What's your favorite Classic novel.?

Answer 1

atlas shrugged

Answer 2

I have fairly juvenile taste in classics, something to do with being a teenager! But my current favorites are A Brave New World, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451. I love the books that tell about how horrible the future might be, just because they make great points.

Reading the posts of those before me, I think I might start reading more classics! They all sound quite good.

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

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men & Joe’s Boys by L. M. Alcott
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Bronte
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Overcoat, The Nose and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Gogol
1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahaeme
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Lemony Snicket’s series of Unfortunate Events
The Catcher in The Rye
A Clockwork Orange
The Lord of The Flies
Brave New World
The Handmaid's Tale
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Old Man and The Sea

happy reading :)

Answer 5

My favorite classic novel is Henry James' "Washington Square". It is the bittersweet tale of Catherine, a plain heiress, whose father is cruel and criticizing when a handsome man takes an interest in her. If you have not read it, I would highly recommend it!

Answer 6

To Kill A Mockingbird
Huckleberry Finn
Watership Down
A Christmas Carol

Answer 7

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky.
I find no other author could even come close in expressing the full range and depth of the human condition. All of Dostoevsky's novels are true treasures.

Answer 8

One of my favorite Classic novels is "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell since it's readable, understandable and horrible in the sense of the unthinkable regime of BIG BROTHER. I think Orwell tried to warn mankind worldwide not to usurp any power to rule any certain country for the sake of humanities and civilization.

Answer 9

It's a tie:

Dangerous Liaisons (Les Liaisons dangereuses)

and

A Tale of Two Cities

I have read a lot of Jane Austen recently, and have The Three Musketeers and Sherlock Holmes still left to read, but so far those two I mentioned I always go back and read.

What's yours??

Answer 10

The Hound of Baskervilles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

It's mysterious novel that unravels itself page by page
you'll simply love it

Answer 11

Jane Erye and Farenheit 451