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Imperial Russian Literature on Tour
Posted by admin in Coming Soon on May 26, 2010
Beginning Monday, June 21, 2010, we’ll be celebrating White Nights on the Neva as Imperial Russian Literature goes on a virtual tour of the blogosphere. Check out these participating blogs where you’ll find reviews.
The button for this tour is a picture of St. Petersburg and the Neva River on a “white night.” It was taken by Incandenzafied of Flickr and used under a Creative Common License. The caption for this image on Flickr? “Yep, real pretty there.” Feel free to use the button to promote your participation in the blog tour. Please download it to your computer first.
Monday, June 21 Only Words To Play With Thoughts on Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, and/or Tolstoy
Monday, June 21 So Many Books Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
Tuesday, June 22 Sasha & The Silverfish The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Tuesday, June 22 The Researcher’s Tale A Hero of Our Time Tale by Mikhail Lermontov
Wednesday, June 23 Time Enough At Last Dead Souls by Gogol
Wednesday, June 23 Notes from the North Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Thursday, June 24 A Literary Odyssey Fathers and Sons by Turgenev
Thursday, June 24 Pining for the West Virgin Soil or Liza by Turgenev
Friday, June 25 Inside Books undecided
Friday, June 25 A Few of My Favourite Books First Love by Ivan Turgenev
Saturday, June 26 Books and Chocolate The Shooting Party or short story collection by Anton Chekhov
Sunday, June 27 The Reading Life Diary of A Superflous Man by Turgenev
Sunday, June 27 November’s Autumn Rudin by Turgenev
Monday, June 28 Shelf Love The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov
Tuesday, June 29 Becky’s Book Reviews War and Peace or Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Tuesday, June 29 Tell Me A Story The Steppe and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
Wednesday, June 30 Wuthering Expectations A Russian Gentleman and A Russian Childhood by Sergei Aksakov
Wednesday, June 30 Reading Through Life Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
Thursday, July 1 Readthisbook.us Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Dostoevsky
Thursday, July 1 Life is a Patchwork Quilt The Russian poets of the Imperial Age (i.e. Pushkin, Lermertov
Friday, July 2 Rundpinne The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy and Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Friday, July 2 Radiant Light The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Saturday, July 3 Stiletto Storytime The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sunday, July 4 things mean a lot Short stories by Anton Chekhov
Monday, July 5 BookNAround Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
Monday, July 5 Lizzy’s Literary Life The Eternal Husband by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tuesday, July 6 The Blog Jar Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevksy
Tuesday, July 6 A Common Reader Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy
Wednesday, July 7 Fleur Fisher Reads Fathers and Sons by Turgenev
Thursday, July 8 First Impressions: A Tale of Less Pride and Prejudice Ward No. 6 and Other Stories by Anton Checkhov
Thursday, July 8 Sparks’ Notes Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Friday, July 9 eclectic / eccentric House of the Dead by Dostoyevsky
Friday, July 9 Review, Rewrite, and Rewind Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Saturday, July 10 my books. my life. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Sunday, July 11 Ardent Reader Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sunday, July 11 Rob Around Books Chekhov’s characters
Monday, July 12 Bibliolatry Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
Monday, July 12 Reading, Writing, Working, Playing Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Tuesday, July 13 Bookie Mee Short story or stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky or LeoTolstoy
Tuesday, July 13 In Spring it is the Dawn Short stories from The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Wednesday, July 14 Sophisticated Dorkiness Short stories by Anton Chekhov
Wednesday, July 14 Paperback Reader A Russian Affair by Anton Chekhov
Thursday, July 15 Adventures of an Intrepid Reader War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Thursday, July 15 Bluestalking Diary of a Superfluous Man by Ivan Turgenev
Friday, July 16 Rebecca Reads Selections from the Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader
Friday, July 16 The Zen Leaf Dead Souls by Gogol
Friday, July 16 A Book Lover The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
Please note: If you are participating in this tour and the information above is incorrect or you need to make a change to your tour day, please let us know by leaving a comment or emailing classicscircuit [at] googlegroups [dot] com. Someone from the Committee will update the schedule.
If you missed sign up and you would like to be added to the schedule at this late point, we still have a few free slots and we can fit you in. Just e-mail us at classicscircuit [at] googlegroups [dot] com.
White Nights along the Neva: Vote for the June Circuit
Posted by admin in Coming Soon, Voting on April 21, 2010
Today’s the last day to take our Feedback Survey! We’re using this as a way to make the Classics Circuit even better, and it’s your chance to influence the future of th
e Circuit. It’s pretty brief, so please take a moment to fill it out if you haven’t yet done so.
To coincide with White Nights (the days around midsummer during which the sun never sets in St. Petersburg), we will be hosting a Russian themed tour beginning mid-June. Rather than selecting an author, this poll is to select a time period:
- Imperial Russia: nineteenth-century authors including Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Alexander Pushkin, Anton Chekhov, and Ivan Turgenev.
- Soviet Russia: early twentieth-century authors including Mikhail Bulgakov, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, Nina Berberova, and Leon Trotsky.
The survey has now been closed.
I Love Paris in the Spring Time: Vote for the April Circuit
Posted by admin in Coming Soon, Voting on February 8, 2010
We love Paris in the springtime, and in April we will be traveling to Paris to visit one of these four classic nineteenth century French authors.
- Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) is one of the most widely read French novelists today. His historical novels of high adventure were often serialized, capturing the attention of the French public then and entertaining generations still.
- Victor Hugo (1802-1885) contributed largely to the romantic movement in France, through his essays, stories, novels, poetry, and plays. His works focus on the social and political issues of his time. Although most well known in France for his poetry, his novels (such as Les Miserables) are more well known outside of the country.
- George Sand (1804-1876) was the pen name for Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, who is called the first female novelist of France. Although she lived an unorthodox life for nineteenth century France, Sand did not describe herself as a feminist. Her fiction focuses on the restrictions and challenges that women face because of social class and gender.
- Emile Zola (1840-1902) became an important contributor to the literary school of naturalism. He wrote numerous short stories, four plays, and more than a dozen books. His books focus on how environment and heredity inevitably affect human character.
Which author would you like to visit the Circuit in April?
POLL CLOSED
Vote for the March Circuit Author: Modern Genre Classics
Posted by admin in Coming Soon, Voting on January 12, 2010
It’s time to vote for the March tour. We decided to go with something a little bit lighter: Modern Genre Classics. While there are many genres represented in the classics, here are just four that we’d love to see on tour. Read the rest of this entry »
A Brief Historical Introduction to the Harlem Renaissance
Posted by admin in Coming Soon, Intro and Sign Up on December 15, 2009
February in the United States means celebrating Black History Month. What better way to celebrate this very vital part of our society by paying homage to an extremely pivotal historical event in our cultural history: The Harlem Renaissance?
Just what is the Harlem Renaissance, you ask? If you are like me, you faintly remember discussing it briefly in high school English class, forced to read a few poems but not understanding the significance or the finer points of the discussion. Thankfully, the Classics Circuit is here to enlighten you about what you (and I) might have failed to learn in high school. Read the rest of this entry »
Coming in the Next Months
Posted by admin in Coming Soon on December 8, 2009
Although the Wilkie Collins tour is winding down this week, Elizabeth Gaskell is going strong. I hope to post the January Edith Wharton schedule in the next few days (dates were emailed a few weeks ago, we’re just slow given the U.S. holiday). Then next week, we will begin sign up for the February tour. We’ll be keeping sign up open for a few weeks, and with the holidays, we’ll try to make sure there are options for anyone who choses to be unplugged those two weeks. Around the new year, we’ll post a poll with March options, and sign up for the March tour will be in January.
If you are able to, make sure you check back here next week for sign up to host The Harlem Renaissance on your blog. I have been reading about it and gathering information together for you to read and I am quite excited about all the options!
Thanks for all the enthusiasm and for all the wonderful blog posts we’ve seen so far for Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell!
The Winner is….
Posted by admin in Coming Soon, Tours on November 5, 2009
Edith Wharton will visit the Classics Circuit in January!
Out of 54 votes, 40% voted for Edith Wharton, 27% for John Steinbeck, 16% for Mark Twain, and 14% for Willa Cather.
We will only be doing one tour in January at this point. I’m hoping that even if your selected author wasn’t chosen, you may be inspired to read some of his or her work during January anyway!
Sign up will be either next week or the next. I am also hoping to post a poll so you can share your feedback on the Circuit thus far. (Note: Do not sign up on this post!)
I hope you are enjoying this first week of the Collins tour! Keep reading those classics!
Wilkie Collins Tour: Dates Assigned
Posted by admin in Coming Soon, Tours on October 5, 2009
If you signed up for the Wilkie Collins Classic Circuit, we’ve sent you an email with your assigned dates. It has come from me (Rebecca Reads) or from Bella (A Bibliophile’s Bookshelf). If you haven’t received it, check your spam folder. If you still haven’t received it, send me a note at rebecca [at] rebeccareid [dot] com. Once we know that the schedule will work for the participants, we’ll post it up here so everyone can follow the tour come November.
The Wilkie Collins tour has a total of 29 stops, beginning November 2 and going until December 11! While there is some overlap on books that will be reivewed, overall, it looks like a great, varied tour. I’m really excited for it.
Tomorrow evening, I’ll post the sign up for the overlapping Elizabeth Gaskell tour. I think that one will be great as well!
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