What is your most prized and loved piece of classic literature?
What is your most prized and loved piece of classic literature?
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What is your most prized and loved piece of classic literature?
The Odyssey by Homer
Hmm…
Too tough…I like my edition of the hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
But 1984 is probably my favourite classic book
To Kill A Mockingbird is my all time favourite, top of my list ‘classic’ book.
As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
Little Women
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Jane Eyre
Chaucer and the Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
I recently read the original beauty and the beast – Marie Le Prince de Beaumont and really enjoyed it!
Oscar Wilde – picture of Dorian gray
Anne of green gables by l m Montgomery. Childhood favorite that started my passion for reading.
Me too!!! I’m a redhead, so my family bought me all of those books when I was only 7 or 8. I couldn’t get through them fast enough and then read them over and over throughout my childhood.
Oh I loved it too! Read all of them as a child.
Ooh another good one!
This is what I planned to comment. ❤ Loved it so so much.
What was everyone’s favorite l m Montgomery s book ? Mine was the story girl and Rilla of Ingleside ❤
The Old Curiosity Shop.. Charles Dickens xx
I am a Dickens girl myself too.
Ah so dislike Dickens the misery of it all. Love classics and have read most books ( comes of having a father who is a prof in English lit ) but just can’t get on with Dickens
Is this the one where there’s a young lad that appears as a servant & they call him something like the scarlet avenger?
This is really bothering me now, I can’t for the life in me remember exactly who this character is & which book he appears in, but he was a humourous character so if anyone knows, please put me out of my misery!
@Claire I think it could be Great expectations as I think Pip had a servant boy called avenger but not entirely sure as I read it possibly 30 years ago ?
Thanks @Ros, you may well be right, I’ve read it a few times but not for years now & my memory is appalling, find to have to re-read it to find out!
@Claire I know lol my memory is too ?
The amount of books I go to buy then have a glimmer of a memory of already reading it ?
All the damn time! ?
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand…I can’t tell you how often I have read it. 20+ times, at least
Rebecca…
I just rented a movie called Rebecca, Alfred Hitchcock from 1940 . Wonder if is the same one ♡♡
It is.
Rebecca is a great book ?
Animal Farm – George Orwell
I think I have a chip on my shoulder about that one because it was required reading for me in the 7th grade. 🙂
I discovered George Orwell on my own and I just loved that book. 1984 was great too.
1984 is one of my all time favorites.
I remember they made us read Lord of the Flies in school and I actually loved it. Probably the only book they required us to read that I liked.
That and The Outsiders. If I went back and reread most of them, I know I would love them now. I was a major bookworm but I hated having to interrupt whatever book I was reading personally for required school reading. I still committed to them, but begrudgingly. Haha. But some, I’m pretty sure I’d still hate, like The Scarlet Letter.
Oh I forgot about the Outsiders. That was a great book too.
Animal farm and 1984 are both amazing books
Any Sherlock Holmes by Author Conan Doyle
Armadale by Wilkie Collins
Totally agree really like most of his books
Rebecca.
Me too
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and East of Eden
To Kill a Mockingbird
My grandmother’s first edition Heidi book
Now that is special for many reasons. Named my daughter Heidi after this book.
A Christmas carol – read it every year
Les Miserable
Rebecca & Gone with the Wind
Hmmm, difficult… Tess of the D’urbavilles or Great Expectations… Maybe
Rebecca – finished it last night xx
My Mum’s collection of the Larkin books by H E Bates ?
Lord of the Rings – well it’s a classic to me!
Voss
A Tale of Two Cities
Little Women
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Gone with the wind
A Christmas Carol – I read it every year starting on 1st December and make it last as long as possible. Also Little Women.
Wuthering heights
Vanity Fair
Bleak house
Jane eyre…top 5⭐️
Ulysses. Still packed out with all my post it explanations from university……..
Grapes of Wrath
I have grown to adore the books I regularly teach, Lord of the flies, a Christmas Carol, of Mice and Men. I also adore David Copperfield and the ultimate classic fantasy novel – lord of the rings.
So many good ones mentioned. I will add Red Badge of Courage and Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Gone with the wind
Peter Pan <3
To kill a Mockingbird
Little Women/Little Men/Jo’s Boys
East of Eden
Of mice and men
My Ántonia
Grapes of Wrath
Really enjoyed Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
And Rebecca, of course 🙂
Anne of Green Gables
To kill a mockingbird
Pride and prejudice
And all the above
Black Beauty
Pride and Prejudice and Tale of Two Cities.
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
And definitely Pride and Prejudice
Come to think of it no I can’t
Like choosing favourite child
Les Misérables
Zola’s Germinal
My best friend got this for me at a goodwill for $3. Gold leaf pages and gorgeous. We googled it and found out it’s worth over $200! She only got it for me because it was ‘pretty’ and knows I love Jane Austen. Amazing find!
Little women is my absolute favorite
Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty. My aunt bought it for me when I was 9 and horse crazy. It was the book that inspired my love of reading. Will always have a special place in my <3
Oh I love that book. I must have read it a hundred times when I was a child. No adaptation has ever come close to the sheer beauty of the original book.
Agreed!
Pride and Prejudice