Challenges 2012: Classics

(titles in italics are intended. Linked titles are to reviews)

Back to the Classics:

19th Century classic: Les Miserables

20th Century classic: I Capture the Castle

classic re-read:

classic play:

classic mystery/horror/crime novel: The Final Problem

a classic romance:

a translated classic: The Phantom of the Opera

classic award winner:

classic set in a country that I will not realistically visit during my lifetime: 20,000 Leagues under the Sea

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen:

King Solomon’s Mines

Dracula

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Picture of Dorian Grey

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Invisible Man

The Phantom of the Opera

The Final Problem

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen film

A Classics Challenge: 7 classics, of which up to 3 may be re-reads

The Picture of Dorian Grey

Dracula

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Victorian Challenge: 2-6 Victorian books/film adaptations – I’m limiting myself to British authors only

May: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Final Problem

July: Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Grey

King Solomon’s Mines, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Films: The Young Victoria, Her Majesty Mrs. Brown

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