2017 Challenges

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Back to the Classics Challenge:

1.  A 19th Century Classic:  A Small House at Allington

2.  A 20th Century Classic:

3.  A classic by a woman author: 

4.  A classic in translation:  History of the Peloponnesian War

5.  A classic published before 1800:  The Histories

6.  An romance classic:  Shadow of the Moon

7.  A Gothic or horror classic: 

8.  A classic with a number in the title:

9.  A classic about an animal or which includes the name of an animal in the title:  The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

10. A classic set in a place you'd like to visit:  The Comedy of Errors

11. An award-winning classic:

12. A Russian classic:

Level 2: 0/4

Russian Literature Challenge:

11/52

Deal Me In Challenge:

Clubs – Short Stories

A –  Cabbages and Kings - O’Henry

2 –  Excellent People - Anton Chekhov

3 –  The Queen of Spades – Alexander Pushkin

4 –  Le Horla – Guy de Maupassant

5 –  The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe

6 –  The Life You Save Might Be Your Own- Flannery O'Connor

7 –  The Honest Thief – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

8 –  A Little Woman - Franz Kafka

9 –  A Haunted House - Virginia Woolf

10 – The Birds - Anton Chekhov

J –  The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Gilman
Q -  Love - Leo Tolstoy 

K -  Signs and Symbols - Vladimir Nabakov

Spades – Essays

A – Milton - Charles Williams

2 – Doodles in the Dictionary - Aldous Huxley

3 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream - G.K. Chesterton

4 – On A Faithful Friend – Virginia Woolf

5 – A Note on Jane Austen - C.S. Lewis

6 –  In Defence of Literacy - Wendell Berry

7 –  The Tyranny of Bad Journalism - G.K. Chesterton

8 – Politics and the English Language - George Orwell

9 –  An Apology for Idlers - Robert Louis Stevenson

10 – Sense - C.S. Lewis

J – Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community - Wendell Berry

Q – What I Demand of Life - Frank Swinnerton

K – Vulgarity - G.K. Chesterton

Diamonds – Poetry

A – A Sea Dirge - Lewis Carroll

2 –  Gesang Der Geister Über Den Wassern - Johann Wolfgang

               von Goethe

3 – Nothing But Death - Pablo Neruda (from Poetry Soup)

4 – Sonnett XXIII - Garcilaso de la Vega

5 – Love Sonnet XIII - Pablo Neruda

6 – Resolution and Independence – William Wordsworth

7 – Ode III – Fray Luis de León

8 – Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night - Dylan Thomas

9 – To A Mouse – Robert Burns

10 – Tears, Idle Tears - Alfred Lord Tennyson

J –  Easter Wings – George Hebert

Q – On His Blindness - John Milton

K – Phoenix and the Turtle - William Shakespeare

Hearts – Children’s Classic

A – A Triumph for Flavius – Caroline Dale Snedeker

2 – Three Greek Children - Alfred Church

3 –  The Story of the Treasure Seekers – E. Nesbit

4 – Detectives in Togas – Henry Winterfeld

5 – Finn Family Moomintroll - Tove Jansson

6 – The Tanglewood’s Secret – Patricia St. John

7 – The Wolves of Willoughy Chase - Joan Aiken

8 – Red Sails to Capri – Ann Weil

9 – Sprig of Broom - Barbara Willard

10 – Teddy’s Button - Amy LeFeuvre

J –  Call It Courage – Armstrong Sperry

Q – Just David - Eleanor H. Porter

K – Beyond the Desert Gate – Mary Ray