BUT OF COURSE I am joining the Back to the Classics Challenge

This year, there are 12 categories. And a PRIZE!  (hope to remember by December.) No required categories, just levels to accomplish for entries: Complete six – get one entry; complete nine, get two. Etc.

My choices/options for the categories are…  (go read the rules and join by clicking on the button above.)

1.  A 19th Century Classic — Dang it! Sister Carrie doesn’t count for this?!  (pub’d in 1900) ok, will look for something else… Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup.

2.  A 20th Century Classic — SISTER CARRIE! It’s not too late to join our readalong of this. Check Twitter for  #CarrieAlong. See my post on it –> here <–.

3.  A Classic by a Woman Author.  The King Must Die by Mary Renault. I adore the title, it’s under 400 pages.

4.  A Classic in Translation.   GERMINAL by ZOLA – watch for a readalong later in the year…

5.  A Very Long Classic Novel — a single work of 500 pages or longer.  This does not include omnibus editions combined into one book, or short story collections.  OPTIONS:  Mansfield Park (509 pages!) by the incomparable Miss Jane. (thought I would find more but everytime I looked at a title, it would be under 300 pages! huh)

6.  A Classic Novella — any work shorter than 250 pages.  For a list of suggestions, check out this list of World’s Greatest Novellas from Goodreads.  Wide Sargasso Sea – WOW – I thought this was a chunkster!! until I looked it up to see if qualified for category #5. Must have it confused with Middlemarch? OH CRAP – this was pub’d in 1966. NOW WHAT am I going to choose?  Candide!  or  Heart of Darkness!!

 

7.  A Classic with a Person’s Name in the Title.  First name, last name, or both, it doesn’t matter, but it must have the name of a character.  Jude the Obscure will fit just fine.

8.  A Humorous or Satirical Classic.  Humor is very subjective, so this one is open to interpretation.  Just tell us in the review why you think it’s funny or satirical.   For example, if you think that Crime and Punishment and funny, go ahead and use it, but please justify your choice in your post.  {no idea here…}

9.  A Forgotten Classic.  This could be a lesser-known work by a famous author, or a classic that nobody reads any more.  If you look on Goodreads, this book will most likely have less than 1000 ratings.  This is your chance to read one of those obscure books from the Modern Library 100 Best Novels or 1001 Books to Read Before You Die.  Books published by Virago Modern Classics, Persephone, and NYRB Classics often fall into this category.  {no idea here, neither… I really do not know how to judge this at all by just looking at the titles I have on my Club 50.}

10.  A Nonfiction Classic.  A memoir, biography, essays, travel, this can be any nonfiction work that’s considered a classic, or a nonfiction work by a classic author.  — Will have to do more research.  Likely something by Virginia Woolf will work but I was trying to titles already on my Classics Club 50.

11.  A Classic Children’s Book.  A book for your inner child!  Pick a children’s classic that you never got around to reading.  Again, I have no idea for this one.

12.  A Classic Play.  . . .

 

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