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The Classics Club
2024-2029

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The Classics Spin #43

Twitter hashtag: #ccspin

For this Classics spin #43, I got #2, which on my list is

I am really happy about this, as it seems I have not read any Brazilian classic authors yet, and in that area, I think Machado de Assis, is THE one to read, right?

“Bento Santiago, the wildly unreliable narrator of Dom Casmurro, believes that he has been cuckolded—he suspects that his wife has cheated on him with his best friend and that her child is not his.
Has Capitú, his love since childhood, really been unfaithful to him? Or is the evidence of her betrayal merely the product of a paranoid mind?
First published in 1899, Dom Casmurro, widely considered Machado de Assis’s greatest novel and a classic of Brazilian literature, is a brilliant retelling of the classic adultery tale—a sad and darkly comic novel about love and the corrosive power of jealousy.”

It may be a bit out of my confort zone, as I don’t often read romance or comic books, but hopefully the psychological satire will work for me.
Planning to read it in March.

Have you read this book?
Or any other Brazilian classic?
What did the Classics Spin give you?

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Here is what I got for the previous Classics Spins:

1) For Classics Spin #14, I got #1: A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin
2) For Classics Spin, #15, I got #12: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
3) For Classics Spin, #16, I got #4: Arsène Lupin, by Maurice Leblanc
4) For Classics Spin, #17, I got #3: The Face of Another, by Kobo Abe (not yet reviewed!!)

5) For Classics Spin, #19, I got #1: A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway
6) For Classics Spin, #20, I got # 19: The Dream of the Red Chamber, by Cao Xueqin
7) For Classics Spin, #21, I got # 5: On the Edge of the World, by Nikolai Leskov
8) For Classics Spin, #22, I got # 13: Sanshiro, by Natsume Soseki

9) For Classics Spin, #24, I got # 18: The Sleepwalkers, by Hermann Broch, which I didn’t take time to read!!
10) For Classics Spin, #25, I got # 14: The Letter Killers Club – which was way over my head.
11) For Classics Spin, #26, I got # 11: History in English Words, by Owen Barfield, a fascinating book, which I haven’t reviewed yet!!
12) For Classics Spin, #28, I got # 12: A Man Lay Dead, by Ngaio Marsh, alas a disappointing one

13) For Classics Spin, #29, I got #11: The Man in the Queue, by Josephine Tey
14) For Classics Spin, #30, I got #5: The Bride Wore Black, by Cornell Woolrich
15) For Classics Spin, #31, I got #2: Selected poems, by Rainer Maria Rilke
16) For Classics Spin, #33, I got #18: Hag’s Nook, by John Dickson Carr

17) For Classics Spin, #34, I got #13: The Invisible Host, by Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning
18) For Classics Spin, #35, I got #6: Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique, by Michel Tournier
19) For Classics Spin, #36, I got #20: The Informer, by Akimitsu Takagi
20) For Classics Spin, #36, I got #8: Death on the Oxford Road, by E. C. R. Lorac

21) For Classics Spin, #38, I got #17: The Fifth Tumbler (Theocritus Lucius Westborough #1), by Clyde B. Clason
22) For Classics Spin, #39, I got #3: The End of Her Honeymoon, by Marie Belloc Lowndes
23) For Classics Spin, #40, I got #4: Confusion, by Stefan Zweig
24) For Classics Spin #41, I got #11: A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant #2), by Josephine Tey

25) For Classics Spin #42, I got #17: A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams

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