October 2020 - month for Classics

[Ahtims]

Though it is Halloween month , we at Indian Readers dedicate this month to read Classics .
Books which are universally considered as Classics , preferably books published before 1950 will be read.

Do pledge your books

[Ahtims]

I pledge minimum of 2 books .
Shall update titles later .

[Akanksha]

I pledge 5 books.

Tentative TBR

1. Theogony by Hesiod
2. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Aeschylus
3. Aenid by Virgil
4. Metamorphoses by Ovid
5. Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
6. Phantastes by George MacDonald
7. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
8. Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
9. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
10. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Books finished
1. A Tale of Two Cities
2. Nightmare Abbey
3. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
4. The Little Prince
5. The Turn of the Screw

[Kavitha]

I am in. Tentative List.

[Richa]

I pledge 2 books
1. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
2. The Comedy of Errors

[nitisha]

I pledge 2 books
1. Dracula by Bram Stoker
2. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

[nitisha]

Hey all! How’s everyone’s challenge going?
I started with Dracula today but with only half the month remaining, I am considering choosing an easier one for the second instead of The Prince

[செந்தில் குமார்]

Does the "the intelligent investor" by Graham, a classic in Finance count ?

[Prajna]

Hello guys,
Recommend a good romantic classics by indian authors

Thanks

[Ahtims]

hi Senthil Kumar, actually not ... we mean literary classics here ..
but no hard and fast rule .. this is a highly individualized challenge .

[Ahtims]

hi Prajna ... wrong thread .

[Ahtims]

I completed a repeat read of Heidi .
about to finish a study in scarlet .

both are repeat reads for me.
despite the huge array of unread classics ..

[nitisha]

Em*bedded-in-books* wrote: "I completed a repeat read of Heidi .
about to finish a study in scarlet .

both are repeat reads for me.
despite the huge array of unread classics .."

I believe the best books are the ones that keep up coming back to them :)