“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” — Italo Calvino
I signed up for Classics Club some time ago, and asked myself the question, “What is a classic?” In my book it’s a title that has stood the test of time — however long that is — and will include children’s fiction, classical and foreign texts in translation as well as those deemed modern classics (mostly 20th century).
The List
Included on this list — an aide-memoire really — are the classics I have yet to read (or reread: RR).
- Petronius Arbiter: The Satyricon RR
- Frances Hodgson Burnett: A Little Princess Read
- Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist RR
- George Eliot: Middlemarch
- Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game RR
- Charles Kingsley: Hypatia
- Rudyard Kipling: Kim RR
- 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 RR
- Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto RR
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