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Pantelej
11-27-2005, 01:41 PM
I've been reading mostly Russian literature in the last time.
Now i'm interested in western classics, i could
use some tips. I would apreciate help.(Please)

EAP
11-27-2005, 02:04 PM
British Classics

1. Lord Of The Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
2. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
3. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
4. Animal Farm - George Orwell
5. Mill On The Floss - George Elliot
6. Five Children and It - Edith Nesbit
7. The Murder Of Roger Acroyd - Agatha Christie
8. Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence
9. Return Of The Native - Thomas Hardy
10. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur C. Doyle

American Classics

1. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
3. Catcher In The Rye - J. D. Salinger
4. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
5. Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurty
6. Dune - Frank Herbert
7. The Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov
8. Maggie: A Girl Of Streets - Stephen Crane
9. For Whom The Bells Toll - Ernest Hemingway
10. Godfather - Mario Puzo

Canadian/German/French/Irish Classics

1. Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
2. The Neverending Story - Michael Ende
3. Les Miserable - Victor Hugo
4. The Count of Monty Cristo - Alexander Dumas
5. The Importance Of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
6. Circle Of Friends - Maeve Binchy
7. Red and Black - Stendhel
8. Phantom Of The Opera
9. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
10. Heidi - Johanna Sypri

Nightshade
11-27-2005, 02:17 PM
The importance of being ernest- Wilde
most anything by shakespear
A tale of 2 cities Dickens
Faustus - Christopher marlowe
Pamela, or virtue rewarded-- Samuel Richardson ( hey its the parent of the modern novel)
Ivanhoe- Sir walter scott
Moby dick --By whoever wrote it
Tom sawyer-- Mark twain
huckelberry fin--mark twain

mono
11-27-2005, 03:00 PM
Additionally to the two posts above, who suggested wonderful material, I must add literature by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Virginia Woolf, Ambrose Bierce, Sylvia Plath, Herman Melville, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Ken Kesey, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, and O. Henry.
Good luck! ;)

starrwriter
11-27-2005, 03:00 PM
Additions to EAP's list:

American Classics
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Long Day's Journey Into Night (play) by Eugene O'Neill
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

British Classics
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

European Classics
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
The Stranger by Albert Camus