Most Read This Week In Classics

A classic stands the test of time. The work is usually considered to be a representation of the period in which it was written; and the work merits lasting recognition. In other words, if the book was published in the recent past, the work is not a classic.

A classic has a certain universal appeal. Great works of literature touch us to our very core beings--partly because they integrate themes that are understood by readers from a wide range of backgrounds and levels of experience. Themes of love, hate, death, life, and faith touch upon some of our most basic emotional responses.

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Classics"

1984
The Great Gatsby
Pride and Prejudice
The Diary of a Young Girl
Fahrenheit 451
The Little Prince
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
A Christmas Carol
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
The Catcher in the Rye
Lord of the Flies
The Metamorphosis
The Kite Runner
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Romeo and Juliet
The Stranger
The Outsiders
Wuthering Heights
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Jane Eyre
The Help
White Nights
Dracula
The Bell Jar
The Old Man and the Sea
Crime and Punishment
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
Hamlet
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Holes (Holes, #1)
The Giving Tree
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Life of Pi
Slaughterhouse-Five
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Sense and Sensibility
Memoirs of a Geisha
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
The Road
Siddhartha
Emma
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Lolita
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Anna Karenina
The Grapes of Wrath
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
Persuasion
The Lord of the Rings
Great Expectations
East of Eden
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
The Crucible
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Carmilla
A Clockwork Orange
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
The Haunting of Hill House
Notes from Underground
Les Misérables
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
The Color Purple
Othello
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
Hansel and Gretel
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
Treasure Island
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
The BFG
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
Catch-22
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
Gone With the Wind
The Brothers Karamazov
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
Where the Red Fern Grows
Beowulf
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Chess Story
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
The Sun Also Rises
The Plague
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
The Virgin Suicides
The Remains of the Day
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Mrs. Dalloway

Augustine of Hippo
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
St. Augustine

Ovid
Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).
Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses

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