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[Nameless]

Hello everyone

Recently, my friend (an English major) introduced me to classics and I've really enjoyed reading them. I'm also trying to improve my vocabulary and writing. However, the main reason I joined the forum was because I felt it could help me appreciate/understand the classics better. I find most of the classics to be heavy reading and thought it would be great to get differing opinions.

By the way, I hope I won't be chastised for poor grammar and spelling :smilewinkgrin:

[idnami]

You know, someone once said that a classic novel is one that everyone wants to have read but no one wants to read. As an avid Dickens fan I disagree. One must have patience with the languages and styles of other eras to not only endure but love the classics. Not only patience but enthusiasm. Wordy Victorian prose and obscure Elizabethan slang are dialects all their own, which when understood often reveal minds as canny, witty, subversive and ironic as any modern one.
That being said, I can't stand Jane Austen and I find Gustave Flaubert boring in the extreme. Each to their own.