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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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Kahu · 17/08/2012 04:06

Sunset Song - Lewis Grassic Gibbon & To Kill A Mockingbird, they have both travelled with me through life.

Keep meaning to reread Madame Bovary now that I am a SAHM Grin

Vagaceratops · 18/08/2012 08:35

Crime and punishment.

tiggersreturn · 20/08/2012 22:45

The 3 Musketeers. I love Kipling and will read any from Stalky & Co (very funny) to the Indian ones - try the jungle book stories.

DaPrincessBride · 20/08/2012 22:46

Anna Karenina Smile

Chubfuddler · 20/08/2012 22:54

Another vote for Brideshead Revisited. Middle march is probably the greatest novel I have ever read, and I love it but for sheer pleasure Brideshead cannot be beaten.

MidnightKnitter · 21/08/2012 18:45

Moll Flanders
Day of The Triffids (not sure it's old enough)
White Fang
Lady Chatterly (and yes i know Lawrence was an arse)
lots by HP Lovecraft
The Picture Of Dorian grey
P&p
Dracula

DilysPrice · 21/08/2012 20:50

Without straying into the 20th century
All of Austen
Vanity Fair
Tristram Shandy
Don Juan (along with all Byron's shorter poems)
Dracula
The Diary of a Nobody
Flatland
Les Liaisons Dangereux
Sherlock Holmes (like but don't love)

I'm surprised to see no Trollope fans creeping out if the woodwork - surely there must be some (I've never tried Barsetshire but I know many people swear by it).

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