Favorite Classics

Wuthering Heights.

The Iliad.

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.

The Pickwick Papers made me laugh out loud, but the previous three are ones I could go back to time and time again.

Persuasion can't beat "you pierce my soul"

Jane Eyre

Les Miserables

The Idiot by Dostoyevsky.
It's imperfect and overly sentimental but strangely enough, these 'faults' are part of its beauty.

I'm with Scribe on The Count of Monte Cristo.

Others:

Huck Finn
Victor Hugo's not-nearly-enough-known The Man Who Laughs
Lord Jim


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Pride and Prejudice
Lolita
Most of Shakespeare
Homer's epics
The Alice books
The Divine Comedy, especially Sinclair's and Singleton's versions, though Bickersteth's and Binyon's terza rima translations are beautiful in their own way
Ulysses
The Aenied
The Metamorphoses
The Prose Eddas
Pilgrim's Progress

Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Frankenstein
The Woman in White
Armadale
MacBeth
King Lear
A Midsummer Night's Dream

I recently finished "Underground to Canada" by Barbara Smucker. One of my favorites!

I liked Wuthering Heights.

I have several classics that I still have to read, but there's just so many books-so little time. I'll get around to them all eventually.

I'm having a hard time getting into Gone With The Wind, maybe something's wrong with me.

I've also read "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" and "David Copperfield"

Tarzan of the Apes
Princess of Mars
War of the Worlds
All the Conan stories
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Farenheit 451
Stranger in a Strange Land
Dune

maybe I need a definition of classic.

All of Thomas Hardy
Daphne DuMaurier's more obscure works, such as House on the Strand
The Great Gatsby
The Drinking Den by Zola
Catcher in the Rye

vixey said:

All of Thomas Hardy
Daphne DuMaurier's more obscure works, such as House on the Strand
The Great Gatsby
The Drinking Den by Zola
Catcher in the Rye

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How did I forget to put Hardy on my list? "Tess" is one of the most powerful novels I ever read.

Shadow_Ferret said:

Tarzan of the Apes
Princess of Mars
War of the Worlds
All the Conan stories
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Farenheit 451
Stranger in a Strange Land
Dune

maybe I need a definition of classic.

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Your current one works fine for me.

Hardy's The Well-Beloved is a favourite of mine.

Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
The Scarlet Letter
The Yellow Wallpaper (short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
House of Mirth
The Awakening

I'm sure there are others; I just have to think about it a little longer.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and The Prisoner of Chillon

Wuthering Heights
Swann's Way
The Magic Mountain
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Anything Steinbeck but primarily Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat

Most Austen
Most Trollope
Jane Eyre
Middlemarch
The Age of Innocence
Dombey & Sons
Great Expectations
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
Vanity Fair

I will join in the love of Tarzan of the Apes, too.

Oh, this is frustrating, b/c I know I am leaving so many out.

The War of the Worlds
The Time Machine
To Have and Have Not
The Sun Also Rises
The Innocents Abroad
Candide
The Grapes of Wrath
Walden

A better book than Tarzan of the Apes? Tarzan the Terrible...best one in the series. Tarzan-jad-guru in the tongue of Pal-ul-don.

Shadow_Ferret said:

Tarzan of the Apes
Princess of Mars
War of the Worlds
All the Conan stories
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Farenheit 451
Stranger in a Strange Land
Dune

maybe I need a definition of classic.

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I studied Princess of Mars in University so that works for me.

The Three Musketeers but I've yet to read it in English. I read it in Dutch for years and years, and i tried to read it in english but it's wrong, somehow. They're not the words I remember. I must try it again some time.