What’s your favorite classical literature book you’ve ever read?
What’s your favorite classical literature book you’ve ever read?
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What’s your favorite classical literature book you’ve ever read?
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins is my favourite
@Gemma so good!!
What is it about?
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Bronte…. today I read that it was ‘the most popular book in the world’….. I have to agree…?❤️???
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy or A Tale of Two Cities.
ANNA KARENINA ?
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre and Hamlet!
Rebecca
Just finished it yesterday! So good!!
The Great Gatsby
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells.
Middlemarch by George Eliot, just squeaking past Bleak House by Charles Dickens.
The Devils Elixirs and Jude The Obscure
Persuasion by Jane Austen. Book is amazing ?
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen!?
@Vivian my favorite book of all time!
The Hobbit
Crime and Punishment
Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, David Copperfield, Silas Marner, Middlemarch, and so many more.
It is hard to choose just one, but I all say that two that I found I liked very much but had not expected to was A Tale of Two Cities and Crime and Punishment.
There are so many classics I want to read and reread. I’m kinda in a reading slump right now and this thread does encourage me.
Jane Eyre and Count of Monte Cristo
Great Expectations ?
@Rohen that was the first Dickens book I read and it made me a fan forever.
@Carla, that is THE book which took reading from hobby to mania for me. ?
Still the one closest to my heart…?
Love Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, Les Miserables, The Count of Monte Cristo, Iliad, and the Odyssey
and the Chinese classics: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Water Margin, The Scholars
I think my favorite is The Scholars
Wuthering Heights. Have read it at least 5 times.
It’s one of the few books I never finished, really struggled to get into it ?
Dorian Grey
@Emily-Jo I’m reading that now! I’m about 5% in so far and it’s pretty good!
Ugh—I cannot even begin to answer this question ? How can one choose?
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn and Rebecca.
Jane Eyre ❤️
To Kill a Mockingbird
little women
Clarissa 🙂
Impossible to choose but here’s a few: Huckleberry Finn, David Copperfield, Rebecca, The Mayor of Casterbridge
@Carolyn yes, Rebecca
ooo! Yes! Rebecca is my favorite classic. Nevermind I don’t like any other classics…
They may not be considered classics….but Kon Tiki And Dragon Seed are two books that have stayed with me my entire life
Wuthering Heights and Brave New World!! Both are stunning pieces of literature that I love so much
Lord of the flies !
To kill a Mockingbird!
@Magdalena totally agree!
Wuthering Heights ?
To Kill a Mockingbird
Hamlet
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
Dracula
Lord of The Rings
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington. I also liked The Pallisers by Anthony Trollope.
The picture of Dorian gray and the outsiders
What is the criteria for a “classic”? Sherlock Holmes, the March family, and Nancy Drew.
@Flo I think ‘classic’ just refers to any notable book.
This became my new one.
I’ve heard of this but not read it, how easy going is it?
@Zoe what do you mean by easy going?
@Victoria just how easy is it to get into? I find some of the classics hard going due to the old fashioned language used, is this more modern?
@Zoe, occasionally there were words used in ways I wasn’t accustomed to, but easy to figure out because of the context of the sentence.
There were the long, descriptive run on sentences that are common in classics. But by no means as bad as other more well known classics.
And it wasn’t all tell and no show.
So, personally I would consider it easy going. ?
Silas Marner.
The picture of Dorian Gray
As a teenager, Jane Eyre. As an adult, Tess of the d’Urbervilles. And always, The Great Gatsby.
Frankenstein
Pride and prejudice
Anne of Green Gables
Pride and Prejudice
Alice in Wonderland
Counte of Monte Cristo
Lord of The Rings, The Grapes of Wrath and To Kill a Mockingbird… And and and…
Wuthering Heights…No Jane Eyre…No Anne of Green Gables ? Too hard to choose. ??
Frankenstein and To Kill A Mockingbird
Little women
Pride and Prejudice
Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Vanity Fair.
I’m doing my own version of Dracula so I have to say Bram did well with that Gothic tale for me. But there’s like Scarlet Letter, Poe’s works, Dickens’s, and Hunchback too.
Lord Of The Flies ?
Anne of Green Gables, Great Expectations
Ethan Frome
Of Mice and Men
Anne of Green Gables, To Kill A Mockingbird, Pride & Prejudice, Jane Eyre….I just don’t know!!! There’s so many! ?
Romeo and Juliet, Johnny Tremain, To Kill A Mockingbird
Too many but great expectations Is one of my faves x
Of mice and men and Pearl
Emma!! ???
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
Little Women
Gatsby
1984 , christmas carol and does and then there were none count by agatha christie
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Great Expectations
Tale of Two Cities
War and Peace
The Fountainhead
Dracula… or Anne of Green Gables..
Little Women, Pride & Prejudice, Wuthering Heights 🙂
Anne of Green Gables
Scarlet Letter
Crime and punishment
Adam Bede, Romola, and Silas Marner, all by George Eliot.
Jane Eyre
Anna Karenina
The Odyssey trans. Lattimore
Sense And Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The unabridged version of the Count of Monte Cristo.
Pride and prejudice
Anne of green gables
little wormen
What is classical literature?
@Toby the classics are quality literary works that have stood the test of time. That’s my loose definition anyway.
but how do you know what is orisn’t a classic? a book not be a classic but it could in fifty or a hundred years right? I’m new to reading so I’m noy sure what a classic is compared to a non classical book.
Thank you both.
fahrenheit 451 is an absolute fave
Alice in Wonderland
East of Eden and Tale of two cities.
Little women!!!
@Jo that is my next classic to read!
@Carla its the best!
I think I read it as a child. I’m familiar with it but will enjoy rereading it and remembering.
@Carla and the audio is lovely.
David Copperfield and anything by Dickens. Also a real fan of Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. I read this every year
@Jade I want to read that so badly I must keep looking lol
It’s so good.
Farenheit 451
Pride and Prejudice
A tale of two cities
The Count of Monte Cristo.