Mr. Dickens ponders the possibilities of chance.
Yes! It's time for a Classics Club spin. You know the rules, but what are the books I'm ready to read based on the dictates of chance? Well, it's actually a pretty quiet time for me over the next month and a half, so I'm allowing a few of the longer choices on this list. I also prioritized ones that weren't on my last list. So here we go...
1.) Willa Cather/Lucy Gayheart
2.) Elizabeth Gaskell/Wives and Daughters
3.) Sinclair Lewis/Elmer Gantry
4.) Jack London/The Iron Heel
5.) Edgar Wallace/The Four Just Men
6.) Simone de Beauvoir/The Mandarins
7.) Joachim Machado de Assis/Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
8.) Walter Pater/Imaginary Portraits
9.) Virginia Woolf/The Years
10.) Virginia Woolf/Between the Acts
11.) Andrei Bely/Petersburg
12.) Knut Hamsun/Hunger
13.) Halldor Laxness/Salka Valka
14.) Diogenes Laertius/Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
15.) W. E. B. Du Bois/The Autobiography
16.) Apollonius Rhodius/The Argonautica
17.) Nazami Ganjavi/Layli and Majnun
18.) Lucan/The Civil War
19.) Nikos Kazantzakis/Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
20.) John Ruskin/Unto This Last
I'm guessing the Kazantzakis and the Diogenes Laertius are the difficult ones on that list, but that's OK, I should have time. Which look good to you?
Sunday, May 17th, will reveal all.
