I'm going on holiday soon and I need a list of good novels to read that are of academic value.
2006-11-14 00:04:11 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Cervantes, "Don Quixote" (a very early novel). Balzac, "Cousin Betty". Stendhal, "The Red and the Black". Jane Austen,"Pride and Prejudice". Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities". Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Scarlet Letter".Tolstoy, "War and Peace''. Dostoevski, "Crime and Punishment". Zola," Germinal". Marcel Proust, "Swann's Way".
2006-11-14 01:01:55 · answer #1 · answered by tirumalai 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my school requires us to read at least six of the following
1. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
2. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
5. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
6. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
7. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
8. The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
9. Night - Eli Weisel
10. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
11. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
12. Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Along with books of selected works of Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson.
2006-11-14 12:18:59 · answer #2 · answered by kate 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MY TOP 4 English
Edgar Allen Poe - The Haunted Palace
Charlotte Bronte - Villette
Edith Nesbit - The Railway Children
Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
MY TOP 4 Australian
Kate Grenville - Lillian's Story
Miles Franklin - My Brilliant Career
Helen Garner - The Children's Bach
Tim Winton - The Riders
MY TOP 2 American
JD Salinger - The Catcher in The Rye
F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
2006-11-14 09:56:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Empire of the Sun, J. G. Ballard
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Dangerous Liaisons, de la Clos
Anna Karenina, Tolstoy
Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
Brighton Rock, Graham Greene
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Howards End, E.M. Forster
Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
Have a good holiday!!!
2006-11-14 08:34:18 · answer #4 · answered by bellydancer 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1) To kill a mockingbird
2) 1984
3)One flew over the cookoo's nest
4)Animal Farm
5) Harry Potter (there's a lot you can learn from it, really)
6)Pride and Prejudice
7) A tale of 2 cities
8) A tree grows in Brooklyn
9)The count of Monte Crist
10) Cyrano Debgerac (no idea how to spell that)
2006-11-14 11:24:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Winston Churchill's autobiography
Many novels by James Michenor, "Covenant" "Centennial" "Bridges at Toko Ri" "Space"
2006-11-14 08:09:44 · answer #6 · answered by kam_1261 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the house of the scorpoin
2006-11-14 08:22:34 · answer #7 · answered by Tyler Thornton 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a good book to read is "My asshole is too big for my buns!"
i read it when i was a lad and i loved it.
2006-11-14 08:12:19 · answer #8 · answered by dylan w 1 · 0⤊ 5⤋