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[Brina]

Welcome, Tammy. I hope you enjoy it here!

[Pink]

Welcome to all our new members!

[Loretta]

Olivia wrote: "Hey guys!
I'm Olivia and I'm a student from Australia! I've always enjoyed reading classic literature but no one at school seems to like reading those, and I've always thought of starting book club..."

Hi and welcome Olivia! You'll find all members here share your enthusiasm and love for reading classics! You'll also find a lot of Austen fans here too so you'll be in good company! Glad you found our group! Enjoy and happy reading! 😊

[Pink]

Hi Olivia, I'm glad you've joined us. Those are some of my favourite books too! I hope you enjoy it here :)

[Gabrielle]

Bonjour, everyone!
I'm Gabrielle Dubois. I'm French (nobody's perfect!) and I live in France. I've always liked reading. I early read classics because that's what was on our bookshelves at home.
The first real emotion I had with a book, I was ten, it was Captain Fracasse by Théophile Gautier, French poet and author from the 19th century, friend of Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, Sand, Dumas the son: all of them often (some every week) had diner at Théophile Gautier's home, all of them called him: Le Bon Théo.
Since Captain Fracasse, Theophile Gautier remains my favorite author.
I also read Eliot, Austen, Steinbeck, Wharton... but in French.
I have one husband, one dream and one house, two children, two hens and two jobs, a huge pile of books to be read, a huge capacity of work, a huge heart full of love for my family.
I think I'm going to enjoy this group.

[Pink]

Bonjour Gabrielle!

I think you're going to enjoy this group too, at least I hope so :)

[Gabrielle]

Pink wrote: "Bonjour Gabrielle!

I think you're going to enjoy this group too, at least I hope so :)"

Thank you, Pink. I just finished The Woman in White two days ago and reviewed it. My first Wilkie Collins, and I liked it even if it was not my genre.

[Pink]

I felt the same about it, I also enjoyed The Moonstone by him, but not quite as much.

[Loretta]

Pink wrote: "Bonjour Gabrielle!

I think you're going to enjoy this group too, at least I hope so :)"

Hi and welcome Gabrielle! Enjoy and happy reading! 😊

[Maria]

Hi everyone,

I'm Maria from Venezuela, I have always loved reading and enjoy history, historical fiction, classics, science fiction and fantasy.

I am retired and have two grown-up kids. I am now trying healthy cooking so I enjoy reading about healthy recipes too.

I read in Spanish and in English.

Hoping to discuss some great books with you all.

[Brina]

Bonjour, Gabrielle (waves). Glad you joined here. And bienvenida, Maria. I mainly read in English but I read some in Spanish as well so glad to welcome another Spanish language reader.

[Gabrielle]

Loretta wrote: "Pink wrote: "Bonjour Gabrielle!

I think you're going to enjoy this group too, at least I hope so :)"

Hi and welcome Gabrielle! Enjoy and happy reading! 😊"

Thank you, Loretta. I'm currently reading Un Dernier Amour, by George Sand, but I don't know if it's been translated into English. I'll check, if yes, I'll write about this absolutely beautiful book.

[Gabrielle]

Brina wrote: "Bonjour, Gabrielle (waves). Glad you joined here. And bienvenida, Maria. I mainly read in English but I read some in Spanish as well so glad to welcome another Spanish language reader."

Bonjour, Brina. I live in Toulouse, France, 2 hours by car from Spain, and I'm very bad at speaking Spanish! :)

[Sabrina]

Gabrielle wrote: "Loretta wrote: "Pink wrote: "Bonjour Gabrielle!

I think you're going to enjoy this group too, at least I hope so :)"

Hi and welcome Gabrielle! Enjoy and happy reading! 😊"

Thank you, Loretta. I'm..."
Hi Gabriele,
I recently bought an autobiography by George Sand. I loved her novels: "La Mare Au Diable", "La Petite Fadette" and "Francois le Champi", as well as "Les Maitres Sonneurs". I wonder if you've ever read this autobiography. The tile is "Histoire De Ma Vie". If so, what do you think of it ? I'm very tempted to read it because of course, Aurore Dupin (GS) had (as everyone knows) a fascinating life. But the book being 1000 pages long;
I wonder if I should take the plunge or not ????

[MKay]

Welcome to our new friends!

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Hi and welcome to Olivia, Gabrielle, and Maria. So glad that you have decided to read classics with us.

[Pink]

Welcome to the group Maria :)

[Gabrielle]

Sabrina wrote: "Gabrielle wrote: "Loretta wrote: "Pink wrote: "Bonjour Gabrielle!

I think you're going to enjoy this group too, at least I hope so :)"

Hi and welcome Gabrielle! Enjoy and happy reading! 😊"

Thank..."

Bonjour Sabrina, I see that you live in Belgium, do you read in French? Maybe, as you mention all the George Sand novels titles in French. It's worth reading George Sand, autobiography by George Sand. Well, I read it maybe four years ago? and I love reading about 19th century French authors. But as far as I can remember, even if you're not familiar with this French literary history, it's always worth reading George Sand, even if you don't read everything and pass some pages.
Have you read the letters of George Sand and Alfred de Musset? It's completly moving! George is so clever and romantic.
She says that when you love, and that your love story ends, you must not have any regrets: because what was beautiful was the time you spent building the idea of this love. And even if the object has gone, you'll have nevertheless built a beautiful love which will have fed you.
And a broken love story doesn't leave you empty, your soul will have lived in it, your heart will be bigger and stronger. George Sand thought that a losing one love and searching for another one again and again makes you clever at finding and keeping one one day.
Oh, sorry! first I can't stop writing, second my English is so poor to repeat George Sand's thoughts. Will you please forgive me, George, dear master!

[Sonal]

Hello everyone. I have recently joined this group. Though have been a member of Goodreads for a while, but have never been much active on it.
Recently read a book which made me crave to read and discuss more about it and hence logged into my account here.
I am looking to discuss on Jane Eyre as no other book has touched me as much! I have already read it a few days ago but not ready to let go off it..am re-reading and thinking about it so much!
At the first place i wish i had read it earlier and at the same time I am worried I will not be able to like any other book I'll read as much!! :)

[MKay]

Welcome, Sonal! I, too, am a Jane Eyre fan. I think I've read it 3 times and would definitely read it again!

[Sonal]

Thanks MKay :)
Sounds great! Just noticed there is a separate thread on JE in this group. \m/ would love to discuss!!!

[Loretta]

Sonal wrote: "Hello everyone. I have recently joined this group. Though have been a member of Goodreads for a while, but have never been much active on it.
Recently read a book which made me crave to read and di..."

Hi and welcome Sonal! Glad you've joined us to read classics! I also enjoyed Jane Eyre! Enjoy yourself and happy reading! 😊

[Pink]

Welcome to the group Sonal :) I'm also a Jane Eyre and Bronte fan.

Gabrielle, your post about George Sand reminds me that I really should try some of her work!

[Sabrina]

Pink wrote: "Welcome to the group Maria :)"
Wow Gabriele, those are some GREAT George Sand quotes, I just know she'll forgive you because I really did get your drift. Yes, you're right, I did write the titles in French because I love to read literature in the original version (whenever possible). I love French literature, but I can't decide what my favorite period is: the 17th century or the 19th century. In my opinion both produced some fascinating masterpieces. Thanks also for the tip on Aurore's correspondence with Alfred de Musset,(which I haven't read) but I love his poetry, so that really is something to look forward to.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Welcome Sonal, so glad that you have joined us.

[Gabrielle]

Sabrina wrote: "Pink wrote: "Welcome to the group Maria :)"
Wow Gabriele, those are some GREAT George Sand quotes, I just know she'll forgive you because I really did get your drift. Yes, you're right, I did write..."

Hi Sabrina,

I admire you reading also in French, I don't think I could do it, my English is too basic. Or maybe I don't trust enough myself...
Ah! Alfred de Musset was quite a womanizer!
Once, when he was young, he was a "garde national": he had to do a military obligatory service for the nation (make sense in English?). He sent two letters (no smartphones in the 19th century!): one letter to a princesse:
"Dear Princesse, you're charmantissime, beautiful, may I visit you tomorrow?...bla, bla, bla..."
The second letter to a grisette (a seamstress):
"Dear Margot, join me this evening after my service, I'll invite you to a good restaurant... please say you will, I'm just a poor boy, bla bla bla..."
But Alfred de Musset sent the letter for the Princesse to the seamstress, and the letter for the seamstress to the Princesse!
The little Margot, reading the letter, thinks: well, charming Alfred who calls me a princesse, why not?
The Princesse, reads the letter for Margot and, amused and adventurer for the first time, she thought also: why not?!? And she went to pick up Alfred de Musset who was really surprised... but happy!
But the Princesse, who was married to a very jealous Prince, asked Alfred to go to a discret restaurant with little private salons.
Here they are, in the restaurant, in their private little salon, door closed, when suddenly, they hear noise in the salon next to them, and the Princesse recognize her husband's voice! The Prince, for a long time, didn't bother to have mistresses but would have killed his wife if she'd have done the same!
The Prince had also heard Alfred's voice, and went out of his private salon to knock at their door. Alfred and the Prince were friends.
"Open the door, Alfred!" says the Prince. "I'm also in charming company, let's join the four of us!"
" Ah!" the Princesse whisoers, "I'm lost!" and she jumps out the window! Alfred does the same, even after having said to the Princesse everything would be alright, don't jump please... In the street, the Princesse jump in a coach...
Alfred comes back to the restaurant, unhappy after the Prince, because he would have prefered a better end for his night! Alfred knocks at the Prince's private salon:
"Open the door, Prince!"
The Prince opens the door and let him in:
"Where's your date, Alfred?"
"She's gone, you scared her, Prince!" says Alfred de Musset looking at the Prince's date: it was Margot! :D
Meanwhile, the Princesse, furious about her husband who could have fun while she couldn't, had come back to the restaurant! She knocks at the Prince's private salon door:
"Prince, it's me, your wife!"
"I'm lost!" says the Prince, putting his date Margot in Alfred's arms, and opening the door. "Oh, Princesse, see, I was having dinner with Alfred and his date, Margot!"
The Princesse who knew all about it tells her husband to follow her because they are important polical things happening. The Prince follows her.
Alfred de Musset, really happy, remains alone with Margot whom he first wanted to have dinner with!

And this is an absolutely true story that Alfred de Musset told his friends before he added: "I should have sold this story to a vaudeville writer!"

[Rosemarie]

That is a great story, Gabrielle

[Gabrielle]

Rosemarie wrote: "That is a great story, Gabrielle"


Thank you, Rosemarie. What I like about 19th century French authors is their private lives. They are like novels, and often fun! ("often fun" sounds awful in English, does it?)

[MKay]

Gabrielle, great story!

[Terris]

I love that story, Gabrielle! Thanks for sharing it here :)

[Terris]

Gabrielle wrote: "Rosemarie wrote: "That is a great story, Gabrielle"


Thank you, Rosemarie. What I like about 19th century French authors is their private lives. They are like novels, and often fun! ("often fun" s..."

I think "often fun" is fine in this sentence :)

[Gabrielle]

MKay wrote: "Gabrielle, great story!"

Thank you MKey, these 19th century French authors private lives, I can talk only about them, because I don't know English or American authors' private lives (yet!), were sometimes unexpected!

[Gabrielle]

Terris wrote: "Gabrielle wrote: "Rosemarie wrote: "That is a great story, Gabrielle"


Thank you, Rosemarie. What I like about 19th century French authors is their private lives. They are like novels, and often f..."

Thank you for your indulgence towards my English!

I wish French teachers of French literature knew these kind of stories about the authors' private lives: this would be a much better presentation than an old black and white, and dusty painting or picture in an old school book!

[Sabrina]

Gabrielle wrote: "Sabrina wrote: "Pink wrote: "Welcome to the group Maria :)"
Wow Gabriele, those are some GREAT George Sand quotes, I just know she'll forgive you because I really did get your drift. Yes, you're ri..."
Shakespeare might have used it to write his play "Everything's Well, That ends Well" !

[Gabrielle]

Sabrina wrote: "Gabrielle wrote: "Sabrina wrote: "Pink wrote: "Welcome to the group Maria :)"
Wow Gabriele, those are some GREAT George Sand quotes, I just know she'll forgive you because I really did get your dri..."

Oh! Alfred de Musset would have been flattered!

[Shirley (stampartiste)]

Hello~

I'm Shirley from south Louisiana. I've been looking through the various folders in this group, and you sound like such an awesome group. I love the books you read and the encouragement you give to one another.

My comfort-zone genres are non-fiction and history. So to help me get out of my rut, I joined two online groups this year (the PopSugar Challenge here at Goodreads and another called the 2017 Back to the Classics Challenge) to read books I might not have read otherwise. I've also been continuously active in two local book clubs for several years. For 2018, I really want to spend more time reading the Classics (something I thoroughly enjoyed doing in my 20s). And I feel sure this group will help to keep me focused on that goal.

I look forward to reading along with everyone!

[Loretta]

stampartiste wrote: "Hello~

I'm Shirley from south Louisiana. I've been looking through the various folders in this group, and you sound like such an awesome group. I love the books you read and the encouragement you ..."

Hi and welcome stampartiste! That we do, encourage each other as we read our monthly books, complete challenges, etc.. I'm sure you'll enjoy yourself here! Happy reading! 😊

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Shirley welcome to the group. I am so glad that you have joined and I love your enthusiasm

[Pink]

Welcome Shirley! I'm glad you like the look of our group and have decided to join us for some fun classic reads and discussions :)

[Jennysch]

Hello, this is Jenny
Even though I'm not a native English speaker, but I am studying English literature as my major. And I'm acturally cool with all kinds of classics, and have read quite a few. I'm really looking forward to the reading as well as disscussions.

[Loretta]

Jennysch wrote: "Hello, this is Jenny
Even though I'm not a native English speaker, but I am studying English literature as my major. And I'm acturally cool with all kinds of classics, and have read quite a few. I'..."

Hi and welcome Jenny! So happy you've joined our classic group where I'm sure you'll enjoy yourself! Continued happy reading! 😊

[Shirley (stampartiste)]

Thank you for such a warm welcome! I look forward to getting to know you all better as I read along with you!

Blessings!

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Welcome to the group Jenny. Hope you enjoy reading with us.

[MKay]

Welcome Shirley and Jenny!

[Pink]

Welcome Jenny! I'm glad you've joined us for some classic reading :)

[Terris]

stampartiste wrote: "Hello~

I'm Shirley from south Louisiana. I've been looking through the various folders in this group, and you sound like such an awesome group. I love the books you read and the encouragement you ..."

I think you will love this group! I was also impressed at how active they are. I only joined last year and have read lots more Classics than I had read before! Enjoy :)

[Shirley (stampartiste)]

Terris wrote: "I think you will love this group! I was also impressed at how active they are. I only joined last year and have read lots more Classics than I had read before! Enjoy :)"

Thank you, Terris! So great to hear that this group has helped you read more Classics. I, too, am looking forward to reading more Classics in 2018.

[Brina]

Welcome, Shirley, Jenny, and anyone I may have missed. This is the best group for reading classics on Goodreads and I hope you all enjoy it here.

[berthamason]

Hi, I'm Poliana. I love the Classics, particularly Victorian novels. I'm Brazilian but I live in New Zealand with my husband, a border collie named Asimov and three lovely cats. I'm currently studying towards my GDip in Arts - English Literature. Thanks for letting me join this group.

Oh yeah, I'm a huge Dickens and Hardy fan. :)

[Terris]

Poliana wrote: "Hi, I'm Poliana. I love the Classics, particularly Victorian novels. I'm Brazilian but I live in New Zealand with my husband, a border collie named Asimov and three lovely cats. I'm currently study..."

Hi Poliana, welcome to our group! I also love Dickens, but haven't read anything by him for awhile. I am planning to get back to him in 2018. I am also trying to read more Hardy & plan to read The Mayor of Casterbridge and Jude the Obscure next year. If you are interested in reading something at the same time, I would love that! Enjoy this group!