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Jul 23, 2015 08:24PM
I haven't read any of Charles Dickens' novels yet. But I have read a bunch of classics. Over the summer I have read 1984 (Finished in the beginning of the summer), The Outsiders, The Glass Menagerie, The Catcher in the Rye, The Pearl, The Old Man in the Sea, and now in am currently reading Pride and Prejudice. I'm not sure if they are all classics but those are the books I have been reading this summer. What other classics have you been reading over the summer?
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:) What do you consider your favorite classic?
I didn't know Far from the Madding Crowd was made into a movie, god to know. Maybe I'll read that next. I'm loving Pride and Prejudice, that could be my favorite. But I loved Romeo and Juliet, and The Pearl. I don't particularly have a favorite time period. I liked distopian, - not sure if that's a time period, but I love it to be a different time period then we are in.
Do you have a favorite time period?
I read "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, which would be considered a modern classic. I plan to read another one of his soon.Also, I'm reading The Luminaries right now which reads a lot like a Dickens novel. However that is not a classic.
Anywhoo
I've read Laughing Gas and Moonshine, both by P.G. Wodehouse, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, and Madame Bovary this summer. I'm almost done with Macbeth. Right now I'm trying to decide between The Italian by Ann Radcliffe or Pickwick Papers as my next read. The Italian is getting the edge, though. :)
Jessica wrote: ":) What do you consider your favorite classic?"Oh, so many! But my all time favorite would be Jane Eyre with Sense and Sensibility as a (very) close second.
Karen wrote: "Do you have a favorite time period?"Regency and early to mid-Victorian for me. :)
I love a Tale of Two Cities so much! It was the first Dickens novel I read and started something special. That and Bleak House are my favourites.I have read so many of the classics but there are so many more to go, what would people recommend as the best Thomas Hardy novel to start with? I love his poetry, but have somehow managed to avoid reading any of his novels!
I love Dickens.Bleak House is truly great.
The Pickwick Papers is a lot of fun. More humorous and lighter in tone
Emma and Persuasion by Jane Austin are great reads.
I LOVE Emily Bronte's WUTHERING HEIGHTS.Heathcliff, with ALL his flaws, is my all-time favorite male literary character, up there with Jean ValJean and Atticus Finch. To me, this is an unequalled love story and reduces me to tears each time that I re-read it or see it on film.
For those of you who are JANE EYRE fans, might I suggest a modern day classic, REBECCA by Daphne Du Maurier. It has many early similarities to JANE: the impoverished, plain very young girl who is swept off her feet by the wealthy, dashing older man who is master of this massive estate and, of course, has a "problematic" first wife.
As far as Hardy is concerned, TESS OF THE d'URBIVILLES is my favorite, but I loved the movie version of FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD. His others are a bit more dark.
Edith Wharton is also a modern day classic writer whom I enjoy. My two favorites are: ETHAN FROME and HOUSE OF MIRTH.
Classic literature certainly speaks to all of us as its themes are universal , the writing exceptional, and they have stood the test of time.
I loved The Scarlet Pimpernel. Romance and adventure told from the POV of a heroine. What could be better. Plus the 1982 movie (although it does not follow the book closely) is awesome.
I truly loved "A Tale of Two Cities" ! I discovered it when I was reading Cassandra Clare's novel "The Clockwork Angel" and some quotes were so appealing to me that I couldn't help myself from reading it right away.
Emily wrote: "I love a Tale of Two Cities so much! It was the first Dickens novel I read and started something special. That and Bleak House are my favourites.I have read so many of the classics but there are ..."
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