I will read these books for the reading challenge Back to the Classics 2022.
Thanks to Karen K. for hosting yet again! I was shocked and saddened that 80% of us hardcore readers who signed up last year were unable to read 12 books in 12 months. As a culture, we are too distracted with doing stuff and dealing with this wretched pandemic and not nearly idle enough to read as much as we want. "The art of culture," said wise man Lin Yutang, "is ... essentially the art of loafing."
Round 1: Click the
title to go to the review
19th Century Classic: Fanaticism – Gilbert Vale (1835)
A Classic Short Story Collection: Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov – Robert Chandler et al
A Nonfiction Classic: The Captive Mind – Czeslaw Milosz (1951)
Wild Card Classic: America, I Like You – P.G. Wodehouse (1956)
Classic by a Woman: Elizabeth and Her German Garden - Elizabeth von Arnim (1898)
Classic That's Been on Your TBR List the Longest: A Family and a Fortune - Ivy Compton-Burnett (1939)
Mystery Classic: The Lady in the Lake – Raymond Chandler (1942)
Pre-1800 Classic: On Obligations – Cicero (44 B.C.)
Classic in Translation: The Stranger – Albert Camus (1942)
20th Century Classic: Light in August – William Faulkner (1932)
Classic Set in a Place You'd Like to Visit: A Room with a View – E.F. Forster (1908)
Classic by a BIPOC Author: Analects – Confucius (ca. 500 B.C.E)
Round 2: June to
December, 2022
Classic on Your TBR Longest: Edwin Mullhouse – Steven Millhauser (1972)
Classic in Translation: Maigret Afraid (Maigret Se Trompe) – Georges Simenon (1953)
Nonfiction Classic: Aspects of the Novel – E.M. Forster (1927)
Wild Card Classic: The Manticore – Robertson Davies (1972)
Classic Short Stories: The Unvanquished – William Faulkner (1938)
20th Century Classic: The Beautiful and the Damned – F. Scott Fitzgerald (1922)
Classic by a BIPOC Author: Six Chapters in a Floating Life – Shen Fu (1877)
Classic by a Woman: Parents and Children – Ivy Compton Burnett (1941)
Pre-1800 Classic: Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu – Donald Keene (Translator)
Classic Set in a Place You'd Like to Visit: Loving – Henry Green (1945)
Mystery Classic: In a Lonely Place – Dorothy Hughes (1947)
19th Century Classic: A Woman of No Importance - Oscar Wilde (1894)
Great list! I'm very curious about the Wodehouse, I hadn't heard of that one. Also interested in Ivy Comptom Burnett, I haven't read any of her books yet.
ReplyDeleteThe Wodehouse is a collection of mock-autobiographical pieces first published in Punch in the Fifties. As for ICB, she writes with coolly clinical wit about unhappy families in the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras; her view of human beings, influenced by WWI, does not brim with charity or optimism but she's fun to read because her surprises are so shocking.
ReplyDeleteThe Golden Ass is a lot of fun. I've got some thoughts about reading Light in August this year myself. I sometimes think about rereading The Captive Mind & wonder how it would feel in our current political climate...
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