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Originally Posted by issybird
We’re kicking off a new reading venture and hope people will drop in. The concept is simply that of reading with friends.
The Classics Salon will be a low pressure, unstructured, no rules reading group devoted to the classics, defined for Salon purposes as public domain everywhere. There will be a new selection each quarter. People can participate as they will, although it’s hoped that enough will show up for a lively discussion.
And I think that’s it. 
To start things off, the following three novels have been proposed:
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
- East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood
I’ll note that the first two titles have been suggested in earlier threads as of potential interest and the third could be something of a palate cleanser if the others seem a little daunting. 
Do people have suggestions for order? We’re looking at a start day of May 15 for both reading and discussion. This list would carry us through the year. |
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Originally Posted by Catlady
The classics I would most like to be prodded to read include these:
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
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So are we open to nominations? I like Catlady's, except for the one's that were read in the previous book clubs. I also like Don Quixote.