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).
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).
Last edited by Dinkleberry2010; 12-06-2009 at 09:58 PM.
A French translation of Treasure Island when I was 8 or 9 I think.
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
Anne of Green Gables. I think I was in the fourth grade.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
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.
Oliver Twist when I was seven or eight. Followed by ...
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.
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
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.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
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.
docendo discimus
Hi,
my first literary classic was David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
MarkC
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I think the first novel that I voluntarily read and enjoyed was The Lost City by brothers Strugatskiye
The Secret Garden-9
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