I hope this
would be the last reading challenge I’d participate in 2015! No more
temptation, please… Being one of my most favorite reading challenges so far, this
time I decided to follow all categories (twelve) for Karen’s Back to the Classics Challenge 2015. Fortunately, I will be reading so many classics
next year for my own Literary Movement Challenge anyway, so it’s not too
hard to cross-list it with this challenge. I believe next year would be so much
fun, and I can’t hardly wait! Yay…
The rules are here,
and here are my choices:
- A 19th Century Classic – Far from a Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- A 20th Century Classic – Howards End by E.M. Forster
- A Classic by a Woman Author – Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- A Classic in Translation – Père Goriot by Honore de Balzac
- A Very Long Classic Novel – Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- A Classic Novella – The Stranger by Albert Camus
- A Classic with a Person's Name in the Title – Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
- A Humorous or Satirical Classic – The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
- A Forgotten Classic – The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
- A Nonfiction Classic – The Dreyfus Affair: J’Accuse and Other Writings by Émile Zola
- A Classic Children's Book – Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- A Classic Play – Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Would you
participate too?
So many great books on your list!! Bleak House and Ethan Frome are two of my all-time favorites! I also loved Howards End -- and I knew I'd see some Zola on your list!!
ReplyDeleteThanks again for signing up for the challenge!
Of course, every year there's got to be one or two (I wish more!) Zola in my lists...
DeleteI've been looking forward to read another Wharton, I keep thinking that she's a female Zola... :)
Looks like fun, Fanda! I'm going to be reading Camus' The Plague and Little Women (are you participating in Hamlette's read-along?) so we have a few books or authors in common.
ReplyDeleteEthan Fromme looks so tempting. I need to get back to reading Wharton soon.
Best wishes for your challenge!
Hi Cleo, it'll be fun to read those authors together. I didn't know that Hamlette will be hosting Little Women read along, but I'd read it for Lit Movement Challenge (Trancendentalism on May).
DeleteGood luck with your challenge too! ;)
These look great :) I've got The Dreyfus Affair on my list as well - I'm still a little intimidated, but perhaps I'll get to it in 2015...
ReplyDeleteGood luck! :D
I'm going to read The Dreyfus Affair for Zoladdiction (besides Germinal), could we read it along? ;)
DeleteBleak House and Far From the Madding Crowd are a couple of my favorites. Some of the books on your list I'm not familiar with. I'll be interested to hear more about them as you read them. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm so looking forward to finally come to Thomas Hardy. And Bleak House is what I have anticipated the most from Dickens.
DeleteDo you participate in this challenge too, Lois? I'd love to take a look at your list as well...
Love your choices. I don't know if these are rereads for you, but I see a couple on here that can go either way for you - either you'll love them or hate them - like The Stranger and Gulliver's Travels. For me, they were bizarre, but still enjoyable. Little Women was certainly pleasant.
ReplyDeleteGood luck!
None of these are reread, Ruth. I have expected Camus would be a little bizzare, but I think I must try it anyway. You'll never know, I might have liked it. I felt the same with Little Women, as I didn't quite like Alcott (I only read Eight Cousins so far), but I'm interested in her trancendental thoughts, so....I'd give her another try! ;)
DeleteI've enjoyed everything I've read by Edith Wharton, especially Ethan Frome which was a stunner of a book. Bleak House is one of my favourite Dickens' books. Love your list.
ReplyDeleteThanks Carol! Edith Wharton would be my next favorite author, and I can't wait to read all her books.
DeleteLittle Women! :-)
ReplyDeleteYep, it's about time... ;)
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