December 2020 Old School Nominations

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December Nominations - Old School Classics group read

1. Books that have already been featured as group reads and currently on our bookshelf are not eligible to be nominated.

Bookshelf link: https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

In the interest of variety, please wait a month to renominate a book that has been in the poll. These are the books from November that did not win:

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs
Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis
Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf
Daisy Miller by Henry James
L'Assomoir by Émile Zola
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2. Only books that were published before 1900 are eligible to be nominated in this section.

3. Only seven books, by seven different authors will move forward to each poll. This will be determined by the number of seconds a book receives. The seven books with the most seconds move to the poll.

4. Only one nomination and one second per member will be allowed. A nomination can be changed only until it has been seconded. Once seconded, in fairness to the member making the second, the nomination will stand.

4a. A second can be withdrawn and placed on another choice. This change must in some way be noted in a post such as, "I am withdrawing my second for book A and placing it on book B." It will be easier for moderator to track changes.

5. Only one book per author, In the event of more than one book by the same author is nominated, only the first one to receive a second will be eligible. The nominator of the ruled ineligible book will be able to nominate a replacement or second another already in nomination.

5a. Same author-multiple categories. The same author may be nominated in multiple categories in a single month as long as the nominations are for different books. In the case of identical nominations, precedence will go to the first one to receive a second.

Nominations will remain open until the 14th October, polls will open on the 16th and run until the end of the month.

[J_BlueFlower]

Hunger by Knut Hamsun, 134 pages, first published 1890. Simply because it is a major classic.

"One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary history with the publication in 1890 of this powerful, autobiographical novel recounting the abject poverty, hunger and despair of a young writer..."

[Brina]

How about a warm weather location to end the year. I’ll try again for Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen by Liliuokalani.

[Michaela]

I nominate The Warden by Anthony Trollope.

[Philina]

Michaela wrote: "I nominate The Warden by Anthony Trollope."

I second this!

[Jesus]

I second Hunger

[Michaela]

Philina wrote: "Michaela wrote: "I nominate The Warden by Anthony Trollope."

I second this!"

Thanks Philina! :)

[Aubrey]

I nominate A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird (pub 1879, 282 pp) and second Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen.

Project Gutenberg has a legal free to download eBook version (three cheers for expired copyright!) of Bird's work here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/755

[Brina]

Thank you Aubrey, I’ll second yours as well. I read it but it’s considered an important development in women’s writing.

[Philina]

There is also a free audiobook for A Lady's Life.

I listened to it earlier this year and I think the narrator did a good job.

https://librivox.org/a-ladys-life-in-...

[Aubrey]

Thanks Brina for the second and Philina for the resource :)

[Annette]

I'll nominate Nutcracker and Mouse King and the Tale of the Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann in 1816. Although there are many versions of both, the Penguin volume linked here also includes the better-known story as adapted by Alexandre Dumas in 1845. A total of 192 pages.

And I will second A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains.

[Brina]

I learn something everyday. I thought this was a Tchaikovsky original story that he set to his timeless music and dance. I already seconded but this sounds fascinating.

[Aubrey]

Thanks Annette :)

[Laurie]

Michaela wrote: "I nominate The Warden by Anthony Trollope."

I second The Warden.

[Shaina]

I second The Warden.

[Piyangie]

Michaela wrote: "I nominate The Warden by Anthony Trollope."

I too second The Warden

[Michaela]

Thanks Laurie, Shaina and Pyangie for the seconds! :)

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

I'll second Hunger

[Irphen]

Second Hunger

[Jeffrey]

I second The Warden

[Michaela]

Jeffrey wrote: "I second The Warden"

Thanks Jeffrey! :)

[[deleted user]]

Michaela wrote: "I nominate The Warden by Anthony Trollope."

I second this

[Anne (On semi-hiatus)]

I also second The Warden.

[Michaela]

Thanks Don and Anne! :)

[Ashley]

I second the Nutcracker

[Annette]

Thanks, Ashley!

[Gilbert]

I've read A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains and The Warden, both excellent.

My recommendation is Corinne, or Italy by Germaine de Staël 1807 (464 pages).

[Lynn, Revisit the Shelf]

Annette wrote: "I'll nominate Nutcracker and Mouse King and the Tale of the Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann in 1816. Although there are many versions of both, the Penguin volume linked..."

Oh!! I second this. I have read so many children's rewritten versions of it.

[Annette]

Thanks, Lynn!

[Jen]

I'll 2nd The Nutcracker.

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I second Hunger

[Annette]

Thank you, Jen!

[Chuck]

I nominate The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare, 279 pages.

[Nathan]

I second The Winter's Tale.

[Margaret]

I second The Nutcracker.

[Annette]

Thanks, Margaret!

[Benjamin]

I second Hunger (despite the World Food Programme having won the Nobel Peace Prize today).

[Terry]

I will second Hunger.

[Darren]

I nominate The Egoist by George Meredith

[George P.]

Philina wrote: "There is also a free audiobook for A Lady's Life.
I listened to it earlier this year and I think the narrator did a good job.
https://librivox.org/a-ladys-life-in-......"

I've been listening to my first librivox audiobook - of A Hero of Our Time- and it's reasonably well-read for a non-professional.

[George P.]

I'll second A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains.
I think it will interest me since I live there (Utah).

[John Dishwasher]

I'll second The Nutcracker .

[Aubrey]

Thanks George :)

[Annette]

Thanks, John_D. !

[Sue]

Annette wrote: "I'll nominate Nutcracker and Mouse King and the Tale of the Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann in 1816. Although there are many versions of both, the Penguin volume linked..."

I'll second. I read the Dumas version a few years ago when I learned that it was the version that the ballet was inspired by. I loved it. I purchased this copy and it is so gorgeous. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2....

[Annette]

Thank you, Sue K H!

[Maggie]

I second Hunger.

[Elizabeth]

I second The Warden

[Michaela]

Elizabeth wrote: "I second The Warden"

Thanks Elizabeth! :)