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
Animal Farm
The Great Gatsby
Pride and Prejudice
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Alchemist
The Little Prince
Fahrenheit 451
Frankenstein
Dracula
The Metamorphosis
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Stranger
Lord of the Flies
The Catcher in the Rye
The Kite Runner
Wuthering Heights
White Nights
The Outsiders
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Romeo and Juliet
Jane Eyre
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
The Help
Crime and Punishment
The Bell Jar
Sense and Sensibility
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
It
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Audible Original Drama)
The Old Man and the Sea
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
Hamlet
The Secret Garden
The Count of Monte Cristo
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Carmilla
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Holes (Holes, #1)
Siddhartha
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Slaughterhouse-Five
Never Let Me Go
Yol
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
Memoirs of a Geisha
Life of Pi
The Giving Tree
Lolita
Emma
Anna Karenina
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
The Grapes of Wrath
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
A Christmas Carol
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
Meditations
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
Persuasion
Notes from Underground
Great Expectations
A Tale of Two Cities
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
Les Misérables
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
The Brothers Karamazov
The Silence of the Lambs  (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
Chess Story
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
Madonna in a Fur Coat
The Color Purple
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
The Crucible
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
A Clockwork Orange
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Treasure Island
Catch-22
The Plague
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gone With the Wind
The BFG
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Othello
The Remains of the Day
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)
Beowulf

Deborah Moggach
“ You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy. ...more ”
― Deborah Moggach, Pride & Prejudice screenplay

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