Best of the Classics...?

Question

Hey, my mom just got a coupon for buy one get one classic book but I don't know what to choose. For the first one I'm pretty sure I want to get Dante's Inferno but I'm not sure and I really like Shakespeare's works but I want to get one I haven't read yet and my favorite by him {so far} is A Midsummer Night's Dream. Any suggestions?

Oh yeah, that first answer reminded me, I already have a copy of Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth as well as other classics such as Secret Garden, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Frankenstein, Dracula and a few others that aren't actually mine but my mother's.

Thanks everyone I actually have more than half of the books mentioned though, (my mom's been collecting books for years as have I) but I got Inferno and that morning my Dracula copy broke so I got a new one.

Answer 1

you can go online at this site and see what is available to read online and perhaps get a better idea of what you want to get and also have others you can read on your computer.
My favorite story I think was Scaramouche but you can read that or even download it at the Guttenberg project for free. These links though may give you some ides of which you want to buy in a book form though

Answer 2

Dante is very good, and the Inferno is an easier read than the Purgatorio or Paradiso. I highly recommend it.

A few of my favorites are Crime and Punishment, War and Peace, Don Quixote, The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, A Tale of Two Cities, Barchester Towers, Faust, etc; I could go on and on.

I'll give you my top pick; if you can handle a long read and can get over the weird Russian names, I'd go with War and Peace. It's a masterpiece. Very few works approach it, at least in my mind.

Answer 3

Any of the original classics, if you haven't read them yet: Frankenstein, Dracula, The Arabian Nights, The Art of War, The Count of Monte Cristo, Cyrano de Bergerac, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little Women, The Phantom of the Opera, Purgatorio, The Secret Garden, A Tale of Two Cities, Utopia..etc the list goes on and on and on.

Just pick your favorite or whatever you really want to read

Answer 4

For Shakespeare get The Merchant of Venice, I would say get Dante's Inferno but only if you want a really hard read. There is a lot going on in that but it is amazing! Another good one is Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky or you could do one of the Greek classics like the Odyssey or The Iliad by Homer.

Answer 5

Dante -interesting but very boring why not try A Christmas's carol by Charles Dickens(they say books are better than movies should be interesting hmm im going to the liberary . to own i would go with Grimms fairy tales it will stand the test of time.

Answer 6

Yeah, Shakespere and Dante are good, but I prefer 20th century stuff myself.

Also, what publisher of books is the coupon for? Different publishers carry different books, even within the classics.

Answer 7

As far as Shakespeare's comedies, I would suggest As You Like It or Love's Labour's Lost or Much Ado About Nothing.

Others I would throw in as suggestions would be:
-Emma by Jane Austen (or any you don't have of hers)
-The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
-Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
-Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
-Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (or any of his)
-Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
-The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett
-Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.

Answer 8

Dante, Yes! If I could pick one of Shakespeare's plays it would be Hamlet "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt in your philosophy." " O God, I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams" or "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."