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Post by Dominique on Sept 26, 2006 23:11:40 GMT -5
What are your top five favourite classics?
You can put more than 5 if u like....
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Sept 27, 2006 7:45:24 GMT -5
From those I have read, I would say (in random order):
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger (I know, I know!)
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
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czarval
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Post by czarval on Sept 27, 2006 9:32:25 GMT -5
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (who also happens to have the best name)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Agnes Gray by Anne Bronte
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Post by Bina on Sept 27, 2006 10:35:01 GMT -5
Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte
Macbeth- William Shakespeare
To kill a mockingbird- Harper Lee
Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
The moon is down- John Steinbeck
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Post by Kristie on Sept 28, 2006 17:27:28 GMT -5
Peter Pan by James M. Barrie
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (these 2 tied for first in my mind)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula/Frankenstein/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Bram Stoker/Mary Shelley/Robert Louis Stevenson (it was all in one book)
all of Jane Austen
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Post by Dominique on Sept 29, 2006 0:58:08 GMT -5
1. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
2. 1984 by George Orwell
3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
4. Madame Bovary by Flaubert
5. As I lay Dying by William Fulkner
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Sept 29, 2006 13:55:34 GMT -5
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (who also happens to have the best name)
i've bought anna karenina, but i haven't read it yet. i know that i'll prolly like it though. what exactly is vanity fair about? one of my teachers recommended it to me because i love austen so much (even if it is by a guy who really does have an awesome name). obviously you think it's worth the read, but what's it about? |
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Post by Dominique on Sept 29, 2006 19:02:42 GMT -5
I've seen the movie of Vanity Fair with Reese Witherspoon but not the book. Basically it's about a really ambitious woman (Becky Sharp) trying to abandon poverty and climb the ladder of society.
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Post by Isa on Sept 29, 2006 20:37:53 GMT -5
I haven't read the novel but I've seen the movie too, and I got a feeling the movie doesn't do justice to the novel.
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Post by Dominique on Sept 29, 2006 21:46:43 GMT -5
Yeah I didn't really enjoy the movie. It seemed really slow to me.
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Post by czarval on Oct 1, 2006 14:09:42 GMT -5
Oh no, the movie is alright in that respect. Vanity Fair the book goes really slow in some parts.
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Post by Darcy on Oct 2, 2006 12:20:23 GMT -5
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Post by czarval on Oct 4, 2006 13:17:33 GMT -5
You reminded me that I should read Count of Monte Cristo again soon.
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Post by bookaddict on Oct 5, 2006 12:09:09 GMT -5
I love...
Adam Bede, by George Eliot
Dombey and Son by Dickens
Pride and Prejudice by Austen
Wurthering Heights by Bronte
Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
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