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Classic reads

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cjt110 · 07/01/2019 14:51

I have tasked myself with reading at least 1 classic per month. So many classic reads that I have never undertaken.

Am starting with Frankenstein.

What else would you suggest?

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LowbrowVictoriana · 07/01/2019 20:51

Great suggestions on here, some repeats from me here, but...

David Copperfield,
Great Expectations,
The moonstone
Dracula
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Tess of the Durbervilles
Les Miserables
Don Quixote

LowbrowVictoriana · 07/01/2019 20:56

Also The Call of the Wild and Gulliver's Travels!

Hels20 · 07/01/2019 21:00

I found Anna Karenina very easy to read and l also found out of all of Austen, Pride and Prejudice the easiest to read. I think so much happens with it.

Other classics - Great Expectations, Tess of the Durbevilles.

Loved Gone with the Wind. If it counts as a classic.

Also To Kill a Mockingbird.

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cjt110 · 08/01/2019 09:26

Animal Farm This is my all time favourite book. I studied it at school, and the history behind it. I must have read it 3 or 4 times. I love it.

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EmmaStone · 08/01/2019 09:28

Have you also read 1984 if you love Animal Farm? That was one of my favourites too.

DippyAvocado · 08/01/2019 09:32

I thinklst of these have been mentioned but my recommendations:
-Jane Eyre (my favourite Brontë, but I also like the lesser known Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë)

  • Pride and Prejudice/Persuasion are my favourites by Jane Austen
-The Go-between
  • 1984
  • The Great Gatsby
  • David Copperfield is the most readable Dickens, IMO.
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cjt110 · 08/01/2019 09:33

Emma Many moons ago I think I tried to read it. Perhaps worth another shot!

I am currently reading Jungle Book and cannot for the love of all that is sacred get "I wanna be like you-hoo-hoo" out of my head from the Disney film Grin

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DippyAvocado · 08/01/2019 09:33

I think most

pizzacrisps · 08/01/2019 09:36

1984, A street car named Desire, Animal Farm

MaryLennoxsScowl · 08/01/2019 09:41

I love The Jungle Book! And Just So Stories.
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
1984
All Sherlock Holmes stories
I Capture the Castle
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Lord of the Rings
The Color Purple

The next one I want to read is Mrs Dalloway - I didn’t appreciate Virginia Woolf at uni but fully expect to get on with it much better now!

Cakemonger · 08/01/2019 10:33

Me too explodingkitten, I hated everyone in Wuthering Heights with a passion but there are some truly astonishing bits of writing

Endofrelationship · 08/01/2019 10:37

Jayne Eyre
Wuthering heights
Little women
Pride and prejudice

I hated Steinbeck.

lastqueenofscotland · 08/01/2019 10:40

Emma
Brighton Rock
brideshead revisited
Middlemarch

1hello2hello · 08/01/2019 10:45

Brideshead Revisited
Manon Lescaut
Jamaica Inn
To Sir With Love
Tale of Two Cities
To A God Unknown - not a well-known Steinbeck epic but has a beauty
Wild Swans - modern classic IMO

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