miclor
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One of my New Year's resolutions will be to read at least five 'classic' novels during 2009.
By 'classic', I mean the work of a well-known author of a standard suitable for students of literature. I don't have a favourite author, but I imagine names such as Dickens, Shakespeare, Hardy, Bronte or Tolstoy might figure on the list.
Recommendations, please!
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Barney
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Hi miclor here's my suggestions
Tess of the D'Ubervilles Thomas Hardy
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Middlemarch George Eliot
Happy reading.
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BEL
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Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
Northanger Abbey by Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
Silas Marner..can't remember author
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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BEL
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Just remembered...Silas Marner author was George Eliot
Enjoy.
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hussy
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Catcher in the Rye
Sunset Song
Little women (or the ones after it if you have read it)
Cancer Ward
The Barchester Chronicles
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lizalou
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You could try
Lark rise to Candleford By Flora Thompson
Cranford By Elizabeth Gaskell
Having watched them on TV will give you a head start, but the books are far better
Any/all the Jane Austen novels (my favourites)
Barchester Towers Anthony Trolloppe
And I suppose you had better add
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
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Splash123
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Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina....my all time favorite !
But all the above are good suggestions ....there are so many!
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marina
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The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Birdsong Sebastien Faulks (Is it too modern to be a "Classic"?
and any of the afore mentioned. Great choices girls.
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Splash123
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Oh yes definately BirdSong....Yes it has to be a classic....Great Gatsby !...that takes me back to university!! memories stirring Marina!
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DeepBlue
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First and most favourite ever, Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Tess of the D'urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Emma - Jane Austen
David Copperfield - Dickens
Birdsong - Sebastian Fawlkes (sp?)
Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald
In Cold Bold - Truman Capote
Last 2 are really American Classics but who cares when they are so good. Just realised I've got 7
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valerie57
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Must add Well of Loneliness - Radlyffe Hall
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wispa
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Can I put in a good word for the Forsyte Saga!
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dizeeblonde
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Madame Bovary is one i would suggest.
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snoopy56
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Great suggestions especially as I'm just coming to the end of Anna Karenina and loving it. The other Russian novel which I would recommend is Dr Zhivago.
My list would also include:-
Brideshead Revisited
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Grapes of Wrath
Midnight's Children (surely already regarded as a classic)
Goodbye to all That (not a novel, I know but essential reading)
1984 (I'm suprised this hasn't already been mentioned!)
One of my reading resolutions for 2009 is to read another Russian classic possibly 'Crime and Punishment' or the Brother's Karamazov.
Happy Reading New Year, everyone
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Ashbee
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Can I add Moll Flanders to the list as well as Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee?
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Twiddledout
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This is one of my intentions too miclor. I'm currently wading through 1984. It's getting better after a slow start!
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bunnygirl
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Agree with a lot already mentioned especially Anna Karenina and Tees of the D'urbavilles.
One of the only books I have read more than once is Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. I must have read it at least six times.
Bunnygirl
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Ginnie
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I agree with all of the above and would like to add
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Birdsong has to be a modern classic and maybe A Thousand Splendid Suns won't be far behind it
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feathers
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Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The way we live now - Anthony Trollope (incredible resonance with today's world)
Great Expectations (the only Dickens I can manage)
The Forsyte Saga
Anna Karenina
if you were thinking at modern classics I'd say:
Possession - A S Byatt
The Great Gatsby - Scott Fitzgerald
Gone with the wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
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Ginnie
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Feathers definitely Gone With The Wind "Scarlet O'Hara was not beautiful but men seldom realised this" I was a teenager when I first read this. I thought the film was very good too . Apparently the burning of Atlanta was a triumph for cinematography at that time
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