What are your favourite CLASSICS

Young-Confused · Post by **Young-Confused** » 13 Apr 2011, 07:13

Great Expectations (Charles Dickens). Definately

Melaniep · Post by **Melaniep** » 13 Apr 2011, 18:34

Pride and Prejudice (actually anything by Austen)
Jane Eyre
Diary of Anne Frank (does it count since it's not fiction?)
Little Women

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 17 Apr 2011, 18:49

Had to add another one, Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana.

Butterbescotch · Post by **Butterbescotch** » 17 Apr 2011, 20:50

Is Cather in the Rye accepted?
I liked that book.

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 17 Apr 2011, 21:05

How do you define what a classic is? I dont suppose it has to be a book a hundred years old or more. Steven King, the Harry Potter books, some of the contemperary best-sellers could be defined as classics, it probably depends on the popularity of the book.

Butterbescotch · Post by **Butterbescotch** » 17 Apr 2011, 22:14

I think it depends on its quality. How often was the book put into discussion, what knowledge/theme it offers and etc.

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 17 Apr 2011, 22:29

Yes, quality is important. I just happened to think, many classics bombed and wernt popular at the time, Moby Dick was a flop when it first came out as were some of the books that are classics now.

Artdude · Post by **Artdude** » 25 Apr 2011, 07:48

Gannon wrote:
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.

Im so pleased someone else has read them! They are just such a joy. So imaginative as well. I just finished reading "Mr.Pye" by the same author. That is really good also. How did you come across Gormenghast???

Butterbescotch · Post by **Butterbescotch** » 25 Apr 2011, 10:16

I will be reading Pride and Prejudice and Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations so expect a decision :]

Euphoriameantime · Post by **Euphoriameantime** » 25 Apr 2011, 14:17

I have to say this topic has rekindled my desire to re-read some classics.

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
War of the Worlds-H.G Wells
Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue and The Crimes of Love - Marquis de Sade
I also have an intense love/loath relationship with Henry David Thoreau.

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » 25 Apr 2011, 16:02

Im so pleased someone else has read them! They are just such a joy. So imaginative as well. I just finished reading "Mr.Pye" by the same author. That is really good also. How did you come across Gormenghast???[/

I am in the Doubleday book club, and one month it was in the magazine. It sounded really interesting so I decided to give it a try. I am glad that I did.

Lisafees · Post by **Lisafees** » 25 Apr 2011, 19:08

Romeo and juliette
Little women
Guilders travels

Artdude · Post by **Artdude** » 26 Apr 2011, 10:45

Gannon wrote:
Im so pleased someone else has read them! They are just such a joy. So imaginative as well. I just finished reading "Mr.Pye" by the same author. That is really good also. How did you come across Gormenghast???[/
I am in the Doubleday book club, and one month it was in the magazine. It sounded really interesting so I decided to give it a try. I am glad that I did.

May I recommend Mr.Pye, it's not quite as long, but just as beatifully written.

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » 26 Apr 2011, 15:55

Artdude wrote:
Gannon wrote:
Im so pleased someone else has read them! They are just such a joy. So imaginative as well. I just finished reading "Mr.Pye" by the same author. That is really good also. How did you come across Gormenghast???[/
I am in the Doubleday book club, and one month it was in the magazine. It sounded really interesting so I decided to give it a try. I am glad that I did.
May I recommend Mr.Pye, it's not quite as long, but just as beatifully written.

Thanks for the tip Artdude. I will add it to my TBR list.

Brit_lit · Post by **Brit_lit** » 27 Apr 2011, 22:38

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Complete Poems of John Donne by John Donne (Penguin Edition)
The Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser