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These are some of my favourites, but of course there are others. I don't know if plays count, but I put down three.
Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall- Anne Bronte
The Catcher in the Rye- JD Salinger
The Importance of Being Ernest- Oscar Wilde
Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
A Doll's House- Henrik Ibsen
Northanger Abbey- Jane Austen
The Crucible- Arthur Miller
The Mayor of Casterbridge- Thomas Hardy
Sons and Lovers- DH Lawrence
Well my top ten change every day. Today its probably (in no order):
Othello-Shakespeare
Mort-Terry Pratchett
The Hobbit- Tolkien
Death of a Salesman (play)- Arther Miller
Great Expectations- Dickens
The Nightingale and the Rose (short story)- Oscar Wilde
Wuthering Heights- Emily (?) Bronte
anything by Edgar Allen Poe
Private Peaceful- Micheal Morpurgo (excellent if you like war books)
Les Miserables- Hugo (the musical of this is also absolutly amazing!)
1. The Catcher in the Rye -Salinger
2. 1984 -Orwell
3. All Quiet on the Western Front -Remarque
4. We the Living -Rand
5. The Winter of Our Discontent -Steinbeck (which is, strangely, my favorite of all his novels)
6. The Stranger -Camus
7. Candide -Voltaire
8. The Trial -Kafka
9. The Fountainhead -Rand
10. The Man Who Was Thursday -G.K. Chesterton
My favorite plays are Othello, King Lear, and Ibsen's "A Doll's House."
If we included shorter stories, I'd have "Heart of Darkness," "The Time Machine," "Anthem," and "The Old Man and the Sea."
Oh, and if we included super-short stories, I'd have to put J.D. Salingner's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," simply because it contains my favorite sentence in all of literature. But you have to find it for yourself!
1. Anne of Green Gables
2. Little House on the praire
3. Little Women
4. Pride & Prejudice
5. Emily of New Moon
6. The Secret Garden
7. The Lion The Witch & the Wardrobe
8. Geisha
9. The Root Cellar
10. Double Spell
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Anne Of Green Gables and Pride And Prejudice, both of them are great novels.
Classicsgirl hello and welcome!
I have read most of your favourite books and liked them a lot either. :nod:
I just finished Memoirs of a Geisha and found it exceptional!!! :banana:
ElizabethSewall Hi! Yes Geisha was beautifully written, i think the book was alot better then the movie. have u seen the movie?
Pensive i see you share my Liking for Anne of Green Gables! have you read the other Anne novels in the series? :P
I read the second and third one but then I found Anne's lively character was changing as she was getting older. I would not say that it had gone but I liked her better when she was a child.
Well, I don't consider myself a pro by any means, but here are my top ten books.
Life on the Mississippi-Twain
To Kill A Maocking Bird-Lee
Nick Adams Stories-Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls-Hemingway
Jungle Books-Kipling
Dune-Herbert
Brave New World-Huxley
East of Eden-Steinbeck
O Pioneers-Cather
Atlas Shrugged-Rand
Just my two cent's worth
Just teen books... OK, this is my Top 10:
- Master and Margarita - Mihaił Bułhakow
- Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
- Wuthering Heihgts - Emily Bronte
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- Count of Monte Christo - Aleksander Dumas
- Faraon (Pharaoh) - Bolesław Prus (Prus was the polish writer)
- Don Kichote (I can't remember original title) - Miguel the Cervantes Saaverda
- Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
- Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
- Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz (also polish writer)
Hi!! How are you?Quote:
Originally Posted by classicsgirl
Yes I have but I preferred the book, even though the movie was beautiful. But there were too many things left aside. What did you thought?
Mark Twain-Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn (I consider these as one book though the
latter is more important in my opinion)
Aldous Huxley-Brave New World
Fyodor Dostoevsky-The Brothers Karamazov
Mary Shelley-Frankenstein
John Steinbeck-Grapes of Wrath
Harriet Beecher Stowe-Uncle Tom's Cabin
Elie Wiesel-Night (unbelievable)
Homer-Iliad/Odyssey (I know I know. But they're both good)
Oscar Wilde-All his plays, esp., The Importance of Being Earnest
Denis Diderot-Rameau's Nephew
If we are talking about ten classic works:
1) Dostoevsky "Crime and Pinishment", "Idiot", "Brothers Karamazov"
2)Tolstoy "War and Peace"
3) Shakespeare "Hamlet" and "Macbeth"
4) Goethe "Faust"
5) Gugo "Les Miserables"
6) Kamu "Stranger"
7) Wilde "Portret of Dorian Grey"
8) Bulgakov "Master and Margarita"
9) Greene "Power and Glory"
10) Orwell "1984"
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Desiree - Anne Marie Selinko
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Lorna Doone - R.D Blackmoore
Tess D'ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Monk - Charles Lewis
That Enchantress - Doris Leslie
Me, and Mr. Jeeves - PG Woodehouse
Book of Brave Deeds - Various Authors
The Bible - Various Authors
No particular order.....
The Great Gatsby-Fitzgerald
The Grapes of Wrath-Steinbeck
The Sirens of Titan or Cat's Cradle(I couldn't make up my mind)-Vonnegut
Ulysses-Joyce(to ground you in reality)
Light in August-Faulkner
The Old Man and the Sea-Hemingway
The Portrait of Dorian Gray-Wilde
Crime and Punishment-Dostoevsky
To the Lighthouse-Woolf
To Kill a Mockingbird-Lee