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Tag Archives: Classics Club Strikes Back
Visiting with Huey on the Mississippi
Good morning from the Mississippi river. For the last few days I’ve been in Natchez, enjoying the sights of a rare southern town that has not lost its soul to Progress: its city streets are marked by people and shops, not … Continue reading
My Name is Asher Lev
How to describe My Name is Asher Lev? The book opens with Asher himself describing himself as an apostate, a traitor, a mocker — and yet the reader will find no cruel intentions here, only a young man struggling with … Continue reading
Paradiso
Paradiso© trans. 2007 Anthony Esolen, original 14th century by Dante Alighieri544 pages including notes & appendices I’ve gotta hand it to Dante, at least the character Dante. I though I’d fallen hard for a woman, but against him there is … Continue reading
Purgatorio
Purgatorio© 14th century Dante Alighieri, translated 2004 by Anthony Esolen544 pages, including appendices and notes Seven years ago I descended into hell with Dante and his guide, Virgil, and after that arduous descent into a valley of desolation and … Continue reading
My Ántonia
My Ántonia© 1918 Willa Cather175 pages An orphaned young boy and a young girl from another country arrive together in the Nebraska prairie, forging a friendship from their shared status as strangers in a new land despite their difficulties … Continue reading
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Tagged American West, Classics Club, Classics Club Strikes Back, Willa Cather
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Persuasion
Persuasion© 1817 Jane Austen249 pages Persuasion is the story of a young couple broken apart by the young woman (Anne’s) family convincing her that her beau doesn’t have enough money or social standing to be a good match for her. … Continue reading
August 2022 in Review
It’s…er, been a while since I did a monthly update. Science Survey Doing well! The science survey for 22 is completed, with sixteen titles fulfilling my twelve categories. I’d like to finish the year with at least 20 science titles, … Continue reading
Ten Years of the Classics Club
The Classics Club recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary, and posed some questions to its readers. I began participating in 2015, wrapping up my first list in 2020 and starting a new one weeks later. My original plan with the Classics … Continue reading
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby© F. Scott Fitzgerald It is interesting how the passage of years can suddenly alter a reader’s take on a given book. Take The Great Gatesby, for instance, which I read in early college and was so underwhelmed by that … Continue reading
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Tagged "classic", 1920s, American Literature, Classics Club Strikes Back, F Scott Fitzgerald
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Mephisto
Mephisto© 1936 Klaus Mann272 pages I was fortunate, in my time at the University, to have a class with my favorite professor every semester that I was there; he had an enormous command of late 19th century and early 20th … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920s, 1930s, arts-entertainment, Classics Club Strikes Back, Germany, lit in translation, Nazi, WW2
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