Classics Retold (sign up post for 19th Century & Gothic Classics)

Classics Retold  is a project hosted by Alison @ The Cheap Reader, Alyssa @ Books Take You Places, Brittany @ Book Addicts Guide, Charlene @ Bookish Whimsy (ME!), and Wendy @ Excellent Library.  Similar to Project: Fairy Tale from earlier in the year but for this project we are reading a classic book and then reading or watching retellings, spin-offs, or adaptions of it!

The Details:

• September 2013 will be our month to post everything.
• Each blogger will choose a classic they'd like to read.
• They read their classic and read or watch as many retellings, spin-offs, sequels or adaptions of their classic as they can. They will post reviews or their thoughts on each one during September.
• 1-4 bloggers can work on a "main" text. They can work independently or work together. You're allowed to all read/watch the same things or split the work up.
• To participate in this project, you only sign up for one classic (and its adaptions).
• Optional: You're allowed to work on other classics/adaptions if you'd like. Find the bloggers covering the book you're interested in and ask to do a guest post!
• Optional: Do other posts about your classic: character analysis, where else to find the characters, the book’s influence on culture, memes, etc. It can be literally anything involving your classic.
• Optional: Do a sign up post after I clear your classic. It will help spread the word about the project and you’re able to bounce your ideas off of your readers. They may even give you ideas of books/movies to use for your classic!
• For a classic to be useable for this project, it should have at least 2 adaptions, spin-offs, sequels, or retellings.
• Sign-ups for the project ends May 25th.

Obviously this project is going to get pretty big so we've split the co-hosting duties up. It's all one big project so you only sign up once for one book (not once on each blog).

Alyssa @ Books Take You Places is in charge of Ancient to Renaissance Lit Classics. (Sign up post)
Brittany @ Book Addicts Guide is in charge of Mythology. (Sign up post)
Charlene @ Bookish Whimsy is in charge of 19th Century & Gothic Classics.
Alison @ The Cheap Reader is in charge of Children's Classics. (Sign up post)
Wendy @ Excellent Library is in charge of American & Misc. Classics. (Sign up post)

Here are some choices for 19th Century & Gothic Classics (but if you think of one not on this list, just comment below and I'll give you the OK for it, if it fits the category. Remember there is a separate category for all American Classics).  I have picked "The Time Machine" by HG Wells for my Classic.
Sign up by leaving a comment on this post with your choice and a link to your blog!

Jane Austen
Emma (Dee @ Dee's Book Blog)
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey (Mrs. Silverstein @ Reading on the F Train)
Persuasion (Daphne @ Gone Pecan / Paola & Alix @ A Novel Idea)
Pride and Prejudice (Melissa @ Harley Bear Book Blog / Andrea @ Beauty but a Funny Girl)
Sense and Sensibility

Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre (Amy @ Book Goonie / Merin @ Read and Reviewed)
Villette

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights 

Charles Dickens
Bleak House
Little Dorritt
Mystery of Edwin Drood
Nicholas Nickleby
The Old Curiosity Shop
Oliver Twist
Pickwick Papers
A Tale of Two Cities
A Christmas Carol

Fyodor Dostoevesky
Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes (Alisa @ Picture Me Reading / Alice @ Alice in Readerland)

Alexander Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo (DoingDewey)
The Three Musketeers (Cassi @ Bright Forest)

George Eliot
Adam Bede
Daniel Deronda
Middlemarch
Mill on the Floss
Silas Marner

Elizabeth Gaskell
Cranford
Wives and Daughters (Whitney @ She Is Too Fond of Books)
North and South (Rachel @ Paper Cuts)

Goethe
Faust

Thomas Hardy
Far From the Madding Crowd
Jude the Obscure
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Return of the Native
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Amanda @ Off the Book)

Victor Hugo
Les Miserables (Tory @ The Sleeping Latte)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Gaston Leroux
The Phantom of the Opera (Krista @ Krista's Picks)

Edgar Allan Poe
Masque of the Red Death
Annabel Lee

Ann Radcliffe
The Mysteries of Udolpho

Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe

Mary Shelley
Frankenstein (Faith @ StudentSpyglass / Fi @ Bookish Outsider)

Robert L Stevenson
Kidnapped
Treasure Island (InkSpired)

Bram Stoker
Dracula

Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels

William Thackeray
Vanity Fair

Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
War and Peace

Jules Verne
Around the World in 80 Days
Journey to the Center of the Earth
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

H.G. Wells
Invisible Man (Melydia @ Utter Randomonium)
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Time Machine (Charlene @ Bookish Whimsy)
War of the Worlds

Oscar Wilde
Picture of Dorian Gray

I'll be at Disneyland today, so I'll try to get to comments later tonight, or definitely tomorrow!