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It's got to be The Sound and the Fury for me.

I'm currently studying the same edition in my frist year at university. It's a great edition!

I am almost finished with the novel and getting ready to write an essay on it. I must say that there...

I have read works by all the authors. I have Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess under my belt. Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment. Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and...

You wonderful people pick my next read.

I have read works by all the authors. I have Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess under my belt. Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and...

We should have a recommendation topic for translations.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are certainly the best I've encountered for Dostoevsky.

Anyone know good translations for Dante?

After watching The Hours (A film about Virginia Woolf) I decided to give To the Lighthouse a go. I have about seventy pages left and I can definitely state that I am gonna be sad when I finish....

As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury
Far from the Madding Crowd
The Grapes of Wrath
To the Lighthouse
Crime and Punishment
Great Expectations
Les Miserables

I'm with Kiki1982 here; Hardy is ace when it comes to a damn good love story.

I'd suggest Far from the Madding Crowd or Tess.

Bronte's Jane Eyre is another great love story.

I'll second this. Definitely Beckett.

I have heard so much about this poem but I have still yet to pick it up. Anyone a fan? I would what your thoughts are on Eliot and his poem. Is it worth reading? What background knowledge is needed...

Hugo's Paris in both Notre Dame de Paris and Les miserables. I also agree with Bronte and Faulkner - amazing settings.

oo I forgot Vintage, Everyman's Library and Faber & Faber.

This should be a poll.

For me it's either Penguin, or Oxford. Great editions. I also really like the Cambridge editions of Shakespeare.

For me the darker side of humanity suggests a darkness in the psyche. Where the inner turmoils rage. For instance, a stranger is walking down the street - he looks pretty mundane and normal; he isn't...

Not directed solely to the moon, Dark Muse; nevertheless, the scene is beautiful:

------The sky is overcast
With a continuous cloud of texture close,
Heavy and wan, all whitened by the Moon,...

As easy as it sounds a books-to-read-before-death list is pretty hard to formulate, as I yet have to read alot. Of what I've read:

Shakespeare's tragedies
The poetry of John Keats
The Brothers...

I read, last week, in the Sunday Times culture magazine that Brown doesn't actually like novels. Despite being a writer he cannot stand fiction: 'One of the reasons I don't read fiction is because I...

Emily without a doubt. Wuthering Heights is such a powerful novel. The equivocal narration is what I like and the fact that it doesn't feel victorian at all, you really get a sense of the wild...

The Brothers Karamazov or Anna Karenina.

I'll second this! and add Jewel to the list.

Also, Humbert Humbert from Lolita.

What works of those authors would you recommend as frightening?

The idea of the supernatural doesn't really frighten me. I think I'm looking for something a little more real to life.

I had a great nightmare last night and it got me to thinking... I don't read many frightening books. Is there decent frightening fiction? I mean aside from the popular Stephen King. I've read...

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In this order:

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
Les Miserables by Hugo
The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner
Lolita by Nabokov
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy

It's famous for its prose, its content and its experimentation. I think anyone who is serious, or passionate about literature must read Lolita.

It is prose perfection. I cannot do it any justice... just pick it up and you will see.