Classics Book Club discussion

Challenge 2010: A Little Diversity

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 gain a total of 30 points. If you read all 4 books, you achieve 50 points!!! This category requires that you address the following issues when you list your works:

1) What did you particularly like about the work?
2) What did you particularly dislike about the work?

Please comment as you read, and bring up ideas or questions. If others have read or are reading the same work, we can have some good discussions! ENJOY!!

1) Leopoldo García-Alas y Ureña (known as Clarín) (1852-1901) Spanish
The Regent’s Wife (1884-85)

2) Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) French
The Three Musketeers (1844)

3) Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) Russian
Fathers and Sons (1862)

4) Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish
The Picture of Dorian Gray (serialized, 1890; book form, 1891)

I bought The Picture of Dorian Gray a few weeks ago and have been meaning to read it! I will probably start reading that after I finish Mrs. Dalloway.

I read The Picture of Dorian Gray late last year. Interesting idea for a story written in that time period. I definately enjoyed the book, more than the movie.