British_Classics is a reading group that concentrates on classic literature, mainly novels of the British Isles,
including England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Isle of Man, etc.
We'll read and discuss one book per month to be chosen through nominations and polls.
If you love reading the classics, this is the group for you.

Some of the authors we'll read may include Jane Austen, Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Wilkie Collins,
Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Hardy, James Hogg, Joseph Sheridan Lefanu, John O'Keefe, Sir Walter Scott, George Bernard Shaw, Mary Shelley,
Robert Lewis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde and many others.



2012 READING/DISCUSSION SCHEDULE

Jan: Two On a Tower - Thomas Hardy
Feb: Confessions of an English Opium Eater - DeQuincy or John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Marie Craik
Mar: Where Angels Fear To Tread - E.M. Forster
Apr: The Fallen Leaves - Wilkie Collins
May: Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope
Jun: Queen of Hearts - Wilkie Collins
Jul: Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Aug: Henry Osmond - W. M. Thackery
Sep: Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
Oct: Lorna Doone - R.D. Blackmore
Nov: Phineaus Finn - Anthony Trollope
Dec: Roxanna - Daniel Defoe