A loved Moby Dick and other "challenging" works. Suggest another classic?
2006-10-28 07:10:54 · 8 answers · asked by Sue_Desdemona 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Anna Karenina, The Sound and the Fury, or The Red and the Black, by Joyce, Tolstoy, Faulkner, and Stendhal, respectively. Good reading!
2006-10-28 07:24:28 · answer #1 · answered by bot_parody 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are so many great classics! What type do you like the best?
For some, Charles Dickens is king - Great Expectations, The Tale of Two Cities, and more.
For some, the humor of Mark Twain is best - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and so on.
Others would rather read of romance and tragedy - Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre.
Wilderness and action tend to dominate works by Jack London - The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf.
My favorite classics include The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Anne of Green Gables octet by L.M. Montgomery - character studies that stay with you long after you've finished reading the books.
2006-10-28 07:20:51 · answer #2 · answered by Willow_Whedon 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Emily Dickinson's poetry. Bleak House by Charles Dickens and Middlemarch by George Eliot, both good examples of what a novel should be and rarely found in modern writing. 19th century writing is the most challenging and some of the most well-written stuff around.
2006-10-28 08:40:44 · answer #3 · answered by writetolife 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about The Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged) by Alexandre Dumas or War and Peace by Tolstoy?
2006-10-28 07:22:55 · answer #4 · answered by laney_po 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
2006-10-28 07:58:15 · answer #5 · answered by Sooozy&Sanobey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try the Original Time Machine or Frankeinstein. The psychological drama is very intense.
2006-10-28 07:29:15 · answer #6 · answered by speranzacampbell 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are looking for a challenge, try
Anna Karenina or
War and Peace
2006-10-28 07:15:03 · answer #7 · answered by pinniethewooh 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sense and Sensibility or Pride and Prejudice
2006-10-28 08:13:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋