My husband and I are reading an audiobook together called Out of the Ashes:Rebuilding American Culture. We felt very undereducated to say the least. So I wanted to make a thread to talk about seeking to read classic works.
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Do you mean what kind of classics do we read or recommend?My husband and I are reading an audiobook together called Out of the Ashes:Rebuilding American Culture. We felt very undereducated to say the least. So I wanted to make a thread to talk about seeking to read classic works.
Yes. Also to record books Im reading or want to read.Do you mean what kind of classics do we read or recommend?
Thank you. Ive heard a lot of good things about both his writing and values.Charles Dickens is good. I think you'd like his books.
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
A Tale of Two Cities
"Scrooge"
Happy to say Im familiar with a handful of those including Emma, Jane Eyre, Gone With the Wind, Les Miserables and Frankenstein.Classic literature is one of my favorite things and I have a ton of suggestions. The following list is of authors followed by their works I recommend.
Various: The Bible.
Homer: the Iliad, The Odyssey.
Unknown: The Epic of Gilgamesh, Beowulf.
Ovid: Metamorphoses.
Virgil: the Aeneid.
Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy.
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote.
Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales.
Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo.
Victor Hugo: Les Misèrables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle.
Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre.
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights.
Louisa May Alcott: Little Women.
Bram Stoker: Dracula.
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein.
Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island.
Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea.
L. Frank Baum: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Jane Austen: Emma, Northanger Abbey.
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World.
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment.
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace.
Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield.
Mark Twain: Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Prince and the Pauper.
H.G. Wells: War of the Worlds, Island of Dr. Moreau, From Earth to the Moon, The Invisible Man, The Time Machine.
Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera.
John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath.
Jack London: Call of the Wild.
Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind.
Hariett Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Emile Zola: Germinal.
Frank Norris: McTeague.
Herman Meville: Moby Dick.
And I also suggest Fairy Tales because they are always pleasant to read. The stuff by the brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen.