This challenge is for 2009-2010.
It begins October 1, 2009. It ends December 31, 2010.
Read two books (or watch two movies) set during the French Revolution. These can be nonfiction or fiction.
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This list on historicalnovels.info might be helpful.
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczky
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
You can find links to all the Scarlet Pimpernel books here.
The image is from Wikipedia Commons.
14 comments:
This sounds like a cool challenge - I have a couple books in this category on my TBR list - so it will help me get to them. Thanks.
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I'm in.
I'll be reading A Tale of Two cities and one of the Scarley Pimpernel novels
Post about the challenge here.
I am definitely going to do this challenge. I love the French Revolution.
Will post this under the 'challenges' tab as wel as do a post about it.
http://virginiebarbeau.wordpress.com/
sure emhoyed the Marie Antonette bok i read last year, this can't be anythign but good
I'm in.
The French Revolution has always interested me.
Here's my post about this challenge:
http://bookwormwhit.livejournal.com/123532.html
I'm in. I loved "The Scarlet Pimpernel" so I think I'll read the next one ("Sir Percy Leads the Band") and then I'll read "Scaramouche."
I love your Mini Challenges Becky and I'm participating in three of them. This is the first.
http://bookishpursuits.blogspot.com/2009/10/mini-reading-challenges.html
I'm in! My post about the challenge is here: http://christina-reads.livejournal.com/41758.html.
I'm all about this challenge. Please sign me up! Thanks. I'm posting this under my challenges section in my sidebar :)
http://bookshelfmonstrosity.blogspot.com
Please sign me up! This will be my first ever challenge. My two books will be 'A Tale of Two Cities' and Mantel's 'A Place of Greater Safety'.
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I'm in too! Here's a link to my post
http://bkwrmjchallenges.blogspot.com/2009/12/mini-challenges.html
I've also signed up for the Wilkie Collins, Leo Tolstoy, George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell. All of them are on the post, do you want me to go to the individual posts to sign up?
Just wanted to say that I completed this challenge! My wrap-up post, with links to my reviews for the challenge, is here: http://christina-reads.livejournal.com/82425.html.
This is one i only read what i had to, buess it is jsut not me. NO blog so will post here
1. Moore, Brian The Magician's Wife
2,. Greenblatt, miriam Napoleon Bonaparte and Imperial France
This is one i only read what i had to, buess it is jsut not me. NO blog so will post here
1. Moore, Brian The Magician's Wife
2,. Greenblatt, miriam Napoleon Bonaparte and Imperial France
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