The Classics Club people are in a spin again: by 18th July we’re invited to number off twenty titles on our personal lists of fifty classics, so that whatever random digit comes up we aim to read the corresponding book by 22nd August.
As it happens, I have ‘only’ 13 titles remaining on my list and therefore I’ve had to arbitrarily allocate repeat titles for the last seven. I’ve used wherever possible simple criteria for my choices with this septet: (1) children’s classics (2) shortish classics. Heck, I don’t want to make it hard for myself!
- Petronius Arbiter: The Satyricon
- Frances Hodgson Burnett: A Little Princess
- Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist
- George Eliot: Middlemarch
- Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game
- Charles Kingsley: Hypatia
- Rudyard Kipling: Kim
- D H Lawrence: The Princess and other stories
- Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince
- L M Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables
- Mervyn Peake: Gormenghast
- Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto
- Frances Hodgson Burnett: A Little Princess
- Rudyard Kipling: Kim
- L M Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables
- Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince
- Petronius Arbiter: The Satyricon
- D H Lawrence: The Princess and other stories
I’m sort of hoping Middlemarch or Gormenghast will get picked as I desperately need a proverbial kick up the pants to return to one of these stalled titles. But we’ll see what pans out.
In the meantime I’ve been steadily deleting ephemeral posts that are long in the tooth — previous Classics spins, irrelevant observations, reblogged posts — so it’s possible that you may find the odd link to them no longer works. Apologies. This one too will almost certainly self-destruct soon after it ceases to be relevant.
Update
No 6 it is: Charles Kingsley’s Hypatia.
