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Mine would definitely have to be:

 

-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

-Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

 

And I'm not sure about my last one; I haven't read that many other classics and these two were the only ones that I really enjoyed.

 

I should really read Wuthering Heights. A few people have that one on their lists.

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My 3 favourite classics:

 

1. A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

I didn't understand the book throughout till I came to the ending. Somehow, after the ending, everything seemed to fall into place. Don't know how that's possible, but I closed the last chapter feeling like I'd read the book of a genius.

 

2. Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

I read all 4 books in the Little Women series, and I love all of them (in a guilty pleasure sort of way cuz I'm not the romantic kind). Little Men is such a fun book and it made me cry too. Jo's Boys made me cry a lot as well. I do like her orphans.

 

3. The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson

When I first read Treasure Island, I hadn't had a good impression of Rober Louis Stevenson. I thought him rather violent, going about stabbing people all the time. But The Master Of Ballantrae was a great read, filled with romance and betrayal, very sensational. And I truly felt for all the characters.

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My three favorite classics are

 

Jane Eyre

Rebecca

The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone

 

Jane Eyre is a recent favorite of mine, but when I finished it I closed it, sighed, and started over immediately.

 

Rebecca has been one of my favorites since Honors English in HS.

 

Agony took me several months to read, but it is such a good book.

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1. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

2. Don Quixote - Cervantes

3. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Jane Eyre

Pride and Predjudice

Sherlock Holmes complete works (does that count as classic fiction) if not then The Woman in White Wilkie Collins

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I almost said Sherlock Holmes!

 

I have The Woman in White and Moonstone on my to read shelf. I see that many people put Woman in White on their favorites list. I have had that book for about 3 years and have not read it. I guess I need to.

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The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton

Anna Karenina - Tolstoy

Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

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In no particular order;

 

The Fall of the House of Usher--Edgar Allen Poe

 

Rebecca--Daphne Du Maurier

 

Middlemarch--George Elliot

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Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte

 

Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray

 

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy

 

I could have picked some many more though.

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1."Pride & Prejudice" , by Jane Austen

2. "Madame Bovary", by Gustave Flaubert

3. "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant (sorry I don't know the English name ^^)

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"Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant (sorry I don't know the English name ^^)

 

The English translation is A Woman's Life. I've read and enjoyed Bel-Ami by this author recently, so I'll look out for this one too :)

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The English translation is A Woman's Life. I've read and enjoyed Bel-Ami by this author recently, so I'll look out for this one too :D

 

You'll maybe think it's a bit slow at the beginning but then I hope you'll understand why I put it in my top 3 :(

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Hmmm, this is difficult to answer. Right now I will go with:

 

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Doestevsky

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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Hmmm, this is difficult to answer. Right now I will go with:

 

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Doestevsky

 

Читали в оригинале?

 

Истинный кайф читать класику в оригинале, т.е. на языке написанном автором!!! :D:readingtwo:

 

Has written in Russian

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Истинный кайф читать класику в оригинале, т.е. на языке написанном автором
I only got 'original' and 'quote', and that's only because I did some Russian in school. Could you please say that again for us all to understand :)?
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I think it was something in the lines of

 

''Have you read the original?

 

It's a real pleasure to read classics in their original version, i.e in the language the author has written in''

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Читали в оригинале?

 

Истинный кайф читать класику в оригинале, т.е. на языке написанном автором!!! :D:readingtwo:

 

Has written in Russian

 

 

I think it was something in the lines of

 

''Have you read the original?

 

It's a real pleasure to read classics in their original version, i.e in the language the author has written in''

Thank you, Brida.

 

If this is what was asked, that answer is I wish I could read it in the original Russian, as I am sure a lot may have been lost in translation. But English is the only language I can read, speak, and write fluently.

I can read French and usually decipher it, but that's about as far as it goes. :lol:

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I think it was something in the lines of

 

''Have you read the original?

 

It's a real pleasure to read classics in their original version, I.e in the language the author has written in''

Transfer of my words is made correctly. +1

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I'm not sure if these ones are considered classics but my top 3 are:

 

1.Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

2.Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

3.Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

 

Although I'm reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo so maybe that one will make my top 3 when I'm done, we'll see.

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Although I'm reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo so maybe that one will make my top 3 when I'm done, we'll see.
It should, it should :D!
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Although I'm reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo so maybe that one will make my top 3 when I'm done, we'll see.

I have this one on my bookshelf, but I keep putting it off because it is so long. :blush:

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