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Originally Posted by HarryT
P&P is hilariously funny, it really is. Don't judge it from the film and TV adaptations which generally remove most of the humour from it.
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I wouldn't go quite that far, but it is a very readable and engaging book, which is certainly not true of all classics.
I have a particular problem with Dickens, myself. I've only made it through
Christmas Carol, which is mercifully short. Most of his are excessively long and the language is awkward.
A few classics I am hoping to read eventually:
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley,
The Time Machine by H G Wells,
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (
War and Peace was very good, and doesn't deserve its reputation as hard work),
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (I expect to struggle with that one),
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte,
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton,
The Woman in White and
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins.
I can't think of any others right now, but note how I won't commit to reading them next year.
Although I will undoubtedly read some books that might count as modern classics. When I think of classics, I tend to be thinking of stuff that is easily old enough to be on Project Gutenberg, or MR, and ideally is also actually out of copyright in the UK (of the list above, I think
The Time Machine is still in copyright here.)