The Classics Reclamation Project is my personal challenge to read and enjoy the classics. Each Wednesday, I post about the classic I’m reading at the moment. One of the few works I enjoyed reading in my high school English classes was Hedda Gabler, a play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The version I had was …
Tag Archives: classic
CRP: “Three Men in a Boat” by Jerome K. Jerome
The Classics Reclamation Project is my personal challenge to read and enjoy the classics. Each Wednesday, I post about the classic I’m reading at the moment. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome was published in 1889 and tells the story of three friends’ vacation traveling by boat down the Thames. It’s narrated …
Continue reading “CRP: “Three Men in a Boat” by Jerome K. Jerome”
CRP: “Beowulf” translated by Seamus Heaney (Audiobook)
The Classics Reclamation Project is my personal challenge to read and enjoy the classics. Each Wednesday, I post about the classic I’m reading at the moment. Since I’d listened to The Odyssey and The Epic of Gilgamesh, I figured I should go ahead and do Beowulf as well. I’d read part of Beowulf in high …
Continue reading “CRP: “Beowulf” translated by Seamus Heaney (Audiobook)”
CRP: “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte
The Classics Reclamation Project is my personal challenge to read and enjoy the classics. Each Wednesday, I post about the classic I’m reading at the moment. So. I made it through 28 years of my life knowing only the briefest generalities about Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. How I avoided the details for so long is …
CRP: “The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge” by Rainer Maria Rilke (Part 2)
The Classics Reclamation Project is my personal challenge to read and enjoy the classics. Each Wednesday, I post about the classic I’m reading at the moment. Last week, I posted about my potential love for The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by the wonderful Stephen Mitchell, which I was reading …
Continue reading “CRP: “The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge” by Rainer Maria Rilke (Part 2)”