neh
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Post by neh on Aug 3, 2007 19:15:55 GMT -5
I would have to say Little Women and Jane Eyre. P&P is a fine read but certainly not my fav - in fact, it's not even my fav Austen (gasp!)
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wvrunna221
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Post by wvrunna221 on Aug 4, 2007 11:38:56 GMT -5
My favorite classic novel is "The Grapes of Wrath" by Steinbeck.
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jessicalee
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Post by jessicalee on Aug 5, 2007 17:53:41 GMT -5
My favorite classic is also Pride and Prejudice. It's actually probably my very favorite book period.
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Aug 6, 2007 10:32:21 GMT -5
I agree that my favourite two classics are my favourite books overall. In general, I prefer classics to contemporary works.
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sagedautumn
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Post by sagedautumn on Aug 9, 2007 19:03:18 GMT -5
me too! More substance
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Post by bookaddict on Jan 9, 2009 20:48:08 GMT -5
This year I intend to read more classics. Here is a list from an ebook bundle that I bought a few months ago. Any suggestions? I posted this on my Vox account as well.
I highlighted the ones I read
The Count of Monte Cristo The Three Musketeers The Way We Live Now Sybil The Magnificent Ambersons Great Expectations: Abbey House Classics A Tale of Two Cities: Abbey House Classics Jane Eyre: Abbey House Classics Moll Flanders Robinson Crusoe Fall of the House of Usher: Abbey House Classics A Room With a View: Abbey House Classics Cyrano De Bergerac: Abbey House Classics Wuthering Heights: Abbey House Classics Tales of the Jazz Age This Side of Paradise The Beautiful and Damned The Secret Garden The Metamorphosis The Trial Daniel Deronda: Abbey House Classics Middlemarch Silas Marner The Innocence of Father Brown The War of the Worlds The Time Machine Uncle Tom's Cabin: Abbey House Classics Under Fire: Abbey House Classics The Turn of the Screw Siddhartha Moby Dick The Confidence Man Robin Hood Call of the Wild: Abbey House Classics White Fang: Abbey House Classics Last of the Mohicans A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Abbey House Classics Ulysses: Abbey House Classics Three Men on a Boat Swiss Family Robinson Pilgrim's Progress Three Soldiers: Abbey House Classics Lord Jim Journey to the Center of the Earth: Abbey House Classics Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: Abbey House Classics The Wind in the Willows War and Peace: Abbey House Classics Anna Karenina: Abbey House Classics Through the Looking Glass: Abbey House Classics Ben Hur: Abbey House Classics Don Juan: Abbey House Classics Little Women The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Prince and the Pauper Frankenstein: Abbey House Classics Don Quixote: Abbey House Classics The Scarlet Letter House of Seven Gables: Abbey House Classics The Canterville Ghost The Importance of Being Ernest Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Abbey House Classics Treasure Island: Abbey House Classics Kidnapped: Abbey House Classics Kim The Jungle Book The Way of All Flesh Main Street The Innocents Ivanhoe: Abbey House Classics Waverley: Abbey House Classics The Talisman Red Badge of Courage` Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Sister Carrie Tess of the D'Ubervilles The Return of the Native Jude the Obscure: Abbey House Classics Leviathan The Jungle The Hunchback of Notre Dame Les Miserables Of Human Bondage The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Woman in White My Antonia Vanity Fair: Abbey House Classics The Age of Innocence Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Abbey House Classics Gulliver's Travels: Abbey House Classics Pygmalion The Hound of the Baskervilles The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Crime and Punishment: Abbey House Classics Dracula: Abbey House Classics David Copperfield: Abbey House Classics Mansfield Park Pride and Prejudice Anne of Green Gables: Abbey House Classics Heart of Darkness: Abbey House Classics
I'm also thinking of rereading: The Great Gatsby and Animal Farm. Also, reading more Hemingway
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Halie
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Post by Halie on Jan 10, 2009 0:40:00 GMT -5
I love The Great Gatsby (which is really a more modern classic) and Pride and Prejudice and all of the Sherlock Holmes works -- he's probably my favorite character in literature.
I've read a fair amount of classics, but many times, even the most celebrated ones don't strike me as anything special. I get the meaning and the importance behind them (like Frankenstein, Animal Farm, the list goes on), I just don't like the writing style. Or the characters.
And I don't think it's a crime to prefer modern literature. It's written for the time period, which is why it seems more natural to enjoy it more (for me, at least.)
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Michelle
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Post by Michelle on Jan 11, 2009 11:00:59 GMT -5
How do you all define "classic"? Is it books before a certain year? Or books of a certain quality? Ben and I often argue about this. He has a rather broad view that it is basically anything pre 1960s. But I have a hard time calling a lot of 20th century books classics.
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Post by neveralone on Jan 11, 2009 11:39:04 GMT -5
My favorite is East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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thenephilim
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Post by thenephilim on Jan 12, 2009 11:05:08 GMT -5
How do you all define "classic"? Is it books before a certain year? Or books of a certain quality? Ben and I often argue about this. He has a rather broad view that it is basically anything pre 1960s. But I have a hard time calling a lot of 20th century books classics. I tend to think of classics as books that have had a lot of cultural resonance. These do tend to be older books though.
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Halie
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Post by Halie on Jan 13, 2009 9:52:24 GMT -5
How do you all define "classic"? Is it books before a certain year? Or books of a certain quality? Ben and I often argue about this. He has a rather broad view that it is basically anything pre 1960s. But I have a hard time calling a lot of 20th century books classics. I tend to think of classics as books that have had a lot of cultural resonance. These do tend to be older books though. I think that's because we realize their cultural value only after they've made a huge impact, or have had time to be analyzed in universities and had books published about them, etc. I think that The Catcher in the Rye fits all of these categories, and it's fairly new (for a "classic.")
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rebeldavis
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Post by rebeldavis on Jan 19, 2009 0:24:05 GMT -5
My favorite classic and my absolute favorite book are both Jane Eyre. I fell in love with it the first time I read it years ago and it's been my favorite ever since.
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bookishgirl
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Post by bookishgirl on Jan 29, 2009 17:59:21 GMT -5
oh wow i looove classics!
my favs are: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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neh
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Post by neh on Jan 29, 2009 22:33:32 GMT -5
I'll submit some Austen for good measure and say Northanger Abbey and SAS.
Can children's classics be included, coz i'd suggest works such as
The Waterbabies The Secret Garden Alice in Wonderland
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