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I still have so many to compare my current favorites with! This will be fun for us to look back on in a year or so. It is so difficult to make this decision, with indecisive worrying about not paying homage to a certain author, or whether to go for ones whose stories really wowed me or taught me... Perhaps if I read these again, and other classics, I will see books that both delight and teach.:)

 

In no particular order, my current indispensables are:

- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

- A Daughter's Devotion by George Macdonald

- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maude Montgomery

 

Wow, I certainly like the noble, blossoming heroines!

 

Edit: I can't believe I didn't include The Pilgrim's Progress.:D We're studying that in my church's Sunday school right now; I forgot how influential and full it was and is.

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I don't think I could limit it to three but I have had a go:lol: These are in no particular order as that would make it too difficult.

 

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

Bleak House, Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens.

 

There are more that should be up there though.

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I don't think I could limit it to three but I have had a go:lol: These are in no particular order as that would make it too difficult.

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Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

Bleak House, Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens.

 

There are more that should be up there though.

 

I like your taste!!

 

Animal Farm - George Orwell (Purely for the comparisons)

Bleack House - Charles Dickens

Lady Chatterlys Lover - Dh Lawrence

 

biffo

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Hi, I'm new to this forum and website, but I' stumbled across it today and it is just what I've been looking for!

 

My top three are

1) Persuasion - Jane Austen

2) The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

3) The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux

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Wow.. I'm ashamed.. :D

I haven't read a classic in so long.. since college 4 years ago! I've been inspired by this thread though. There were quite a few classics we read for classes through HS and college (Tess, Scarlet Letter, etc) that were great reads. I'm going to add some of these classics to my list to be read.. I bet I'll appreciate them even more now that I'm a bit older, too!

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I haven't read a lot of classics, but of the ones I have read, my top three so far are:

 

1. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

2. Howards End - E. M. Forster

3. Diary Of A Provincial Lady - E. M. Delafield

 

But, I'm part way through Middlemarch at the moment and I'm loving it so far, so that could make it to the top three when I've finished

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I thought I would tot up the results of this thread to see what the overall top three Classics are up until today and the results are as follows:

 

1. Jane Eyre ~ Charlotte Bronte (14 nominations)

2. Pride and Prejudice ~ Jane Austen (13 nominations)

3. Wuthering Heights ~ Emily Bronte (10 nominations)

 

I will update the list regulary from now on. :)

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My temporary top classics are:

 

Vilette - Charlotte Bronte

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

The Last Man - Mary Shelley

Maria - Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell

 

Thats coz these are the 5 novels I'm studying this term (so far, there will be a couple more.)

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