Kitty_Kittys Classically Challenged list

[kitty_kitty]

Here are some of the classic books i have on my TBR pile although some might not be read unitl we move as they are in storage.

April
Northanger Abbey- Jane Austen - 1818 - 10
The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe

TBR
Turn of the screw - Henry James
Emma - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Sense and sensibility -Jane Austen
Woman in white - Wilkie Collins
Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
Bleak House - Chales Dickins
A tale of 2 cities - Charles Dickens
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Vanity Fair - WM Thackeray
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
The great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly
The strange case of Jekyll and Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
In a glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

Audio Books
Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
The wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Irving Washington
A tale of two Cities - Charles Dickens
Villette - Charlotte Bronte

[Kell]

Ooh, we've got a couple of matching titles in our lists - I'll look forward to talking about them with you! Glad you've joined the challenge. :)

[JudyB]

There are quite a few on your list that I've read so I'll be interested to see how you enjoy them.

[kitty_kitty]

I nearly finished Northanger Abbey in a couple of sittings yesterday and i am really enjoying it too, i think it helps as they were on TV recently but i like to see the differences between the TV and the books.

I would have finished it but i had an arguement with OH and too mad to think!!

:motz: :irked:

[kitty_kitty]

Had a bath and finished Norhanger Abbey and i really enjoyed it, not too big a read either

[Kell]

Glad you enjoyed NA. Isn't it surprising how many classics aren't actually all that chunky? I always used to think of massive, hefty tomes when I thought of classic literature, but I'm reading Pride & Prejudice and it's less than 300 pages long, so nice and light to slip into my handbag.:D I'm also getting looks from people that look like they're saying, "smartypants!" at me with their eyes when they see I'm reading a classic, which I find rather funny! :lol:

[kitty_kitty]

I tend to leave them lying around so i look more intelligent!! Then they catch me talking to the cat or something or like friday running into picnic tables and the illusion is shattered

[kitty_kitty]

I am reading Mysteries of Udolpho and really enjoying but it gave me night terrors last night! Which is funny as i am used to reading really gory and scarey horror books too..........

[kitty_kitty]

I am struggling with Udolpho butr not because i am not enjoying rather like swimming through custard, hardwork but enjoyable.

I think it is because it is what i think of as a winter book, redaing it curled up with a nice glass of red wine, fire roaring and which ever pet i can bribe to snuggle with me

[JudyB]

I struggled with The Castle of Otranto and it's only 80 pages long. Not sure what the problem was - the writing wasn't easy but it didn't help that I kept nodding off every time I picked it up. I'm hoping that The Monk will hold my attention more when I come to read it.