ever since i've read jane austen's works i've been looking around for other good classics. friends recommended me wuthering heights but to me it's not as interesting as austen. i've also read a couple of charles dickens but i wanted to try other writers. any idea?
2007-07-29 21:17:13 · 10 answers · asked by .......!!......... 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Try Joan Aiken's.
She writes a lot like Jane Austin.
I know what you mean about loving her books.
I have read Pride and Prejudice many times. Also Sense and Sensibility.
Joan Aiken’
Jane Fairfax
Emma Watson
The Smile of a Stranger
Castle Barebane
Five Minute Marriage
L M Montgomery (Lucy Maud)
Ann House of Dreams
Ann of Green Gables
Ann of Avonlea
Janette Oke & T Davis Bunn
The Meeting Place You will love this one.
The Sacred Shore
The Birthright
The Distant Beacon
The Beloved Land
T Davis Bunn Isabella Bunn
The Solitary Envoy
Janette Oke
T Calling of Emily Evans
Julia’s Last Hope
Roses for Mama
A Woman Named Damaris
They Called her Mrs. Doc
The Measure of a Heart
The Bluebird and The Sparrow
A Gown of Spanish Lace
Drums of Change
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
I like all of these books a lot. Our library didn't have all of them but they ordered them from other library's. No charge.
Hope you enjoy.
2007-07-29 22:17:53 · answer #1 · answered by DeeJay 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Three Men in a Boat / Three Men on the Bummel - Jerome K Jerome
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
Moonfleet - J Meade Falkner
Complete Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Railway Children - Edith Nesbit
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
2007-07-30 02:54:40 · answer #2 · answered by Lady Silver Rose * Wolf 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
2007-07-29 21:20:31 · answer #3 · answered by jepz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ahhh I love Jane Austen.
Have you read Princess Bride yet? It's really great...you should try it..considering our interest in the same books...hmm besides that maybe you could read the list of "Borders' Classics'" the bookstore Borders has them..it's probably available online.
2007-07-29 21:20:54 · answer #4 · answered by Christina 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Washington Irving's "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon."
2007-07-29 21:29:44 · answer #5 · answered by knight1192a 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I recomend reading Wilkie Collins THE WOMAN IN WHITE.
Walter Hartright, a drawing instructor, comes to Limmeridge House to teach Laura and Marian Halcombe. He falls in love with Laura, but she is betrothed to someone else, and he must therefore leave Limmeridge. Before he goes, he tells Marian about his encounter with a beautiful woman dressed entirely in white, whom he later discovers escaped from an insane asylum. Here the mystery begins: Who is the woman in white? And is she truly insane?
2007-07-29 23:41:50 · answer #6 · answered by marq 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
William Somerset Maugham - I absolutely recomend his novels, especially :
The Magician
The Moon and Sixpence
The Razor's Edge
2007-07-30 00:00:49 · answer #7 · answered by olessa_lds 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anthony Trollope is another good Victorian author with convoluted plots and lots of quirky characters.
2007-07-29 22:30:12 · answer #8 · answered by Jeffrey Marks 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
<>Try Melville, Steinbeck, Hemingway, and Thoreau.
2007-07-29 21:27:53 · answer #9 · answered by druid 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
to kill a mocking bird...
cry, the beloved country...
2007-07-29 22:56:06 · answer #10 · answered by chasergorgeous 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋