Cinderella by Jacob Grimm My rating: 5 of 5 stars Part of BBC’s “100 Stories that shaped the World” list, I thought it would be fun to keep track of all the works I have read that are listed.In the summer of 2009 I took a classic children’s literature course, probably the worst course I have ever taken in university. My prof was in charge for both the online version of this course and the in-class version, so in true nature of her lazy personality she used the twice-weekly lecture time, which I had to suffer through, to tell us about her amazing life and her amazing husband, who does…
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The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer My rating: 4 of 5 stars Part of BBC’s “100 Stories that shaped the World” list, I thought it would be fun to keep track of all the works I have read that are listed.I must have read The Canterbury Tales in the summer of 2009 for a course during my undergraduate program. Sadly, I can’t remember which course had it on its reading list, but I remember sitting in one of the smaller libraries on campus reading the tales and thought I noticed something odd. It turned out that for each page of the original tales, written in Old English the publisher of…
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainMy rating: 5 of 5 stars Part of BBC’s “100 Stories that shaped the World” list, I thought it would be fun to keep track of all the works I have read that are listed.I read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in which Tom Sawyer makes an appearance, years ago and I disliked the character of Tom Sawyer to such an extent that I refused to read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer until my desire to read good classic literature brought me once again back to the writings of Mark Twain. My enjoyment of reading this story was fueled by my current mood…
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Medea
Medea by Euripides My rating: 4 of 5 stars Part of BBC’s “The 100 stories that shaped the world” list, I thought it would be fun to keep track of all the works I have read that are listed.I have been feeling kind of down and blue since finishing my term paper (go figure) and thought a Greek tragedy would afford me some perspective. It didn’t fail. It has been a while since I last read a play, let alone a Greek play, but I am still surprised how much I enjoyed it; I even smiled a few times. Euripides’ writing and the dialogue he creates for Medea with respect…
