Spin List #42 — We Have a Winner!
The spin has spun and hasnae gone agley with:
#17, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Och, we'll have a braw time!
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A Somber Sonnet of Sunless Things
On a dark and dreary night,When all living things lie still,—When awakes cold hollow Death,And Prudence flees in darkened fear,
And Sorrow sleeps with one eye op'd,And Slumber with a frost-burn torchSlyly mutters memento mori—Then must all who look on pages bound—Inky companions: even they—Prepare a creepy Classics ClubAnthology of spinning books,Spelling out their companyBy number—always twenty!(The hyphens make it Gothic.)
Huzzah for another Classics Club Spin! I have not reviewed #41, Lyrical Ballads, but needless to say it was a much adored spin. For a reason which I can only suppose to be Hallowe'en I've written a poem for this one, of dubious clarity and meter. The books I've ended up with are all ones I'd love to read right about now! To say that the spin number will be announced on the 19th of this month and the corresponding listed literature must be duly perused by the 21st of December completes the pendulum drill.
This is, more than likely, the last spin of the year! I've only read twelve of the books on my master list, but am currently reading two with set plans for two more, plus whichever of these ↓ I get, so I am almost keeping up!
Acknowledgements to friends and family, when I was a child I never dreamed, &c, &c, lords, ladies, and gentlemen, without further ado, thank you and goodnight . . .
1. Emma, Jane Austen
2. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
3. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins*
4. Howards End, E. M. Forster
5. Malice Aforethought, Francis Iles
6. The Lark, E. Nesbit
7. The Warden, Anthony Trollope
8. The Lair of the White Worm, Bram Stoker
9. Melmoth the Wanderer, Charles Maturin
10. Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
11. Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë
12. Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas De Quincey
13. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
14. Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott
15. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
16. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens
17. Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
18. Trilby, George du Maurier
19. Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
20. The Lost Princess; or, The Wise Woman, George MacDonald
* Austen, Brontë, Collins
Believe me when I say that wasn't on purpose (I use a random number generator)!
I've read a dozen from your list and Women in White, Edwin Drood, and The Count of Monte Cristo are all favorites. But I always l like when somebody spins something I don't know. So how about The Lost Princess!
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I'm so excited to see what I get. I can't believe it's tomorrow!
DeleteThank you, and you too!
Enjoy your 17! I have really enjoyed fiction and nonfiction by this author, but have not read this one.
ReplyDeleteI got a play: https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/10/20/the-classics-club-what-i-got-for-the-classics-spin-42/
Thank you! Yes, Stevenson is wonderful! I've been recommended Kidnapped for years on the good authorities of my mother and brother both, so this is an excellent Spin for me.
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