[ficbot]

I am wondering, for those who read classics e.g. Gutnberg freebies, who are your favourite authors, the ones you have read widely of their work and feel that they remain accessible to modern readers? Of the many classical authors I have read, in e and otherwise, here are my favourites:

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes, have not read his others yet)
- Bronte sisters (I have read all of their novels)
- John Wyndham (via PG Australia, I love his novels)
- George Orwell (again, via PG Australia)
- Lucy Maud Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables, have not read her others yet)
- Edith Nesbit (Five Children and it, others)
- Lewis Carroll (Alice books, but his poems are worth reading too)
- L. Frank Baum (my goal is to read the complete Wizard of Oz series)
- Oscar Wilde (mostly plays, that may not be everyone's thing, but he's good)
- Mark Twain (not the Sawyer books, but his other novels)
- Edgar Allen Poe (short stories)

Authors I have not explored much, but would like to:

- Jules Verne (classic sci-fi)
- H.G. Wells (classic sci-fi)
- Jane Austen (not sure this will be my thing...)
- Alexandre Dumas
- H. Rider Haggard (only read 1 so far...)
- Ernest Bramah (mysteries)
- John Buchan (mysteries)
- Anna Katharine Green (mysteries)
- Edgar Jepson (Arsene Lupin series)
- Baroness Orczy (Scarlet Pimpernell series)
- Mary Roberts Rinehart (mystery/suspense)
- Sax Rohmer (Fu Manchu series)
- H. Beam Piper (sci-fi)

So who are your recommendations for 'classical' or public domain authors?