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I want to try some classics. Got any recommendations?

I want to try some classics. Got any recommendations?

Belén #recommend #classics

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Judie

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Germaine

Madame Bovary, The House on the Strand, The Moonstone

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Alannah

A tale of two cities is my favorite

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Rob

Teltale heart

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Ann

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

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Burgess

Edgar Allen Poe

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Fabiana

Brave New World

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Zoubida

Anna karnina leo tolstoy

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Robert

Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen

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Kayla

Rebecca
Jane Eyre

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Carly

Wuthering Heights ❤️

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Siri

The Three Musketeers
A Tale of Two Cities
Treasure Island
The Prince & The Pauper
White Fang
All the Sherlock stories
Shakespeare’s Tragedies
Dracula
Pride & Prejudice
Okay, I’ll stop now…???

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Kirsty

Silas Marner

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Caroline

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickins. Amazing story.

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Kelsey

Scott F Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

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Kristyn

Little Women

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Daphne

Lord of the Flies
1984
Picture of Dorian Grey
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
Tale of two cities

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Ramsha

Lord of the Flies
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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Phillip

Some say I’m a classic..Lol. I loved Poe when I was younger.. hope this helps.

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Ramsha

You are funny though ?

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Katarina

Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Persuasion. Also, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea.

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Zu

Jude the obscure, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Tess, etc

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Tammy

ALL of them! =D
Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol, Innocents Abroad, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Anne of Green Gables, I think Nancy Drew is now considered a ‘classic’, Wuthering Heights, Tess of the D’Ubervilles, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Sherlock Holmes, Moll Flanders, Animal Farm, Brave New World, so many!

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Sylvia

around the world in 80 days. Easy read and quick.

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Maureen

Anything by the Brontes

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Shy

Anne of Green Gables Series. So fun and so light.

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Sylvia

I like the two books of short stories in the series best 😉

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Paul

Howard’s End is very good

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Brittany

If you’re JUST starting to read classics (no shame!) start newer and work your way back. It’s really hard to dive into an quasi Old English style writing. I tried to read Jane Austen in high school and quit two chapters in because I couldn’t focus on what they were saying because the dialect was too different. Start with a book from the 80s like The Color Purple, then jump back to the 60s with Valley of the Dolls, then jump back a few more decades with Rebecca, then read The Wizard of Oz (written in 1900 I think) then after that you should be ready for any classic!!!

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Skylar

I actually enjoyed Of Mice and Men. And it’s really short

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Skylar

Oh and the movie is in Netflix I think. (At least it was) and the movie is pretty good and sticks close to the book 🙂

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Robert

Slaughterhouse 5, it’s a fairly short but very profound story.

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Stephen

Absolutely! Also Steinbeck’s Cannery Row.

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Stephen

Anything by Mark Twain.

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Susan

Little Women and Little Men.

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Germaine

Three short classics I enjoyed: Fahrenheit 451, Frankenstein, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

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Patricia

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell. My favorite!

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