Back to the Classics 2014 challenge
Updated 1/2/14 Back to the Classics , hosted by Karen This is challenge is themed on books published during or prior to 1964. For some of the categories, I will be overlapping with other challenges (because I'm not terribly ambitious!), but there are new to-read books on this list that I'm also looking forward to. Required: ✓ A 20th Century Classic : The Castle (1926, Kafka). Alternative: 1984 (1949, Orwell) or The Great Gatsby (1925) The Old Man and the Sea (1952, Hemingway) ✓ A 19th Century Classic : The Masterpiece (1886), Zola Lord Jim (1899 – 1900, Conrad) A Classic by a Woman Author : A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft) ✓ A Classic in Translation : The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky) A Wartime Classic : For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway) - Spanish Civil War A Classic by an Author Who Is New To You : Beneath the Wheel (Hesse) - subject to change, t...