Read quite a few, , Jane Austin, Chalres dickens, I've read and think their great
Any others,
2007-12-21 02:03:06 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
See this page on Wikipedia. It lists 138 books from the "Great Books" curriculum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_books
2007-12-21 02:10:49 · answer #1 · answered by Spartacus! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eutopia- Saint Thomas Moore
Gone With The Wind
The Great Gatsby
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Watership Down
The Tenate of Wildfell Hall
The Divine Comedy- trilogy by Dante
Nicholas Nickleby
Little Women and Little Men
Frankensitein
The Importance of Being Ernest
The Ideal Husband
The Picture of Dorian Grey
2007-12-21 02:28:21 · answer #2 · answered by Mags 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fyodor Dostoevsky, pretty classic Russian author. And Wuthering Heights is a very good book.
I like 'Modern Classics' (famous classics written after 1900) and F. Scott Fitzgerald and Evelyn Waugh are both v. good, as is John Steinbeck, George Orwell, and probably some others that I've forgotton.
Lolita is a brilliant, though controversial, book and well worth reading.
2007-12-21 04:49:13 · answer #3 · answered by kelby_lake 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Shakespeare.
Possibly one of the most popular writers that is given the least attention outside of school.
Okay, lets think about this logically. In English, we are forced to read stupid books that we can't properly understand/appreciate until we look back afterwards. Since i'm not there yet then its probably wise that you don't listen to my answer.
Personally, i want to read:
Wuthering Heights
The Princess Bride (William Goldings version)
Great Expectations
Some of Shakespeares work and a few others but i'm not going to read these until i leave school, otherwise i won't be mature enough to understand and fully appreciate there work.
2007-12-23 03:02:08 · answer #4 · answered by Belle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've got not examine Walden myself, yet I truthfully have examine some great American literature! attempt those: The Crucible — Arthur Miller - play with reference to the Salem Witch Trials The Awakening — Kate Chopin - feminist novel with reference to the awakening of a woman's perceptions The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne - novel some lady who commits adultery in Puritan Boston Of Mice And adult men — John Steinbeck - melancholy-era tragedy approximately 2 migrant workers The Age Of Innocence — Edith Wharton - some Victorian-era top type couple, criticizing long island society capture-22 — Joseph Heller - satirical novel approximately paperwork i think of you will likely savour a minimum of a few of those, I picked a pair on very distinctive subjects. of direction the summaries are purely a regularly occurring thought of the suggestions in each. wish you hit upon some thing you like!
2016-10-09 01:09:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The previous answers included most of the classic authors, I'll give you some 20th century modern classics:
Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse (and anything really) by Virginia Woolf
Stories of Katherine Mansfield
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
The Immoralist by Andre Gide
Anything by Hemingway
These are some of my favourites, hope you will enjoy them!
2007-12-22 08:50:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, you only named two English authors of long ago, so let's branch out, shall we? Here's a mix of non-English and modern authors:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lady Murasaki
Margaret Atwood
Michael Chabon
A.S. Byatt
James Joyce (he's Irish)
Philip Roth
Herman Melville (try "Bartleby, the Scrivener" before reading Moby Dick)
2007-12-21 02:53:32 · answer #7 · answered by luxurywatchery 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dune
by Frank Herbert
John
2007-12-21 02:49:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a link to the list of 1001 books you "should" read before you die...maybe you could check out some of those...
http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.22845/Books
Personally, I recommend Little Women, Gone with the Wind, and Jane Eyre.
2007-12-21 02:21:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lots of good advice here, for modern classics try,
My Name is Red and Snow by Orphan Pamuk,
Star of the Sea
English Passengers
Music and Silence
(sorry can't remember authors - brain fade)
anything by Margret Attwood
So many books - so little time...
2007-12-22 20:59:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋