What are your favourite CLASSICS

Artdude · Post by **Artdude** » 27 Mar 2011, 13:28

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]

GotThatSwing · Post by **GotThatSwing** » 27 Mar 2011, 13:46

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

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 27 Mar 2011, 14:43

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.

Woodland Nymph · Post by **Woodland Nymph** » 27 Mar 2011, 16:21

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'

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » 27 Mar 2011, 19:25

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.

Pecorino · Post by **Pecorino** » 27 Mar 2011, 19:42

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

TornUpReaper · Post by **TornUpReaper** » 27 Mar 2011, 19:47

To Kill a Mockingbird. Loved it when I read it in high school!

Ranju · Post by **Ranju** » 29 Mar 2011, 00:41

War and Peace
Bible
Moby Dick
Gone with the wind

Fleaaaaaa · Post by **Fleaaaaaa** » 29 Mar 2011, 05:12

Already has been said but I love crime and punishment and also;
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Vogin · Post by **Vogin** » 29 Mar 2011, 06:00

Candide by Voltaire

BookWorm617 · Post by **BookWorm617** » 29 Mar 2011, 15:14

Uncle Tom's Cabin
To Kill A Mockingbird
Catcher in the Rye
My Bondage and My Freedom

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 06 Apr 2011, 00:09

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

Pengyanseo · Post by **Pengyanseo** » 07 Apr 2011, 00:51

Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac
Heart
Led Zeppelin
Jimi Hendrix

Lepa · Post by **Lepa** » 10 Apr 2011, 11:09

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

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