02-09-2013, 12:49 AM | #1 |
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Best Traditional Literature
What are your favorite 'famous' historical peices of world literature?
Walden by Henry David Thoreau is by far one of my favorite pieces of work. The beautiful philosophies of an all-natural simple life are utterly inspiring. My 10th grade English teacher played a huge roll in introducing me to this piece of literature and to this day I send her thank you notes for bringing such an inspiring piece into my life. The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe still stands as one of my favorite peices of poetry. It never fails to amaze me that Thoreau and Poe came from approximately the same time in history yet have completely different perspectives on life. |
02-11-2013, 01:43 PM | #2 |
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Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, by Louisa May Alcott, a early feminist.
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My favorite is still War and Peace, followed by Les Miserables.
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Assuming it would count as 'traditional literature', I'd pick The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck. Great book.
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My favorite is The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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The Three Musketeers hold a special place in my heart. Very well written and marvelous story.
Any book by Jane Austen also is high on any list I might make. |
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Treasure Island and the Sherlock Holmes stories.
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Worth remembering, of course, that it's only one fairly small part (probably about 20%, length-wise) of the "D'Artagnon Chronicles". The whole thing is in the MR library.
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02-12-2013, 02:33 PM | #9 |
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Thanks, Harry. I will look into that. Don't know who would replace M'Lady. I actually was pulling for her.
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also (that I've read - there are many lists and many on my tbr list): The Heart is a Lonely Hunter The Sound and the Fury Catcher in the Rye Great Expectations Of Human Bondage Sons and Lovers Last edited by kennyc; 02-13-2013 at 07:31 AM. |
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02-13-2013, 09:44 AM | #12 |
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Thanks, Harry. I'll download those when I get home tonight.
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I've read RLS's The Master of Ballantrae three or four times, which probably makes it my favourite classic novel. I haven't read any other more than twice. I can't explain why I've re-read it so many times; maybe because of its reasonable length.
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Harry, what do you think of the Pevear translation of The Three Musketeers? Some say it is saucier than editions now in the public domain.
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02-17-2013, 09:39 PM | #15 |
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Everything by the Brontës.
Trollope's Barsetshire series Many of the Yiddish novels in English translation. Conrad Richter's Awakening Land trilogy. Churchill's The Second World War Edited: Pearl Buck's The Good Earth |
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