I'm just wondering if anyone reads classics anymore and if so which one's have you read or do you like the best, The one's I can remember reading so far are Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice(one of my faves), Don Quixote, Jane Eyre, Lord of the Rings, The Conte of Monte Cristo, Les Miserables(sp), The Great Gatsby, The Scarlet Letter, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, Wuthering Heights(good too), and I'm read some shakespeare in english right now. I know I've read somemore but I can't think of them right now.Oh and if there are any you would recommend that's cool too.
2007-02-02 08:32:39 · 15 answers · asked by angelicasongs 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
A few of these I did read for school, like to Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby,and Wuthering Heights. I never thought I'd like them until high school when I had to read them and they just grew on me and even in college I still like them.
2007-02-02 08:39:23 · update #1
I read Macbeth in high school and I'm reading Hamlet right now for my English II class.
2007-02-02 08:47:43 · update #2
Dante's Inferno
The Blue Lenses
Adrift in New York
House of the 7 Gables
Beowulf
Escape from Devils Island
the list goes on and on....hope you like a few of these:)))
2007-02-02 08:36:05 · answer #1 · answered by rooster2381 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do...I love Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Gone With the Wind and Shakespeare (especially Macbeth, Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream).
2007-02-02 08:41:42 · answer #2 · answered by Enchanted 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read "Jane Eyre" when I was 12. It was my first classic and has remained my most loved. Also loved "Emma" and Dante's "Inferno". Those are some of my favorites. You may also want to try "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers and "Cannery Row" by Steinbeck.
I'm reading "The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins right now. Quite good. Very mysterious.
2007-02-02 13:16:01 · answer #3 · answered by jan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of good suggestions here already. I would like to add Vanity Fair by William Thackeray. I have been reading Oliver Twist over the past couple of weeks. I read an abridged edition as a child and am now reading it unabridged. I also read David Copperfield many years ago.
2007-02-02 22:41:39 · answer #4 · answered by vandajensen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have named some of my favorites as well. Jane Eyre was one of my all time favs. You didn't mention anything by Thomas Hardy. You should read some of his novels. Tess of the D'Urbevilles was the high school standard but The Mayor of Casterbridge as good and so was Jude the obscure.
it is wonderful to know there are others that still enjoy reading the classics as well as popular books.
2007-02-02 08:45:50 · answer #5 · answered by Wild Honey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite classic is Candide by Voltaire.
While I didn't get very far in it, I liked what read of Brideshead Revisited.
I read and enjoyed Exodus by Leon Uris for a history class. I've gone on to read other Uris books - very good author.
I think most of the Mark Twain books are good. I had to read some for school but the one I enjoyed the most, I read on my own. It was Pudd'nhead Wilson.
2007-02-02 12:30:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I just read To Kill a Mocking Bird for school and I liked it. It wasnt the best book I have ever read, but it was solid.
We are also reading four or five of the other books you mentioned. I guess that the curriculum this year requires for a lot of classics.
2007-02-02 08:37:15 · answer #7 · answered by Twenty0ne 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Any of the classic female authors are great, jane Austin, the Bronte sisters, the age of innocence, gone with the wind, and anything Charles Dickinson wrote are all some of my favorites
2007-02-04 14:04:08 · answer #8 · answered by akankie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neuromancer by William Gibson
2007-02-02 09:37:46 · answer #9 · answered by Ralph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of mice and men. Mick Hart was here. I love the beveraly cleary books. O, Walk Two Moons, Anne Frank, The Giver.
2007-02-02 08:36:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋