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Old 08-21-2013, 09:35 AM   #29
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First, good for you for wanting to improve your mind by reading classical literature!
Some that I would recommend:

- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Honore de Balzac, Pere Goriot
- Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
- Charles Dickens, virtually anything but especially A Tale of Two Cities and Nicholas Nickelby
- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Illyich
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamozov
- Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
- Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
- Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis
- Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
- Anything by Ernest Hemingway
- Anything by John Steinbeck (probably my favorite author)
- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
- James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

It goes without saying that these should all be unabridged. Just a few off the top of my head.
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