I love classic books I don’t know what one to read next any suggestions
I love classic books I don’t know what one to read next any suggestions
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I love classic books I don’t know what one to read next any suggestions
Pretty much anything by Dickens, Austen, the Brontes, The Secret Garden by Burnett, Lewis Carroll, Conrad, George Eliot, Mark Twain, Walden by H.D. Thoreau … the list goes on and on.
Thank you i have read a couple of Dickens and austen I’m on my 3rd Charlotte Bronte book I will look for Walden
Walden has life-long impact.
I haven’t heard of the book before I will get it on my kobo
I should add that Walden isn’t a novel. It’s a classic extended essay on living more simply. Good antidote to modern life.
Ok it is good getting away from modern life sometimes
Yeah I have one of hers on my kobo to read thank you i have read 2 of her books already
Ivanhoe, Ben hur , hamlet
I will look on the kobo for them thank you
I got them to on my kobo it is hard to pick a good classic to read
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a good one.
Thank you will look for it
Try to enjoy Pygmalion by Bernard shaw even I donnu whether it is classical or not!?
Shaw is reckoned second only to Shakespeare as a dramatist in English, so definitely classical.
Oo ok thanks
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The Sorrows of Young Wether by Goethe. It’s as Romantic as Romantic gets and very short.
I’m fond of L.M. Alcott’s Eight Cousins and the sequel Rose on Bloom. I prefer them to the Little Women.
Short stories: James Joyce, The Dubliners; Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time; Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories, Puck of Pook’s Hill, Plain Tales from the Hills.
You’re the only person I’ve ever known who’s mentioned Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom! I love those so much!
I read them over and over as a child and now. I wonder if they’ve been kept out of the spotlight because they are more radical than Little Women. And they deal directly with teen angst, class privilege, and interracial marriage.
Vanity fair , pride and prejudice , and hamellete othello
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
And, in Walden’s honor, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Essays on the divine merged with natural science.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure is another great Hardy book.
I heard that The Mayor of Casterbridge was good too.
Nice recomm., Scott.
‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’ had me in tears when I read it. It is a superb book.
‘Far From the Madding Crowd’ is another superb Thomas Hardy book. I have read it several times.
Jack London
I have read the sea wolf by him I enjoyed it
If you take a liking to Anthony Trollope, you are set. He wrote 47 novels.
I will look for a one by him I have just in the last few years started reading a lot and I like the classic and I don’t know a lot of authors
The first is The Warden, which is short. There is a series set around a cathedral and its clergy. And there are a number about the aristocratic Pallisers. I have not read many, but had a friend who read them all. You might get more pleasure out of Angela Thirkell who wrote in the twentieth century. Her books are set in Trollope’s fictional county. She isn’t very well known, but those who read her tend to read all of her.
I will look for it
I should have said first that it’s grand you’re reading classics. The authors–you can probably find reading lists for college students or whomever online. (There are plenty of classics I don’t like and plenty of books outside the canon that I think are as good.)
I have only been reading about 4 or 5 years and I have been reading classic and modern books but I prefer classic sometimes it takes months to read one but I like that
I like that too.
I at the minute i am reading a Morden one then a classic
The book I’m reading is Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
Virginia Woolf was a great author. My other favs are Austen (Pride & Prejudice, and Emma). The Bronte sisters’ books are great but very dark.
You are hot classically, Chrissy.
I have only 3 Bronte books left to read
I really liked Emma
Anna Karenina
I want to read that one but the sheer size of it is intimidating. Lol
It’s long, but very readable. It’s probably my favorite book. There’s so much in it.
Thank you i was looking at that I like big books
Leo tolstoy
The idiot
I have read it and I enjoyed it
Quickly go read Ken Follet ‘s The Pillars of the Earth, a 21st Century classic
I’m reading A Confederacy of Dunces. It’s a bit weighty, but very funny.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Man in the iron mask
The three musketeers
Anything by Charles Dickens
Moby Dick
Great ones there!
I liked moby dick I learned a lot about whales
Edgar Allen Poe
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07146HX4K
Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Charles Dickens
Thank you for all the suggestion
Read Flatland, it’s awesome
Ok thank you
Hi @Jennifer I’m also hooked up on classical. Who are your favorite classical authors? And favorite books?
I can’t get along with contemporary easily, unless the story is real good.
I like the Brontes and Jane Austen and a lot more i like the books little women, Moby Dick, the secret garden and a little princess and a lot more. What are your favourite books
I’m more of a Dickens Fan. I was very young when I started reading Great expectation. I read it in months but I was worth read. I still love that book. I read pride and prejudice, but it didn’t work for me. It was fine for me. I suggest that you should read If I stay, or Me Before you. I guess you will like them
I like Dickens I have read olivier twist and a Christmas Carol
I will look for them
@Jennifer Coyne: try the Pickwick Papers, it’s really funny
Ok
Just got it on my kobo
@Jennifer I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
I think I will do
@Rachel I read Pickwick Paper. ? It was fun to read. Which is your favorite short story in the novel?
It a Morden one its is called Forevermore it on the kobo
Dante’s Inferno
Dorothy Sayers’s maps help. I like the prose Sinclair translation with lots of explanatory notes. And I like Purgatorio too.
I agree on the notes! They help a lot
I got through Paradiso, but it was like a medieval astronomy course. Jeepers.
I did not get though it lol
I tried to read this, really. I got about halfway through. I hated the writing style. I don’t have that kind of patience anymore.
I have heard of thank you
Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas. Or, if you enjoy Dickens, expand to the other Victoins: Troloppe, Gaskill, Gissing, Eliot, Thomas Hardy. Or read some from our Gilded age such as Edith wharton.
I have got that one on my kobo to read it’s is hard pick a book from so many good books
You can find anything on internet, when i,m searching for something i go to Google.
Thank you
Dickens
I like the couple of books I read by him
Have you read Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens or Ruby in the Smoke by I dont remember who
No I haven’t I will look on the kobo website for them
Thank you i will look it is hard picking a book out of so many good books
Thank you one thing I like about classic is the style of writing