Genuine favourite genuine literary classic?

[ElizabethX]

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?

Huckleberry Finn

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.

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

Kim.

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.

Persuasion.

All of Jane Austen really but Persuasion is my favourite.

Jane Eyre / Wuthering Heights

Love Miss Pettigrew! In fact, I bought a new copy of it in a charity shop this morning: One pound well spent methinks!

I re-read all of Austen's complete novels at least once a year. 'Sense And Sensibility' was my favourite for a v v long time but now I think it's been toppled by 'Persuasion' - it could me my age!

I also re-read lots of children's classics, especially the Little Women and What Katy Did series, plus Ballet Shoes, Charlotte Sometimes and Daddy Long Legs.

Love 'Lolita' too and think that Isabel Allende's 'Paula' is a modern classic which benefits from re-reading.

Dracula
Dickens- especially Bleak House, Oliver Twist and Great Expectations
To Kill a Mockingbird

I'm with NutmegKate it's Persuasion for me,too.

Pride and Prejudice and to kill a mockingbird

I love Huckleberry Finn too :)

Read Jane Eyre something like five or six times back to back when I was 11/12. Same with Heidi a few years earlier.

it was pride and prejudice for years but now its persuasion. I find it so heartbreaking at times, I really feel for Anne :(

Also love 'of mice and men'.

Was disappointed by 'to kill a mockingbird'. Good book but I was expecting something I'd always remember and re-read, it wasn't that.

Little Women.

Wuthering Heights, though I swear it gets darker every time I read it.

In 'snobby' literary arguments (generally where I'm trying to claw back some intellect points after admitting I love Bernard Cornwell and Spike Milligan novels) I also like to point out that one of my all time favourite novels is The Good Solider by Ford Madox Ford. Not sure if it is well known enough to count as a 'genuine literary classic' but it is one of those books that gets better and better every time you read it.

I reread Dracula recently and realised all the male characters apart from the count are incompetent bumbling toffs.
It was like monster versus the Tory party.

I love The Turn of the Screw, and Woman in Black.

And, I don't know if it counts but I could read Brideshead Revisited on a loop. I adore that book.

I know it's not a classic as such but my ultimate favourite book and the one that has had the biggest impact on me is War Of The Worlds.

Wuthering Heights. Tenant of Wildfell Hall. My Antonia. They're like comfort reading yet I find new things in them each time. Each of them is now a part of me.

P & P is my all time favourite but I might try Persuasion again after reading this thread!

Also love Great Expectations and Three Men in a Boat. Still laugh out loud at Uncle Podger.

Not sure if it's properly literary but my favourite novel EVER is Catch-22. I also love Dickens, esp Bleak House.

Love Catch-22! I bought the new anniversary edition paperback this year but it's not the same as my old floppy yellow 1960s version!

Persuasion. Never fails to hit the spot.

Another one for Persuasion. It's her most grown up novel.

I also like Far From the Madding Crowd. I love the bit at the end where it describes their relationship as being two people working together side by side. For a Victorian novel, they have a pretty equal partnership, in the end.