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Favorite Classic Literature? - swf - 09-04-2014
Here are a few of my favorites:
Crime & Punishment - Dostoyevsky
Wuthering Heights - Bronte
Hamlet - Shakepeare
Our Mutual Friend - Dickens
Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury
The Phantom of the Opera - Leroux
Favorite Classic Literature? - sanantone - 09-04-2014
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Favorite Classic Literature? - sanantone - 09-04-2014
No one likes literature?
Favorite Classic Literature? - Saharapost - 09-05-2014
Things Fall Apart- Chinua Achebe
The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night- Richard Button
Around the World in 80 Days- Jules Verne
A Christmas Carol- Charles Dickens
The Joys of Motherhood- Buchi Emecheta
Robinson Crusoe- Daniel Defoe
Favorite Classic Literature? - SteveFoerster - 09-05-2014
Saharapost Wrote:Things Fall Apart- Chinua Achebe+1 for that.
H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds would be on my list.
If 1936 is old enough to be classic, then We The Living by Ayn Rand.
If the '50s, then The Mystic Masseur by V.S. Naipaul.
Favorite Classic Literature? - swf - 09-05-2014
H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds
Yes, great book!
Favorite Classic Literature? - koenigtv - 09-05-2014
I love to read but I admit I'm not well versed in classic literature. My list is the books I enjoyed in school that I never expected to like
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
The Prince - Machiavelli
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Favorite Classic Literature? - sanantone - 09-05-2014
I forgot The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
Favorite Classic Literature? - swf - 09-05-2014
More interesting books:
Silas Marner - Eliot
In the Days of Comet - Wells
A Raisen in the Sun - Hansberry
The Adolescent - Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
Great Expectations - Dickens
The Inferno - Dante
Favorite Classic Literature? - KayV - 09-05-2014
Waterlily- Ella Cara Deloria
Dakota Texts- Ella Cara Deloria
Things Fall Apart- Chinua Achebe
Cry, the Beloved Country- Alan Paton
Candide- Voltaire
Les Liaisons dangereuses- Laclos
Les Lettres persanes- Montesquieu
La Princesse de Cleves- Mme de la Fayette
Phedre- Racine (almost anything by Racine)
Le Cid- Corneille
The Canterbury Tales- Chaucer
The works of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz