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  Favorite Classics & Historicals

  I love Pride & Prejudice and Scarlet Letter.
  
  Historical Fiction; Anything by Elizabeth Chadwick, The Other Boleyn Girl was great

  ancestorsearch started this discussion 1 year ago. ( reply )

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  rainlily 

  Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
  The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

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  Francesca C 

  I just finished "Pemberley Remembered" which is actually a romance that takes place in London right after WWII, but it has a Jane Austen thread running through it. Were Darcy and Elizabeth's characters based on real people. This novel finds out.

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  joyce D 

  I am re-reading the classics I loved when I was in school & it is surprising how good they still are..The Man in the Iron Mask, Jane Eyre, Gone With the Wind,The Count of Monte Cristo,so far..seeing the reply from rainlily reminded me of one of my favorites,Rebecca, I will pick it up tomorrow..

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  LOSTaholic 

  The Scarlet Letter and Crime and Punishment are my all time favorite Classics so far...and I'm reading 1984 which is really good, but frighteningly close to reality in my opinion. I enjoy the storylines for Jane Austen's stories, but the wording takes a lot of effort to follow, so I think I'll just stick to the movies for those.

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  Mary O 

  These books are all very good and I have read most of them, but they are identified properly as just classics. A "historical novel" that is a "classic" would be, say, "Gone with the wind" or "Ben-Hur" or "Quo Vadis." I have read all of these but would love a good historical fiction writer. As a specialist in 14th-cent through 18th century, I would dearly love to find people who would want to read or can recommend good historical fiction.

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    Matthew R 

    I asked this question on the Historical Fiction page, but since you are a specialist you might have a specific take on the subject. Do books written in the past become historical fiction (I read a lot of Modernist writers as well as turn of the 18th C. picqaresqe books) or are they just old? I myself would lean towards the former since they generally provide a contemporary snapshot. I think the first true "historical" fiction was Walter Scott.

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  *~Saxophone Rocker~* omj, i LOVE "tik tok" by kesha!! 

  although i haven't read as many classics as u other members, i still love classics. rite now i'm reading anne of the green gables. i have pastly read little women, and the dear america series (well @ least most of the dear america series.) reason Y i love dear america is because it's historical fiction.
  READ ON!=-)

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    *~Saxophone Rocker~* omj, i LOVE "tik tok" by kesha!! 

    finished anne bout a month ago, no reading pricess academy isn;t historical fiction tho.

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    *~Saxophone Rocker~* omj, i LOVE "tik tok" by kesha!! 

    finished princess academy 2 weeks ago.

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  Lauren B 

  i've read almost every dear america there is, i absolutely LOVE historical fiction, if u want to read a really good dear america read "hear me sorrow" its the best one

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  Tian G 

  Anything by Jean Plaidy, Carolly Erickson, or Jane Austen. =)

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  Katya Tapac 

  Gone With The Wind, and Pride and Prejudice. =)

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