Showing posts with label classic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classic. Show all posts

Sunday, 18 January 2009

Readers Chart 16/01/09

It's all change again this week with a brand new number one. Arthur Conan Doyle goes straight into the top place with the last book I read!

1o. Round The World In 80 Days by Jules Verne
9. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
8. Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare - also voted The Saddest Story
7. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
6. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - also voted Most Touching Story
5. The Three Musketeers by Alexandra Dumas
4. White Fang by Jack London
3. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
2. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen - also voted Most Romantic Story
1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Friday, 9 January 2009

Chart Update 9 Jan 2009

It's all change for the second week of the official 100 Classic Books Readers Chart. Only one title from last weeks top ten remains and two of my rankings have made it! (A Christmas Carol & Little Women).

Top 10 Best Books for week ending 9th January 2009.

10. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
9. The Hunchback Of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
8. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
7. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
6. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen - also voted Most Romantic Story
5. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - also voted Most Touching Story
4. Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare - also voted The Saddest Story
3. Around The World In 80 Days by Jules Verne
2. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
1. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Wednesday, 31 December 2008

Release Day Downloads.

And you thought 100 books was enough! From the 26th December 2008 you can also download the following ten books into your 'Classic Book Collection'.
Nintendo suggest more titles will be available throughout 2009.

Jane Austin Northanger Abbey
Anne Bronte Agnes Grey
Susan Coolidge What Katy Did At School
George Eliot Silas Marner
Elizabeth Gaskell Cranford
Henry James The Aspern Papers
Henry James The Turn Of The Screw
Charles Kingsley The Water Babies
William Shakespeare The Merry Wives Of Windsor
Robert Louis Stevenson The Black Arrow