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Originally Posted by pdurrant
A quick selection from my "Classics" folder:
Jane Austen: Her novels
Sir Richard F. Burton: The Thousand Nights and a Night
Lewis Carrol: Alice books
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Homes stories
Alexandre Dumas: Musketeer novels.
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
Edward Fitzgerald: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Edward Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Kenneth Graham: The Wind in the Willows
Sir Henry Rider Haggard: Allan Quartermain novels
Jerome K Jerome: Three Men in a Boat
Rudyard Kipling: Complete works
Henry W Longfellow: The Song of Hiawatha
Sir Thomas Mallory: Le Morte d'Arthur
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven
Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy
Robert Louis Stevenson: Complete works
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and more
Jules Verne: Most of his novels
H. G. Wells: Most of his novels
Oscar Wilde: Complete works
P.G. Wodehouse: Jeeves stories.
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Great selection as HarryT said. I have to agree with most but I found Autin painful to read. I read two of hers and that was enough for me. Each to his won... Love Stern's novel....love it..... a couple hundred years before Confederacy of Dunces or Soldier Schweijk..... The only glaring Omission that I would add to your shelf is Swift's Gulliver's Travels.... A true classic that still rings true for English Politics and Politics in General to this day.....( Yes I know he was Irish.....
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