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What are your favourite CLASSICS
Posted: 27 Mar 2011, 13:28
by Artdude
Sorry - no King or other contemporary writers. What are your all time favourite classic books? Mine include:
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Alice's adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
How about yours? [/b]
Posted: 27 Mar 2011, 13:46
by GotThatSwing
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevski
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Hopscotch - Julio Cortazar
One Flew Over Cucoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Posted: 27 Mar 2011, 14:43
by Fran
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hathorne
A superb reads that stand the test of time.
Posted: 27 Mar 2011, 16:21
by Woodland Nymph
I love the classics.
- Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (if it counts as a classic?)
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Jane Erye by Charlotte Brontë
- The Saga of Gösta Berling by Selma Lagerlöf'
Re: What are your favourite CLASSICS
Posted: 27 Mar 2011, 19:25
by Gannon
Artdude wrote:Sorry - no King or other contemporary writers. What are your all time favourite classic books? Mine include:
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Alice's adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
How about yours? [/b]
Hey there Artdude. Just had to post this to say that you are only the second person I have ever seen on this forum who has read the Gormenghast trilogy. I love these books, very weird, dark but wonderful characters.
Posted: 27 Mar 2011, 19:42
by Pecorino
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
Anne of Green Gables series - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Death In Midsummer - Yukio Mishima
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Posted: 27 Mar 2011, 19:47
by TornUpReaper
To Kill a Mockingbird. Loved it when I read it in high school!
Posted: 29 Mar 2011, 00:41
by Ranju
War and Peace
Bible
Moby Dick
Gone with the wind
Favourite classics
Posted: 29 Mar 2011, 05:12
by Fleaaaaaa
Already has been said but I love crime and punishment and also;
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Posted: 29 Mar 2011, 06:00
by Vogin
Candide by Voltaire
Posted: 29 Mar 2011, 15:14
by BookWorm617
Uncle Tom's Cabin
To Kill A Mockingbird
Catcher in the Rye
My Bondage and My Freedom
Posted: 06 Apr 2011, 00:09
by Bighuey
War of the Worlds-H.G Wells
The Monk-Matthew Lewis
Le Morte D Arthur-Thomas Mallory
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes-Conan Doyle
Mr. Midshipman Easy-Fredrick Marryat
Posted: 07 Apr 2011, 00:51
by Pengyanseo
Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac
Heart
Led Zeppelin
Jimi Hendrix
Posted: 10 Apr 2011, 11:09
by Lepa
Agree with Pengyanseo
Going back to the topic:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
White Fang - Jack London
Shining Rivers - Ruth Dallas (I recommend this one, rather unknown, but, still, I hope worth reading
)
Posted: 13 Apr 2011, 01:00
by Cath_leen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare