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April 2018 Old School Poll
The Art of War by Sun Tzu -500, 273 pages
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 1886, 445 pages
Silas Marner by George Eliot 1861, 262 pages
The Misanthrope by Molière 1666, 64 pages
Germinal by Émile Zola 1895, 592 pages
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 1860, 579 pages
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 1862, 455 pages
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell 1848, 437 pages
Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis 1880, 236 pages
Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane 1894, 272 pages
Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas 1845, 542 pages
The Gilded Age by Mark Twain 1873, 528 pages
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George wrote: "For Catching Up With Classics Group: Having two books nominated by the same author no doubts causes them both to do more poorly in voting than if only one were nominated. This month we have two by..."
I agree. I was torn between the two Eliot novels as I am reading "Middlemarch" right now and want to read another of her novels when I am finished. I randomly chose "Mill on the Floss" but I would just as happily read "Silas Marner."
There's also two Gaskell's - and Wives and Daughters is in the long read poll as well! Quite the overlap this month.
Yes there is quite a bit of overlap this month. We don't limit nominations so there's always a possibility of having more than 1 book by an author progress to polls. We often point out when this has happened, but if people are happy to nominate and second anyway, then we progress with it. Though I do agree that it can split the voting, which seems a shame.
Having two books nominated by the same author no doubts causes them both to do more poorly in voting than if only one were nominated. This month we have two by George Eliot, one currently has 8 votes and the other 7. I think it would be best if we didn't allow a second book to be nominated by an author who has a book already nominated. You could argue that this is limiting but I think it would help authors who have a number of good books to get chosen more.
I'm just thinking of within a single poll, not all the polls for that month.