#My Name is Lucy Barton
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You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how many things the mind cannot will itself to do, even if it wants to.
Elizabeth Strout, My Name is Lucy Barton
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"We all love imperfectly."
— Elizabeth Strout, My Name is Lucy Barton
#literature#quote#reading#writing#book#novel#author#writer#books#elizabeth strout#my name is lucy barton#art#artist#illustration#black and white art#love#imperfection#passion#couple#embrace#flowers
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From Elizabeth Strout’s My Name is Lucy Barton
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Lucy By the Sea (and My Name is Lucy Barton)
I had brunch with S. recently where she reminded me of the amazing-ness of Elizabeth Strout. So I promptly ordered My Name is Lucy Barton and Lucy by the Sea. In no small part because of my own L. Minor hiccup about 2/3rds into My Name is Lucy Barton when I realized I’d already read it, but no matter, it was a good refresher before Lucy takes to the sea.
And off she goes at the start of the…
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How, for example, do you learn that it is impolite to ask a couple why they have no children? How do you set a table? How do you know if you are chewing with your mouth open if no one has ever told you? How do you even know what you look like if the only mirror in the house is a tiny one high above the kitchen sink, or if you have never heard a living soul say that you are pretty, but rather, as your breasts develop, are told by your mother that you are starting to look like one of the cows in the Pedersons’ barn?
- My Name is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout
#booker prize#bookish quotes#dark and twisty#feminist literature#literary fiction#book quotes#my name is lucy barton
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Read of My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (2016) (191pgs)
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Title: My Name Is Lucy Barton | Author: Elizabeth Strout | Publisher: Penguin (2016)
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Lucy Barton is a more self-aware Elena Greco change my mind
#both writers#both grew up poor in abusive environments#both married the first stable guy they got into a relationship with as a way out of those environments#then both left their stable dudes when they realized they didn't love them#elizabeth strout#elena ferrante#neapolitan novels#my name is lucy barton
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Books Read in April 2022
The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage
I absolute loved the 2021 film adaptation of this so I decided to give the book a shot. It’s interesting because while a lot of the scenes from the film are in the book the book has a more expanse universe and contains lots of side characters that are given POV sections in the book. A really great look at an admirable, but cruel man, and how love and gentleness can win out against harshness (sort of and in a twisted way).
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
I really love Strout’s Olive series so she’s a writer I’ve tried to keep coming back to. My Name is Lucy Barton is done in her usual genteel sort of manner where it’s a book that isn’t very grand to describe but I felt really touched me deeply. The book is narrated by Lucy Barton who not only grew up extremely poor but with dysfunctional and abusive parents. The bulk of the book takes place in the 1980s when she is mysteriously sick and stuck in the hospital and her husband convinces her mom to visit her even though they are semi-estranged. In glimpses you get to understand their odd relationship and the nature of the abuse that took place. There are also some asides as to the sort of person Lucy Barton became and how she started writing and became an author which feel kind of like wink’s to the audience with Strout kind of getting meta on what it’s like to be someone who writes “women’s literature”. Anyway I very much liked this one but maybe wouldn’t recommend it as a first Strout novel.
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes
Grateful to my local librarians for this one. Had never heard of this but it was part of a display for Earth day and I do so love bees so the book had me seduced from the title alone.
The book is a memoir with real cottage core vibes. It depicts a year in Jukes’ life when she moved from London to Oxford to a job she really hated. While in London Jukes had befriend an apiarist and while at Oxford and lonely she decided she might want to keep a hive of her own and was surprised when her friends purchased her one. The book is sprinkled with her own research on the history of apiary and research into bees as well as subtle observations on the painful disconnect between being a citydweller and humans relationship with nature.
This isn’t an amazing book but it’s a very gentle and good read, sort of like a cup of warm tea.
#The Power of the Dog#My Name is Lucy Barton#Thomas Savage#Elizabeth Strout#currently reading#A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings#Helen Jukes
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Broadway Divas Tournament: Round 2A
Laura Linney (1964)
"LAURA LINNEY (Diana) Broadway credits include My Name is Lucy Barton (Tony nom. dir. Richard Eyre): The Little Foxes (Tony nom.) Time Stands Still (Tony nom.) and Sight Unseen (Tony nom.) all directed by Daniel Sullivan at MTC. Other credits include Les Liaisons Dangereauses, The Crucible (Tony nom.), Uncle Vanya, Hedda Gabler, Honour, Holiday, The Seagull, Beggars in the House of Plenty, Six Degrees of Separation. Television credits: "Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City," "Ozark" (SAG, Emmy nom), "The Big C" (Emmy, Golden Globe Awards), "John Adams" (SAG, Golden Globe, Emmy Awards), "Frasier" (Emmy Award), "Wild Iris" (Emmy Award), "The Laramie Project," "Tales of the City" trilogy. Film: Falling, The Dinner, Nocturnal Animals, Sully, Sympathy for Delicious, Morning, The Details, The Savages (Oscar nom), Kinsey (Oscar nom), You Can Count on Me (Oscar nom), The Other Man, City of Your Final Destination, The Squid and the Whale, Jindabyne, Love Actually, Mystic River, The Nanny Diaries, Breach, Man of the Year, The Hottest State, Driving Lessons, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, P.S., The Life of David Gale, The Mothman Prophecies, Maze, The House of Mirth, The Truman Show, Absolute Power, Primal Fear, Congo, Lorenzo's Oil, Dave. Training: The Julliard School, Brown University. Member: AEA, SAG." - Playbill bio from Summer, 1976, June 2023.
Audra McDonald (1970)
"AUDRA MCDONALD (Suzanne Alexander) is honored to take part in Adrienne Kennedy's historic and long overdue Broadway debut. A board member of Covenant House International and co-founder of Black Theatre United, McDonald is a singer, actor, and activist who lives in New York with her amazing husband and children." - Playbill bio from Ohio State Murders, December 2022.
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"Do you ever think Laura Linney reads her playbill bio and cries? Does she dream of the day when she too will hold a Tony Award aloft in triumph, or has she resigned herself to being one of four actresses with the biggest fail rate and will one day hold the record outright? (Given that Estelle Parsons is in her nineties, Dana Ivey is in her eighties, and Jan Maxwell, my beloved, is dead?) Anyway, the point of this isn't to rub salt in the wound. Love you, Laura Linney."
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"It's too mean to title this poll Biggest Tony Winner vs. Biggest Tony Loser but it's pretty damn accurate, and given the overwhelming whiteness of award shows overall, it's damn satisfying that the Black woman is the one with a record-breaking Tonys on her shelf and the white blonde woman is not (no matter how talented she is). Audra McDonald, my beloved, you're going to sweep this entire tournament."
#broadwaydivastournament#broadway divas#broadway#theatre#poll tournament#audra mcdonald#laura linney#round 2a#wait everyone hold the fuck on.#it's been five years and i just noticed audra specifically switched her fancy earrings for plain hoops for the bit
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I always think that Willoughby's present to Marianne being named Queen Mab is an early clue that he cannot be trusted.
"When you leave Barton to form your own establishment in a more lasting home, Queen Mab shall receive you.” (Ch 12)
Willoughby's fanciful horse name is most likely an allusion to Romeo & Juliet, taken from a speech of Mercutio's (quoting the relevant bits, find the whole speech here):
O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes...
And in this state she gallops night by night
Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;...
...This is that very Mab
That plats the manes of horses in the night,
And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,
Which once untangled, much misfortune bodes:
This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,
That presses them and learns them first to bear,
Making them women of good carriage:
This is she--
At the end of the speech, Mercurio warns that these dreams are not real:
True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air
And more inconstant than the wind
The sexual innuendo is unmistakable, but also the idea that love is only a dream and will not be constant.
The name is just too specific to not have meaning, at least in my opinion. Sense & Sensibility always seems like it's pointing to Romeo and Juliet to me. Marianne's Romeo proves false, but fortunately she, unlike Juliet, lives to love again. Many characters also come to believe that Edward & Lucy are star-crossed lovers. It's almost as if Sense & Sensibility is directly challenging the romantic notions, promoting second love and quiet devotion over the overwhelming passion and folly of youth of Romeo and Juliet.
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Favourite books of 2023
Ok, so I’ve done my favourite fics of the year post, but I have also read A LOT of books in 2023 (Goodreads has me at 114 and I KNOW it’s missing things because it’s rubbish at tracking rereads). Here are my ten faves, in order of what I saw first on my Goodreads ✌️:
A Marvellous Light, by Freya Marske. I read this 3 times in 2023, and am maybe possibly (definitely) trying to branch out from RWRB fic and write something for Robin and Edwin. No I have not yet read the last in the trilogy, but I will soon.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin
The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune
Open Water, by Caleb Azumah Nelson
The Trees, by Percival Everett
Come Again, by Robert Webb (yes, that Robert Webb)
By the Book, by Jasmine Guillory
I can’t pick only one, so: the entire Lucy Barton series by Elizabeth Strout
Carrie Soto is Back, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat, by Aubrey Gordon
Honourable mentions to these rereads, all books that I love: Circe, Call Me By Your Name, Check, Please! (1 and 2). And Red, White and Royal Blue lol.
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Welcome to the Layton NPC Showdown!
This is a bracket to determine which of the many memorable NPCs from across the Professor Layton games are the greatest.
GAMES INCLUDED: Every game except LBMR. Eternal Diva characters are also not included here.
WHAT COUNTS AS AN NPC?: Anyone who doesn't have a puzzle animation. Characters excluded are Layton, Luke, Flora, Clive, Emmy, Randall, Aurora, Des, Espella, Phoenix, Maya, Katrielle, Ernest, Sherl, Hastings, and Emiliana.
WILL THERE BE NOMINATIONS?: Nope! Every NPC will be included.
WHAT ABOUT THE LAYTONMOBILE/MOLENTARY EXPRESS?: No vehicles. Not characters.
WHAT ABOUT THE PUZZLE LADS/LASSES?: I only plan on including characters that we can speak to in-game, so no Puzzle Lads or Lasses. Sorry to the people who like them 😔
WHICH CHARACTERS ARE INCLUDED, THEN?: Anyone who isn't an exception listed above that is in the profiles of the game! A full list is enclosed below.
WHEN WILL THE TOURNAMENT START?: More information forthcoming on that! I have to seed the bracket first :)
WHY IS NAIYA YOUR ICON?: In my opinion, she's one of the more underrated NPCs of the series. I'll probably cycle through some of the ones I have available to me right now.
WHAT CRITERIA SHOULD I VOTE ON?: Whatever makes you happy :)
ARE ALTER EGOS SEPERATE CHARACTERS?: No. For instance, Ratman is not included because his secret identity is in the tournament.
US OR UK NAMES?: I will try to make available as many names for the NPCs as possible! Which includes their Japanese names and as many names in the localizations as I am able to obtain from the wiki and my own sources. I'll probably reliably have the English (both versions where applicable), Japanese, and French names for every character when I do the bracket rounds. The list below however is entirely in English.
And now for a list of the entries! I didn't check all of these for inconsistencies, but I attempted to ascertain that I used the US versions. Some of them might be UK versions though because that's the version of the game I have (specifically Diabolical Box NPCs and Last Specter NPCs -- I know some of their US names but not all).
Franco
Stachenscarfen
Ingrid
Percy
Marco
Ramon
Matthew
Lady Dahlia Reinhold
Gordon Reinhold
Simon Reinhold
Claudia
Beatrice
Deke
Agnes
Pauly
Crouton
Flick
Rodney
Chelmey
Lucy
Zappone
Gerard
Jarvis
Adrea
Pavel
Crumm
Prosciutto
Archibald
Sylvain
Martha
Giuseppe
Augustus Reinhold
Granny Riddleton
Don Paolo
Bruno
Andrew Schrader
Anton Herzen
Katia Anderson
Sophia
Mr. Anderson
Beluga
Sammy Thunder
Macaroon
Chester
Babette
Tom
Ilyana
Geoff
Garland
Nigel
Jacques
Barton
Grousley
Steve
Capone
Mitzi
Lili
Sally
Marjorie
Conrad
Karla
Romie
Dorothea
Clabber
Oscar
Nick
Gabe
Balsa
Wurtzer
Lopez
Laurel
Parcelle
Lulu
Albert
Madeline
Remy
Angus
Kostya
Dylan
Joseph
Rory
Lila
Damon
Felix
Niles
Duke
Hopper
Olson
Derby
Dawson
Joanie
Krantz
Grinko
Marina
Opal
Ray
Gregorio
Narice
Gertie
Hamster
Precious
Winston
Claire
Dimitri Allen
Bill Hawks
Spring
Cogg
Dean Delmona
Shipley
Puzzlette
Beasley
Parrot
Subject 3
Bostro
Family Goon
Lockjaw
Splinters
Marzano
Layman
Fisheye
Silky
Shmelmey
Shmarton
Ward
Smith
Florence
Vito
Art
Niklaus
Anita
Alfie
Hazel (UF)
Adeline
Max
Becky
Margaret
Pallard
Dupree
Natalia
Harold
Horace
Hardy
Cuthbert
Segal
Catanova
Rosetta
Colby
Rudolph
Misha
Dylan
Viv
Pepper
Checker
Avogadro
Maya (UF)
Myrtle
Belle
Graham
Slate
Ernest (UF)
Berta
Minnie
Paige
Raleigh
Beacon
Mark
Rosa
Grosky
Keats
Clark Triton
Brenda Triton
Arianna Barde
Tony Barde
Doland Noble
Levin Jakes
Loosha
Toppy
Crow
Marilyn
Roddy
Scraps
Tweeds
Wren
Socket
Louis
Badger
Aldus
Charlie
Jasmine
Bucky
Fische
Beth
Mido
Clarence
Joe
Molly
Marion
Browne
Hugo
Dominica
Paddy
Brock
Aunt Taffy
Shackwell
Greppe
Goosey
Mimi
Hans Jakes
Maggie
Yamada
Sean
Olga
Finch
Sebastian
Cornelius
Chappy
Hannah
Mick
Colby
Monica
Thomas
Nate
Ewan
Chief Engineer
Naiya
Chippe
Bram
Ghent
Nordic
Gilbert
Roland Layton
Lucille Layton
Henry Ledore
Angela Ledore
Alphonse Dalston
Leonard Bloom
Sheffield
Billson
Mrs Ascot
Pascal
Guy
Lapushka
Gustav
Gonzales
Drake
Tyrone
Sterling
Mordy
Collette
Maurice
Juggles
Puck
Yukkles
Murphy
Cookie
Tanya
Firth
Madelaine
Stumble
Artie
Michelle
Nils
Frankie
Conner
Humbert
Policeman (MM)
Yuming
Esther
Lionel
Doug
Mr. Collins
Leon Bronev
Raymond
Prima
Harald
Donna
Mascha
Georg
Mackintosh
Solveig
Erik
Hazel (AL)
Igor
Sonya
Moos
Larisa
Karpin
Boris
Dariya
Pavlova
Carmichael
Amelie Chelmey
Policeman (AL)
Tommy
Morel
Chestnut
Amanita
Blewitt
Chanterelle
Button
Lepidella
Bud
Javier
Benny
Miranda
Martine
Barbara
Ruby
Scarlett
Flint
Old Red
Jesse
Derringer
Julien
Romilda
Sheppard
Piet
Felicia
Rik
Beatrix
Umid
Banu
Dana
Temir
Mehri
Nassir
Adler
Robin
Macaw
Plover
Grouse
Gannet
Swift
Carmine Accidenti
Olivia Aldente
Allan
Bardly
Zacharias Barnham
Newton Belduke
Birdly
Boistrum
Cecil
Cinderellia
Constantine
Cracker
Cutter
Darklaw
Dewey
Dzibilchaltunchunchucmil
Patty Eclaire
Eve (cat)
Flynch
Foxy
Jean Greyerl
Hoot
Judge
Kira
Knight Captain
Knightle
Lottalance
Lyewood
Lettie Mailer
Balmung
Mary
Muffet
Muggs
Ridelle Mystere
Nozey
Petal
Petter
Ms Primstone
Emeer Punchenbaug
Robbs
Old Rootie
Rouge
Servius
Shakey
Johnny Smiles
Snowy
Storyteller
Tuggit
Price
Wordsmith
Pipper Lowonida
Phineas Barnone
Madame Doublée
Liza Wight
Grant Sloans
Cesar Chance
Mustafa Fulhold
Hans Lipski
Aleks Lipski
Maverick D. Rector
Seymore Fraymes
The Major
Eddie Torre
Hayes
Maid
Wooooster
Bianca Teller
Security Guard
Shadee
Taboras Lloyd
Douglas Dert
Ratboy
Mo Heecan
Mrs Slow the Tailor
Midas Pullman
Declan Swabber
Abel Seamon
Felicity Hastings
Gene Ohm
Billy Kidd
Royall Britannias
Clover Pryce
PC Beate
DC Booker
Waiter
Séan Butchin
Bo Bells
Hessie Tate
Benjy
Bess
Keane Fisher
Bob Bracket
Stripey
Patch
Cat
Yapper
Gudrun Weldon
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Thoughts on the Elizabeth Strout books?
Ooh! I discovered Elizabeth Strout for the first time this year and How Does She Do It. My Name Is Lucy Barton I read in one gulp and I was so struck by it, for its portrayal of someone living with huge pain and huge love and her humility and tenderness and the humour of it. It's really hard to pull off a book like that and I often find myself bouncing off literary fiction where there meant to be moments of grace or catharsis because I don't believe it, but there's something very true to its elusiveness. There is no one big moment, just the compromises she makes.
And Lucy by the Sea was maybe like, more of a flawed book but super interesting for being a pandemic book and a 2020 politics book? I appreciate that Strout stepped up and tried to capture one corner of the unreality of the pandemic, of the generation gap that came up - like, she has not got anything profound to say about the George Floyd protests other than that police brutality is a problem with a long history in America, but she is also willing to have Lcuy sit them out in Maine thinking and contemplating the structures of white supremacy and not fix anything and have her life flow back into her reconnection with her ex husband and her daughter's troubles. It felt verrrry human and messy in response to 2020 and it was kind of comforting to read about someone being Just Some Person at that time, not making any great personal progress and sad and stir crazy because that was. Certainly my experience.
It also makes me think about how much Strout's books reflect her generation in a very open hearted way and there's value in understanding that, because I can see little bits of those ways of relating to reality in some of the older women in my world as well. This is not a very literary review but these are my raw thoughts!
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Happiness is a Full Bookshelf 😊📚
My goal is to collect every Penguin Classic that has a black spine and cover, white title, and orange author name because they’re sooo aesthetically pleasing to me. My fun challenge of collecting/amassing them is by finding them exclusively through secondhand purchases (resale shops, ebay, garage sales, used bookstores, etc.) Then I only have to shell out $0-$7 each instead of $10-$30 each!
Penguin Classics
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrick Ibsen
A Nietzsche Reader by Fredrich Nietzsche
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Dolye
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
Angel of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin**
BUtterfield 8 by John O'Hara
Caleb Williams by William Godwin
Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London*
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer*
Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple by Susanna Rowson
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
Confessions by Saint Augustine
Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line by Charles W. Chestnut
Consolation of Philosophy by Ancius Boethius
Crucible by Arthur Miller
Daisy Miller by Henry James
Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley**
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck**
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Hedda Gabler and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
History of The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë*
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman*
Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
Memoirs by William Tecumseh Sherman
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka*
Middlemarch by Geroge Eliot
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
Narrative of the Lige of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave by Frederick Douglas
Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle*
Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Odyssey by Homer**
On Liberty and the Subjection of Women by John Suart Mill
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Passing by Nella Larsen
Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant
Portable Sixties Reader
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne**
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Song of Roland
Summer by Edith Wharton
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
The Aeneid by Virgil
The Ancien Régime and the Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville
The Bhagavad Gita
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Guide by R.K. Narayan
The Habor by Ernest Poole
The Hound of Baskerville by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Iliad by Homer
The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings by Olaudah Equiano
The Lais of Marie de France
The Marquise of O—and Other Stories by Heinrich Von Keist
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Odyssey by Homer
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli*
The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturlson
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Three Theban Plays by Sophocles
To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck
Utopia by Thomas More
Villette by Emily Brontë
A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
Washington Square by Henry James
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Non-Penguin Classics
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath**
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank*
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood**
House on Mango Street by Sander Cisneros
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien*
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Collections, Compilations, and Anthologies
100 Best-Loved Poems (American & British)
101 Great American Poems
English Romantic Poetry
Four Great Comedies of the Restoration & 18th Century
Four Great Elizabethan Plays
Great Poems by American Women
Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
Six American Poets (Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, Williams, Frost, Hughes)
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Victorian Love Stories
* = Started & didn’t finish (yet)/Read parts
** = Read ≥5 years ago
Strike-through = Read
Updated: April 14, 2024
Total count: 126
#classic literature#literature#penguin classics#my classics collection#bookblr#long post#personal#op
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