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Old 02-09-2014, 03:21 PM   #1
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Favorite classic novels
I just read North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, and it was wonderful! It has put me in a mood to read classic novels, and I'm wondering what everyone's favorites are.
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Old 02-09-2014, 03:49 PM   #2
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One of my favorites is Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. I read it I don't know how many times as a young boy, and still re-read it now and then.
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Old 02-09-2014, 03:51 PM   #3
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My favorite, which I have reread many times, is Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
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Old 02-09-2014, 05:35 PM   #4
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dracula by Bram Stoker
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
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The Sea Wolf by Jack London

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by RLS

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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If what you're hankering for is big, fat Victorian novels like Mrs. Gaskell's, try Trollope. Start with The Warden, the first novel of the Barchester Chronicles. That'll give you a taste without a big commitment and if it's love, your path is clear.
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Old 02-09-2014, 06:41 PM   #7
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If what you're hankering for is big, fat Victorian novels like Mrs. Gaskell's, try Trollope. Start with The Warden, the first novel of the Barchester Chronicles. That'll give you a taste without a big commitment and if it's love, your path is clear.
I'm on it! Thanks. And it's free for Kindle!
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Old 02-09-2014, 06:42 PM   #8
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Pretty much anything Jules Verne; with Journey to the Center of the Earth heading the list.
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I'm on it! Thanks. And it's free for Kindle!
It's out of copyright (at least in the US & Canada) and available here.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53280
(Of course, that's the whole set, not just the first book.)

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Old 02-10-2014, 01:18 PM   #10
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All of Jane Austen's and Anne of Green Gables.
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I've read lots of classics, but the one I've reread the most is Moonfleet by Meade Falkner.
I love this book!
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Charles Dickens:
A tale of two cities
Great expectations

Fyodor Dostoevsky:
The brothers Karamazov

Jules Verne:
Journey to the centre of the earth

Alexandre Dumas:
The Three Musketeers

Robert Louis Stevenson:
The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Lots of great books mentioned above. Some additional titles:

Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some other excellent novels, including "Cranford" and "Wives and Daughters"

Charles Dickens - "Bleak House" - who could forget Mr. Tulkinghorn and Harold Skimpole, and it includes a spontaneous human combustion

Anthony Trollope - "Barchester Towers" in the Barsetshire books (see issybird's comments above) is probably my favourite novel, but Trollope wrote many other excellent novels, particularly the Palliser novels - "Can You Forgive her?", "Phineas Finn", "The Eustace Diamonds", ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - "Vanity Fair" - You'll want to hiss at Becky Sharpe and shake Amelia Sedley
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For me, it is The Three Musketeers and anything by Charles Dickens especially David Copperfield.
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The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Wyss
Candide - Voltaire
Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters
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