Ed’s Comments (group member since Dec 25, 2015)

Ed’s comments from the Completists' Club group.

I'm going to work on this list too:

✔Cup of Gold (1929)
✔The Pastures of Heaven (1932)-7/17/19
✔The Red Pony (1933)-5/13/20
✔To a God Unknown (1933)-7/12/20
✔Tortilla Flat (1935)
✔In Dubious Battle (1936)-9/20/22
✔Of Mice and Men (1937)
✔ The Long Valley (1938)-1/28/23
✔ The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
✔ The Forgotten Village (1941)
Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research (1941)
The Moon Is Down (1942)
Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team (1942)
✔Cannery Row (1945)
✔ The Wayward Bus (1947)-12/24/23
The Pearl (1947)
A Russian Journal (1948)
Burning Bright (1950)
The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951)
East of Eden (1952)
Sweet Thursday (1954)
The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication (1957)
Once There Was A War (1958)
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
✔Travels with Charley: In Search of America (1962)
America and Americans (1966)
Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters (1969)
Viva Zapata! (1975)
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)
Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath (1989)
Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War (2012), Thomas E. Barden (Editor)

Single novels

The Macdermots of Ballycloran (1847)
The Kellys and the O'Kellys (1848)
La Vendée: An Historical Romance (1850)
The Three Clerks (1858)
The Bertrams (1859)
Castle Richmond (1860)
Orley Farm (1862)
The Struggles of Brown, Jones & Robinson (1862)
Rachel Ray (1863)
Miss Mackenzie (1865)
The Belton Estate (1866)
The Claverings (1867)
Nina Balatka (1867)
Linda Tressel (1868)
He Knew He Was Right (1869)
The Vicar of Bullhampton (1870)
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite (1871)
Ralph the Heir (1871)
The Golden Lion of Granpère (1872)
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874)
Lady Anna (1874)
The Way We Live Now (1875)
The American Senator (1877)
Is He Popenjoy? (1878)
John Caldigate (1879)
An Eye for an Eye (1879)
Cousin Henry (1879)
Ayala's Angel (1881)
Doctor Wortle's School (1881)
The Fixed Period (1882)
Kept in the Dark (1882)
Marion Fay (1882)
Mr. Scarborough's Family (1883)
The Landleaguers (1883)
An Old Man's Love (1884)


Chronicles of Barsetshire

✔The Warden (1855)
✔Barchester Towers (1857)
✔Doctor Thorne (1858)
✔Framley Parsonage (1861)
✔The Small House at Allington (1864)-6/3/20
✔The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)-10/29/21


Palliser novels

✔ Can You Forgive Her? (1865)
✔ Phineas Finn (1869)- 8/15/25
The Eustace Diamonds (1873)
Phineas Redux (1874)
The Prime Minister (1876)
The Duke's Children (1880)


Short stories

Tales of All Countries--1st Series (1861)
Tales of All Countries--2nd Series (1863)
"Gentle Euphemia" (1866)
"Katchen's Caprices" (1866)
Lotta Schmidt & Other Stories (1867)
An Editor's Tales (1870)
"Christmas at Kirkby Cottage" (1870)
"Never, Never -- Never, Never" (1875)
"Catherine Carmichael" (1878)
Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and other Stories (1882)
The Two Heroines of Plumpington (1882)
"Not If I Know It"


Non-fiction

The West Indies and the Spanish Main (1859)
North America (1862)
Hunting Sketches (1865)
Travelling Sketches (1866)
Clergymen of the Church of England (1866)
On English Prose Fiction as a Rational Amusement (1869)
The Commentaries of Caesar (1870)
Australia and New Zealand (1873)
New South Wales & Queensland (1874)
South Africa (1878)
How the 'Mastiffs' Went to Iceland (1878)
Iceland (1878)
Thackeray (1879)
Life of Cicero (1880)
Lord Palmerston (1882)
An Autobiography (1883)
London Tradesmen (1927)
The New Zealander (1972)


Plays

Did He Steal It? (1869)
The Noble Jilt (1923)

I'm slowly working my way through Dumas' works.

The Forty-Five Guardsmen- 1/22/19
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
The Black Tulip
Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois
Chicot the Jester
The Corsican Brothers
Twenty Years After 5/12/20
-4/18/22
The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas-4/18/22
The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas-6/22/25

Serialised Novels:

✔The Pickwick Papers (April 1836-November 1837)
✔The Adventures of Oliver Twist (February 1837 to April 1839)
✔The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (April 1838 to October 1839)
✔The Old Curiosity Shop (April 25, 1840 to February 6, 1841)-4/14/19
✔Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty' (February 13, 1841, to November 27, 1841) -8/1/20
✔The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (January 1843 to July 1844)- 11/26/21
Dombey and Son (October 1846 to April 1848)
David Copperfield (May 1849 to November 1850)
Bleak House (March 1852 to September 1853)
Hard Times: For These Times (April 1, 1854, to August 12, 1854)
Little Dorrit (December 1855 to June 1857)
A Tale of Two Cities (April 30, 1859, to November 26, 1859)
Great Expectations (December 1, 1860 to August 3, 1861)
Our Mutual Friend (May 1864 to November 1865)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (April 1870 to September 1870).

Christmas Books:

✔✔A Christmas Carol (1843) 2nd time-3/20/22
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books (OUP 2008)

Other Works in Penguin:

✔Sketches by Boz
American Notes for General Circulation
Selected Journalism, 1850-1870
Pictures from Italy
Selected Short Fiction

Collaborative Works/ Other Miscellany from Hesperus Press:

A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire
Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire
The Holly-Tree Inn
A House to Let
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
Mrs Lirriper
Mugby Junction
On London
On Theatre
On Travel
The Seven Poor Travellers
Somebody's Luggage
The Wreck of the Golden Mary
No Thoroughfare

I'm completely new here.... and haven't given this much thought... but I intend to read all of Edgar Allen Poe's works this year....
and I'm reading all of Dickens works in chronological order...next up is Nicholas Nickleby,
Also reading Trollope... but I'm only at #4...next up Framley Parsonage.
Also want to work on all Twain work's, E.F. Benson and Armistead Maupin.