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March 2016 Old School Classic Poll
1847, Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, 251 pages
1853, Bleak House by Charles Dickens, 1017 pages
1869, The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 667 pages
1820, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving, 108 pages
1865, From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, 136 pages
1516, Utopia by Thomas More, 135 pages
1721, Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, 339 pages
1796, The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis, 386 pages
1759, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 588 pages
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The runner up is 650-ish pages and by Dostoyevsky, which is some pretty tough reading. Or at least, I found Crime and Punishment to be a hard book to focus on and I assume The Idiot will be similar.Either one is a LOT to read in one month.
Yay! Agnes Grey is now in the lead! I've been wanting to read this one ever since I read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. We have some close polls this month!
Yay for Agnes Grey! And I'd much rather read that than read Dickens.
I'll just sit here with fingers crossed for the next week and hope it maintains its lead.
I'd like to read Dickens too. I just know there is no way I would have time to get through 1000+ pages in a month!
Yes, possibly Bleak House would be a better choice for the quarter long book nominations next month.
I'm also voting for Agnes Grey.I really want to read Bleak House, but 1,000 pages in a month is a tall order. I think it's an excellent candidate for 2nd Quarter Long Read. We'll probably get better participation with a three-month reading period.
