elizabeth Chadwick Posted July 17, 2008 Posted July 17, 2008 The collected Ghost Stories of M R James Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte The Hound of the Baskervilles by Conan Doyle Quote
teddy collector Posted July 17, 2008 Posted July 17, 2008 Its almost impossible to limit it to 3 with the selectionof classics to choose from...I haven't read one in a while but recently I went through a phase of watching classic movies and it awakened the urge to start reading them again...realistically it will be after the summer before I get to start. So going on memory my top 3 would have to be Jane Eyre(always no one), Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion:tease: I know it's childish but I love adding these funny little guys:friends3: Quote
Ruth Posted July 20, 2008 Posted July 20, 2008 Persuasion, by Jane Austen Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee Quote
JudyB Posted July 20, 2008 Posted July 20, 2008 Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Quote
princessponti Posted July 20, 2008 Posted July 20, 2008 I read A Christmas Carol every year to get in the festive spirit.... Wuthering Heights is one of my favourites (..we went to Yorkshire in May so I re-read then ).... Jane Austin's Persuasion blew me away last year... and that's my three!!! ...and as ever... the BCF has inspired me to buy more books, I've just picked up the Jane Austin collection for reading Quote
sloth Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 In no particular order... Vanity Fair Pride and Prejudice The Moonstone Although I'm really much happier with things after 1920 or so... Quote
poppy Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Howard's End or A Room With A View by E.M.Forster To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Quote
Guest Tiresias Posted July 30, 2008 Posted July 30, 2008 (edited) I'm not sure precisely what you mean by classic, but... Ulysses. Wuthering Heights. Moby Dick. Edited July 31, 2008 by Tiresias Sense Quote
rupup nelah Posted September 10, 2008 Posted September 10, 2008 Jude the Obscure - Hardy The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins The Way We Live Now - Trollope Quote
Pilgrim Posted September 12, 2008 Posted September 12, 2008 (edited) Well, I loved Tale of Two Cities and from there, though I haven't read enough to be a fair judge, I guess Jane Eyre and Lady Chatterley's Lover. Too bad Gentlemen and Players isn't a classic yet. I completely forgot about Oscar Wilde. I can't pick off hand. Just him. Edited September 13, 2008 by Pilgrim Quote
hot_wheels Posted September 13, 2008 Posted September 13, 2008 Reading Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane -- good and has value beyond quality of writing, though not my fav. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas Moby Dick - Herman Melville Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien Quote
KW Posted September 13, 2008 Posted September 13, 2008 A Christmas Carol Jane Eyre The Great Gatsby Quote
Bellatrix Posted September 14, 2008 Posted September 14, 2008 Top three at the moment Bleak House Woman in White Vanity Fair Quote
AWoolford Posted September 18, 2008 Posted September 18, 2008 Top three classics hey, well since I have just begun reading the classics I have very few to choose from. A Passage to India Oliver Twist Typhoon - Conrad Joseph Quote
bev Posted September 18, 2008 Posted September 18, 2008 In no particular order 1. Fanny Hill 2. Bleak House 3.The Count of Monte Cristo Quote
Sedge Posted September 18, 2008 Posted September 18, 2008 Of the 5 I've read so far: 1. The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (which I'm reading at the moment) 2. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins 3. Selected Short Stories - Guy De Maupassant Quote
Jo-Bridge Posted September 18, 2008 Posted September 18, 2008 Rebecca- Dapne Du maurier To kill a Mockingbird- Harper lee The Great Gastsby- F Scott Fitzgerald I'm pretty sure they're classics! Quote
SaraPepparkaka Posted September 19, 2008 Posted September 19, 2008 I have given this some thought and I ended up with the following three: Wuthering heights- Emily Bront Quote
scottishbookworm Posted September 23, 2008 Posted September 23, 2008 1. Mrs DAlloway Virginia woolf 2. sense and sensibility Jane austin 3. the importance of being ernest oscar wilde Quote
Lukeozade100 Posted September 23, 2008 Posted September 23, 2008 Well I have read very few classic classics, so this will probably change very swiftly but in no paticular order at the moment it is; The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Silas Marner by George Eliot A Room With A View by E.M. Forster Quote
myosotis Posted September 23, 2008 Posted September 23, 2008 1. Pride and Prejudice 2. Jane Eyre 3. To kill a mockingbird. Yum. Quote
Kate Posted October 16, 2008 Posted October 16, 2008 1. Pride and Prejudice2. Jane Eyre 3. To kill a mockingbird. Yum. I love this little list - very similar to mine I must read some more classics soon Quote
Ben Mines Posted November 21, 2008 Posted November 21, 2008 (edited) Moby Dick, Don Quixote and Frankenstein. (A revolutionary novel like Ulysses should not be given the staid label "classic", otherwise it would top the list). Edited November 21, 2008 by Ben Mines Quote
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