Please link your reviews for your 19th Century Classic here. This is only for the 19th Century Classic category. All books in this category must have been published from 1800 to 1899. If you do not have a blog, or somewhere public on the internet where you post book reviews, please write your mini-review/thoughts in the comments section. If you like, you can include the name of your blog and/or the title of the book in your link, like this: "Karen K. @ Books and Chocolate (Bleak House)."
I read several short fairy stories by George MacDonald including Phantastes and At the Back of the North Wind.
ReplyDeleteTwo of the stories from this collection, I've 'moved' to count towards the Children's Book category.
DeleteWives & Daughters. I didn't know it was "unfinished". In spite of that I liked it very much. First time reading Gaskell.
ReplyDelete"Ramona" by Helen Hunt Jackson was an enthralling read. I found that I was woefully ignorant about the aftermath of the Mexican-American War, so not only was it absorbing to read, I added to my education too.
ReplyDeleteI read Wuthering Heights and I liked it.
ReplyDeleteI found 'Northanger Abbey' a beautiful and heart wrenching romance. I absolutely enjoyed it!
ReplyDeleteI read A Tale of Two Cities. Wonderful doppelganger and French Revolution yarn!
ReplyDeleteHi Karen - I accidently linked to my Back to the Classics page instead of my review of The Eustace Diamonds, which is here: https://janegs.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-eustace-diamonds-anthony-trollope.html
ReplyDeleteSorry for the hassle - not sure if this is fixable :)
No worries, I can delete the first one!
DeleteI am a high school English teacher and would like to use this challenge as a summer reading challenge for my high school students and staff. May I have your permission to use what you have put together here for my own school? I love it, and while it is too late for me to join, I am hoping I can "steal" what you have done here. Thank you for your consideration.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea for summer reading, please help yourself! If you need more suggestions you can go back and search the blog postings, I change the categories every year, though the first four remain the same (and POC author is now a permanent category also). I took this challenge over 8 years ago and every year it's really fun to come up with new categories. There are also lots of online challenges by other bloggers and libraries. Some use bingo-type challenges which are also really fun. Good luck with the summer reading!
DeleteI've just finished Oliver Twist - I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would, although it didn't half go on a bit in the middle!
ReplyDeleteGoing to go ona posting spree - but here was the link for the first challenge
ReplyDeleteSorry, I also linked my review wrong. I have relinked it correctly! If you could delate the incorrect oen
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