Back To The Classics 2012...My Choices

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I love doing this. I spent about ten days, researching what books I was going to read for Sarah's Back To The Classics 2012 Challenge and the judges came to a decision. I was the first to sign up but by far not the first to reveal the books I was going to read. It's with useless fanfare that I announce that my choice are...

*drums rolls*

19th Century Classic

H.G Wells -The Island Of Dr. Moreau (1896)
(I'm almost cheating here, but it is 19th century)

20th Century Classic

Carson McCullers - The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (1940)

Re-Reading of a Classic

Jack Kerouac - On The Road (1957)
(Read the French translation for a comparative study of the road narrative in the sixties, so now let's read the real thing)

A Classic Play

Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
(Toyed with the idea for years, NOW IT'S GONNA HAPPEN, GODDAMIT)

A Classic Mystery/Horror/Crime Fiction

Thomas Harris - Red Dragon (1981)
(It's kind of a concept with Smooth Criminals. You'll see next week)

A Classic Romance

Gaston Leroux - Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (1910)
(Yes, in French I will read)

A Translated Classic, from it's Original Language to Mine (French)


Yukio Mishima - Confession d'un Masque (1948)
(Wanted to get back to Mishima for a while now. This is the occasion)

Classic Award Winner

 John Irving - The World According to Garp 1978)
(National Book Award - 1980)

Classic Set in a Country I will never visit

J.M Coetzee - Waiting For The Barbarians (1980)
(BOOM! "The Empire", a fictional, nameless republic)

Nine classics I never had the gusto to read (well, eight). What do you think?