Tolstoy was a genius when it came to character studies. I really disliked Anna, so near the end of the book when her thoughts and actions started to reflect my own inner thoughts, it terrified me and transformed me as a person. Can’t say anymore without spoiling it.
I don’t know if this book is a classic, but Watership Down is a book that I think of over and over again. Seeing society from another species point of view was profound.
Pride and Prejudice was an excellent read and I also enjoyed Sense and Sensibility!!! Wuthering Heights was also very interesting once I got into it. I struggle at first with the old English, but once I get into the story I love it.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. I was very young when i read it. Before this book, i had never read anything really as well written that could get to your mind and stay there.
20,000 Leagues
Anna Karenina
I’ve never actually read through either of those, although I’d love to! I’m curious, how did they affect you?
Tolstoy was a genius when it came to character studies. I really disliked Anna, so near the end of the book when her thoughts and actions started to reflect my own inner thoughts, it terrified me and transformed me as a person. Can’t say anymore without spoiling it.
@Kathleen no, that’s good enough to intrigue me for sure!
I don’t know if this book is a classic, but Watership Down is a book that I think of over and over again. Seeing society from another species point of view was profound.
@Kathleen I loved the study of the 3 families. What is happiness?
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton.
Forgot about that one! Studied it in school and it gave me an entire perspective on injustice and race
War & Peace. To Kill a Mockingbird
Saul Bellow’s Herzog
Is it classic? So it must be Henry James’s The Ambassador
Pride and Prejudice. And persuasion by Austen. Women of character who move against the grain to find happiness. No matter what society told them to do
Pride and Prejudice was an excellent read and I also enjoyed Sense and Sensibility!!! Wuthering Heights was also very interesting once I got into it. I struggle at first with the old English, but once I get into the story I love it.
Couldn’t stand “heights” Story was so confusing and conflicting. I wanted to strangle Cathy:)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. I was very young when i read it. Before this book, i had never read anything really as well written that could get to your mind and stay there.
“Nobody’s boy” by Hector Malot. This was the first book I have ever got interested in reading from the first to the last page.
My fav is Canterbury Tales?
@Hanna um, no. Geoffrey Chaucer.
Wuthering Heights
Notes From the Undergroung
Underground
Wuthering Heights
Anne Frank’s diary and Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Gone with the wind, too!
Franny & Zooey by JD Salinger
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Brixton Stories, a play by Nigerian literary artist, Biyi Bandele
The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall