Can you recall the first literary work you read?

By literary I don't mean Dick and Jane stories, but the first work of literature.
The first work of literature I recall reading is The Fall of the House of Usher when I was ten (maybe that should tell me something).

A French translation of Treasure Island when I was 8 or 9 I think.

Anne of Green Gables. I think I was in the fourth grade.

I read the Boxcar Children in 1st grade, but my first actual piece of literature might have been Oliver Twist, in the 2nd grade. Yeah, I actually read it.

A Stdy in Scarlet by Conan Doyle, The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, et al.

It may have been 'The Pit and the Pendulum' by Poe.

I remember reading "The Iliad" when I was 11/12 - but I don't think it was the first I ever read... I think I read "Great Expectations", "Pride and Prejudice" and "Ivanhoe" before that (not sure of age or order though ;))

I think mine was Treasure Island at 9.

I was a late-comer. I didn't like reading at all, until I read The Assault by Harry Mulisch (Dutch writer) when I was 16-17. It was the first grown-up book I read and th first I liked. I never looked back on children's books or so-called 'teenage' books again. :sick:

Kid's books are classic literature too. Wind in the Willows, Stuart Little, The Secret Garden, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Watership Down, and then there's Anne... I love kid's literature.

The earliest genuine literary work I can remember reading was when I was given a copy of David Attenborough's Zoo Quest for a Dragon by my mother when I was quite young. I was probably four or five years old.

Hi,


my first literary classic was David Copperfield by Charles Dickens


MarkC

I think the first novel that I voluntarily read and enjoyed was The Lost City by brothers Strugatskiye

I think it was The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes at age 5. Yeah, that was it.

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