Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)

message 101: by siriusedward (new)

May 07, 2018 09:59AM

siriusedward (elenaraphael) | 2005 comments

only 14 of the possibilities. .lots of unexpected books read though.

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message 102: by siriusedward (new)

Sep 08, 2018 06:07PM

25+2 of the 66 possibilities done..

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message 103: by siriusedward (last edited Oct 03, 2018 01:58PM) (new)

Oct 03, 2018 01:26PM

About Trollope

The New Yorker

theconversation.com

47 or so books !!!😓

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message 104: by siriusedward (last edited Oct 23, 2018 04:42AM) (new)

Oct 23, 2018 04:16AM

Thomas Hardy

Novels of character and environment

The Poor Man and the Lady (1867, unpublished and lost)
Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School (1872)
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
The Return of the Native (1878)
The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (1886)
The Woodlanders (1887)
Wessex Tales (1888, a collection of short stories)
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented (1891)
Life's Little Ironies (1894, a collection of short stories)
~~Jude the Obscure (1895)~~

Romances and fantasies

A Pair of Blue Eyes: A Novel (1873)
The Trumpet-Major (1880)
Two on a Tower: A Romance (1882)
A Group of Noble Dames (1891, a collection of short stories)
The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament (1897) (first published as a serial from 1892)

Novels of ingenuity

Desperate Remedies: A Novel (1871)
The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters (1876)
A Laodicean: A Story of To-day (1881)

Poetry collections
~~Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)~~
Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)
Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses (1909)
Satires of Circumstance (1914)
Moments of Vision (1917)
Collected Poems (Thomas Hardy)|Collected Poems (1919)
Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses (1922)
Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925)
Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres (1928)

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message 105: by siriusedward (last edited Jan 09, 2022 01:01PM) (new)

Oct 23, 2018 04:32AM

Virginia Woolf

Novels

The Voyage Out (1915)
Night and Day (1919)
Jacob's Room (1922)
~~Mrs Dalloway (1925)~~
~~To the Lighthouse (1927)~~
Orlando: A Biography (1928)
The Waves (1931)
The Years (1937)
Between the Acts (1941)

Book length essays

~~A Room of One's Own (1929)~~
On Being Ill (1930)
Three Guineas (193)

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message 106: by siriusedward (last edited Nov 29, 2018 02:57PM) (new)

Oct 23, 2018 04:37AM

George Eliot

Novels
Adam Bede, 1859
~~The Mill on the Floss, 1860~~
~~Silas Marner, 1861~~
Romola, 1863
Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
~~Middlemarch, 1871–72~~
Daniel Deronda, 1876

Poetry
Agatha, 1869
Brother and Sister, 1869
Armgart, 1871
Stradivarius, 1873
The Legend of Jubal, 1874
I Grant You Ample Leave, 1874
Arion, 1874
A Minor Prophet, 1874
A College Breakfast Party, 1879
The Death of Moses, 1879
In a London Drawingroom, 1865
Count That Day Lost

Essay collection

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message 107: by siriusedward (new)

Oct 23, 2018 04:49AM

Albert Camus

Novels
~~The Stranger (L'Étranger, often translated as The Outsider) (1942)~~
~~The Plague (La Peste) (1947)~~
The Fall (La Chute) (1956)
A Happy Death (La Mort heureuse) (written 1936–38, published posthumously 1971)
The First Man (Le premier homme) (incomplete, published posthumously 1995)

Short storie
Exile and the Kingdom (L'exil et le royaume) (collection, 1957), containing the following short stories:
"The Adulterous Woman" (La Femme adultère)
"The Renegade or a Confused Spirit" (Le Renégat ou un esprit confus)
"The Silent Men" (Les Muets)
"The Guest" (L'Hôte)
"Jonas or the Artist at Work" (Jonas ou l’artiste au travail)
"The Growing Stone" (La Pierre qui pousse)

Non-fiction books

Nuptials (Noces) (1938)
The Myth of Sisyphus (Le Mythe de Sisyphe) (1942)
The Rebel (L'Homme révolté) (1951)

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message 108: by siriusedward (new)

Oct 23, 2018 04:53AM

Willa Cather

Novels
Alexander's Bridge (1912)
~~O Pioneers! (1913)~~
The Song of the Lark (1915)
My Ántonia (1918)
~~One of Ours (1922)~~
A Lost Lady (1923)
The Professor's House (1925)
My Mortal Enemy (1926)
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
Shadows on the Rock (1931)
Lucy Gayheart (1935)
Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940

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message 109: by siriusedward (last edited Jan 09, 2022 01:02PM) (new)

Oct 23, 2018 05:29AM

John Steinbeck

Cup of Gold : a Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History. 1929
The Pastures of Heaven. 1932
To a God Unknown. 1933
Tortilla Flat. 1935
In Dubious 1936
~~Of Mice and Men. 1937~~
~~The Red Pony. 1937.~~
Their Blood Is Strong, 1938
The Long Valley. 1938
~~The Grapes of Wrath. 1939~~
The Log from the Sea of Cortez., 1951
The Forgotten Village, 1941
Bombs Away : the Story of a Bomber Team, 1942
The Moon Is Down. 1942
Cannery Row, 1945
~~The Pearl. , 1947~~
The Wayward Bus. 1947
~~A Russian Journal, 1948~~
Burning Bright . 1950
East of Eden, 1952
Viva Zapata! , 1952
Sweet Thursday. 1954
The Short Reign of Pippin IV : a Fabrication. 1957
Once There Was a War, 1958
The Winter of Our Discontent.1961
Speech Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature. 1962
~~Travels with Charley : In Search of America. 1962~~
America and Americans 1966
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights , 1976
John Steinbeck on Writing / edited by Tetsumaro Hayashi.1988

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message 110: by siriusedward (last edited Jan 09, 2022 01:04PM) (new)

Oct 23, 2018 12:45PM

Charles Dickens

~~The Pickwick Papers (The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; monthly serial, April 1836 to November 1837)[187]~~ Read it twice. Liked it.But don't remember it clearly.

~~Oliver Twist (The Adventures of Oliver Twist; monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839)~~ Don't think I liked it much

Nicholas Nickleby (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; monthly serial, April 1838 to October 1839)

The Old Curiosity Shop (weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, April 1840 to November 1841)

Barnaby Rudge (Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty; weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, February to November 1841)

~~A Christmas Carol (A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost-story of Christmas; 1843)~~ liked it

Martin Chuzzlewit (The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit; monthly serial, January 1843 to July 1844)

The Chimes (The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In; 1844)

~~The Cricket on the Hearth (The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home; 1845)~~

Dombey and Son (Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation; monthly serial, October 1846 to April 1848)

The Haunted Man (The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain: A Fancy for Christmas-time; 1848)

David Copperfield (The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery [Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account]; monthly serial, May 1849 to November 1850) Read it .Don't think I liked it much.

~~Bleak House (monthly serial, March 1852 to September 1853)~~

Hard Times (Hard Times: For These Times; weekly serial in Household Words, 1 April 1854, to 12 August 1854)

Little Dorrit (monthly serial, December 1855 to June 1857)

~~A Tale of Two Cities (weekly serial in All the Year Round, 30 April 1859, to 26 November 1859)~~Read it but want to reread it again.

Great Expectations (weekly serial in All the Year Round, 1 December 1860 to 3 August 1861)

~~Our Mutual Friend (monthly serial, May 1864 to November 1865)~~Read it last week and loved it. 5❇

The Signal-Man (1866), first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round.

Edwin Drood (The Mystery of Edwin Drood; monthly serial, April 1870 to September 1870), left unfinished due to Dickens's death

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message 111: by siriusedward (last edited Jan 17, 2019 05:25PM) (new)

Nov 03, 2018 01:54AM

Victor Hugo

Cromwell preface only (1819)
Odes et poésies diverses (1822)
Odes (1823)
Han d'Islande (1823), (Hans of Iceland)
Nouvelles Odes (1824)
Bug-Jargal (1826)
Odes et Ballades (1826), (Odes and Ballads)
Cromwell (1827)
Les Orientales (1829), (Orientalia)
~~Le Dernier jour d'un condamné (1829), (The Last Day of a Condemned Man)~~
Hernani (1830)
Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame)
Marion de Lorme (1831)
Les Feuilles d'automne (1831), (Autumn Leaves)
Le roi s'amuse (1832)
Lucrezia Borgia (1833)
Marie Tudor (1833)
Littérature et philosophie mêlées (1834), (A Blend of Literature and Philosophy)
Claude Gueux (1834)
Angelo, Tyrant of Padua (1835)
Les Chants du crépuscule (1835), (Songs of the Half Light)
La Esmeralda (only libretto of an opera written by Victor Hugo himself) (1836)
Les Voix intérieures (1837)
Ruy Blas (1838)
Les Rayons et les Ombres (1840)
Le Rhin (1842)
Les Burgraves (1843)
Napoléon le Petit (1852), (Napoleon the Little)
Les Châtiments (1853)
Les Contemplations (1856), (The Contemplations)
Les TRYNE (1856)
La Légende des siècles (1859), (The Legend of the Ages)
~~Les Misérables (1862)~~

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message 112: by siriusedward (last edited Nov 29, 2018 02:55PM) (new)

Nov 29, 2018 02:53PM

Shakespeare

Tragedies

Play Terminus
post quem ante quem
Titus Andronicus
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
~~Hamlet~~
Troilus and Cressida[a]
Othello
King Lear
Macbeth
Timon of Athens
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus

Histories
King John
Edward III
Richard II
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 3
Richard III
Henry VIII
Coriolanus
Julius Caesar
Antony and Cleopatra

Histories

King John
Edward III
Richard II
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 3
Richard III
Henry VIII
Coriolanus
Julius Caesar
Antony and Cleopatra

Comedies

~~As You Like It~~
The Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
The Taming of the Shrew
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Problem plays
All's Well That Ends Well**
Measure for Measure**
The Merchant of Venice**

Romances
Pericles, Prince of Tyre*
The Tempest*
The Two Noble Kinsmen*
The Winter's Tale*
Cymbeline*

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message 113: by siriusedward (last edited Dec 07, 2018 02:35PM) (new)

Dec 07, 2018 10:17AM

For 2019

Novels

Aenid
Bleak House
Aurora Leigh
The road back
Travels with Charley
East of Eden
The reivers or Absalom Absalom!
A moveable feast
LM montgomery
Hospital sketches, Alcott
Macbeth
Mrs.Dalloway
Adam Bede
Spiridion
The fall,Camus
Umberto Eco
Essays,G.Eliot
Shaw ,play
Hedda Gabler
Yeats/Keats
Howl and other poems,Ginsberg
God of small things
Twilight in Delhi
Sunlight on a broken column
Khasakinte Itihasam
My Antonia
Daughter of fortune
Chinese or Japanese poetry
Short story collections
Ursula k le guin
Julia alvarez butterflies.group read.if
FFMC
Tess,Hardy
Age of innocence
Julius Caesar play
Merchant of Venice
Brother Cadfael, 7
Sunrise in the west
Trollope- 1st in Barchester towers
Little princess
Eleanor estes

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message 114: by siriusedward (new)

Dec 09, 2018 10:22PM

Some more to consider
The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
Cutting for Stone When Breath Becomes Air

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message 115: by siriusedward (last edited Dec 10, 2018 08:12AM) (new)

Dec 10, 2018 06:20AM