MobileRead Book Club
April 2014 Nominations
Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for April, 2014.
The nominations will run through midnight EST March 31 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for five days.
Book selection category for April is:
Classics
In order for a book to be included in the poll it needs THREE NOMINATIONS (original nomination, a second and a third).
How Does This Work?
The Mobile Read Book Club (MRBC) is an informal club that requires nothing of you. Each month a book is selected by polling. On the last week of that month a discussion thread is started for the book. If you want to participate feel free. There is no need to "join" or sign up. All are welcome.
How Does a Book Get Selected?
Each book that is nominated will be listed in a poll at the end of the nomination period. The book that polls the most votes will be the official selection.
How Many Nominations Can I Make?
Each participant has 3 nominations. You can nominate a new book for consideration or nominate (second, third) one that has already been nominated by another person.
How Do I Nominate a Book?
Please just post a message with your nomination. If you are the FIRST to nominate a book, please try to provide an abstract to the book so others may consider their level of interest.
How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated?
Just follow the thread. This message will be updated with the status of the nominations as often as I can. If one is missed, please just post a message with a multi-quote of the 3 nominations and it will be added to the list ASAP.
When is the Poll?
The poll thread will open at the end of the nomination period, or once there have been 10 books with 3 nominations each. At that time a link to the initial poll thread will be posted here and this thread will be closed.
The floor is open to nominations.
Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area.
Official choices with three nominations each:
(1) Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: LRF │
Amazon US /
Kobo
(2) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
No links provided.
(3) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: /
ePub /
ePub (Complete Works) /
Kindle │
Uncensored Version: Amazon US /
Barnes & Noble /
De Gruyter
Spoiler:
From Wikipedia:
The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine. The magazine's editors feared the story was indecent as submitted, so they censored roughly 500 words, without Wilde's knowledge, before publication. But even with that, the story was still greeted with outrage by British reviewers, some of whom suggested that Wilde should be prosecuted on moral grounds, leading Wilde to defend the novel aggressively in letters to the British press. Wilde later revised the story for book publication, making substantial alterations, deleting controversial passages, adding new chapters, and including an aphoristic Preface that has since become famous in its own right. The amended version was published by Ward Lock & Co in April 1891. Some scholars believe that Wilde would today have wanted us to read the version he originally submitted to Lippincott's.
The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new hedonism, Lord Henry suggests the only things worth pursuing in life are beauty and fulfilment of the senses. Realizing that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian (whimsically) expresses a desire to sell his soul to ensure the portrait Basil has painted would age rather than he. Dorian's wish is fulfilled, and when he subsequently pursues a life of debauchery, the portrait serves as a reminder of the effect each act has upon his soul, with each sin displayed as a disfigurement of his form, or through a sign of aging.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is considered a work of classic Gothic fiction with a strong Faustian theme.
(4) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Oz Omnibus:
BBeB/LRF (Illustrated) /
ePub /
Kindle /
Kindle (Illustrated)
(5) The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf and Eugine Petrov
Amazon US
(6) The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Amazon US /
Kobo
(7) Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub /
Kindle
(8) Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
No links provided.
(9) The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub /
Kindle /
Kindle (Books 1 & 2) │
Amazon
(10) Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub (D'Artagnan Romances, Vol 1) /
ePub (French) /
ePub (French/English) /
Kindle (D'Artagnan Romances, Vol 1) /
Kindle (French/English)
The nominations are now closed.