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Originally Posted by crich70
I'd suggest trying the Harvard Classics. We have the full set here at MR in several different formats. Harvard Classics Wiki |
Hi Crich70. This is an excellent resource, thank you for sending me the link - it's unlikely I ever would have stumbled across this by myself! I see that
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (one of the two classic works that I own in paper format) is listed among these, so I think that I'll start with that one... in all its daunting 800-page glory. That gives me a bit more time to figure out this side-loading business and set up a bit of a system to easily list the books in the order I'd like to read them! (I'm an infinite tweaker...) I'll go and download all of these. Thanks!
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Originally Posted by OddCosine
I've recently decided to read some classics myself, and decided to jump in with both feet and start with Don Quixote. I'm about halfway through and am loving it. There's a well-regarded modern english translation currently available for $2.99:
Kobo
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
I'm reading a different translation, but might be reading that one if it'd been $2.99 at the time. 
Good luck with the classics! I'm thinking Anna Karenina next for myself. |
Hi OddCosine.
Don Quixote seems like one of those books which everybody says they've read, but which nobody ever actually reads, so it's great to have somebody tell me that they're legitimately enjoying it! I can certainly spare $2.99 for a classic (after all, the amount I spend on new release hardbacks is ridiculous...), so I've snapped that one right up. (Edit: Or not. I'd opened your link and then typed this response, fully intending on purchasing Don Quixote from Kobo; alas, the title isn't available electronically in my country. Ah well. I'll borrow it from a library at a later stage!)
I'd like to tackle
Anna Karenina fairly early on, myself! I've heard nothing but good feedback regarding the classics of Russian literature, specifically
Anna Karenina,
The Brothers Karamazov and
War & Peace. Who knows? Maybe we'll end up reading
Anna Karenina at the same time!
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Originally Posted by Billi
Very good suggestion, crich!
Another way could be to search the internet sites of universities/colleges. Literature classes often have their reading lists online.
One example with rich stuff for this and your next life is the Open Courseware Project of MIT.
- They have a lot of literature courses online:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/
- As an example, this link shows you the reading list of the course "Foundations of Western Culture II":
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literatur...2003/readings/ |
Hi Billi! Thank you for seconding the suggestion that I tackle the Harvard Classics - it'll be a hard series coming from the generally mindless (though incredibly fun!) level of literature that the young adult genre spits out, but it seems like it's going to be a great ride.
I have to admit that I hadn't thought to search for the course listings of literature degrees, and probably never would have - my own university, Griffith University in Australia, has simply assigned set readings (which tend to be journals and articles, rather than books) thus far in my degree, despite one of my majors being creative writing!
Sigh, maybe I should become a literature student... I've bookmarked those MIT webpages that you've linked me, and I'm going to have a read through several of the listed courses (I can see
Pride and Prejudice in the
Foundations of Western Culture II: Renaissance to Modernity class that you linked me to - maybe I should read that fairly early on; I did enjoy
Sense and Sensibility!). This looks great. Thank you!