Long-Term Projects

The Classics Club

Hosted by Jillian.

Start Date – 3/10/12
End date – 3/10/17

Rereads

1. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
2. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
4. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
5. Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
6. We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson
7. The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
8. Howl - Allen Ginsberg
9. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead – Tom Stoppard
10. Hamlet – Shakespeare
11. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Edward Albee

Poetry

1. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas - Dylan Thomas
2. The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats – W. B. Yeats
3. T. S. Eliot: Collected Poems, 1909-1962 - T. S. Eliot
4. H. D.: Collected Poems 19-12-1944 – H. D.
5. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes - Langston Hughes
6. Birthday Letters – Ted Hughes
7. Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
8. Ariel: The Restored Edition – Sylvia Plath
9. The Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay - Edna St. Vincent Millay
10. Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams) - William Carlos Williams
11. Selected Poems - Gwendolyn Brooks

Prose

Pre-1700

1. The Illiad – Homer
2. The Odyssey - Homer
3. Something by Shakespeare
4. Historia verderdera de la conquista de la Nueva España - Bernal Díaz del Castillo

1700s

1. The Monk – Matthew Lewis
2. A Vindication of the Rights of Man - Mary Wollstonecraft
3. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker – Tobias Smollett
5. The Mysteries of Uldolpho - Ann Radcliffe

1800s

1. Emma - Jane Austen
2. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
3. The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson – Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
5. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
6. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
7. The Origins of Species - Charles Darwin
8. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
9. Tess of the D’Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
10. The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11. The Haunted House – Charles Dickens et. al.
12. The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
13. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court - Mark Twain
14. Shank’s Mare (Tokaidochu Hizakurige) - Ikku Jippensha and Sadakazu Shigeta
15. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
16. The Lost World - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
17. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
18. Los pazos de Ulloa - Emilia Pardo Bazán

1900s

1. I Am A Cat - Natsumi Soseki
2. Respiración artificial - Ricardo Piglia
3. Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
4. Dust Tracks on A Road: An Autobiography – Zora Neale Hurston
5. Gigi - Collette
6. La muerte de Artemio Cruz - Carlos Fuentes
7. El aleph – Jorge Luis Borges
8. Woman in the Dunes – Kobo Abe
9. Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids - Kenzaburo Oe
10. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
11. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway
12. Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
13. The Painted Veil – W. Somerset Maugham
14. The Razor’s Edge - W. Somerset Maugham
15. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
16. The Waves - Virginia Woolf
17. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
18. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
19. A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf
20. O, Pioneers! - Willa Cather
21. My Ántonia - Willa Cather
22. Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
23. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
24. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier