Can you recommend me a good classic book?

Answer 1

Any of Jane Austen's novels like Pride and Prejudice or Mansfield Park

Answer 2

Great Expectations - Dickens
The Last of the Mohicans - Cooper
Omoo - Melville
Treasure Island - Stevenson
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Verne
War of the Worlds - Wells
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Ivanhoe - Scott
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Les Miserables - Hugo
Vanity Fair - Thackeray
Catch 22 - Heller
Portnoy's Complaint - Roth
Gulliver's Travels - Swift
The Cather in the Rye - Salinger
On the Road - Kerouac
The Call of the Wild - London
Lord of the Flies - Golding

Answer 3

It depends on what kind of classic you prefer, as you can tell from the other answers, people's ideas of classics vary quite widely. I am also a real fan of the JRR Tolkein books (Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit), if you are looking for something from ancient times I would recommend the Illiad by Homer.

Answer 4

To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
Tom Sawer- Mark Twain
Antigone- Socrataes
The Lord of the Rings- J.R.R. Tolkein

I wouldn't reccomend:
The Jungle- Upton Sinclair
The Red Badge of Courage- don't remember
The Call of the Wild- Jack London

Answer 5

For an ancient classic, I'd say "The Odyssey" by Homer. For a medium-old classic, "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" by Poe. For a modern classic, "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller. All good, and none dull!

Answer 6

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.

Bellarion the Fortunate by Rafael Sabatini.Brilliant swordfights,marvelous schemes and beautiful damsels abound in this fascinating tale of a condottiere or mercenary in 15th century Italy.As the story unfolds Bellarion a convent bred orphan youth is on the way to Padua for higher studies. He gets entangled in the affairs of Princess Valeria of Montferrat.And immediately takes up her cause.He acquits himself marvelously in the court intrigues at Montferrat.However the situation proved too hot and he escapes to Milan.In Milan he passes himself off as the son of Facino Cane,the great mercenary captain to escape the clutches of Gian Maria Visconti the bloodthirsty Duke of Milan.The real Facino Cane was amused at Bellarion’s deviousness and adopts him as his son.Under Facino Cane’s tutelage Bellarion emerges as one of the greatest mercenary captains of that age.

Answer 7

Pearl S. Bucks, The Good Earth, Hillary Dupre's Hillary and Jackie, Gone with the Wind, and Forever Amber. All of these were made into movies.

Answer 8

Hope these qualify:

Bram Stoker DRACULA
Charles Dickens A TALE OF TWO CITIES
L.P. Hartley THE GO-BETWEEN
Arthur Conan Doyle A STUDY IN SCARLET
Emile Zola GERMINAL
Thomas Mann THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN

Answer 9

Ancient: Any of the Greek plays.

Elizabethan: Shakespeare's Plays

18th and 19th century, Jane Austen's 'Persuasion', and George Eliot's 'Middlemarch' (a must read in my estimation)

and into more modern times 'Til We Have Faces' by C.S. Lewis.

Answer 10

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (about a retarded man who gets an operation and becomes a genius, the movie Charley was based on this book)