Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

The Princess Bride by William Goldman


364 pages

Total to date: 401,729

2,019 pgs
40 The Ugly Duckling Hans Christian Andersen

32 Miss Nelson Is Missing! Harry Allard

80 The Duck and the Owl Hanna Johansen

36 Chick and Chickie Play All Day! Claude Ponti

25 Ernest and Celestine Gabrielle Vincent

256 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare

32 Mister Magnolia Quentin Blake

32 Mr. Archimedes' Bath. Pamela Allen
132 Stuart Little E.B. White

134 The Cricket in Times Square George Selden

116 Sounder William H. Armstrong

189 Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 Edward William Cole

152 Seven Little Australians Ethel Turner

32 Possum Magic Mem Fox

151 Hey, Dollface Deborah Hautzig

384 Farmer Boy Laura Ingalls Wilder

196 Der silberne Jaguar Hermann Schulz



New group total=403,748

The new group total is 406,167

Fyodor Dostoevsky-Notes from Underground



126 pages

Total: 406,293

A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey
207 pages

Group total: 406 500

The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust


640 pages

Group total: 407 140

The Wall by Marlen Haushofer

244 Pages

Group total: 407 384

Angel by Elizabeth Taylor


272 pages

Total to date: 407,656

A Revolta de Maio em França by Jean-Paul Sartre

119 Pages

Total to date: 407,775

A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey


243 pages - 15/09/23

Total to Date : 408,018

Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm


252 pages

Total to date: 408,270

Origins Of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt


703 Pages

Total to date: 408,973

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell - (09/16/23)

Pages: 1037

Total Group Pages: 410,010

Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse

322 pages

Group total: 410,332 pages

The House in Parisby Elizabeth Bowen

287 pages

Group Total 410,619

A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul

623 pages

Group Total: 411,242

The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley

221 pages

Group Total: 411,463

Selected Short Stories by Virginia Woolf

160 pages

Group total: 411,623 pages

The Spiral Staircase by Ethel Lina White


256 pages

Group total: 411,879

Piyangie wrote: "Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse

322 pages

Group total: 410,332 pages"

My personal favorite of all Hesse's works.

Victory by Joseph Conrad

414 pages

Group total: 412,293

Sobre a Ilíada by Rachel Bespaloff

87 Pages

Group total: 412,380

Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals by Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney

439 pgs

Group total: 412,819

The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey


231 pages - 20/09/23

Total to date: - 413,050

Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead by Milan Kundera

48 pages - 21/09/23

Giacomo Joyce by James Joyce

42 pages - 21/09/23

Total to date : - 413,140

Death Has Deep Roots: A Second World War Mystery by Michael Gilbert

288 pages

Group total: 413 428

A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer - 426 pgs


Anne of Green Gables - 299 pgs

The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White - 242 pgs


Skin and Other Stories by Roald Dahl - 219 pgs


The Death of Mr. Lomas by Francis Vivian - 234 pgs


Secrets Can't be Kept by E.R. Punshon - 215 pgs


The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame - 188 pgs


Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde - 56 pgs

The Saint-Fiacre Affair by Georges Simenon - 160 pgs


Total to Date: 415,467 pgs

Mort d'un Personnage by Jean Giono

183 Pages

Total to Date: 415,650 pgs

2,832 pages
127 pages Rabbit Hill
185 The Peppermint Pig
193 Tom Brown's School Days
192 Half Magic
240 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
160 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
49 Christmas at Longtime
64 McBroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm: Three Tall Tales
41 Perez The Mouse
40 Mog the Forgetful Cat
32 The Tiger Who Came to Tea
32 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
48 The Sea-Thing Child
32 Gracie Meets a Ghost
40 The Three Robbers
32 Garth Pig and the ice cream lady
190 ドラえもん 1 Doraemon 1
183 A Wizard of Earthsea
29 The Emperor's New Clothes
277 The Jungle Book
306 Gulliver's Travels
192 The Children of Green Knowe
148 My Naughty Little Sister




418,482--New group total

January by Sara Gallardo

114 pages

418,596 - new group total

Fortunata and Jacinta by Benito Pérez Galdós
841 pages

New group total: 419,437

Pigmalião by George Bernard Shaw

160 pages

New group total: 419,597

The Good Shepherd by C.S. Forester - published 1955

335 pages

New group total: 419,932

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

901 pages

New group total: 420,833

comprendre la mathématique moderne by Paul E Gennart

250 Pages

New group total: 421,083

Pátria, lugar de exílio by Daniel Filipe

88 Pages

New group total: 421,171

The Princess Bride by William Goldman


317 pages

New group total: 422 034

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - published July 12, 1973

296 pages

New group total:- 422,330

Mike wrote: "The Princess Bride by William Goldman


317 pages

New group total: 422 034"

I guess the total number of pages is wrong. Forgive me if I'm mistaken!

The Last Days by Raymond Queneau 250 pages

The Freelands by John Galsworthy 288 pages

Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima 224 pages

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner 36 pages

The Boy Who Wrote Poetry by Yukio Mishima 11 pages

The Invisible Collection / Buchmendel by Stefan Zweig 96 pages

Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera 288 pages

Group total : 384,010

Davy Crockett by Enid LaMonte Meadowcroft

96 Pages

Group total : 480,01

The total in message 1042 is incorrect and should read 384,106

by Anthony Trollope
672 pages
384,106 + 672 = 384, 778

Frankenstein. Mary Shelley 380 pages
Le Quatuor d’Alexandrie. Lawrence Durrell 1029 pages
Le Rêve. Emile Zola. 254 pages
The Bad Seed. William March 226 pages
The Journey to the East. Hermann Hesse 124 pages

Total: 2013

2013 + 384,778= 386,791

There was a problem of total from msg 1038. And then there got a huge miscalculation.

421,171 Was the last correct total
then Mike's 317
Kim's 296
Then aik's 250+288+224+36+11+96+288
Luis' 96
Karim's 672
Lorraine's 2013

421,171+ 317+296+ 250+288+224+36+11+96+288+96+672+2013

New grand total corrected = 425,758

The Bibliophile Doctor wrote: "There was a problem of total from msg 1038. And then there got a huge miscalculation.

421,171 Was the last correct total
then Mike's 317
Kim's 296
Then aik's 250+288+224+36+11+96+288
Luis' 96
Kar..."
I should have checked farther back!

Karin wrote: "The Bibliophile Doctor wrote: "There was a problem of total from msg 1038. And then there got a huge miscalculation.

421,171 Was the last correct total
then Mike's 317
Kim's 296
Then aik's 250+28..."

That's okay. I noticed it so corrected it. It can happen with anyone. No worries.

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann


142 pages

Total to date: 425,900

Karin wrote: "The total in message 1042 is incorrect and should read 384,106

by Anthony Trollope
672 pages
384,106 + 672 = 384, 778"

Thank you, Karin.

The Bibliophile Doctor wrote: "There was a problem of total from msg 1038. And then there got a huge miscalculation.

421,171 Was the last correct total
then Mike's 317
Kim's 296
Then aik's 250+288+224+36+11+96+288
Luis' 96
Kar..."

Thank you so much!

Our current group total is:

425 900 pages