2016 Challenges

HERE is the link to my 2016 challenges post (oh, and HERE), but I needed a place to keep track of them, and here it is!

1. A 19th century classic:  The Death of Ivan Ilyich
2. A 20th century classic:  Nightingale Wood
3. A classic by a woman author:  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
4. A classic in translation:  The Brothers Karamazov
5. A classic by a non-white author:  Autobiography of Malcolm X
6. An adventure classic:  The Persians
7. A fantasy, science ficiton, or dystopian classic:  The Time Machine
8. A classic detective novel:  The Moonstone
9. A classic which includes the name of a place in the title:  Villette
10. A classic which as been banned or censored:  Metamorphoses
11. Re-read a classic you read in school:  To Kill A Mockingbird
12. A volume of classic short stories:

Reading England 2016:

Essex

• Nightingale Wood - Stella Gibbons

London

• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
• The Story of the Treasure Seekers - E. Nesbit
• Henry V (not sure where to put this)

Wessex

• Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

Yorkshire

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Rural England

• A Lover's Complaint

Aeschylus

• The Persians
• The Suppliant Maidens
• Seven Against Thebes
• Agamemnon
• The Libation Bearers
• The Eumenides

Aristophanes

• Lysistrata

1. A Lover's Complaint
2. Henry V

German

• Emil and the Detectives

Greek

• The Persians
• The Suppliant Maidens
• Seven Against Thebes
• Lysistrata
• Agamemnon
• The Libation Bearers

Norwegian

• A Doll's House

Russian

• The Brothers Karamazov
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich

German/French/Other?

• All Rivers Run to the Sea

Clubs – Short Stories

2 - The Runaway - Anton Chekhov

Spades – Essays

5 - Shooting An Elephant - George Orwell
6 – Hamlet : The Prince or the Poem - C.S. Lewis
8 – The World of Tomorrow - E.B. White
9 – Out of Your Car, Off Your Horse - Wendell Berry
Q – Different Tastes in Literature - C.S. Lewis

Diamonds – Poetry

A - A Man's A Man For A' That - Robert Burns
3  - Le Voile du Matin - Victor Hugo
5  - A Lover's Complaint - William Shakespeare



Hearts – Children's Classic Novels

5 - Big John's Secret - Eleanore Jewett