2013 Schedule

2013 - 19th century literature


January-March - General 19th century literature.
No particular themes, just general reading.
  • Bleak House, Charles Dickens (1853)
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy (1891)
  • Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell (1851)
  • The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy (1886)
  • Bartleby the Scrivener, Herman Melville (1853)


April/May - Manly Months.
I tried to seek out more adventurous, guy-type books with mixed results
  • King Solomon's Mines, H. Rider Haggard (1884)
  • Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling (1897)
  • Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (1899)
  • The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane (1895)
  • The Black Arrow, Robert Louis Stevenson (1888)
  • The Frozen Pirate, W. Clark Russell (1877)
  • Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana (1840)
  • ?


June - Russian literature.
An attempt to analyze a few 19th century Russian works.  Because several Russian novels I've pondered are extremely long, many of the ones I review will be short stories.  They will include a variety of 19th century Russian writers.
  • Anton Chekhov
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Alexander Pushkin
  • Nikolai Gogal
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
  • Ivan Turgenev
  • and more


July/August - H. Rider Haggard.
A tribute to the father of modern adventure literature.  I'll stick to the books he wrote in the 19th century.
  • Allan Quatermain (1887)
  • She (1887)
  • Cleopatra (1889)
  • The World's Desire (1890)
  • Eric Brighteyes (1891)
  • Nada the Lily (1892)
  • Montezuma's Daughter (1893)
  • The People of the Mist (1894)


September - December - 19th Century gothic horror.
A large variety of ghostly stories from the Victorian era.

  • Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Edgar Allen Poe
  • Sir Arthor Conan Doyle
  • W.W. Jacobs
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • H.P. Lovecraft
  • Edith Nesbit
  • Guy de Maupassant
  • Mary Shelley
  • and more

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