Cynthia’s Comments (group member since Oct 12, 2013)

Cynthia’s comments from the Read a Classic Challenge group.

This post is for 2018; sorry I didn't catalog this sooner!

Title: Pride & Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Publication year: original 1813, audiobook 2015
Number of pages: 279

My read classics for the first half of 2018, January thru June:

Title: The Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter #1
Author: Sigrid Undset
Publication Year: 1920
Number of Pages: 305

Title: The Red Badge of Courage
Author: Stephen Crane
Publication Year: 1895
Number of Pages: 170

(Lose classic interpretation)
Title: Pride and Prejudice: The Jewess and the Gentile
Author: Jane Austen and Lev Raphael
Publication Year: 1813 and ebook 2011
Number of Pages: 363

(lose classic interpretation)
Title: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Author: Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters
Publication Year: 1811 and 2009
Number of Pages: 340

Title: The Lost Boy
Author: Thomas Wolfe
Year of (initial) Publication: 1937
Number of Pages: 95

Title: Beauty and the Beast
Author: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Year of (initial) Publication: 1748
Number of Pages: 48

Title: The Sea Wolf
Author: Jack London
Year of (initial) Publication: 1904
Number of Pages: 425

Title: Persuasion
Author: Jane Austen
Year of (initial) Publication: 1817
Number of Pages: 249

Sterling Heights, Michigan, USA

Title: Wuthering Heights: Graphic Novel
Author: Emily Bronte
Publication: (1847) 2011
Number of Pages: 151

Title: Moby Dick
Author: Herman Melville
Publication: 1851
Number of Pages: 589

Title: Captain Blood
Author: Rafael Sabatini
Publication: 1922
Number of Pages: 236

Title: Middlemarch
Author: George Eliot
Publication: 1872
Number of Pages: 890

From Sterling Heights, MI, USA

Title: War and Peace
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publication: 1867
Number of Pages: 1417

Title: The Three Musketeers
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Publication: 1844
Number of Pages: 545

Title: Lady Susan
Author: Jane Austen
Publication: 1871
Number of Pages: 61

Title: Gone with the Wind
Author: Margaret Mitchell
Publication: 1936
Number of Pages: 1448

From Sterling Heights, MI, USA

These are the Classics I have read in the second half of 2015:

Title: The Lord of the Rings
Author: JRR Tolkien
Year Published original: 1954
Number of Pages: 1157

Title: 1984
Author: George Orwell
Year Published original: 1949
Number of Pages: 294

Title: Far From the Madding Crowd
Author: Thomas Hardy
Year Published original: 1874
Number of Pages: 362

I'm from Sterling Heights, Michigan, USA.

These are the Classics I have read in the first half of 2015:

Title: The Hobbit
Author: JRR Tolkien
Year Published original: 1937
Number of Pages: 317

Title: Frenchman's Creek
Author: Dauphne Du Maurier
Year Published original: 1941
Number of Pages: 288

Title: The Old Man and the Sea
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Year Published original: 1952
Number of Pages: 127

Title: Love's Labors Lost
Author: Shakespeare
Year Published original: 1597
Number of Pages: 107

I'm from Sterling Heights, Michigan, USA.

Title: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Author: Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Year of (initial) Publication: (1813) 2009
Number of Pages: 353
Format: print

Title: Little Dorrit
Author: Charles Dickens
Year of (initial) Publication: 1857
Number of Pages: none, five CDs
Format: audiobook

Title: The Time Machine
Author: H.G. Wells
Year of (initial) Publication: 1895
Number of CDs: 4 (~5hours)
Format: audiobook


Title: Master and Commander
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Year of (initial) Publication: 1969
Number of CDs: 15 (~16hours)
Format: audiobook

Listened to in Michigan, USA

Title: The Secret Garden
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Year of (initial) Publication: 1911
Number of Pages: 7 sound discs
Format: audiobook

Title: The Time Machine
Author: H.G. Wells
Year of (initial) Publication: 1895
Number of Pages: (none; listened as an audio book-4 hours)
Format: Audiobook

Title: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Author: Jules Verne
Year of (initial) Publication: 1870
Number of Sound Discs: 10 (11.5 hrs)
Format: Audiobook

Title: The Count of Monte Cristo
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Translator (if applicable): there should be one, but they are not identified.
Year of (initial) Publication: 1844
Number of Pages: 978
Format: e-reader

This was a superb read!