I just go a Sony eReader and I get to download 100 classic books for free. I've already selected "A Christmas Carol" and "Jane Eyre". What else should I get?
I am a woman, a mother, and a college student so if you can think of anything that would be good for me, I would really appreciate it. Thanks!
2007-12-07 04:59:46 · 11 answers · asked by Erica 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Some of my favorites include:
-Great Gatsby
-To Kill a Mockingbird
-Wuthering Heights
-Pride and Prejudice
-A Tale of Two Cities
-Night
-Uncle Tom's Cabin.
These aren't favoties, but they're good classics:
-The Jungle
-Dracula
-1984
-Brave New World
-Of Mice and Men.
And these are some that I haven't read but plan to read:
-Three Musketeers
-Catcher in the Rye
-The Grapes of Wrath
-The Awakening
-Their Eyes Were Watching God.
And, right now, I am reading "Gulliver's Travels."
2007-12-07 06:08:27 · answer #1 · answered by hiccup_snickup 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here's a list of my top 6: 1. Bleak House by Charles Dickens 2. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 3. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne 4. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne 5. An Experiment of Dr. Ox (also called, Dr. Ox's Experiment) by Jules Verne 6. The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis (a semi-classic) Some authors I would recommend would be: 1. Charles Dickens 2. Jules Verne 3. Robert Louis Stevenson 4. C. S. Lewis 5. Sir Walter Scott
2016-05-22 00:41:38 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Emma, Around the World in 80 Days, Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations.
2007-12-07 08:33:02 · answer #3 · answered by invisible 4ever 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir . ( My favorites are the two books which are considered by many as the cornerstones of Western literature by the Greek poet Homer ; The Iliad and The Odyssey )
The Bible , of course , The Imitation of Christ bt St . Thomas a Kempis , etc . . .
Yours is an excellent question ! Happy & safe holidays ! :0)
2007-12-07 05:20:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
ULYSSES by James Joyce
THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
CATCH-22
DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
1984 by George Orwell
I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
2007-12-07 07:18:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depending on the age of your children and whether you are interested in books for them I would suggest the following books by Frances Hodgson Burnett:
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess (orginally published as "Sara Crewe")
Little Lord Fauntleroy
I have read and enjoyed all three, they are not just for children and have a following among people of all ages.
2007-12-07 05:48:53 · answer #6 · answered by Jeff H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Little Women and Gone with the Wind
2007-12-07 06:18:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love Jules Verne and Rudyard Kipling
2007-12-07 05:10:45 · answer #8 · answered by jon_mac_usa_007 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
anything by jane austen. i've read Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Mansfield Park and they are some of my favorite books.
2007-12-07 09:09:20 · answer #9 · answered by klutzy_girl 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
GONE WITH THE WIND. By far one of the best books I have ever read.
2007-12-07 10:13:04 · answer #10 · answered by KND 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋