Classics Project 2011

Sasha from Sasha & the Silverfish came up with this project called the “Classics Project 2011”: reading 50 NYRB Classics and 25 Oxford World’s Classics by December of 2011. In a fit of insanity I decided to join her.

Her reason? She was desperate to have more classics in her life.
Mine? Somewhat similar.

I always say I love reading classics, but when I think about it, I have not read all that many. That is about to change. Or so I hope.

After dreaming up several versions of wishlists, I am now all ready to go. With some changes of my own, that is. First, I will be unable to read 75 classics in a year, let alone buy them. So I am going to go for “as many classics as I can”. Second, since I am in Sweden until the end of 2010, I will be cheating a little. I own a few books by both publishers, but I am also reading e-book versions of the books until I get back home. I will, of course, still end up buying the books.

For a quick overview of the books I have read and written about, you can always use the tags NYRB-project and OWC-project, or click the image in the sidebar of this blog.

So here goes:

Oxford World’s Classics

1. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
2. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
4. Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady’s Entrance Into the World – Frances Burney
5. Memoirs of Emma Courtney – Mary Hays
6. A Vindication of The Rights of Woman – Mary Wollstonecraft
7. A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen
8. Belinda – Maria Edgeworth
9. My Antonia – Willa Cather
10. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories – Robert Louis Stevenson
11. Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus – Mary Shelley

NYRB Classics

1. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
2. The Ten Thousand Things – Maria Dermoût
3. A Way of Life, Like Any Other – Darcy O’Brien
4. The Dud Avocado – Elaine Dundy
5. Between the Woods and the Water – Patrick Leigh Fermor
6. The Vet’s Daughter – Barbara Comyns
7. A Time To Keep Silence – Patrick Leigh Fermor

Persephone Classics

1. High Wages – Dorothy Whipple
2. Consequences – E.M. Delafield
3. No Surrender – Constance Maud

Virago Modern Classics

1. Elizabeth and Her German Garden – Elizabeth von Arnim

Bloomsbury Group Books

1. Henrietta’s War – Joyce Dennys

Girl Ebooks

1. The Coquette – Hannah Webster Foster
2. Heidi – Johanna Spyri

Other

1. The Moorland Cottage – Elizabeth Gaskell
2. Max Havelaar – Multatuli
3. Dimanche and Other Stories – Irène Némirovsky