Prompt 23: A book more than 100 years old

[Ann]

What books are you reading in this category? What recommendations do you have?

[Lynn]

Does the actual book have to be over 100 years, or just copyright before 1914? I'm lucky enough to have books that fit both of requirements, but wasn't sure which the prompt meant.

[Sarah]

I'm taking that as the copyright before 1914. I'd be hard pressed to get my hands on an actual book that is over 100 years old :)

[Ann]

I agree. I think they mean published before 1914.

[Martta]

I'm going to read Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
For this prompt I recommend Penguin classics because it's relatively easy to find those and penguin has done many books first published in the nineteenth century.

[Emily]

Anna Karenina! Finally going to give it a try.

[Kerri]

At my library there is a set of second edition Charles Dickens novels copyright 1857 Kent, England! I freaked when I saw them the first time. The librarian didn't even know what she had.

[Julia]

I read "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde and really enjoyed it.

[Jules]

I'm going to read the The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe, keeping to my overarching theme of "Try and read a mystery/crime story for every prompt!"

[Lara Ruark]

I just finished "Frankenstein" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. It was first published in 1818. I had never read it before and it was not what I expected at all.

[Donna]

I read Sherlock Holmes A Study in Scarlet.

[Cheri]

I'm currently reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens to fulfill this one. I'm thinking it's going to be a slow burn for me though. I remember reading it in high school but had a hard time with it, hopefully it will be better now that I'm older and that it's not required but rather because I chose to read it.

[Alexis]

I started reading The Wind in the Willows, published in 1908, to my daughter in 2013! She wasn't enjoying it, so we took a very long break. I would take it out every couple of months and then finally, the story was at a part she found engaging. We finished the book yesterday. The vocabulary can be a bit cumbersome and it was hard for her 6 and 7 year old self to pay attention to it. It was a cute story, but not one of our favorite family reads.

[Tatiana]

My plan for this prompt is to finally read La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas.

[Luella]

I really wanted to read the 1898 version of Futility by Morgan Robertson which is known mostly as the story that "predicted" the Titanic.

I found it this was almost an impossible task until I found this link to the story from The Ohio State University Library. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.324350...

I looked through the 1912 version after reading this one and I liked the original ending much better. It is much more fitting to the theme and title of the book.

I'm picking this one to fulfill the 100 year old prompt.

[Sara]

I read Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie.

[Megan]

I plan on reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

[Spring]

Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie - it's a short read but I liked it.

[Guylian]

Just finished Oscar Wilde "The Picture of Dorian Gray".

[Michelle]

I see two of you have Dorian Gray as your book. I have that on my kindle to read soon.

Reading a book that is 100 years old is old hat for me. I regularly read and love classics.

I went with Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Very well written and quite engaging. Given the circumstances yesterday (today? I live in singapore....I dont know when exactly it happened) with the pool party and all the black kids, I was super glad to have read it. Should be required reading in every school.

[Kerryann]

I read Peter and Wendy by J.M. (James Matthew)

[Belinda]

I'm going to read Ramona

[Kirsten]

I just finished reading The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas for this prompt. Have now finished 33 of the prompts.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Tori]

Incidents in the life of a slave girl. By, Harriet Jacobs

[Angie]

I read The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle.

[Melody]

For this prompt, I reread Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The first quarto was published in 1597, making it 418 years old. R&J has been a long time favorite of mine, and if you haven't yet read it I definitely recommend it, a great anti-love story.

[Lisa]

I started reading The Turn of the Screw but have yet to finish it. The prose is extremely dense and there is lots of description but little action.

[Malgorzata]

I read The War of the Worlds, as it had been on my "to read" list for quite some time. Not the greatest book I've ever read, but I still quite enjoyed it.

[Hilary]

I just read Anne of Green Gables which I hadn't read in 25 ish years (!!) and it was lovely. I forgot how much I loved this book an I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series. I'd struggled with this category all year, trying to read all sorts of different things. I'm relieved I found something.

[Heloisa]

This year I read/listen many books from project gutenberg/audiovox, and many of these titles in public domain are more than one hundred years old.

One of them was Anne of Green Gables (and Anne of Avonlea), although I put them in other categories (A book with a color in the title) - I have never heard about this book before, it is really cute, made me so happy. I hope to give a translation to my mother in the future.

[Krista]

I am re-reading Alice in Wonderland.

[Kerri]

I read Villette by Charlotte Bronte. Villette