I need to read a book for English, a classic, and I have no idea which is the best one to read.
2007-09-30 05:03:35 · 15 answers · asked by Dave W 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Pride and Prejudice
2007-09-30 05:08:59 · answer #1 · answered by ladyliberty 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , Stevenson
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde
Dracula, Stoker
2007-09-30 12:18:39 · answer #2 · answered by Jackie Oh! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a pretty vague parameter. However, here are the ones that I LOVED. Good luck.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884
by Mark Twain
Justice and honor are celebrated in this story about Huck’s adventures on the Mississippi River with the runaway slave Jim.
Beloved
1987
by Toni Morrison
Morrison’s heart-breaking novel tells the story of a woman who escapes from slavery to freedom in Cincinnati but remains haunted by her daughter’s murder.
Brave New World
1932
by Aldous Huxley
Huxley brilliantly satirizes contemporary society’s dehumanization in this grim novel of the future.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
1936
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Baker Street saga is chronicled in this collection that includes “A Study in Scarlet,” the 1887 story that introduced the English detective Sherlock Holmes, and his assistant Dr. Watson.
Lord of the Flies
1954
by William Golding
A group of English schoolboys, marooned on a tropical island during a time of atomic warfare, bring both civilization and savagery to their community.
The Old Man and the Sea
1952
by Ernest Hemingway
Santiago realizes the dream of catching a giant marlin, but he must battle the sharks for two days to bring his prize home.
Robinson Crusoe
1719
by Daniel Defoe
Defoe’s novel about a castaway marooned for twenty-four years on a deserted island is an engrossing story of survival, civilization, and barbarism.
The Scarlet Letter
1850
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthorne’s novel is a study of sin, guilt, and revenge. Adultress Hester Prynne must bear public humiliation but Roger Chillingsworth and Arthur Dimmesdale suffer equally.
To Kill a Mockingbird
1960
by Harper Lee
Small town Alabama in the 1930s is the setting for this fine novel of a child’s brutal introdution to racial prejudice and adult injustice.
1984
1949
by George Orwell
Ignorance is strength and peace is war in Orwell’s darkly imaginative vision of a future controlled by Big Brother and the Thought Police.
2007-09-30 12:13:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Les Misrables by Victor Hugo
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas
2007-09-30 13:51:39 · answer #4 · answered by lynossa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like Watership Down by Richard Adams. If you like adventure-you'[ll like this. It is so comprehensible/easy to read. Show it to your English teach to get it approved. It is one of the more modern classics. (Adams died in the past decade.) If you like tradition and romance, Jane Eyre is the way to go. But I really think you're going to like Watership Down. Every person should read about perseverence in the face of adversity. It's similiar to Huck Finn and The Red Badge of Courage. I read neither book and I am college educated. Read what you like and not what bores you. You won't learn if you don't like. Watership Down has a short movie also. Peace.
2007-09-30 12:17:12 · answer #5 · answered by Dorothy C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Animal Farm and 1984 are both great and short. If you like longer books, try any Dickens novel. If you really like to read long novels, go for a Russian tragedy, like Anna Karenina or War and Peace.
2007-09-30 12:14:36 · answer #6 · answered by ArLorax 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have a while, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. It's very long, but well worth it.
If you need to read something quickly, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is very short.
2007-09-30 22:09:19 · answer #7 · answered by Caitlin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
2007-09-30 12:11:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
As wiki reports "is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known and most esteemed work."
2007-09-30 12:12:55 · answer #9 · answered by Francis J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depending on your grade...
My two favorites are Treasure Island the The Catcher in the Rye. I'm 30.
2007-09-30 12:08:41 · answer #10 · answered by guyitsover14 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd second the suggestion of Treasure Island. Shakespeare's Much Ado or Twelfth Night. That's all I can think of for now.
2007-09-30 13:48:57 · answer #11 · answered by Molly T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋