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Jan 17, 2014 05:25PM
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I'm not reading one at the moment, but just finished North and South last fall (excellent), and will be re-reading a Dickens later this spring, not sure which one, yet.
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I really want to read North and South.
I read it last year, North and South is a great book.
emily wrote: "I read it last year, North and South is a great book."Really, I couldn't get into it. The writing style was so drab. I felt like the author was more telling the story than showing, if you get my meaning. But maybe I should give it another try....
One of my favourite classics is Clarissa, by Samuel Richardson, which was published in 1748. It is a very long novel and, in my opinion, features one of the most famous rakes ever created in fiction - Robert Lovelace. The main character is Clarissa Harlowe, an heiress of virtue, who, due to a series of unfortunate circumstances regarding her nasty family, finds herself at the mercy of the notorious libertine Lovelace with far reaching consequences for them both. Clarissa and Lovelace are brought to life by Richardson in a masterly novel which is written in a very unusual style as a series of letters between all the characters. It was a little difficult for me to get used to this style of writing at first, but, once I did, I was enraptured by the unfolding drama of twists and turns which entwine the two main characters.
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I didn't know this book. This is the link: Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady. I added it to my to-read list.
Glad to introduce it to you Lucrezia. I regard it as a masterpiece. As I mentioned it was written in 1748 and is gives you an insight in what it must have been like to live at that time.
oops! sorry, that last sentence should read "an insight into what...." hadn't had my morning coffee then!
I regard "South Riding" by Winifred Holtby as a classic. It is a masterful story with a cast of unforgettable characters based in the part of the world I am from, Yorkshire, and has a strong heroine - a schoolmistress by the name of Sarah Burton. It was set in either the 1920s or 1930s.
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That's ok :)
To restart the conversation, what is your favorite Jane Austen book? I loved Emma, and I heard that Mansfield Park is really good, so I bought it and I plan on reading it.
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I think Jane Austen is often associated with Pride and Prejudice but her other books were really good indeed. I loved Sense and Sensibility and Emma (it was my first Austen book).
Mansfield Park ! I HAVE to read this. I almost bought it the other time I went to the library.
I can recommend Persuasion.
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Oh yes, I forgot Persuasion.
Persuasion is a great novel. There is quite a lot of tension in the plot and Anne Elliot is actually the oldest in years of all Jane Austen's heroines and has quite a lot of emotional maturity.
I have never read Persuasion. That will be added to my very long list of "to-read".
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Yes, I added it too. It seems very interesting.
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No, but it is in my to-read list.
I just finished it - it was very good! Super fast paced, though.
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I started "Coniurationis Commentarium". It was written in 1478 by Poliziano - a first hand account of the murder of Giuliano de' Medici.
I am particularly fond of english classics. Jane Austen is my favourite author and Pride and Prejudice is my all-time favourite book (I think "Persuasion" is one of her best books, so you definitely should read it!). I also love Wuthering Heights, The Woman in White, Rebecca and The Picture of Dorian Gray.I read "Candide" in high school but I admit I don't remember much of it...
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I absolutely ADORE Rebecca, it's one of the best books I ever read. Wuthering Heights was my first "classic". After, I read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë that I loved and Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, which was a bit boring... I think Emily Brontë is my favorite although they are all three very talented.
Lucrezia wrote: "Elena wrote: "I am particularly fond of english classics. Jane Austen is my favourite author and Pride and Prejudice is my all-time favourite book (I think "Persuasion" is one of her best books, so..."Yes, I lost count how many times I read "Rebecca"! Such a masterpiece! Have you seen the movie by Alfred Hitchcock? It is tremendous too.
I read "Jane Eyre" and "Agnes Grey" too, and I agree with you. The first was really good, but I liked "Wuthering Heights" better. The second was boring, but I heard she wrote another book, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is better. I really would like to read it.
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I thought The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was written by Charlotte Brontë! In my first Jane Eyre, the abridged version, the editor wrote that " Charlotte Brontë is known for her three books, Jane Eyre, Villette and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Anyway, I think I'll give Anne Brontë another chance, because Agnes Grey was very, very disappointing.
I didn't watch the movie Rebecca, I can't find it. I just found the 1997 miniseries version, but unfortunately, it was in Russian.
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Well the editor was mistaken...
That's quite a mistake for an editor to make!
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