Classcials books?

Question

Can you reccomend a good classical book, and why it's a good book to read??? reccomend anything but the books by Jane Auten, read them all already, lols. And the other books be the bronte sisters

Answer 1

Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Evelina by Fanny Burney
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Gone With The Wind is good to read because it's enjoyable novel..."Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized this..." The loves and losses of Scarlett are truly memorable...and it is so much better than the movie.

Their Eyes Were Watching God is good...also about loves, and losses...and about life in general...it's one woman's journey to finding herself...and finding love. Very good. Beautiful language too...just great imagery.

Evelina is a great book. If you liked Jane Austen's novels...and the Bronte sisters...I think you'll enjoy Evelina too. It is about a young woman and her ultimate courtship and happy ending. One of the best "required" books I read in college!

The Count of Monte Cristo is a great book. It's the only one on this list about a man's loves and losses....a young man who's desperately in love is separated from his true love--betrayed by friends--and after years of hardship (and imprisonment) must ultimately make the choice between seeking peace or revenge....

Answer 2

If you want to say I read a book and my life has changed for ever, then you shold read '1984' by Geoge Orwell. The novel is set in Oceania, a superstate that includes the continent of America and the British Isles. Most of the action takes place in London. The other setting is the village of Paddington, which is not very far from London. In addition, there are two other superstates with which Oceania is constantly at war. These states are Eurasia, which includes the entire northern region of Europe, and Eastasia. Authoritarian governments or oligarchies control all three superstates.

Written in 1949, the story is set in 1984, 35 years into the future. The novel attempts to give a picture of what modern society will look like. It is not a pleasant view, for the story is about the struggle of an individual to retain his human spirit, sanity, and freedom in the fiercely automated and strictly controlled society of Oceania.

Answer 3

Most of the so-called classics are tragedies.They always make me depressed at the end.However I'll name the few classics i loved.

Count of Montecristo by Alexander Dumas.The hero is Edmond Dantés, a young French sailor who, falsely accused of treason, is arrested on his wedding day and imprisoned in the island fortress of Château d'If. After staging a dramatic escape he sets out to discover the fabulous treasure of Monte Cristo and catch up with his enemies. A novel of enormous tension and excitement, Monte Cristo is also a tale of obsession and revenge, with Dantés, believing himself to be an `Angel of Providence', pursuing his vengeance to the bitter end before realizing that he himself is a victim of fate.The author did a great job describing the emotions of the prisoner.Disbelief,denial,self pity,madness,apathy and finally hope.For God's sake don't see any of the movies based on the book.They don't do justice to the book.

The three musketeers by Alexander Dumas.The three musketeers have become symbols for the spirit of youth, daring, and comradeship. The action takes place in the 1620s at the court of Louis XIII, where the musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, with their companion, the headstrong d'Artagnan, are engaged in a battle against Richelieu, the King's minister, and the beautiful, unscrupulous spy, Milady. Behind the flashing blades and bravura, in this first adventure of the Musketeers, Dumas explores the eternal conflict between good and evil.Be warned.This book does not have a happy ending.The heroine dies at the end.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.In Dickens' tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser is shown his past, his present, and if he does not change, his future.The first ghost reminds him how he once enjoyed life's pleasures. The second ghost shows Scrooge his current deplorable state. The final ghost foretells the likely outcome of his skinflint ways.

Answer 4

Thomas Hardy is one of my favourites. Since you seem to like books with woman as the main characters you might like "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", & "Far from the Madding Crowd", or " A Pair of Blue Eyes". Second only to "Tess" as my favorute is "The Mayor of Casterbridge" (which is a bit like Victor Hugo's " Les Miserables" which you may choose to read also).
If you like the stories by Thomas Hardy, you will also enjoy the works of D.H Lawrence ( "Lady Chatterley's Lover", " Women in Love", "The Rainbow", "Sons & Lovers", etc...)

All considered great classics. Below is a site where you can read classic literature online if you choose. while there check out works by Guy de Maupassant.

Answer 5

War and Peace=my favorite, it is really long, I read it after reading about it in a magazine. Easy to get through. I can't remember too much as I read it in high school (on my own), but it was worth it.

Jane Eyre: very dark, but suspenseful, long again

Wuthering Heights: same, much shorter

Pride and Prejudice: another good one, Keep in mind these are all written in the 1800's or so.

Modern ones

Great Gatsby: really, good and suspenseful. Well written

I use to read classics obsessively as a teenager. Go to barnesandnoble.com for more information and a sysnopsis of each book.

Hope this helps!

Answer 6

The Revelation of Jesus Christ is the perfect fit with the 'regulation and Prophets' of Judaism and the 'Testimony'[N.T.] of Christianity. related to: 1st very last & very last 1st a million. the first financial disaster of the first e book of the regulation has 22 creations so the most suitable e book of the most suitable testomony has 22 chapters. 2. Rev1:19 John wrote The Revelation[the most suitable issues] first and his Gospel[the first issues he said] very last Babylon and the red beast[Rev17] both have VERY particular histories with Israel and Judea and are an indication for coming situations (Ecc1:9 & 3:15) as historic previous does repeat itself. there is no know-how of The Revelation and not using a deep know-how of the regulation & Prophets for The Revelation is the fulfillment[in time] of the words spoken in[all] the O.T. Revelation7 calls out 12,000 people of each of 12 tribes of Israel for a finished of one hundred and forty four,000 to play vast elements in the most suitable days. in accordance to The Revelation the city of Jerusalem may have an earthquake the position a million/10 of the city will give way and 7000 people will die after 2 prophets testify to the international from that city for 1260 days[3+a million/2 years: 0.5 a week of years]

Answer 7

shelley's frankenstein (then read koontz's modern frankenstien, which i love, lol)

hurston's their eyes were watching god

lee's to kill a mockingbird

webster's daddy long legs

just about any mythology you can get your hands on, lol.

other good reads, depending on whether you can deal with 'epic poetry' - illiad, odyssey, beowulf, canterbury tales, inferno....

it really depends on what you like. take some of the suggestions here, go to amazon.com or alabris.com, read the blurbs on the, and if you like the way they sound, check out either your local library or the nearest community college library.

enjoy!

Answer 8

Read Charles Dickens - "David Copperfield", "Bleak House" and "A Tale of Two Cities".

Also, William Thackery's "Vanity Fair".

Answer 9

The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas is a good one...

Goethe's Faust is good...ummm

The Man of La Mancha, by Cervantes

Answer 10

Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy.