Classics Book Club discussion

Challenge 2010: Scandalous Works

This category is worth a total of 50 points. You must read at least 3 of the 4 works listed in order to achieve any points. If you complete 3 books, you receive a total of 30 points. If you read all 4 works, you receive 50 points!!! This category also requires that you address the following questions when you list your works:

1) Why was this work considered scandalous at the time it was written?
2) Would this work be considered scandalous today? Why/Why not?

Please comment as you read…no doubt this category will offer lots of discussion. Have fun with this one!!!

1) Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) French
Madame Bovary (1857)

2) D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) British
Lady Chatterly’s Lover (finished in 1928, published in 1960)

3) John Cleland (1709-1789) British
Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749)

4) Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835- 1915) British
Lady Audley’s Secret (1862)

I've always wanted to read these books. So I'll join in on this one also. It will give me something to do over the summer.

Great! I'm thinking I'll do this challenge as well... these just look fun!

Yeah, there's nothing like a good scandalous book to read at night.

Hehe!! :)

Great! The more the merrier!