Genuine favourite genuine literary classic?

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ElizabethX · 27/07/2012 14:55

Ok what genuine pukka classic work of literature do you genuinely love and repeatedly re-read?

For me there is The Great Gatsby, The Turn of the Screw and Wuthering Heights. Dracula maybe although the theme has been so overdone since it feels a bit tarnished.

I'd like to say I love Jane Eyre and Dickens and what not but although I've got through lots of these I can't say I as rapt throughout.

What are yours?

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PaddingtonBare · 28/07/2012 17:18

Jane Eyre / Wuthering Heights

NutmegKate · 28/07/2012 17:03

Persuasion.

All of Jane Austen really but Persuasion is my favourite.

FireOverBabylon · 27/07/2012 15:15

Great Gatsby, Great Expectations, Return of the Native and the Karamazov Brothers mainly because a chapter of this book a night was guaranteed to send me straight off to sleep before I had a small child to perform this function

Oh and Miss Pettigrew lives for a day, although I don't know if this counts as a true classic of literature.

Pascha · 27/07/2012 15:14

Kim.

bruffin · 27/07/2012 15:12

Jane Eyre, Rebecca and Little Women. They are books I have reread many times.

sagenod · 27/07/2012 15:05

Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, (I have hardback copies of both from the 1960s which my mum won at School for good behaviour).
To Kill a Mockingbird if that counts.

MaryHansack · 27/07/2012 14:58

Huckleberry Finn

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