Keira Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 Has got to be: Anna Karenina Humiliated and Insulted by Dostoevsky Tess of the d'Urbevilles Quote
BookNymph Posted January 3, 2012 Posted January 3, 2012 I just started reading classics in 2011, so I haven't read much, but if I had to choose from the one's I've read, they definitely have to be : 1. Dracula by Bram Stoker 2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 3. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Quote
Hyzenthlay Posted January 4, 2012 Posted January 4, 2012 1. Pride and Prejudice - how could it not be? I've read this book so many times, too many to even count. 2. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick 3. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess 2 & 3 are classics, right? I've read a fair amount of classics, other Austen novels, Russian authors, Dickens, Twain, Salinger.. But these 3 are my pure favourites. Quote
Gad786 Posted March 10, 2012 Posted March 10, 2012 journey to the center of the earth lord of the flies 20,000 leagues under the sea Quote
Persephone1821 Posted April 11, 2012 Posted April 11, 2012 1. Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo 2. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen 3. The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Quote
Persephone1821 Posted April 11, 2012 Posted April 11, 2012 OMG NEVERMIND... I was browsing through threads and I cannot believe I forgot about Frankenstein by Mary Shelley!! Updated List: 1. Hunback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo 2. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen 3. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley :smile: Quote
Parenthesis Posted April 29, 2012 Posted April 29, 2012 1. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee 2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 3. And it is an even split between Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Quote
Ben Posted April 29, 2012 Posted April 29, 2012 1. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. 2. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. 3. A Room With A View by E.M. Forster. Possibly just about in order. Honourable mentions: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I've also probably missed some. Quote
Deborah Posted May 27, 2012 Posted May 27, 2012 Here are my favourites: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Quote
Katrina1968 Posted May 27, 2012 Posted May 27, 2012 My favorites are The Hobbit Gone with the Wind Anna Karenina Quote
Mickey Mouse Posted June 11, 2012 Posted June 11, 2012 The top three books I have ever read were: "The Praise of Folly" by Erasmus of Rotterdam "An Ideal Husband" by Oscar Wilde "Faust I and Faust II" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (arranged in no particular order) Quote
Hanananah Posted July 2, 2012 Posted July 2, 2012 The Great Gatsby Dracula The Picture of Dorian Grey Not read that many other classics but these ones I thought were fantastic Quote
Nika Posted July 4, 2012 Posted July 4, 2012 Wuthering Heights Grapes of Wrath Master and Margarita Quote
Annalyn Posted July 11, 2012 Posted July 11, 2012 In Search of Lost Time by Proust Mrs. Dalloway, Vigrinia Woolf Pale Fire, Nabokov Quote
big_new_prinz Posted August 31, 2012 Posted August 31, 2012 Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Therese Raquin - Emile Zola The Confusions Of Young Torless - Robert Musil Quote
wordsgood Posted September 1, 2012 Posted September 1, 2012 Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte Quote
EleanorT Posted October 14, 2012 Posted October 14, 2012 The Great Gatsby Jane Eyre The Picture of Dorian Grey Quote
Korenith Posted February 14, 2013 Posted February 14, 2013 If we aren't including the Modernists as classics then I guess my three are: Frankenstein Gulliver's Travels The Turn of the Screw Quote
Peahen Posted February 18, 2013 Posted February 18, 2013 Jane Eyre - by Charlotte Bronte. The first time I wanted to ration a book so that it would not end. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. Recently rediscovered. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The symbolism within each sentence. Quote
Cumberbabe Posted March 4, 2013 Posted March 4, 2013 - Number one is a tie between Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Quote
ladylovelybrit Posted March 18, 2013 Posted March 18, 2013 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving Quote
chevinhawk Posted March 20, 2013 Posted March 20, 2013 One would have to be a Jane Austen, probably Persuasion. Becky Sharp is definitely my type of girl, so Vanity Fair has to be in there. I also adore Dickens, so one of his will have to go in. Probably David Copperfield - there are just so many wonderful characters in it. Quote
Dominik Posted April 2, 2013 Posted April 2, 2013 As for me, my top three classics are: 1. The Hero of Our Time by M. Lermontov 2. The Corsair by George Gordon Byron 3. The Crime and the Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky There are a lot of interesting and charming characters and the amazing plots. Quote
itsmeagain Posted April 2, 2013 Posted April 2, 2013 I guess I liked Crime and Punishment, and The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. And Bleak house by Charles Dickens . Quote
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