Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke

75 pages

Group total: 46 758

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke

356p

group total: 47 114

581 pages Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison) 📖 ✅ 4* my review .

(47 114+581 = 47 695)

New group total: 47 695

The Odyssey (c. 700 BCE) by Homer (dates unknown). Started 29 January 2025, finished 12 February 2025. 541 pages. Group Total Pages Read: 541 + 47,695 = 48,236.

I just finished Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, it es a great :)

255 pages

Our group total is 48 491 pages.

How the West Was Won by Louis L'Amour

383 pages

Group total: 48 874

O Livro das Imagens by Rainer Maria Rilke

296 Pages

Group total: 49 170

As of 2/13/25



2/12/25 @ 182 pages
Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 1954

2/13/25 @ 249 pages
Persuasion by Jane Austen, 1817

(Pages Read: 431)

Group Total: 49,601

The Letters of Jane Austen
303p

group total: 49, 904

Juvenilia & Early Works by Jane Austen

261p

group total: 50 165

A Matemática Moderna by Irving Adler

199 Pages

group total: 50 364

Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster

194 pages

Group total: 50 558

’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King


439 pages

Group Total: 47,122

Group total is 50 997 pages.

1) Quarantine by Jim Crace 242 p
2) The Gentleman From San
Francisco and Other Stories
by Ivan Bunin 224 p
3) The Colour of Murder by
Julian Symons 254 p
4) Excuse Me! by Rupert Hughes 262 p
5) Oleanna by David Mamet 80 p
6) Initiation by Robert Hugh
Benson 456 p
7) The Iron Heel by Jack London 354 p
8) Headlong Hall by Thomas Love
Peacock 141 p
9) Noises Off by Michael Trayne 176 p
10) A Single Thread by Tracy
Chevalier 336 p
11) An Old Fashioned Girl by
Louisa May Alcott 288 p
12) Paul the Traveller by Ernle
Bradford 288 p
13) Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter
Naslund 668 p
14) The Sorrows of a Showgirl
by Kenneth McGaffey 77 p
15) No Holly for Miss Quinn
by Miss Read 148 p
16) The Answer is No by Richard
Backman 68 p
17) The Devil's Garden by WB
Maxwell 449 p

Total: 4865 pages
Previous Group Total: 50 997 pages

Current Group Total: 55 862 pages

Barchester Towers - 526 pages.

Thank you
Jenna

Group Total is 56, 388

Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by Robert Service

496 pages 15/02/25

Group total to date: 56,884

Beware of the Trains by Edmund Crispin

157 pages

Group total: 57 041

Orient Express by Graham Greene

197 pages

Group total; 46,880

Group total: 57 238

War and Peace 1024 pages

total = 58,262

The Soul of Man Under Socialism by Oscar Wilde, 48p

Group Total: 58,310

The Wit of Oscar Wilde by Sean Mc Cann, 192p

Group Total: 58,502

Estimating 420* pages The Jane Austen BBC Radio Drama Collection 📖 ✅3.5- 4* my review .

(58 502+420 = 58 922)

New group total: 58 922

*Each of the 6 dramas here runs 2 hours or just over, using the same calculation as before (where I’ve compared the abridged length of an audio book with its full length version, I’ve calculated 70 pages is 2 hours.

1984 by George Orwell - 339 pages

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - 384 pages

= 723 pages

Group total: 13,692

Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
p. 249



I think the group total is:
58,922 (message 176) + 723 (message 177) + 249 (this message)

Group: 59,894

Thanks, Michelle.

Time Regained by Marcel Proust

784 pages

Group total: 60,678

Gosto disto aqui by Kingsley Amis

192 Pages

Group total: 60, 870

Flowers for Algeron by Daniel Keyes

311 pages

Group total: 61 181

Silver Canyon

pages 164


total = 61,345

Emily of Deep Valley by Maud Hart Lovelace

339 pages

Group total: 61 684

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

146 pages

Group total: 61,830

Confessions by St. Augustine

485 pages

Group Total: 62,315

There Are Crimes and Crimes by August Strindberg
76 pages

Group total: 62 391

The Glass-Blowers Daphne du Maurier 368p
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 801p

Group total: 63 560

Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
480p

group total 64 040

Fogos by Raymond Carver

256 Pages

group total: 64 296

Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster 249 pages

64,296 + 256 = 64,552

Chocky by John Wyndham - 164 pgs

The Angel at the Grave by Edith Wharton - 34 pgs

Before the Party by W. Somerset Maugham - 47 pgs

Mr. Know-All by W. Somerset Maugham - 28 pgs

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie - 291 pgs

Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp - 273 pgs

The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 250 pgs

Unexpected Night by Elizabeth Daly - 180 pgs

The Secret Search by E.R. Punshon - 227 pgs

Cécile is Dead by Georges Simenon - 192 pgs

The Sea-Gull by Anton Chekhov - 58 pgs

The Ten Teacups by John Dickson Carr - 264 pgs

The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope - 481 pgs

Total to Date: 67,041 pgs

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

254 pages. 19/02/25

Group Total to Date : 67,295

Wild Wales by George Borrow

602 pages

Group total: 67 897

180 pages You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (Alice Walker) 📖 ✅ 4.5* my review .

(67 897+180 = 68 077)

New group total: 68 077

The Bell by Iris Murdoch

368 pages

Group total: 68,445

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 by Milton Sanford Mayer



346 pages

Group total: 68,791

We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)
The Lottery (1948)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Rebecca (1938)
And Then There Were None (1939)

New Group Total (68791+1465)=70256

Flush 120 pages
The Flowers of Evil 495 pages
Notes from the Underground 143 pages
Dubliners 207 pages
The Stranger 144 pages
The Waste Land 22 pages
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso 880 pages

New Group Total (70 256 + 2011) = 72 267

O’ Pioneers by Willa Cather

173 pages

Thank you

Jenna