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Back To The Classics Challenge – Complete!
I finished! Here’s what I ended up reading: Any 19th Century Classic – The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Any 20th Century Classic – Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Reread a classic of your choice – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A Classic Play – The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. Classic Mystery/Horror/Crime Fiction – The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Classic Romance – Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Read a Classic that has been translated from its original language to your language – Solaris by Stanisław Lem (translated from Polish). Classic Award Winner – As I Lay Dying…
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Published: 1925 I first read this in high school, but I’ve been meaning to return to it since. I rushed through it quite quickly in order to meet a deadline, and when I picked it up to read this time, over a decade later, I couldn’t remember a thing about it. As a result of this, I wasn’t that impressed the first time through, but there’s so much love for the book out there that I thought it would be a good time to give it another try. The story is narrated by Nick Carraway, a recent university graduate and veteran of The…