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  Can anyone recommend a good Classic

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  I love my classic literature but am stuck on what to go with next. Has anyone got any suggestions?

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  StoryHeart 

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  Can you tell us more about the kind of classics you've enjoyed in the past?

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    Bellatrix LeSnape! 

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    Anything by the bronte sisters, and a little of Dickens

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  Nat S 

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  I was going to say Jane eyre. lol until i saw who it was.
  "The picture of dorian gray" by oscar wilde
  "sense and sensibility" by jane austen
  "the secret garden"
  "the little princess"

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    Bellatrix LeSnape! 

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    Haha yeah you should know i've read Jane Eyre 34 times by now :)

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    Nat S 

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    yeah but it was before i clicked on it and saw your profile picture. silly me.

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  StoryHeart 

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  North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
  Tess of the Dubervilles by Thomas Hardy

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    Kelly F 

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    I love the masterpiece Theater version of Cranford, and I loved the stories (by Gaskell) just as much.

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  Jerry M 

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  In my Who Doesn't Love A Classics? discussion group we are reading Edith Wharton's House of Mirth right now. My first time reading Wharton and I am truly amazed. Very astute writing.

  Pride and Prejudice is everyone's favorite but mine was Emma.

  Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
  Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
  The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
  The Call of the Wild by Jack London

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  Maria T 

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  Hi there! I am not an expert in classics, but i really liked Tess of the D'Urbervilles,
  which i read thanks to the lovely group i joined here: "Who Doesn't Love A Classic?"

  I also liked Persuasion by Jane Austen although a lot of people prefer other novels
  by Jane Austen.

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    StoryHeart 

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    Persuasion is my favourite too.

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    Rebekah H 

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    That's mine too!

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  Rebekah H 

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  If you like the Bronte sisters, you've probably read Villette by Charlotte -- I liked that one as much as I liked Jane Eyre.

  I just finished Sanditon by Jane Austen (and Another Lady). If you can get around it not being pure Austen, it's really good.

  If you don't mind taking on a long one, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy is FANTASTIC.

  Personally, I love Dickens. It always amazes me how there are no real minor characters, and he leaves no loose ends.

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  Nat S 

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  oh and apparently some edith warton chick is supposed to be a good classic writer.

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  Bellatrix LeSnape! 

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  Thank you all for your suggestions, much appreciated!!!

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  Susan K 

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  I've just started Doctor Zhivago and love it. Crime and Punishment or Brothers Karamazov are also good. I agree with all the suggestions above.

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  Mary Nitsch 

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  Dickens' "Bleak House" and "Our Mutual Friend"; also Anthony Trollope's "The Eustace Diamonds"

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  Bellatrix LeSnape! 

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  I don't really like Dickens I've tried many but his writing isn't that captivating, to me anyway. I will check out The Eustace Diamonds though thank you for you recommendations.

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    Nat S 

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    I don't like him either (I hated oliver twist) but I've heard great things about Bleak house and little dorrit. Maybe oliver twist was a dud.

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    Bellatrix LeSnape! 

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    I attempted Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House etc and couldn't get past the first chapter on most. I know alot of people like it him he's just not my cup-of-tea

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    Nat S 

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    thats true.

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    StoryHeart 

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    They'll probably come and take my degree in English Lit away for saying this but...I much prefer to watch Dickens' adaptations than to read him. THE BBC made miniseries of both Bleak House and Martin Chuzzlewit in the last 10 or so years and both were fun to watch.

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    Bellatrix LeSnape! 

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    Ah the BBC the best channel here in the UK for adaptations, they also did the brilliant adapt of Jane Eyre back in 07 and the unforgettable version of Pride and Predjudice (Colin Firth yum yum!)
    Would you recommend that I watch the BBC version of Bleak House even though I'm not a Dickens fan? I assume its easier to follow when you're watching it because that was always my hang up with Dickens it wasn't always the story lines that I didn't like I detest how he writes.

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    Nat S 

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    lol. I liked their version of "sense and sensibility" have not watched "pride and prejudice " because of firth. i don't like him. but i did like the film version of pride and prejudice with keira knightley in it.

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    StoryHeart 

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    Bleak House was pretty good, Bellatrix. I really like some parts but found some parts of it slow. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

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  Joshua T Clowers 

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  If you like science fiction I would suggest Aldous Huxley's (British) "Brave new world" or Kurt Vonnegut's (American) "Slaughter house five". If you like memoirs and history I would suggest Nicolas Notovitch's (French) "The unknown life of Jesus Christ" also, as far as memoirs go, "Motorcycle Diaries" by Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Argentinian). If you enjoy biographies and autobiographies then I would suggest "Ghandi an autobiography: The story of my experiments with truth" by Mohandas K. Ghandi (Indian). I would also suggest Natsume Soseki's (Japanese) "Botchan (Master Darling)". Happy reading...

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  BeccaBooks 

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  Lady Audley's Secret Mary Elizabeth Braddon
  The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde

  
  

  A couple more modern classics I would recommend:

  Sophie's Choice William Styron
  The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing

  Happy reading :)

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  ashlovesbooks 

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  I am partial to Fathers and Children by Ivan Turgenev. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert is also good, as is Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. Some people can't get into Marcel Proust's writing because it's so slow but I really like him as well. As you can probably tell I like Russian intellectuals and Modernist authors haha

  Happy reading!

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