The Classics Club have issued their latest challenge for another Classics Club Spin! Did I complete my challenge for the last spin? No, I did not. Am I going to try again? Yes, I am. Am I using the same list as last time except for the book that I was supposed to read for June? Again, yes, I am.
The idea is for members to select 20 books from their list of 50 classics which they have challenged themselves to read within five years, then read the selected book before 30 September 2020.
My Spin list:
- Iliad by Homer, translated by Caroline Alexander
- Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
- Aenid by Virgil, translated by Sarah Ruden
- Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, translated by Dorothy Sayers
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
- Tales from Shakespeare by Charles & Mary Lamb
- The Swiss Family Robinson by Johnn D. Wyss
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Devil’s Pool by George Sand
- Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Villette by Charlotte Brontë
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
- The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry