Looking for Classics... something on par with say Daphne Du Marier, or someone... maybe Jane Eire or similar content...
thanks
2007-03-07 15:35:56 · 10 answers · asked by Ozymandias 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The library is full of ' Catherine Cookson' novels. Love. romance, suspense. Most are Gothic times : with Lords of Manors, the rich, the poor, maids and servants --- all characters become real to you. You either love them or hate them! Good stuff!
2007-03-07 15:54:58 · answer #1 · answered by Q-T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read 2 or 3 books a week. These are some that I have enjoyed. Hope you find some you like.
Jane Austin
Pride And Prejudice
Sense And Sensibility
Mansfield Park
North Anger Abbey
Persuasion
Lady Susan
Emma
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre
Shirley
Villette
The Professor
Nicholas Sparks
The Note Book (read three times)
Message in a Bottle
Rescue
A Bend In The Road
A Walk To Remember
The Guardian
Nights in Rodanthe
Rosemunde Pilcher
Shell Seekers (read again- good book)
Coming Home (read twice
Shell Seekers
September
The Carousel
Under Gemini
Sleeping Tiger
Another View
The Empty House
The End of Summer
Snow in April
Wilde Mountain Tyme
The Day of the Storm
Voices in Summer
The Blue Bedroom
Coming Home
Flowers in the Rain
Winter Solstice
Mary Balogh
More than a Mistress
Simply Unforgettable
Slightly Married
Slightly Scandalous
Slightly Wicked
Johanna Lindsey
A loving Scoundrel
Jillian Hunter
The Love Affair of an English Lord
The Wedding Night of an English Lord
Christina Dodd
In My Wildest Dreams
My Fair Temptress
Lost in your Arms
Some Enchanted Evening
Hope this is helpfull. When I read I want to be taken back to a place I have never known. Maybe it's an escape from the present.
2007-03-08 02:46:10 · answer #2 · answered by DeeJay 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gone with the Wind
Wuthering Heights
And The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks may not be the classic you're looking for but trust me, it's a beautiful story. Read it over 3 times now and still enjoy it all the same.
2007-03-08 03:20:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
The fire rose by Mercedes Lackey.Rosalind Hawkins is a medieval scholar from a fine family in Chicago, unfortunately, her professor father has speculated away the family money and died, leaving young Rosalind with no fortune and no future. Desolate with grief, forced to cut her education short, she agrees to go West to take a job as a governess to a wealthy man in San Francisco.
Jason Cameron her new employer is a man with a problem: An Adept and Alchemist, Master of the Element of Fire, he had attempted the old French werewolf transformation, and got stuck in mid transformation. Trapped halfway between wolf and man, over the centuries he has been slowly losing his humanity, and with it his ability to discover a cure for his condition.
2007-03-08 10:11:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I like everything by Nicholas Sparks. He is a great writer, his books are romantic and leave you thinking " If only someone like that REALLY existed". Plus, his books are romantic, but not smutty. But most of them have sad endings... I recommend A walk to Remember and The Notebook, but all of them are good.
2007-03-07 23:40:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Oval Office is good. It was written by a guy named Bill Clinton. It has everything that makes a good novel. Sex, interns, stained dresses, cigars, lies, jealous white house aids.
2007-03-07 23:42:02 · answer #6 · answered by johN p. aka-Hey you. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Romeo and juliet is kind of kool but hard to understand. Maybe because iam 14 years old lol
2007-03-07 23:39:05 · answer #7 · answered by ŁỤĭŞ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
gauging your response, may i suggest boys from brazil, after all an ideaolgogy is a love
2007-03-08 06:02:28 · answer #8 · answered by lolita 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Lady Chatterley's Lover" by D.H. Lawrence.
2007-03-07 23:44:58 · answer #9 · answered by dardekkis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the notebook!
2007-03-07 23:39:08 · answer #10 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋