What’s your favorite “classic” novel? Looking to add more to my library ?
What’s your favorite “classic” novel? Looking to add more to my library ?
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What’s your favorite “classic” novel? Looking to add more to my library ?
watership down
I second that
It’s hard going. I don’t believe it was written for children. But it’s an amazing adventure story.
i added it to my list! Thank you!
lol….my mom is reading this right now, lol…she is not enthused
tell her it’s worth sticking with..
she’s toughing through it, but just reading the synopsis, it is so not her kind of book lol
Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
I’ll have to check that out.
The movie is one of my all time favorites ?
the one with lon chaney?
The 2004 one with Gerard Butler & Emmy Rossum.
oh. yeah…the musical is quite different
ive never seen the other one, but I’m gonna check it out!
and the movie musical is a tad different from the stage production….it did not do the stage production justice at all
i’ve read it multiple times
I’ve seen it (the musical) multiple times.. it’s one of my favourites, but I have never read the book
Rebecca
The painted veil
Jane Eyre
Wuthering heights
Tess of the D’Urbervilles ( free for kindle on Amazon)
A tree grows in brooklyn
I recently read Jane Eyre and absolutely loved it. Would recommend Rebecca as a follow up read as I believe it was heavily inspired by Jane Eyre ?
Les Misérables
Jane Eyre
Pride & Prejudice (basically all Jane Austen’s books)
Désirée
War & Peace
Travels with My Aunt is hysterical and surprising.
Rebecca..but also the Raven poem. I just love it. Read it every few days
Annabelle Lee is good too. My partner reads it to me.
@Febinger ooh that’s a fantastic partner, I love to listen to poetry. And I agree about Annabel Lee
Jim Reeves made a record Talking to your heart I think it was called where he mainly spoke. he did Annabel Lee, and one called Old Tige about a dog. Men with Broken Hearts was my favourite on that album. Wish I could find it on cd.
@Sandra he’s the best. He reads to me a lot. But Poe is his favorite and Annabelle Lee is so good.
@Terence sounds wonderful
@Terence its on you tube
Really!!! Thanks so much for looking for me. Guess where I’m heading now,lol.
I found the Raven read by James earl Jones . just wow…
I love Anthony Trollope especially the Barchester series.
Great Expectations
Hear hear
Gone with the wind, Rebecca, Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations and Count of Monte Cristo.
All great books
I could watch the movie gone with the end on repeat for days but never read the book ?
To Kill a Mockingbird
Howards End by E M Forster
Jane Eyre
Anna Karenina
The Grapes of Wrath
Jane eyre
The Great Gatsby
A Christmas Carol.
The Valley of Decision by Marcia Davenport.
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Little Women
Any Jane Austen, any of the Brontës and The Count of Monte Cristo
Anna Karenina
Grapes of Wrath
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Age of Innocence
The wuthering heights and gone with the wind! ?
EAST OF EDEN by John Steinbeck.
Jayne Eyre and a modern day classic would be Atlas Shrugged.
Gone with the wind. Frankenstein. Little Woman. Secret Garden
Brideshead Revisited
The Source, Goat Song, The Living Reed, A Stone for Danny Fisher.
Little Women
Second
Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36576608-flowers-for-algernon
I saw this play when I was younger and absolutely loved it!!
Jude the obscure Thomas hardy
Ann rand – atlas shrugged or fountainhead – wonderful books
Ayn Rand, was disliked in her day for her beliefs and her attitude about people. I’m sorry to say, I read her book Atlas Shrugged. And joined the many people who stated, she’s a horrible person. That book went into the fire.
The Scarlet Letter
The series of the Scarlet Letter was really good with Meg Foster. It was a television series and it really seemed to be more in keeping with the look and feel of the period, more so than the movie with Demi Moore. The book was excellent although rather dry in places.
The House of Mirth
Frankenstein
The Old Man and the Sea
Grapes of Wrath
Alice in Wonderland
Jane Eyre
Count of Monte Cristo
The Carpetbaggers
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre and a tale of two cities and count of monte Cristo.
Crime and punishment. Or Dantes inferno.
Definitely.!
Rebecca.
I read this in high school and they showed us the movie. I need to read it over again. #Greatbook
Tara Road by Mauve Binchy
Little Women, Little Men, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. ?
three way tie between “Pride and Prejudice”, “The Scarlet Letter”, and “Jane Eyre”
Pride and Prejudice ????
Rebecca
the handmaids tale and Jane Eyre are both brilliant. x
alice in wonderland
Anna Karenina
My Antonia
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, East of Eden, The Good Earth, Jane Eyre, Great Expectations – these are my favorites ?
Jane Eyre
The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden.
The complete Sherlock Holmes. Anything Agatha Christie. Anything by Terry Prachett.
1984 and Fahrenheit 451
Oooh… Have you read Brave New world, by Alduos Huxley? It was published 17 years before George Orwell’s 1984.
He was a professor of Orwell’s too. Very interesting connection.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2111440/Aldous-Huxley-letter-George-Orwell-1984-sheds-light-different-ideas.html
Thank you for the link. Love Brave New World. Will check out the link on the way to work.
Interesting article. I’m glad that Huxley was complimentary of 1984. I’m curious to know if Orwell sent a response to Huxley. It looks like they had a great deal of respect for each which is not surprising as Huxley was Orwell’s tutor.
I love 1984, Brave New World, and As I Lay Dying. However, The Awakening, is by far my favorite.
I haven’t read that. I will have to give it a try. Brave New World is a great dystopian novel.
I keep wanting to read 1984. But I wasn’t sure if it was still worth reading. I’m aware of the concept of the story and I wondered if it’s still relevant with regards to today’s technology.
Can you answer this for me..
It has been a while but the ideas in both 1984 and Brave New World are astounding. I think it is interesting to see what it is like today and the ideas both books perceived the future to be. You may also want to check out the link I posted above, containing a letter from Huxley to Orwell.
Both great Dystopian books.
thank you for that.
I’ll pick a copy up next time I’m at a book shop.
thanks
The Awakening is geared more to a woman standing against perceptions of society. It has a lot of feminist support. Before recommending that, I thought I’d throw that out there.
it’s ok. I’m comfortable with my feminine side..
Thank you.
Fahrenheit 451 is really worth checking out too. Another book set in a dystopian society
@Mark
I prefer used bookstores before big chains and I know online buying is getting a lot of criticism but for books that have been published for a while, I recommend http://thriftbooks.com/ for the best deal.
Kristin Cutter excellent
thanks for that. I’m at bit old school and like wandering around a shop. But I still order online occasionally…
I read it at school, 20 years before 1984, and I read it again last year. Very relevant.
I love 1984, and will definitely try the Awakening now since you are recommending it so much!
Mark,
My preference is to used book stores and spending the day in the stacks. But when I can’t…lol
To kill a mockingbird
one of my favorites
TKAM, Far From The Madding Crowd, Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude The Obscure (last three all Thomas Hardy), The Moonstone, Vanity Fair, anything my Charles Dickens, Rebecca. And if we move towards the 1960’s Saturday Night, Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe.
I love Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Jamaica Inn was my favourite of hers
@Gemma oh not read that one. I loved my cousin Rachel though
Frankenstein, Picture of Dorian Grey, To kill a mockingbird, the pearl, of mice and men, animal farm
Jamaica Inn, Daphne Du Maurier
Uncle Tom’s cabin
Modern classic. Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
Jane Ayre
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck. One of my favourite books
Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Such a beautiful book. Due a reread.
Tess was my matric setwork book all those years ago…should really reread it today. Will take on a different meaning I am sure
Yes, I did it for A Level 30 years ago, and I reread it every 2 years or so. It is so tragic and human and I love it!
I have a few…Alice In Wonderland, Things Fall Apart, are two that hit my head when i thin of it
Pride & Prejudice, A Christmas Carol & my absolute favourite To Kill a Mockingbird
Frankenstein and Alice in Wonderland
Pride & Prejudice
North and South by John Jakes
Gallipoli by Jack Bennett is great too
@Kate is it. I gotta read it
I read it when I was 14 & it has always stuck with me.
North and south- Elizabeth gaskell
Lord of the rings
Count of Monte Cristo, Great Expectations and Anna Kerenina