Favourite classics. Mine is without doubt Wuthering Heights, always has been and probably always will be ? What are yours? ?
Favourite classics. Mine is without doubt Wuthering Heights, always has been and probably always will be ?
What are yours? ?
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Heidi ?
The Portrait of a Lady.
Wuthering Heights
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Jane Eyre!
@Whitney this is probably a very close second favourite! ?
Don Quixote
The Great Gatsby, and the Picture of Dorian Gray.
The same!!??
Same!! Xx
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Great Gatsby I just love him ? and Leo DiCaprio is soooo good in this role… they couldn’t find more suitable acter for this character ???
@Seldina Robert Redford was pretty great too.
Ooooh, yes The Great Gatsby ?
The great Gatsby. I own 4 copies all w different covers and from different years (60s, 80,00,18)
Pride and Prejudice for me
A Little Princess
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Pride and prejudice definitely. Mmm Mr. Darcy lol
Lolita ?
Crime and Punishment❤️
jane eyre -and Gone with the wind if that is considered a classic
@Pamela – read Gone with the Wind last year for the first time – loved it ?
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and many others.??
The Count of Monte Cristo, Gone with the Wind, The Great Gatsby and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.?
Middlemarch, Bleak House, and Jane Eyre. I love listening to classics as audiobooks.
Wuthering Heights,First teacher,Crime and punishment,Amma
Definitely all of Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters ❤️ I can’t choose ?♀️
Black Beauty
@Darlene – oooh yes, i read this many years ago! ?
Sense and sensibility
Gone with the Wind , The Great Gatsby and The Bridges of Madison County (If that is a classic)!
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells.
A picture of Dorian Grey !
Gray sorry for the typo
Price and Prejudice
Les liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous liaisons)
The Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men
Great Gatsby
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
Washington Square by Henry James
Withering Heights and Pride and Prejudice for me
Also the Great Gatsby
I read Wuthering Heights at the age of 12. Now I’m 61 and I have read many books since then, however it remains the greatest love story ever.
@Jayantha – it never dates, such a good story ?
Yes.Overwhelmed with emotions and was feverish when I finished reading it the first time.Get the same feeling even after 50 years when I read it now. A timeless classic.
Frankenstien and 1984 and The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Emma by Jane Austen
Rebecca.
@Ann – another favourite of mine!
Just finished it a few says ago ♥️♥️♥️
Pride and Prejudice ?
Anna Karenina❤️
@Victoria – oh yes! ?
Rebecca – it’s on my re-reading list.
@Claire – love Rebecca ?
Currently reading my cousin rachel.
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
Jane eyre?
Same! Wuthering Heights ♥️
Jane Eyre
Rebecca, The Great Gatsby, Ethan Frome
I also love reading children’s “classics.” Loved Strawberry Girl, The Giver, Number the Stars
Rebecca by far is my fav classic and A Christmas Carol.
Gone with the wind, Little Women, Little Men, Wuthering Heights.
I hate to admit it as much as I read, but…..I’ve never read Wuthering Heights….?
Diary of Anne Frank
The Scarlett Pimpernel
Jane Eyre
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Little Women, Gone with the Wind, All Quiet on the Western Front
I’m with you, Jennifer Langley. Wuthering Heights. Forever. Over 100 years later and it’s still the best love story ever written.
@Lori – totally agree ?
Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein
Love this one, too.
@Lori I first read in when we had to study it in highschool. I have loved it ever since ?
I love the movie, too. The one with Robert De Niro.
@Lori yes! I have it on Dvd. I think it’s the best version of the story and Robert De Niro played the monster brilliantly. Heartbreaking x
@Steph I have it on DVD too! It is well-done and heartbreaking.
The Magnificent Ambersons
Pride and prejudice…
Tale of two cities
“Franny and Zooey” by JD Salinger
The time Machine by: H. G. Wells
Utopia by Sir Thomas More
Jane Eyre, Hard Times by Dickens, and im actually reading Moby Dick for the first time right now and loving it
Gone with the wind
The March family, Sherlock Holmes, and Nancy Drew.
David Copperfield by Dickens; Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell; Olive by Dinah Mulock Criak. Jane Eyre is also fantastic!
Anne of Green Gables. ❤
Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Tess of the D’Ubervilles, even Scarlet Letter ?
Pride and Prejudice!?
The Little Prince ?
Rebecca and Jane Eyre
King solomons mines
Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea. I read it every year.
The Magic Mountain
@Morgan such a good book!
Little Women
Romeo and Juliet
Jane Eyre
Z is for Zachariah
Jane Eyre, The Sun Also Rises, The Moviegoer, When The Legends Die, and Travels With Charley.
Jane Eyre
Gone with the wind
Oh, so many…Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dracula, to name a few.
I am with you, Gone with the wind
Wuthering Heights and Rebecca
Candide and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Little Women
I have a few that I really like but the one that meant the most to me or that I could relate to that doesn’t have too much to do with love/romance is Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington.
Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, A Tale of Two Cities, Pride and Prejudice, Don Quixote, Sense and Sensibility, and everything by Shakespeare!
I’m with you – Wuthering Heights.
Little women
Count of Monte Cristo.
To Kill a Mockingbird
age of innocence
Gone With the Wind ??
To Kill a Mockingbird
Vanity Fair
A novel without heros. I love it.
A Christmas Carol
1984
Pride and Prejudice by Austen.
Oliver twist
The Woman in White
To Kill a Mockingbird
There arw quite a few. But Great Expectations stands apart. ?
Same
Wuthering heights as well! But also Jane eyre and persuasion
I love Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing. But I’m also a huge Dickens fan. If you haven’t read A Christmas Carol you need to. I love love Great Expectations
Oliver Twist and 1984
The little prince. ?
The Grapes of Wrath
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo. An absolutely beautiful story.
count of monte cristo
Jane Eyre and Persuasion
The Count of Monte Christo!
Jane Eyre ❤️❤️❤️
Same!
Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass
The Pearl
Thomas Hardy – Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Jane Eyre. Vanity Fair. Villette. Under The Greenwood Tree.
Little Women and Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
Jane Eyre and Sherlock Holmes
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
East of Eden and Tale of two cities.
Pride and Prejudice
War & Peace by Tolstoy or The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë.