Classics Considered

In 2015, I was on a roll with this challenge, then, eight stories in, failed as gloriously as I had begun.  On the bright side, I still have my list and eight new stories to replace the “read” ones.  I’m going to ace it this time (pun intended)!  🙂

Challenge hosted by Jay at Bibliophilica.

♦
A – Snow White – Grimm
2 – The Minotaur – Hawthorne
3 – The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights – Pushkin
4 – The Woman with Two Skins – African folktale
5 – Rumpelstiltskin – Grimm
6 – The Shadow – Andersen
7 – Hansel and Gretel – Grimm
8 – The Girl Without Hands – Grimm
9 – The Fir Tree – Andersen
10 – Puss in Boots – Grimm
J – The Prince Who Feared Nothing – Grimm
Q – The Snow Queen – Andersen
K – King Thrushbeard – Grimm

♠
A – The Argonauts of the Air – Wells
2 – A Country Doctor – Kafka
3 – The Adventure of the German Student – Irving
4 – Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor – Kafka
5 – The Artist of the Beautiful – Hawthorne
6 – The Purloined Letter – Poe
7 – The Country of the Blind – Wells
8 – A Report to an Academy – Kafka
9 – The Hunter Gracchus – Kafka
10 – My Kinsman, Major Molineux – Hawthorne
J – The Masque of Red Death – Poe
Q – The Last Question – Asimov
K – William Wilson – Poe

♥
A – Investigations of a Dog – Kafka
2 – A Little Woman – Kafka
3 – The Nightingale and the Rose – Wilde
4 – Eleonora – Poe
5 – A Virtuoso’s Collection – Hawthorne
6 – Wedding Preparations in the Country – Kafka
7 – The Lady with the Dog – Chekhov
8 – Regret – Kate Chopin
9 – The Necklace – Maupassant
10 – The Looking-Glass – Chekhov
J – The Snow-Image – Hawthorne
Q – The Cherry Orchard – Chekhov
K – An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge – Bierce

♣
A – Symposium – Plato
2 – Nature – Emerson
3 – On Heroes and Hero-Worship – Carlyle
4 – In Defense of Sanity – Chesterton
5 – On the Duty of Civil Disobedience – Thoreau
6 – Common Sense – Paine
7 – On Evil Euphemisms – Chesterton
8 – The Twelve Men – Chesterton
9 – The Death of a Moth – Woolf
10 – Self-Reliance – Emerson
J – Camping Out – Hemingway
Q – Circles – Emerson
K – The Snows of Kilimanjaro – Hemingway