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Old 10-08-2010, 04:02 AM   #61
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My daughter and I are reading Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days for her language art's class. It may not be the best classic but after 140ish years is still readable and enjoyable. It's a great book for teaching vocabulary to a 12yo.

For myself, I've always enjoyed Jules Verne and of course Tolkien. More modern "classics" that I find are wonderful books are Slaughter House Five, Grapes of Wrath, and Of Mice and Men.
1st bold Love you for what you are doing. Not only the vocabulary, but all the places and those old ways that maybe never existed and now are no more, but that make food for imagination and tie us to one of our cultural past. Great. Karma on your way.
2nd bold Love you even more for that.
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Let's be charitable - maybe when the class on language arts is completed the apostrophes will be in the right place.
You two seem to be made one for the other
I think you never had a 12 yo daughter on your hands.
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According to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_books
the question of "What is a Classic" has been debated for a very, very long time.
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Old 10-08-2010, 05:23 AM   #64
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Personally have never enjoyed any of the British 19th C "classics" such as Dickens, Austen etc.
I have the same aversion to Russian classics.
(Bulgakov is an exception.)
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That is my mistake, sorry.
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1st bold Love you for what you are doing. Not only the vocabulary, but all the places and those old ways that maybe never existed and now are no more, but that make food for imagination and tie us to one of our cultural past. Great. Karma on your way. 2nd bold Love you even more for that.
Thanks! I'm actually homeschooling my 12yo daughter using a classical curriculum. Around the World in Eighty Days is the first novel in this curriculum and others are Kidnapped and The Diary of Anne Frank. We had a poetry unit which included The Charge of the Light Brigade. I'm enjoying rereading books from my childhood and helping my daughter see the beauty of well written literature.

Slaughter House Five was first assigned to me in high school and it is the only assigned book I ever reread on my own. I've read it at least five or six times. Just about everything I've ever read by Kurt Vonnegut qualifies for classic status.
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All of the Chronicles of Narnia series by C S Lewis

and the "Swallows and Amazons" series by Arthur Ransome

Read over and over and over, Through all of Childhood and still reading Now!
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Thanks! I'm actually homeschooling my 12yo daughter using a classical curriculum. Around the World in Eighty Days is the first novel in this curriculum
Are you using it to teach her French, or were you reading an English translation?

I'd always be wary of regarding a translation as a "classic" myself. How much of the original author are you reading, and how much of the translator? Many of Verne's novels were virtually re-written in English translation, and bear only the most superficial resemblance to the French originals.
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The novelist who seems to have the most enduring appeal to both academics and the common people is Jane Austen. I'd say Pride and Prejudice.
Agreed. Pride and Prejudice has my vote, too.
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Agreed. Pride and Prejudice has my vote, too.
Dickens would be my "most enduring author" vote. But I'm hopelessly biased - Dickens is far and away my favourite author.
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I'm a big fan of Dicken's, or should that be Dickens', or Dickens's, oh blow, scratch that.....

I'm a big fan of Dickensian light novels, though my favourite is somewhere in the middle of his spectrum (does that sound rude to anyone else?): "Nicholas Nickleby".

Not sure if something written after maybe 1950 counts as a classic; a modern classic, maybe.

BTW Harry, I studied Comparative Literature at uni. No way did I read it in the original languages! But that's another discussion, maybe.
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I've read a few of the already mentioned in the topic books, but IMO nothing comes close to Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It's definitely not a page turner like LOTR or Dune but the complexity and the descriptions are one of a kind.
I couldn't agree more. It's my favorite too, and Dostoyevsky had tremendous insight into human psychology, as evidenced in Crime and Punishment. He knew an awful lot about suffering too, having spent years imprisoned at a labor camp in Siberia as a political dissident under Czar Nicholas I, after having his death sentenced commuted.
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I do not have doubts for the best (obviously for me)
and a score of second bests.

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
Excellent choice. It was my favorite classic novel until I recently decided that I like Crime and Punishment slightly more.
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The Old Man and the Sea
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Grapes of Wrath (my parents lived that one)
Of Mice and Men
Crime and Punishment
Creatures That Were Once Men
Ironweed
Two Years Before the Mast
Protector
Cannery Row
To Kill a Mockingbird

The list would be different tomorrow.

There can't be just one best novel, there simply can't.

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