Classics Club Spin #39

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 Hey it's that time again, my favorite time -- it's Spin time!  You know the rules, so here we go:

  1. No Name, by Wilkie Collins
  2. Second-Class Citizen, by Buchi Emecheta
  3. Ring of Bright Water, by Gavin Maxwell
  4. The Tale of Sinhue (ancient Egyptian poetry)
  5.  Eichmann in Jerusalem, by Hannah Arendt
  6.  Hunger, by Knut Hamsun
  7. Sybil, by Disraeli
  8. The Leopard, by di Lampedusa
  9.  Phineas Finn, by Anthony Trollope
  10.  The Obedience of a Christian Man, by William Tyndale
  11.  Sagas of Icelanders (aiming for 50% by the due date)
  12. The Well at the End of the World, by William Morris
  13. It is Acceptable (Det Gaar An), C. J. L. Almqvist 
  14. Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana
  15.  Amerika, by Kafka
  16. Peter the Great's African, by Pushkin
  17.  The Beggar's Opera, by John Gay
  18. The Nature of Things, by Lucretius
  19. Polyhistor Solinus
  20. Lives, by Plutarch (again, aiming for part, not the whole)

I'm still in a mood for ancient British literature, or at least something saga-ish or British, but there's not much like that left on my list, so I've aimed for the neighborhood.  Ring of Bright Water is sounding good, or The Well at the End of the World.   Anything that will not bring up the election!

The end date for this Spin is the 18th of December!

Comments

  1. reeseOctober 15, 2024 at 2:29 PM

    I thought both No Name & The Leopard were awfully good, but neither of them is exactly saga-ish.

    D&D dice strike again!

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    1. JeanOctober 16, 2024 at 7:15 AM

      They're my favorite color! My kids used to collect them, and although I've never been into D& D, I can't help loving the dice.

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  2. KellyOctober 16, 2024 at 1:30 PM

    I've been curious about William Morris, so I hope you get no. 12. Is he the same William Morris who was a designer?

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    1. JeanOctober 16, 2024 at 9:17 PM

      Yes, that's him! He did all sorts of things.

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  3. BronaOctober 17, 2024 at 3:16 PM

    No Name was one of my very early spins. I loved it so much I acquired a large number of Collins' backlist (of which I have only read one since!)
    Also curious about your Ancient Egyptian and Roman choices - I've been meaning to read The Nature of Things since highschool.

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    1. JeanOctober 19, 2024 at 2:36 PM

      My mom and I have a pile of old Collins books that somebody donated! They all look so fun -- and so long. I will never get to all of them. And I know as much about those Egyptian and Roman titles as you do -- because I've been meaning to read them forever too.

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  4. StaceyOctober 18, 2024 at 10:10 PM

    I'm very interested in reading both No Name and The Well at the End of the World. I love Icelandic sagas (as did William Morris - ha!) I am very slowly working my way through Plutarch's Lives. Great list - good luck with your spin!

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    1. JeanOctober 19, 2024 at 2:38 PM

      Thanks! Yep, me too. All I remember about the Well is that the knightly hero is named Sir Ralph, which sounds terrible to an American, but better if you remember that it's pronounced Rafe.

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