What are your favorite books that are set in the 1700s or 1800s?
What are your favorite books that are set in the 1700s or 1800s?
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What are your favorite books that are set in the 1700s or 1800s?
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
Gulliver’s Travels, Robinson Crusoe, Frankenstein, Middlemarch, Silas Marner, Oliver Twist, Bleak House, Great Expectations, The Moonstone, The Woman In White, Moby Dick, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Dracula Jekyll and Hyde, much of Sherlock Holmes (as it’s easy to forget that much of it is written in the 20th century!), The Picture of Dorian Gray, early H.G Wells…not an exhaustive list but it’ll do!
Sorrows of Young Werther Confidence Man
@Bruce I read Werther 2 time in a row than thro it away ?
So it goes. I was highly entertained.
Gulliver’s Travels, Frankenstein, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë), Moby-Dick, The Scarlet Letter, Madame Bovary, A Tale of Two Cities, Crime and Punishment, Middlemarch, Anna Karenina, Jude the Obscure, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, The Awakening..
Evelina, Vanity Fair, Bleak House, Middlemarch, The Portrait of a Lady, War and Peace, Fathers and Sons, Jane Eyre, New Grub Street, The Way We Live Now, Oblomov, Dead Souls.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Scarlet Letter, The Awakening, Madame Bovary and Dracula.
Bless your heart you listed mine too. Bravo.
The Awakening is early feminist literature–a worthy read.
All good ones!
Brothers Grim, Great Exceptions, Crusoe, Frankenstein, Goblin Market and other Poems
Wuthering Heights, The Brothers Karamazov. Gone With the Wind. Lonesome Dove. Sons and Lovers.
David Copperfield, Huckleberry Finn, Time and Again
Bringing more next Sat. You can’t go wrong with strawberries and ice cream.
Maybe bring some hot fudge too so people will have a choice.
Candide, Dangerous Liasons, Melmoth the Wanderer, works of Heinrich von Kleist, works of Gerard de Nerval, Vathek.
Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, and anything by Chekhov.
Robert Louis Stevens’ Kidnapped and Treasure Island.
Stevenson’s Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Catriona, & The Master of Ballantrae; Walter Scott’s Waverley, Rob Roy, & The Heart of Midlothian; Dickens’ Dombey and Son, Oliver Twist, & Bleak House, C Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Villette & Shirley; A Bronte’s Agnes Grey & The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Tolstoy’s War and Peace & Anna Karenina; Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and The Brothers K; George MacDonald’s Robert Falconer, Sir Gibbie & Donal Grant…just to name a few!
Vanity Fair for the win <3
Les Miserables – there are 365 chapters. Read one a day.
My brother Sam is dead
I LOVE this book which I taught in 5th grade. It was the perfect tie-in to our study of the American Revolution and provided many opportunities for the discussion/debate of different types of conflict and acts of rebellion. We actually had to defend keeping it in the curriculum when a small group of Born-Again Christians demanded its ouster. They regularly received mailings about books they should fight to have removed from the schools. Their objection to this book was children drinking beer for breakfast, Sam defying his father and Tim cursing when he saw his brother executed. We had one of the Collier brothers in to address these concerns, and he explained the five years of research that went into writing this novel. The Board of Ed supported keeping the novel in the curriculum and allowed the objecting parents to remove their kids from class to read an alternate book in the library. Not one of their kids opted for that. We had great discussions with the kids over whether or not this book was appropriate for them, should the authors have removed the objectionable parts, etc.
@Lorrie wow! It is definitely an amazing book for the young reader, and i love your insight. Lorrie I’d love to speak with you on my podcast regarding this book. Is that something you’d be interested in by any chance?
@Dylan, sure. Why not!
The Patrick O’Brian series set in the Napoleonic naval war time.
I love reading your posts and opinions. what in your opinion is the difference between a classic and a popular booik. or is there any
Popular books are read, then stored or discarded and soon forgotten.
A classic is read in depth and never forgotten. It lives on and on. It influences your thinking, your life and your relations with others, for good or for bad.
When you read a classic, you give a little and in return you get a lot in return.
A classic has a lasting affect on your soul, and your very being.
I think that a classic book has stood the test of time and still remains relevant. Popularity on its own is not enough, it has to continue to speak to later generations.
Them by Joyce Carol Oates
Books by Jane Austen, John Jakes, Catherine Cookson, Kenneth Roberts, Diana Gabaldon, to name a few.