What classics do I need to read? (Shamelessly looking for free Kindle Books)

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I have spent a fortune on kindle books (it's just to easy to download them with a single tiny click!). So I am now onto free content!

What classics I need to read?

Have read most Jane Austen. Dickens and a couple of other 19th century books as part of an OU literature course but I'm sure there are lots of other wonderful books out there that I would love to read.

Les Miserables, i've only managed 3 pages (too many big words ;) ) but i am determined to read it :)

Oh I'm watching this thread with interest as I'm an uncultured, uneducated heathen according to DP!

Thomas Hardy
I live Henry James and would recommend starting with Portrait of a Lady
Wilkie Collins ;The Moonstone,Woman in White

Sorry that should mean I love Henry James

Wuthering Heights. One of my all-time favorite books even though I am no longer a teenager and thus no longer obsessed with Heathcliff type wankers

Jane Eyre

I find I can read much quicker on the Kindle so am tearing through those classics that I have never got round to. Currently reading Cranford and loving it.

I downloaded mrs beeton. Not classic fiction but was worth reading. I now feel like i should be up at 6am to properly manage the staff (dh). And i learned how to make a toast sandwich?!!!

I am currently working my way through the Brontes stuff. Currently reading "Tenant of Wildfell Hall" by Anne Bronte. I think there is an option on the Amazon site on the Kindle where you can search for all the free books (not just classics)

The forsythe saga
Jane Eyre
Anne of Green Gables
North and South
Marjorie Morningstar

All well worth it!

Tale of two cities
Vilette
Greyfriars Bobby - with tissues
The Dreaming Suburb
The Water Babies if never have done so

Thank you, thank you! Great recommendations...off to get lots of books guilt free.

Loved Portrait of a Lady and The Woman in White and had forgetten them. Can't wait to read Mrs Beeton, Wuthering Heights and Les Mis.

vina me too. My DDs are totally confused by the fact it doesn't have a touch screen and have given up playing with it so I can actually read in the day now.

pottering I've got Forsythe Saga just after I got the kindle (I loved the TV adaption) so I might have another go at that.

mud

Should keep me busy for a while!

look here

Lady Chatterly's Lover was... Interesting
It was 69p though. Sons and Lovers was free.

I've started Dorian Gray as well, it's nice and short.

That looks too good to be true Hatti - what's the catch?

nothing - these books are available in many different formats on the net, if you know where to look and have the patience to find them. They guy is just cashing in on people not having time or cash!

You will still buy the latest books online - or wait for them to be available from your public library's ebook lending library.

Em forster - room with a view
F scott Fitzgerald - the great Gatsby

I just finished the great gatsby and don't quite get why it's so brilliant! I may have rushed it a bit though

On to kill a mockingbird at the moment. In proper book form as I couldn't find it on kindle!

Vina me too! I am reading loads now, I think it is the fact I can make the font bigger so have to concentrate less iykwim?

I have Dorian Gray.

That looks an interesting link!

I wonder whether that link is not full of copyright infringement, though?

George Gissing books (a contemporary of Hardy and Wells ) are brilliant. Amazon have a lot for free or a pack of 18 for about £2.oo. The Nether World, the Odd Women and Brub Street are his best known but his short stories and other books such as The Whirpool and Workers in the Dawn are good too.

Tess of the d'urbevilles, Far from the madding crowd. Hardy.
Vanity Fayre. Thackery.
Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck.