Friday, December 9, 2016

Back to the Classics Challenge 2017


I am signing up to participate in this challenge hosted by Karen at Books and Chocolate:

http://karensbooksandchocolate.blogspot.com/


1.  A 19th Century Classic - The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

2.  A 20th Century Classic -  The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett


3.  A classic by a woman author
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

4.  A classic in translation.  The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux


5.  A classic published before 1800. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift


6.  
An romance classic. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen


7.  A Gothic or horror classic. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

8.  A classic with a number in the title. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury


9.  A classic about an animal or which includes the name of an animal in the title.  The Martian Chronicles By Ray Bradbury


10. A classic set in a place you'd like to visit. Greenery Street by Denis Mackail

11. An award-winning classic. The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty, won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction 1972


12. A Russian Classic. 2017 will be the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, so read a classic by any Russian author. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy







    1 comment:

    Mommy In Color said...

    I'm also reading Tolstoy as my Russian classic! I've chosen War and Peace. Good luck with the challenge!!!

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