Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

Lark Rise To Candleford by Flora Thompson - published 1945 as trilogy

537 pages

Group total 505,208

Hag's Nook by John Dickson Carr

161 Pages

Group total: 505 369

The First Man by Albert Camus (written by Camus prior to his death in 1960, but never completed; published posthumously in 1995). I assume this is okay to use?

325 pages

Group total 505,694

32 The Happy Prince
18 The Nightingale And The Rose
117 Perrault's Fairy Tales
176 Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
588 The Fairy Tales Of Madame d'Aulnoy
233 I Am the Cheese
244 The Mouse and His Child
204The Dutch Twins
472 Robinson the Younger
208 Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno
176 Stig of the Dump

Group total==508,162

ForestGardenGal wrote: "The First Man by Albert Camus (written by Camus prior to his death in 1960, but never completed; published posthumously in 1995). I assume this is okay to use?

325 pag..."

It certainly is.

La Jangada: Huit cent lieues sur l'Amazone (Classiques) by Jules Verne

416 pages

Group total: 508 578

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (1945)

181 pages

Group total: 508,759

Poésies by Stéphane Mallarmé

190 Pages

Group total: 508,949

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
424 pages

Celephais by H.P. Lovecraft
10 pages
Group total: 509 388

For this challenge, we use the original publishing date of a work. If the work is published posthumously, then the date when the work was written applies. There are other special cases for banned books that couldn't be published when they were first written, so in that case the year when they were written is what counts.

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster

46 pages

Group total: 509,434

Chocky by John Wyndham

153 pages

Group total: 509 587

Inside Earth by Poul Anderson

56 pages

Group total: 509 643

A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes

151 pages

group total: 509 794

A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh

188 pages

Group Total: 509 982

They Called Me Number One by Bev Sellars

227 pages

Group total 510,209

To Serve Them All My Days by R.F. Delderfield



672 pages

510,209 + 672 = 5,10,881

Group total 5,10,881

The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



182 pages

5,10,881 + 182 = 5,11,063

Group total 5,11,063

The Conference of the Birds by Attar of Nishapur



384 pages

Group total 5,11,447

The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy



125 pages

5,11,447 + 125 = 5,11,572

Group total 5,11,572

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust



533 pages

5,11,572 + 533 = 5,12,105

Group total 5,12,105

Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata



147 pages

5,12,105 + 147 = 5,12,252

Group total 5,12,252

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri



704 pages

5,12,252 + 704 = 5,12,956

Group total 5,12,956

The Cowards by Josef Škvorecký

416 pages

Group total: 513 372

I forgot this!

Transit by Anna Seghers

272 pages

Group Total: 513,644

King, Queen, Knave by Vladimir Nabokov 275 pages

The Reivers by William Faulkner 305 pages

A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe 704 pages

Group total: 514,928

Noé by Jean Giono

379 pages

Group total: 515,307

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
177p
group total: 515,484

The Small House at Allington
695 pp

Group total: 515,484 + 695= 516,179

Iphigénie by Jean Racine

160 pages

Group total: 516,339

(I've made a request, already, for a group where I'm in, for the correct number of pages of the book.)

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

601 pages

Group total: 516,940

Dubliners by James Joyce 207 pages

Stoner by John Williams 288 pages

Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis 313 pages

Group total: 517,748

Finally adding short stories I've been reading:
A Reversible Santa Claus - by Meredith Nicholson 85 pages
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding: a Hercule Poirot Short Story by Agatha Christie 33 pages
darn, one isn't on GR!
The Butler’s Christmas Eve by Mary Roberts Rinehart--no pages listed here, so I'll put in how many they were in this large and crowded book! 7 pages
Dancing Dan's Christmas by Damon Runyon 18 pages
The Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing by Thomas Hardy 19 pages

= 162 pages

162 + 517,748= 517,810 group total

The Autobiography of Ben Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

270 pages

Group Total = 518,080

Sadly, some of these classic Christmas mysteries I'm reading don't appear in book form or else in pairs/anthologies only--one author isn't even on GR--so I'll just post what I can find. I just wanted to help increase our page count, but c'est la vie.

Last night I read 7 classic short stories and only one is in book form by itself!

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story by Arthur Conan Doyle 72 pages

Group total = 518,152

Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington


274 pages

Group total: 518,426

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

107 pages

Group total: 518,533

Uppingham by the Sea: A Narrative of the Year at Borth by John Huntley Skrine

93 pages

Soldier Folk by Ambrose Bierce

20 pages

Group total: 518 646

Ball of Fat Short-story by Guy de Maupassant 38 pages

To a God Unknown John Steinbeck 240 pages

Group Total: 518 924

The Town by Conrad Richter


433 pages

Group total: 519,357

adding 2,181
513🦌The Yearling
219.🦉The Owl Service
288.👀The Long Secret
143🦊Tales of Uncle Remus
18👙"The Adventure of a Reader,” by Italo Calvino
248.🐝The Adventures of Maya the Bee
96🐺Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf
272😺Celia, lo que dice
32💐Babylon
208👑The Prisoner of Zenda
144😨Talking In Whispers

Group total==521,538

Giants in the Earth by O.E. Rølvaag

531 pages

Group Total: 522,069

Cover Her Face by PD James

250 Pages

Group total: 522,319

Some Haunted Houses by Ambrose Bierce

27 pages

Group total: 522 346

The Lurking Fear: Collected Short Stories Volume 4 by H.P. Lovecraft

272 pages

Group total: 522,618

Yasunari Kawabata The Rainbow

214p
group total 522,832 pages

Ghost Stories by Henry James - 344 pages (the version I read)

Group total: 523 176 pages

The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy - 792 pages

Group total: 523 968 pages

Persuasão by Jane Austen - 257 pages

Group Total: 524 225 pages

Le Bonheur fou by Jean Giono

608 Pages

Group Total: 524 833 pages