Never too Late to Read Classics discussion
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2024: 800,000 Page Challenge COMPLETED!!
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Just a tad short of 213,722 pages. It is ok we can do it this year!
Quick question for this challenge: I am currently reading a short stories collection that has a mix of classical and modern ghost tales. Should I count the classical tales' pages from this book (and only the classical of course) to this challenge?
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That would be good, just using the pages for the classic short stories. Thanks for asking Ana.
Lesle, can you confirm the cut of year for a book to be consider a classic? Is it still 50 years?
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Rosemarie wrote: "Ana wrote: "Quick question for this challenge: I am currently reading a short stories collection that has a mix of classical and modern ghost tales. Should I count the classical tales' pages from t..."Thank you for answering!
(Classic tales (>50 years) within Ghosts of Christmas Past)The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance by M. R. JAMES (1862 - 1936) - 23 pages
The Shadow by E. Nesbit - 17 pages
The Leaf-Sweeper by Muriel Spark - 9 pages
The Step by E. F. Benson (Edward Frederic) - 21 pages
The Vanishing House by Bernard Capes - 7 pages
Someone in the Lift by L.P. Hartley - 8 pages
The Visiting Star by Robert Aickman - 40 pages
The Ghost Of The Blue Chamber by Jerome K. Jerome - 18 pages
349 + 143
Total to date: 492 pages
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286 pages
Group total: 1 648
Orgullo y PrejuicioJane Austen
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José Luis López Muñoz
(Translator)
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Hugh Thomson
(Illustrator)
Edición conmemorativa del Segundo Centenario de la publicación de la obra, con las ilustraciones que realizó Hugh Thomson en 1894.
hi every one, I couldn't put the link to the book even though it is duly registered, but hey, I'll leave it here as a comment, it has 582 pages.
GROUP TOTAL: 2230
Can I add a manga version of Edgar Allan Poe stories here?
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Our group had a graphic novel section two years ago, so I would say Yes, it counts.
Night on the Milky Way Train, Kenji Miyazawa p. 189Group Total: 3,083
Under the Net, Iris Murdoch (1954)324 + 3083=3407
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare 109 pages - perhaps my favorite Shakespearean woman, so farPerelandra by C.S. Lewis 206 pages - didn’t enjoy as much as many of his others
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John by Pearl S. Buck 80 pages - heartaching
Chocky by John Wyndham 154 pages - quite good, Rosemarie. Thanks for the rec.
Total to date: 6,069
Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love StoryOliver La Farge (1929)
206+ 6353= 6559
The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin207 Pages
Group total: 7 320
Sur la lecture : Suive de Journées de lectureMarcel Proust (1905)
70+ 7762= 7832
Miss Mackenzie by Anthony Trollope
432 pages
Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
87 pages
Group total: 8,351
Le Palais du désir by Naguib Mahfouz (1957)608+ 8351= 8959
New Grub Street by George Gissing560 pages. Total. 9519 pages
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How It Works:
Any Member may join this challenge.
What is required:
1. A Classic you’ve recently finished reading (Name & Author)
2. The page count of the Classic you read
3. Book Cover (If you like to share)
4. Add the total Pages of your Classic to get a Group Page Total.
Example
Msg 1 by Lesle:
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
Current Group Total = 275 pages
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Msg 2 by Mark:
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Current Group Total = 707 pages
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