Help needed - book written before 1900

[Hayley Zero]

Goodnight everyone !

I have to read a book written before 1900 and I'd like some advice... Usually I love stream of conciousness and only read more modern books. I've already read Oscar Wilde & really liked it, but I have to read another before-1900-book and I'm not really interested in Victorian family drama.

Could anyone recommend me a novel ? Thank you so much :)

x
Hayley

[Scheherazade]

Try this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Men_in_a_Boat

[armenian]

knut hamsun - hunger

[DisPater]

Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary or The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Henry James - The Turn of the Screw or The Portrait of a Lady

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[PeterL]

Mark Twain

[Lokasenna]

Bram Stoker's Dracula might be interesting - its quite an easy read, and is written as a succession of diary entries, allowing you a concioussness angle.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Bram Stoker's Dracula might be interesting - its quite an easy read, and is written as a succession of diary entries, allowing you a concioussness angle.

Yes I would probably second that especially if you enjoyed Dorian Gray. I would avoid Conrad and James as they are quite dense if you are not used to that sort of thing.

[hoo]

Alice's Adventures in Wonrderland

[Hayley Zero]

Wow, thank you so much for the fast replies ! This is really great.

Three Men in a Boat sounds like a lot of fun, and Dracula sounds very interesting too - I didn´t know it´s a diary. I´m going to get them in the library tomorrow. And perhaps I´ll read Hunger in German (I can´t read translated books...). I also tried reading Flaubert in French, but that was too hard for me.

Thank again and I´ll let you know what I thought !

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[bounty]

i agree with dracula being an innovative read, and with the admonition to be wary of james, the king of the multi-layered compound sentence! what did he just say? let me read it again for a third time....

[slobone]

And of course everybody loves Jane Austen -- start with Pride & Prejudice. Wuthering Heights would also be good, or something by Dickens -- Great Expectations maybe.

[Mariamosis]

Jules Verne (The Mysterious Island, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days)
Charles Dickens (David Copperfield, Hard Times, Tale of Two Cities) (mentioned)
Oscar Wilde (already mentioned)
Stephen Crane (The Red Bade of Courage)
Mark Twain (already mentioned)
Lewis Carroll (Alice Adventure's in Wonderland) (mentioned)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)
Rudyard Kipling

The list goes on...
:)

[wat??]

Fyodor Dotoevsky - Everything

[Etienne]

Try The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne it's almost ridiculously modern, and it was written in the 18th century. He is, like Cervantes or Rabelais, an innovator, and pioneered techniques that were only "rediscovered" in the 20th century.

[Tsuyoiko]

Fyodor Dotoevsky - Everything

Agreed, but especially Crime and Punishment

Also, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein