ummlilia Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Women in Love by D H Lawrence Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Can you guess I'm a hopeless romantic..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 (edited) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Women in Love by D H Lawrence Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Can you guess I'm a hopeless romantic..? Maybe a little! I know the title Dr Zhivago, but I know nothing of the story. Is it hard to get into? And if you are a hopeless romantic, let me recommend you the following... (read on) I can't believe I haven't replied to this topic yet. I have to consider the matter more deeply, I cannot come up with two other titles, but my most favorite is... 1. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Edited April 2, 2013 by frankie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndyPhimaA Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Hi everybody, My three favourite classics are (so far): - War and Peace, by Lev Tolstoy - Marriage in Heaven, by Mircea Eliade (I strongly recommend that you read ANY of his novels / novellas - an absolute genius) - A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens Best regards, IndyPhimaA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenaelric Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 I haven't read many classics to come to a final conclusion xD, but since I'm from Brazil, I bet you guys don't know many of our classics and currently my favorite one is Cinco Minutos (Five Minutes) by José de Alencar and it was great . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wipples Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 So hard to choose only three but here goes. Sons and Lovers- D.H.Lawrence Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte Emile Zola -Therese Raquin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakura Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 I love a lot of classics, so it's a tough choice: Faust - Goethe An ideal Husband - Wilde Mansfield Park - Austen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSchultz19 Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 I don't think I've read enough to have 3 top favorites, but I know for sure that my favorite classic is A Tale of Two Cities Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 I don't think I've read enough to have 3 top favorites, but I know for sure that my favorite classic is A Tale of Two Cities Ditto! And I can't believe I almost gave up on it after 60 or so pages... It was so heavygoing for me at first... I would've given up on it if it hadn't been a book for uni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSchultz19 Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 Ditto! And I can't believe I almost gave up on it after 60 or so pages... It was so heavygoing for me at first... I would've given up on it if it hadn't been a book for uni yes the beginning was dreadful for me as well. I'm glad I pushed through because I absolutely loved it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carelia Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Off the top of my head Les Miserables Persuasion Lord of the rings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowla Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 Breakfast ant tiffany's by truman capote The wind in the willows by kenneth grahame One hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez These are definitely my tip three fave. The wind in the willows is the first classic novel i've read when i was a little kid. Btw i love whilde's short stories though i read the simplyfied versions. As a chinese, i don't read much classics in english a lot, for they may be too difficult for me, and i mainly read chick lits. Now i'm reading vladimer nabokov's lolita and i'm already half way through it. It's great. And the next book on my classics to read list is phantom in the opera which my bff recommended me. There're other classics book i love but they're in chinese, or else i'd love to post them up here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray89 Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Ken Kesey - One flew over the cuckoo's nestErnest Hemingway - The old man and the sea Franz Kafka - The Trial Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardengirl Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Breakfast ant tiffany's by truman capote The wind in the willows by kenneth grahame One hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez These are definitely my tip three fave. The wind in the willows is the first classic novel i've read when i was a little kid. Btw i love whilde's short stories though i read the simplyfied versions. As a chinese, i don't read much classics in english a lot, for they may be too difficult for me, and i mainly read chick lits. Now i'm reading vladimer nabokov's lolita and i'm already half way through it. It's great. And the next book on my classics to read list is phantom in the opera which my bff recommended me. There're other classics book i love but they're in chinese, or else i'd love to post them up here. Snowla, your English is very good!My grasp of any Chinese is very small [none.] My favourite classic books are........ Martin Chuzzlewit- Charles Dickens 1984 -George Orwell Middlemarch-George Eliot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marie H Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez Persuasion – Jane Austen L'Assommoir – Emile Zola Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Short Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 1. Middlemarch by George Eliot 2. David Copperfield 3. Lord of the Rings (someone else listed that as a classic so I will too, but I'm not sure it fits the category) I love the ending of Middlemarch and find it very inspiring: "the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardengirl Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 welcome to the forum James I like your choices of books. Hope that you will post in a larger size font though, as my eyes are not what they used to be! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSchultz19 Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 1. Middlemarch by George Eliot 2. David Copperfield 3. Lord of the Rings (someone else listed that as a classic so I will too, but I'm not sure it fits the category) I love the ending of Middlemarch and find it very inspiring: "the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." I am super super excited to read David Copperfield, but I've been giving myself some time away from Dickens. It gets a bit tough reading more than one in a row. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrjhale Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 AND THE VOTES ARE IN! (Now there were ties so I had to make up some rules--as impartially as possible: #1 votes got 3 points, #2 votes 2 points, and...you get it... In the event of a tie, tie goes to the one with the most #1's, etc.) For favorite classic author, with 16 points, the winner is (you can imagine a drum role here)... Jane Austen! (OH! the ignorant masses... wait, she's in my top 3, never mind--actually there was a 3 way tie including Charlotte and Leo, but Jane had more #1 votes--the voting was rigged though if you ask me, cause... wait, never mind) For favorite classic novel, the winner is... Wuthering Heights! (BOOO!--I told you I was being impartial--and that "Ack!" right back at cha--I wanted to burn it when i finished it, along with Tess--IF I HAD HAD A MATCH! OK, OK it was brilliant writing,) Points breakdown (for authors with more than one vote): Jane 16, Charlotte 16, Leo 16, Emily 14, Edith 8, Thomas 5, Alexandre 4, Homer 4, I've read most to all of what Charlotte, Jane and Emily have written and they deserve to be in the top 3--in that order (and no arguing with the rules judge!). I have also read a chunk of Thomas--maybe the best descriptive writer--I get lost in it (in more ways than one I'm afraid--and then I want to burn it!) Love Homer too. Read Alexandre in high school French class (Les Trois and Les Quatre Mousquetaires). But I need to pick up Leo and Edith, huh. Victor and Oscar too for that matter... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrjhale Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 and OK, so I only counted votes from one page... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bingleygirl Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Just discovered this - I have been browsing a lot, now for my first post! As I love the classics the most, it seems right to start here. Like many others, I'm a lover of all things Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, so they have both got to feature. I think my favourite by Jane is probably Emma, but that may be because it was the first I read. For Charles Dickens, it's currently Bleak House, just in front of David Copperfield. Really stuck in trying to choose a third - there's just so many - but I think I will have to go with one of the great originals: The Canterbury Tales. I've never read it in the original, but the modern version I've read is brilliant - the stories are so full of life, and I love the rhythm of the poetry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timstar Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas Moby Dick - Herman Melville Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signor Finzione Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 Bleak House - Charles Dickens Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift The Adventures of Caleb Williams - William Godwin Dracula, The Three Musketeers, Jane Eyre, The Great Gatsby and Treasure Island all deserve an honourable mention, too - it's much too hard to only mention three! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Begins Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 For me, Id have to say: Gone with the Wind- Margaret Mitchel Catcher in the Rye- JD Saliner Love's Labors Lost- Shakespeare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maritxu Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 This is a hard one... mmmm... Dracula - Bram Stoker The Crime and the Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Begins Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 This is a hard one... mmmm... Dracula - Bram Stoker The Crime and the Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë WH was such a close 4th for me . Loved it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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