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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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Back To The Classics Challenge 2012
Sarah Reads Too Much is hosting a reading challenge next year, and I thought I’d join in and get some of those classics off my to-read pile. The challenge is to read one book that covers each of the nine categories she’s specified. Here are my tentative choices, suggestions always welcome: Any 19th Century Classic – The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Any 20th Century Classic – Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. I read half of this in high school and didn’t finish. While I was never a model student, I did at least enjoy the readings. This is the one book I didn’t finish, and it’s haunted…