Hey all I am looking forward to know your favourite classic novels!?
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I am looking forward to know your favourite classic novels!?
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Hey all
I am looking forward to know your favourite classic novels!?
Jane Eyre!!!!
Of Human Bondage
The Catcher in the Rye
Love this book!
Dangerous Liasons
In Search of Lost Time
Buddenbrook
Great Expectations
Les Miserable
Alice in Wonderland
Oh my I cannot just stop but I really should….
I’m really curious about alice in wonderland. What it’s about??
Tanya Singh it was a Christmas gift from Charles Dodgson to little Alice Liddell. A little girl falls asleep beside her older sister in the park and dreams of following a white rabit down a hole to Wonderland, a very weird place. Disney made a movie in the 1950s I think and the book is from the 1860s. Dodgson published it under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll.
@Karolina Woaha!! Going to get this one for sure?
This is a facsimile I have of the original handwritten book
@Karolina wow?❤
Great Expectations…above all others. ?
Wuthering heights,
The Catcher in the Rye
? for Wuthering Heights…one of the finest pieces of literature in existence ?
@Rohen No doubt.
The last great novel I read was Don Quixote.
Les Miserables, War and Peace, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Remembrance of Things Past (In Search of Lost Time), Lolita, The Brothers Karamazov, East of Eden, Tale of Two Cities, The Count of Monte Cristo… Plus loads more!
Of mice and men wayward bus virgin and the gypsy catch 22 east of eden
To kill a mockingbird
Grapes of Wrath; Little Women; Black Beauty
I love Grapes of Wrath! I’m reading Little Women right now.
McTeague
Cuckoo’s Nest
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The haunted looking glass – short stories from classic writers
Of Mice and Men, Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
LOLITA!
The Day of the Triffids.
Pride and Prejudice and The Great Gatsby
GWTW, Dorian Grey, Lolita, anything by Dickens, The Turn of the Screw, The Crucible, The Lottery, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Rise & Fall of the House of Usher, I could go on, LOL…
Little Women; Romeo and Juliet; An American Tragedy; The Human Comedy; A Christmas Carol
East of Eden
The Sun Also Rises
The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Lottery, Little Women, Frankenstein, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Catch 22, Rebecca, 1984, David Copperfield, Gone With the Wind
Yes, The Turn of the Screw as mentioned above – that book always stays with me
War and peace, Brothers Karamasov, Grapes of wrath, Old curiosity shop, Remembrance of things past.
Yes,t he Old Curiosity Shop – I forgot about that one!
Portrait of a Lady, Remembrance of Things Past, Anna Karenina, Little Women
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Rebecca, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone with the Wind
@Pat loved the film of Rebecca with Charles Dance, have the book on my TBR list.
The Picture Of Dorian Gray / Great Gatsby
I really liked Great Expectations, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Jude the Obscure and Ethan Frome- off the top of my head. So many good books out there!!
Gulliver’s Travels
Madame Bovary
Crime and Punishment
The Scarlet Letter
Moby-Dick
Middlemarch
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë)
Frankenstein
I have not read Dumas’ work yet, but have a feeling will love them
I need to read a lot more classic novels so this is based only on those I have read. I really loved ‘Little Women’ when I was younger, Mill on the Floss was another and Lord of the flies. I have never read Charles Dickens or Austen which is a disgrace I know, but I have seen the BBC and film
Adaptations and loved them so intend to read them at some point. I also want to read George Orwell and Bronte sisters – have seen more than one version of the Tv and film
Adaptations of Wuthering heights and Jane Eyre. I tried Hemingway but did not enjoy ‘The old man and the sea’ so put me off but do want to try more of his work.
For some reason I did not enjoy Withering Heights or Jane Eyre 🙁
@Lorna I love Jane Eyre. I also tried Faulkner and didn’t enjoy The Sound and the Fury, but I do wanna try Hemingway. ?
I really didn’t like The Old Man and the Sea! My husband went on about how great it was and I was so disappointed. Good thing it was short! 😛 I will probably try another Hemingway…eventually.
Anna Karenina from Tolstoy, Jayne Eyre from Charlotte Bronte, Romeo and Juliet from Shakespeare, The Idiot from Dostoevsky
@Jan-Hendrik I want to read Anna Karenina also War and Peace ?
Pride & Prejudice! I never thought I’d like Austen but my grandma was so shocked I never read her that I gave it a try. I found it a bit hard at the beginning, just getting used to the style of writing/characters speaking, but once I got into it I LOVED the story. It’s now one of my top favorite all-time books.
@Theresa Thanks for details. I feel the same but I have this one in my shelf. I’ll start it next?
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham because he made me cry a lot during the beginning of the novel.
@Shelly what it’s about?
spoiler alert it is a buldungsroman novel about Philip an orphan and he grew up and has relationship issues with women and sexual obsession and then he later realized important valuable lessons about life by the end of the novel.
beautifully written
the way some thoughts are expressed by maugham so beautiful
@Shelly thanks.
Shelly Grace Omagap Somerset Maugham is my favorite author and Of Human Bondage my favorite book. I agree that he expresses thoughts and feelings so well. If you liked the relationship aspects of this book you should try The Painted Veil, Mrs. Craddock, Up at the Villa or his numerous short stories. He was a very prolific author!
@Carol thank you I appreciate your suggestions. Will look those book up later. I screen shot the titles ?
If you have an ereader you can download The Complete Works of Somerset Maugham which contains a few of his novels and short stories:)
Pride & Prejudice!!!
To Kill a Mockingbird!
To kill a mockingbird, clockwork orange, catcher in the rye, the Great Gatsby, Lolita, We have always lived in the castle, and many many more ?
Tale of two cities.
Cranford, To Kill a Mockingbird, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Gone with the Wind, Pickwick Papers, In Cold Blood, The Haunted Bookshop, Peter Pan, Wind in the Willows
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Frankenstein
Moby Dick
And 1984
I havent read that many classics yet, but I have really enjoyed most of the classics I have read so far. I guess they are classics for a reason. 🙂 My favourites are The Catcher in the Rye, Pride and Prejudice, 1984, and Farenheit 451.
To Kill A Mockingbird and Farenheit 451
“Les Misèrables”! It’s the most beautiful book ever written. “The Phantom Of The Opera” is also stunning and highly underrated. “Ballet Shoes” still warms my heart.
Great Expectations, Black Beauty, Heidi.
the egg and i by betty macdonald. anything by james herriot. alexander mccall smith. lord peter wimsey by dorothy sayers. some by agatha christie. so many
The Bell Jar
The Grapes of wrath, To kill a Mockingbird
Rebecca
To kill a mockingbird and Wuthering heights
To Kill A Mockingbird, Little Women, Pride and Prejudice
Great Expectations, Wuthering Heights
.To kill a mockingbird, 1984
The Way We Live Now by Trollope.
Jane Eyre….
A Tale of Two Cities
The Count of Monte Cristo ❤️
Rebecca, Jane Eyre
Little women
Not original but it’s Pride and Prejudice.
Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux), Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson), Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), Wives and Daughters (Elizabeth Gaskell), The Invisible Man (HG Wells), A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens), The Scarlet Pimpernel (Baroness Orczy)…and many more. I love classic novels!
The Secret Garden
@Jessie Interesting. What it’s about?
My childhood favourite!
Jane Eyre, Les Miserables, Great Expectations ✨?
Rebecca
The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird, Oliver Twist, Frankenstein, Moonfleet
You can search Project Gutenberg and download many classics free.
@Leslie wow. Thanks.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, Wuthering Heights, Little Women, Wuthering Heights, Huck Finn, …and so many more!
To Kill a Mockingbird, The Giver, Number The Stars
The Great Gatsby Jane Eyre Anna Karenina Of Mice and Men The Old Man and the Sea ?
The Count of Monte Christo. The Golden Bowl. Middlemarch
Middlemarch. Mansfield Park. Portrait of a Lady.
Gone with the wind
Jane Eyre
Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, The Scarlet Letter, and The Crucible
Wuthering Heights, Catcher in the Rye.
Great Expectations, a Tale of two Cities
Little woman,the secret garden,Heidi
Jane Eyre – Read it at aged 13 and many times since – adore it – I have also seen every film adaptation I think (some of which have been truly awful – miscast and missing huge chunks out of the book – grhhh) 🙂
@Susan Books are always better than movie!?
Old Man and the Sea. Always.
Pride and Prejudice. There are many I like but P&P struck my heart stronger lol
Black Beauty,it was my first book and still read it nowat now at age 58
@Lorna Woww!?
Wuthering Heights
Dracula, War of the Worlds
Wuthering Heights sits on my coffee table, I love it that much! ❤️
Dracula, The Jungle, Lord of the Flies, On the Beach, McTeague
Crime and Punishment