Your Favorite Classic Book’s?
ok so i sold my old books to an old book store so i could get the money to buy new books, the lady gave me $120 store credit.
all the books are second hand and i’m sure i could find heaps that i want, but it would take years to go through them all, the store is like a maze (my mum and i even got lost in there the first time) and its the biggest secondhand book store in Victoria, Australia.
so my question is could you give me some names of old books that you loved and think i would like, today i’m going there to get David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, i love adventure books, romance, drama, at the moment i’m sick of fantasy.
thank you.
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There are so many that I love though!!! i guess it depends on what you want to read…
For Adventure:
Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson
Robinson Crusoe- Daniel Defoe
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea- Jules Verne
Around the World in 80 Days- ”
Gulliver’s Travels (but really that’s satire too)- Jonathan Swift
Robin Hood- (there’s a lot of versions)
The Time Machine- H.G. Wells
For Mystery:
any of the original Sherlock Holmes stories (start with A Study in Scarlet.. it comes first chronologically)- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Rebecca- Daphne Du Maurier
For the Romance that isn’t the idiotic modern type:
Jane Austen’s books
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
A Room with a View- E. M. Forster
Gone with the WInd- Margaret Mitchell
For Horror..(ahhhh!):
Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- Robert Louis Stevenson
Anything by Edgar Allan Poe
Books that I just love:
The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald (LOOOVE HIM)
Anything by Ernest Hemingway
Breakfast at Tiffany’s- Truman Capote
To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
The Count of Monte Cristoe- Alexandre Dumas
The Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy
Julius Caesar-… Shakespeare of course
Those books that you hate reading while you’re reading them, but feel a sense of accomplishment after you’re finished:
Brothers Karamazov- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy
Moby Dick- Herman Melville
The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Oddyssey, Aeniad, (unless you’re into mythology)
and those are just the tip of the iceberg, you know.
The Great Train Robbery
Lord of The Flies
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Chronicles of Narnia is okay, if you have a ton of patience and interest for stuff like that. But you also said you’re sick of fantasy (I don’t blame you).
Feed is good (though I’m not sure it’ll be in an old bookstore)
The Life of Pi is also good
His Dark Materials (again, it might be too modern)
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Secret Garden, Little Women, Dracula by Bram Stoker
I know its fantasy but Magician by Raymond E Feist
I would love to know the shop you are going to cause im in Victoria too and would love to go and check it out.
I’d recommend
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
The Grapes Of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Three great books if you haven’t read them already.
Anything by Dostoyevsky Brothers Karamozov Crime and Punishment, the Idiot.
She or King Solomons Mines are good old adventure by H Rider Haggard
Stokers Dracula is a fun one too.
definitely Wuthering Heights…it’s not at all a girlie/softy book but it’s wonderfully written and overall deserves to be a classic
How about some Shakespeare? My favoruties are “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, “Comedy of Errors”, and “Much Ado About Nothing” – you could actually probably find his compete works in one book easily.
“The Secret Garden”, “A Little Princess”, “The Princess and the Goblin’ and “The Princess and Curdie” are technically for Children, but I love them so very very very much and they are so good that I just have to reccomend them.
I also read “Little Women” over and over again.
For something a little heavier how about “Les Miserables” or “The Great Gatsby”?
Also I had a boyfriend who’s favourite book of all time was “Ivan Hoe” and along that same line you could try to find some stories about Robin Hood, or King Arthur’s Court.
Hope that helps!
If you can find anything by Wilke Collins,you would probably really like his work.
I think his best is “The Moonstone”.
It’s a mystery about a jewel from India that goes missing from a girls room.
Very clever writing.Gabriel Betteredge is one of the funniest characters I’ve read in a long time.
You might want to give Arthur Conan Doyle a try.Sherlock Holmes is really terrific.Fast paced,and fascinating.”The Sign of Four” is a great story.
You can just by a collection of his stories.Most of the cases are short stories,but a satisfying read.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville is a masterpiece.It’s one the great,and unique works of American literature
George Eliot is an interesting writer.”Daniel Deronda” is a fine book with good characters,and a complex plot.It’s mostly romance,but there is more to it than that.It has a story of young people finding their identities,and sense of purpose in life.
Eliot also wrote “Middlemarch” which is well known.
That should keep your eyes busy for awhile.
Happy reading.
Try Dracula by Bram Stoker, The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
Concerning these books, the most important thing is to go in with an open mind. Wrong are the stereotypes of showy, campy vampires, overly-dramatic masked men swinging from chandeliers, and square-headed grunting monsters with bolts through their necks. These books are as much adventure, romance and tragedy as they are horror, and are masterfully written and executed (and additionally, ten times less corny than generalizations and parodies make them sound).
If you’re feeling more ambitious, you could try anything by Victor Hugo; Les Miserables, Notre Dame de Paris (aka The Hunchback of Notre Dame) and The Man Who Laughs are all fantastic (these are all my absolute favorites).
Fyordor Dostoevsky is another great author. I especially liked The Idiot, though it did tend to get a bit dry at points.
I personally dislike Dickens (I just find the writing incredibly dull. Really, the guy was paid by the word), but it does seem to strike a chord with many, and I do admit that I am rather fond of Great Expectations.
Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters are always good choices. Again, go in with an open mind, as these are not the stereotypical lovey-dovey “girl books” they’re made out to be.
Another book that’s really good by Dickens is A Tale of Two Cities, it’s about the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo is similar to A Tale of Two Cities in theme.
Other good books:
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
1984 by George Orwell
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien (I know you said you’re sick of fantasy, but fantasy is just the backdrop. The themes and meanings of these books transcend fantasy. It truly is amazing, if you haven’t read it yet).
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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