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hi, what is the right book if you want to start reading sad classic books
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Mar 01, 2024 10:37PM
I have been hearing a lot about Fyodor Dostoevsky, and I am thinking of getting 'Notes from the underground'. If you could suggest some more works like his (that would absolutely break me) then, it would be a great help :)
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just finished 'of mice & men' this afternoon, i'd say its pretty sad and its a real quick effortless read
Little Women!It’s so good and even though I didn’t cry, I did tear up a lil bit.
The Bell Jar, In Cold Blood, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Of Mice and Men, Life of Pi, War of the Worlds.
Where the Red Ferns Grows and Old Yeller.
The bell jar and Wuthering Heights are amazing!
Where the Red Ferm GrowsCrime and Punishment
Anna Karenina
Villette
Jane Eyre
Great Expectations
War and Peace
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon is a bit of a tear jerker and only part one of a trilogy. The others are Cloud Howe and Grey Granite.
as @sophia Macdowell said Of Mice and Men it was so sad I still think about it I've read it a long time ago like more than 10 years and it still upset me and it was a quick read like I love it but I hate it at the same time because of how sad it was
And Quiet Flows the Don. Mikhail Sholokhov.
Couple more...Frankenstein (this book surprised me), The Dairy of a Young Girl (Anne Frank), The Grapes of Wrath, Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Old Man and the Sea.
Now, if you want sad 'romantic' novels...
Anna Karenina
Wuthering Heights
Rebecca
Jane Eyre
The Portrait of a Lady
Great Expectations
Pride and Prejudice
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Tess of the D'urbervilles Thomas Hardy
Robert wrote: "Tess of the D'urbervilles Thomas Hardy"Seconding Tess! Thomas Hardy's writing is just beautiful, and the story is really progressive for the time. It's a little dense, but definitely worth it.
Frankenstein, wuthering heights, rebecca, jane eyre, those are my personal favorites and all of them made me cry (coming from a very sensitive person, so you might not find these as emotionally damaging as i did)
Wuthering Heights...100%...it's so sad!!😭
I read crime and punishment when I was a teenager, and I actually loved it.
«In Cold Blood», surely. It makes you cry your heart out.
Of Mice and Men, or The Pearl both by John Steinbeck. Both beautiful and super sad
Hamlet by William Shakespeare but get an annotated college or other adult version, NOT one of the tamed-down high school ones.
if you wanna start reading dostoevsky, don’t start with notes from underground!! it’s one of his most complex and philosophical books and people that are not familiar with his works are often put off by it. the best starting point is crime & punishment imo, if you like it you can go ahead and read his other books
Where the Red Fern grows. its a coming if age book of a young boy living out in the Ozarks to a good family but financially poor. his dream of owning hunting dogs and the sacrifice he makes to own some, raise them and af
wuthering heights is my personal favorite
Anything by the Bronte Sisters . They don't do feel good .
By "classic" do you mean the Western Canon? It is so hard to choose one. maybe Tess of the d'Urbervilles or Anna Karenina
i'd advise you to not start with dostoyevsky! ease into it with 'portrait of dorian gray', it's easy to understand but also undeniably gothic and sad
Team Wuthering Heights for me as well. And Les Mis is not a happy book either, but so freekin' good
Jude the obscure Anna Karenina
Little Women
Animal Farm by George Orwell, without a doubt. It’s short, elegant in its simplicity, easy to grasp but encompasses so much, timeless but very timely, and made me sob my heart out. I can’t believe no one mentioned it.
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