Classics to Read?

Question

Just Read Of Mice and Men.

Answer 1

Lord of the Flies
Metamorphosis by Karka
Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury
Little Women by Alcott
East of Eden by Steinbach
Catcher in the Rye (love this book).
The Alchemist
Sidhartha by Herman Hesse

Answer 2

If you liked that book, try another by Steinbeck. EAST OF EDEN is a wonderful book -- a bit longer than OMaM, but really worth it. Classic good vs evil with some profoundly insightful stuff. Try it.

Also good is A TALE OF TWO CITIES by Charles Dickens. You may have already read it. If not, give it a try. It's long, again, but really good.

Have you read PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen? Another great pick. Don't go by the most recent movie...

You could try THE SOUND AND THE FURY. I've forgotten who it's by, but a simple search will tell you in an instant. It's a depressing book, if you're into that.

A 'newer' classic would be THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by JD Salinger. Great book. Also try THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Hope you find something you love!

Answer 3

Of Mice of and Men is good. I have to read it for an english Project. But Some good classics are Romeo and Juliet, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.....I like Shakespeare. Um I would Try bookd by Ray Bradbury like Dandelion Wine. The Awakening by Kate Chopin is really great. Edgar Allen Poe is great with his short stories. Or the Importance Of Being Ernest. It was great.

Answer 4

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 5

I just recently finished East of Eden by John Steinbeck. It was a great sordid summer read, perfect for steamy evenings in the hammock with iced tea and a tale of love, betrayal, sibling rivalry, lust, and murder. Two sets of brothers try to win their father's affection in very different ways in a Cain and Able-esque saga. The most memorable character though is Cathy, who sleeps with her husband's brother on their wedding night and ends up shooting her husband and runs away, leaving her two young sons behind. It was a classic I couldn't put down!

For a creepy read that will send shivers down your spine, pick up Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. In this dystopian society the women are very tightly controlled. They can't have jobs or earn/keep money and their assigned to three classes, those who do not have children and are chaste (Wives), those who do the housekeeping (Marthas), and the Handmaids, who are forced to have children until they can't any longer. A terrifying read for today's woman, but so well written it will suck you right in.

And last but not least, how can you have a summer without romance? Might I recommend Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights? A dark, gothic romance written in the best of Victorian traditions tells the tale of two families in the "wilds" of Yorkshire, England. More specifically the story is centered around the romance of Heathcliff and Cathy. You'll want to shake some sense into Cathy and boot Heathcliff in the head, but that's what makes this book so wonderful - you get emotionally involved in the characters. I found myself muttering out loud at places, and then there was the one evening that I went through an entire box of tissues...but we don't talk about that.

I hope these three books will give you something to read, or at least put you on the right track to finding a book that suits you. Happy Reading!!!

Answer 6

To Kill a Mockingbord
The Great Gatsby
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Hamlet
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
Lord of the Flies
The Crucible
Death of a Salesman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Streetcar Named Desire
The Outsiders

Answer 7

It's hard to define what constitutes classic literature. When does it stop being classical and start being modern literature? Hard to say.

But here are some of my favorites that I think qualify:
The Grapes of Wrath
Cannery Row
Robinson Crusoe
The Swiss Family Robinson
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Wizard of Oz and all 12 of its sequels
Tarzan of the Apes and none of its sequels
Siddhartha
Grimm's Fairy Tales
1001 Arabian Nights
Around the world in 80 days


Boring ones to avoid:
Great Expectations
Heart of Darkness

Answer 8

Well some of my personal favorites are 1984 by George Orwell, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes , & The Pearl by John Steinback...Also To Kill A Mockingbird was good, but the author's name slipped my mind for a minute. You can also read Tuesdays With Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. (I'm not sure those are classics though...)

Answer 9

- Catch-22 by Joesph Heller
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
- Metamorphoses by Ovid
- The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Riddley Walker by Russel Hoban
- The Aeneid by Virgil

Just a few, some good, some bad, some not too bad

Answer 10

Native Son, by James Baldwin.
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger