2020 Challenges

Back to the Classics Challenge

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• 19th Century Classic: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte 
• 20th Century Classic: Chronicles of Narnia 1-7 by C.S Lewis 
• Classic By a Woman Author: The Last of the Plantagenets by Caroline M. Keteltas 
• Classic In Translation: The Iliad by Homer 
• Classic By a Person of Colour: Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Lo-Kuan Chung 
• A Genre Classic (History): History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides 
• Classic With a Person's Name in the Title: Othello by William Shakespeare 
• Classic With a Place in the Title: The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 
• Classic With Nature in the Title: The Waves by Virginia Woolf 
• Classic About a Family: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
• Abandoned Classic: Metamorphoses by Ovid 
• Classic Adaption: Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 

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History Non-Fiction Reading Challenge

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• Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie 
• The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides 
• Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore 
• Islamic Empires by Justin Marozzi
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Russian Literature Challenge 

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• King Lear of the Steppes by Ivan Turgenev
• A Strange Story by Ivan Turgenev  
• The Rendezvous by Ivan Turgenev 
• An Unhappy Girl by Ivan Turgenev
• Andrei Kolosov by Ivan Turgenev 
• Enough by Ivan Turgenev 
• A Desperate Character by Ivan Turgenev

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Deal Me In Challenge

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                                                          Euripides/Sophocles Plays

Ace: Medea - E

King: Andromache - E

Queen: Hecuba - E

Jack: The Suppliants - E

Ten: Electra - E

Nine: Phoenician Women - E

Eight: Orestes - E

Seven: Cyclops - E

Six: Rhesus - E

Five: Heracles Mad - E

Four: Ajax - S

Three: Electra - S

Two: Philoctestes - S

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  Aeschylus/Aristophanes Plays

Ace: Agamemnon - AE
King: The Suppliant Maidens - AE
Queen: The Persians - AE 
Jack: The Seven Against Thebes - AE
Ten: Prometheus Bound - AE
Nine: The Archarnians - AR
Eight: The Knights - AR
Seven: The Clouds - AR
Six: The Wasps - AR
Five: The Peace - AR
Four: The Birds - AR 
Three: The Frogs - AR
Two: The Lysistrata - AR

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Turgenev Short Stories 

Ace: A Correspondence 
King: A Desperate Character 
Queen: A Strange Story 
Jack: A Tour in the Forest 
Ten: An Unhappy Girl 
Nine: Andrei Kolosov 
Eight: Clara Militch 
Seven: Enough 
Six: Faust 
Five: Knock, Knock, Knock 
Four: Lieutenant Vergunov's Story
Three: Old Portraits 
Two: Phantoms 

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Turgenev Short Stories + A Play

Ace: Poems in Prose 
King: Punin and Baburin 
Queen: The Brigadier  
Jack: The Dog 
Ten: The Dream 
Nine: The Duellist  
Eight: The Inn 
Seven: The Jew  
Six: The Rendezvous 
Five: The Watch 
Four: Three Portraits 
Three: Yakov Pasinkov 
Two: Phantoms