Tuesday, December 26, 2017

2018: Classics Reviewed

January
1. The Story of Live Dolls. Josephine Scribner Gates. Illustrated by Mabel Rogers. 1901. 1920. 116 pages. [Source: Read online]
2. Dream Life for Children. Mattie K. Foster. 1918. 178 pages. [Source: Read online]
3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by John Tenniel. 1865/1871. 247 pages. [Source: Bought]
4. My Antonia. Willa Cather. 1918. 336 pages. [Source: LIBRARY]
5.  Framley Parsonage. Anthony Trollope. 1861. 573 pages. [Source: Bought]
6. The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant #1) Josephine Tey. 1929. 255 pages. [Source: Bought]
7. Emily of New Moon. L.M. Montgomery. 1923. Bantam. 352 pages. [Source: Bought]
8.  Short Stories 1907-1908. L.M. Montgomery. 248 pages. [Source: Bought]

February
9. A Tender Victory. Taylor Caldwell. 1956. 374 pages. [Source: Bought]
10. So Big. Edna Ferber. 1924/2005. Kessinger Publishing. 376 pages. [Source: Library]
11. The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola. 1883/2012. Oxford University Press. 438 pages. [Source: Library]

March
12. Mary Barton. Elizabeth Gaskell. 1848. 437 pages. [Source: Bought]
13.The Daughter of Time. Josephine Tey. 1951/1995. Simon & Schuster. 208 pages. [Source: Bought]
14. Angus and the Cat. Marjorie Flack. 1931. 32 pages. [Source: Bought]


April
15. The Conquering Family. Thomas B. Costain. 1949. 291 pages. [Source: Library]
16. Strawberry Girl. Lois Lenski. 1945. 208 pages. [Source: Bought]
17.  Crime and Punishment. Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Translated by David McDuff. 1866/2002. 671 pages. [Source: Library]
18.  Short Stories of Lucy Maud Montgomery from 1909-1922. L.M. Montgomery. 2008/2010. 312 pages. [Source: Bought]

May
19. The Magnificent Century (The Plantagenets #2). Thomas B. Costain. 1951. 324 pages. [Source: Library]
20. Orley Farm. Anthony Trollope. 1862. 825 pages. [Source: Bought]
21. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson, by One of the Firm. Anthony Trollope. 1862. 254 pages. [Source: Bought]
22. Hans in Luck: Seven Stories by the Brothers Grimm. Two are retold by Felix Hoffman. Illustrated by Felix Hoffman. 2017. NorthSouth books. 256 pages.
23. Thin Ice. Jerrold Beim. Illustrated by Louis Darling. 1956. 46 pages. [Source: Bought]
24. Who's a Pest? Crosby Newell Bonsall. 1962. Harper & Row. 64 pages. [Source: Bought]
25. The Three Edwards (The Plantagenets #3) Thomas B. Costain. 1958. 480 pages. [Source: Library]

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