel.
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