Classic literature what next

[Enko]

I wondered if some.of you would recommend some more classic literature for me. I've recently read through

Jane Austin & Bronte sisters. Now having finished wuthering Heights. I'm looking for the next book but feeling unsure.

I dont want to go to Dickens or Shakespeare I seem to enjoy female writers a lot but not stuck on that. I loved Sherlock Holmes. Really don't want to go as "heavy" as Virginia Woolf.

Any ideas?

I second Wide Sargasso Sea, especially if a Jane Eyre fan.

Tess of the D’Urberville’s’ - I fell in love with Tess’s struggle. Any working class girl could have been Tess.

Is kestrel for a knave classed as a classic yet? It should be. If I’d read the synopsis I would never had read, I just went in…and they are always the ones I’m glad to have read.

The Count of Monte Cristo. Rivals the ending of Jane eyre with reader, I married him. A profound and hard hitting ending, reminding us that most of life is summed up by waiting and hoping for more.

Apart from the Bronte’s, I don’t have many female recommendations. Which makes them all the more unique and fascinating. A few of them never went further than Scarborough from Haworth but managed to write with the wisdom of the world.

M R James
Dracula
H P Lovecraft
... and my favourite, Tarzan of the Apes 😁