In the Fall of 2013, while a student at CIU, I was in a literature class called Five Great Novels. The course was pretty self-explanatory-- We would devote an entire semester to five novels of worth, based-upon a unifying theme. The five novels explored in that course were:
The Scarlet Letter, Crime and Punishment, Pride and Prejudice, A Brave New World, and
The Remains of the Day. The unifying theme of all these novels was the exploration of the human conscience.
In the Spring of 2014, my graduation was looming, and I knew that if I was to stand any chance, I would need to keep reading regularly. Accordingly, I hatched a diabolical plan. I would strive to read five valuable novels each season, totalling twenty novels each year. I ditched the idea of a unifying theme, in favor of a simpler template, which I have since also abandoned. Now, it is largely determined by which five works I would like to read, with some form of deadline involved. My first Season, last Spring, included the following works:
- The Last of the Mohicans- James Fenimore Cooper
- Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
- "The Wasteland"- T. S. Eliot
- A Storm of Swords- George R. R. Martin
- The Stranger- Albert Camus
Now that I am on a blogging-streak, however short-lived it may turn out to be, I have decided to add a new section to my blog, one that involves this whole scheme of Five Great Novels. I am currently working on Season 2 of Five Great Novels, with
Gone With the Wind finished and
The Three Musketeers nearly done. Expect to hear more soon!
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