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View Poll Results: Multiple Choice - Which time period should we use for nominations this month? | |||
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1901-1920 | 6 | 85.71% | |
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1941-1960 | 4 | 57.14% | |
1961-1980 | 2 | 28.57% | |
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05-01-2014, 01:15 PM | #1 |
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Time Period Nominations • May 2014
Help us select what the MR Literary Club will read for May 2014!
The category for this month is: Time Period 1901-1920, as chosen in the poll This month is a two-part process: The first part begins with a one-day poll to determine the time period we will use. It is multiple choice; you may choose as many options as you like when voting. This voting is separate from your nominations. There are no nominations during the poll, only voting. I will not vote in the poll, and if there is a tie, I will break it. As soon as the poll is over and the time period is determined, then the second part (nominations) begins as normal. This will run for four days until 6 May. Nominations can be set in any time period and published in any time period, but they should be written during that time period. Notes: -Previously chosen time periods currently ineligible: 1981-2000 1801-1900 -The period of 2001-Present has been given its own category (Contemporary) and therefore isn't eligible anymore for the Time Period poll. Once the poll is over and nominations begin: In order for a work to be included in the nominee poll it needs four nominations - the original nomination plus three supporting. Each participant has four nominations to use. You can nominate a new work for consideration or you can support (second, third or fourth) a work that has already been nominated by another person. To nominate a work just post a message with your nomination. If you are the first to nominate a work, it's always nice to provide an abstract to the work so others may consider their level of interest. What is literature for the purposes of this club? A superior work of lasting merit that enriches the mind. Often it is important, challenging, critically acclaimed. It may be from ancient times to today; it may be from anywhere in the world; it may be obscure or famous, short or long; it may be a story, a novel, a play, a poem, an essay or another written form. If you are unsure if a work would be considered literature, just ask! The floor is now open! * Nominations are closed. Final nominations: Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad, 1911 - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The Gods Are Athirst by Anatole France, 1912 - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams, 1905 - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The Mother by Grazia Deledda, 1920 - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, 1915 - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Max Beerbohm, 1911 - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion by Ford Madox Ford, 1915 - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 1920 - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott by Sinclair Lewis, 1920 - Fully nominated Spoiler:
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05-02-2014, 04:29 PM | #2 |
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I'll begin by nominating Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Max Beerbohm from 1911.
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I'll second Zuleika Dobson. One of those books I have heard of but never read.
I'll nominate The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, published 1915, which is on my TBR list. From Goodreads: Quote:
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I'd like to nominate The Mother (aka The woman and the priest), by Maria Grazia Deledda, Italian Nobel prize for literature in 1926. This book came out in Italian in 1919, so I think it qualifies, although the first English translations are dated 1922 and 1923. From amazon:
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This sounds intesting. I support "The Mother".
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05-03-2014, 10:29 AM | #6 |
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I'm thirding The Mother while I do more thinking.
I may be a bit premature on this, but we've got some no-shows among the regulars and occasionals and it may be hard to come up with the requisite four nominations. |
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paola, I'm checking the dates for each nomination and it seems most sites that I find except for Goodreads list The Mother as first published in 1920, such as this Google search. I've used 1920 as its date for the nomination list, but I will trust you and change it back to 1919 if you are confident of it. It doesn't matter much really since both dates are eligible but I wanted to make clear why the date in the list was different from your post.
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I'd like to nominate Main Street by Sinclair Lewis. It's one I've wanted to read for several years, but never seemed to get around to. It was published in 1920 so it should make it just under the wire.
This from Indigo: This is America—a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves." So Sinclair Lewis—, recipient of the Nobel Prize and rejecter of the Pulitzer —prefaces his novel Main Street. Lewis is brutal in his depictions of the self-satisfied inhabitants of small-town America, a place which proves to be merely an assemblage of pretty surfaces, strung together and ultimately empty. This from Goodreads: Main Street, the story of an idealistic young woman's attempts to reform her small town, brought Lewis immediate acclaim when it was published in 1920. It remains one of the essential texts of the American scene. Lewis Mumford observed: "In Main Street an American had at last written of our life with something of the intellectual rigor and critical detachment that had seemed so cruel and unjustified [in Charles Dickens and Matthew Arnold]. Young people had grown up in this environment, suffocated, stultified, helpless, but unable to find any reason for their spiritual discomfort. Mr. Lewis released them." Last edited by ccowie; 05-03-2014 at 11:54 AM. |
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This is a fantastic time period and I have so many books on my TBR list!
I would like to nominate Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad published in 1911. From Goodreads: Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia, as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official. Asked to spy on the family of the assassin— his close friend — he must come to terms with timeless questions of accountability and human integrity. From Wikipedia: Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Crime and Punishment; Conrad was reputed to have detested Dostoevsky. It is also, some say, Conrad's response to his own early life; his father was a famous revolutionary imprisoned by the Russians, but, instead of following in his father's footsteps, at the age of sixteen Conrad left his native land forever. Indeed, while writing Under Western Eyes, Conrad suffered a weeks-long breakdown during which he conversed with the novel's characters in Polish. This novel is considered to be one of Conrad's major works and is close in subject matter to The Secret Agent. It is full of cynicism and conflict about the historical failures of revolutionary movements and ideals. Conrad remarks in this book, as well as others, on the irrationality of life, the opacity of character, the unfairness with which suffering is inflicted upon the innocent and poor, and the careless disregard for the lives of those with whom we share existence. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors, including D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Gerald Basil Edwards, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Graham Greene, Malcolm Lowry, William Golding, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Heller, Italo Calvino, Gabriel García Márquez, J. G. Ballard, John le Carré, V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, Hunter S. Thompson, J. M. Coetzee and Salman Rushdie. |
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I'll second Under Western Eyes. I read The Secret Agent earlier this year and loved it.
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I'm going to nominate The Education of Henry Adams, privately published in 1908 and winner of the 1919 Pulitzer after publication on Adams' death.
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I second The Education of Henry Adams.
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It looks like Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton was first published in 1920. Is the date range inclusive or exclusive? If inclusive, could I nominate this book?
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