Can you recommend a lovely classic novel?

[PoloM1nt]

I've just been through a phase of reading a lot of contemporary fiction and lots of it was great but I really fancy reading a good classic novel now.

I would like a book that ultimately makes me feel good once I've finished it. A nice 'curl up by the fire' type novel, along the lines of Austen, Hardy, Elliott, the Brontes etc, but I've read those.

Suggestions welcome!

Anthony Trollope’s - The Warden. Love it - and the first in a series if you get hooked.

Persuasion by Jane Austen. A gentle, wistful love story. It feels right to read in autumn somehow.

Pride and prejudice

Have you read Mansfield Park? Don’t know if you meant you have read all the Austen novels?

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins.

Its enthralling, exciting, devastating and amazing. Pls try it. Highly recommend.

I like reading the classics "for boys" I missed out on as a kid/teen by being a girl. They are equally as good as the "girl" classics you mention. Like Treasure Island (Stevenson), Round the World in 80 days (Verne) Anything by Dickens...

Not sure if it’s feel good by the end but try Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg.

Vanity Fair
Lark Rise to Candleford

I second the moonstone. Really the only classic I have managed to finish!

Also not really what you are after but the Pursuit of Love is great.

Middlemarch. Tom Jones. The Woman in White. Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Silas Marner (my fav)

All of Willie Collins is amazing! I love Trollope too, try The Way We Live Now for an amazing one-off of his. Have you read any Gaskell novels? North and South is great.

I'm a fan of EM Forster but they don't all have happy endings.

Margaret Oliphant - The Curate in Charge.

Mrs Gaskell - WIves and Daughters.

The woman in white
Pride and prejudice
North and South
Rebecca
Persusaion

Here to agree with Anthony Trollope.

Kidnapped - R.L. Stevenson.

David Copperfield it's my favourite Dickens and very entertaining not dry at all

David Copperfield - i loved it and I don't love all Dickens. I think it's just what you are looking for!

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Cold comfort farm? Bell Jar? Fried green tomatoes is absolutely gorgeous. Tolkien? Harper Lee? My personal fave Rebecca

Another recommendation for Wilkie Collins especially The Moonstone. I also love the Mayor of Casterbridge but wouldn't say that is feel good.

Oh and Bram Stokers Dracula very good

Agree David Copperfield is the most readable Dickens.

I would second Trollope, andThe Warden is a great one to start with.

Jane Austen is just better than everyone else. This is a fact.

East Lynne by Ellen Wood - lesser known but gripping!

I capture the castle
The great Gatsby
Persuasion is my favourite though.

Fried Green Tomatoes is sooooo much better than the sanitised film version.