Saturday, August 15, 2020

Classics Spin #24 - Winning # is 18!

Number 18 on my list this time around turned out to be Minor Works by Jane Austen.  



Friday, August 7, 2020

Classics Club Spin #24 List of Potential Wins!

 Here's my list of 20 potential reads for the next spin.  I am deliberately picking shorter or easier works because I am feeling rather overwhelmed with the non-reading portion of my life!  This is also limited by the fact I am just pulling books off my shelves I've been meaning to read for ages.  The Power and the Glory is a favorite of mine but I haven't read it in decades so time for a reread.

Here's the link to the blog post for the spin:  https://theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com/2020/08/01/cc-spin-24/

1. Utopia by Thomas More

2.  Paradisio by Dante

3.  King Lear by Shakespeare

4.  The Complete Tales of Alexander Pushkin (might just read a selection)

5.  Short Stories by Flannery O'Conner (read a selection)

6.  The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne (This was originally published in 2 volumes.  I've already read volume 1).

7.  The Light Princess and other Tales by George MacDonald

8.  Common Sense by Thomas Paine

9. Civil Disobedience and Other Essays by Henry David Thoreau

10.  Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

11.  The Story of the Golden Fleece by Padriac Colum

12.  Classic American Short Stories from Dover (read a selection)

13.  Best-Loved Short Stories also from Dover (read a selection)

14.  Seneca On The Shortness of Life

15.  Renascence and Other Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay

16.  T. S. Eliot Collected Poem (1909-1935)

17.  The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

18.  Minor Works by Jane Austen (read a selection)

19.  The Gift of Good Land by Wendell Berry (read a selection of his essays)

20.  Little Lord Fauntleroy by Francis Hodgson Burnett