Bel-ami Posted August 7, 2009 Posted August 7, 2009 I've hardly scratched the surface so far, but these get my vote, so far: Bel-ami - Guy de Maupassant Silas Marner - George Elliot Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (top twenty?) Quote
s.gal83 Posted August 9, 2009 Posted August 9, 2009 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Dracula-- Bram Stoker Oliver Twist-- Charles Dickon Quote
AbielleRose Posted August 16, 2009 Posted August 16, 2009 Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen Wurthering Heights- Emily Bronte The House of the Seven Gables- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote
jewell Posted August 16, 2009 Posted August 16, 2009 Persuasion - Jane Austen Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens Oh.......erm..........i think i would say Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen........but i may change my mind. I couldn't quite decide. Quote
busy91 Posted August 16, 2009 Posted August 16, 2009 I've not read them all, but so far: Silas Marner - George Elliot Summer - Edith Wharton A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Quote
BookJumper Posted August 16, 2009 Posted August 16, 2009 I've not read them all... then again, who has ? I've nearly got two degrees in English Lit and even I've barely uncovered the tip of the iceberg...! Quote
mollie Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte Quote
Linon Posted August 21, 2009 Posted August 21, 2009 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Secret Garden - Burnett The Phantom Of The Opera - Leroux Quote
Mysterioso Posted August 22, 2009 Posted August 22, 2009 An American Tragedy- Theodore Dreiser The Woman In White- Wilkie Collins Crime and Punishment-Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quote
Vanwa Posted September 6, 2009 Posted September 6, 2009 Jane Eyre Pride and Prejudice Anna Karenina (No specific order on the above!) Quote
Katrina1968 Posted September 6, 2009 Posted September 6, 2009 These are my top 3 and let me tell you, it was a hard pick. Pride and Prejudice Anna Karenina Wives and Daughters Quote
blithe Posted September 6, 2009 Posted September 6, 2009 My top three classics: Pride and Prejudice Persuasion Madame Bovary Quote
Guest velocipede2288 Posted September 8, 2009 Posted September 8, 2009 (edited) Nicholas Nickleby and Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. by Mark Twain. Edited September 14, 2009 by velocipede2288 Quote
kara.jackson Posted September 9, 2009 Posted September 9, 2009 The Adventures of Huck Finn - Sawyer Midsummer Nights Dream - Shakespeare Short Stories - Edgar Allan Poe Quote
sdeangelo Posted September 11, 2009 Posted September 11, 2009 I read A Christmas Carol every year to get in the festive spirit.... So do I! I also go see the play at the Guthrie Theater here in Minneapolis every year as well, which every year is fantastic...there is no better way to get into the spirit of giving than by reading A Christmas Carol. Quote
Fi. Posted September 11, 2009 Posted September 11, 2009 It's nigh on impossibe to narrow my choices down to three so here's my top three at the moment The Romance Of The Forest - Ann Radcliffe Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Dracula - Bram Stoker Quote
poppyshake Posted September 12, 2009 Posted September 12, 2009 Great Expectations - Charles DickensPride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte All the obvious ones but I love them Perfect Quote
willoyd Posted October 21, 2009 Posted October 21, 2009 Ouch - this is difficult. Two are easy: Sense and Sensibility Bleak House but the third???? I suppose it'll have to be To Kill A Mockingbird, but then no Moby Dick or Vanity Fair or Wuthering Heights or War and Peace, all of which are monumental favourites. And where do classics start and end? (I could of course have simply voted for three Austens, including Persuasion). Quote
gracea88 Posted November 10, 2009 Posted November 10, 2009 Found it very difficult to choose but I love these three in no particular order: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Persuasion by Jane Austin Anna Karenina by Tolstoy Quote
Jam Posted November 12, 2009 Posted November 12, 2009 For me- Crime and Punishment Oliver Twist East of Eden Quote
kikee Posted November 17, 2009 Posted November 17, 2009 For me they are: Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Quote
Guest velocipede2288 Posted November 17, 2009 Posted November 17, 2009 A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens. Call of the Wild. Jack London. The Three Musketeers. Alexandre Dumas. But They are just the ones I enjoy the most at the time. In the middle of another book, I may change my mind. I loved Nichlolas Nickelby, and the Pickwick Papers, I found the funniest of Dickens and so on. Quote
Raskolnikov Posted November 19, 2009 Posted November 19, 2009 All the books above are great. Here is my choices - Tolstoy, The Kreutzer sonata / very radical and intense drama about jalousy and crime - Dostoievsky, The Idiot / What if Jesus was alive now ? His kindness and lack of self-esteem would make of him a pure "idiot" in the balance of our judgemental societies - Huysmans, Against nature / This is the yellow book given by Lord Henry to Dorian Gray / The story of decadent man who indulges his own passions in order to live remote in an excentric house at the end of the 19th century Quote
FaustoMerckx Posted November 28, 2009 Posted November 28, 2009 I'm going for beat(ish) classics. Of time and the river - Thomas Wolfe The plague - Albert Camus The dharma bums - Jack Kerouac Quote
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