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Literature Classics...yay or nay
Hi everybody! I graduated from college in December and since I have a lot of free time now, I figured it would be a good idea to cultivate my general knowledge by reading some classics...
Which classics would you recommend?
Oh, I forgot to mention I live in Argentina so some books might be hard to get, especially if they're in English :(
Tags: classics, literature
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Permalink Reply by Smile Soup on -
Aldus Huxley, George Orwell. You won't regret it.
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Permalink Reply by Ella Unread on -
Oh!! I will google it and see where I can find it, thank you! :D
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Permalink Reply by Shelly on -
I love Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, and Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen. Probably two of my favorites. I also enjoyed reading Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. I just finished re-reading Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte. It's a good one too. And my final recommendation Far From the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy.
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Permalink Reply by Ella Unread on
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OMG! I read the Introduction to Jane Eyre last night and that's what inspired this thread! hahaha
Woah that's a list :) thank you so much! I like Thomas Hardy...wasn't he the one who wrote...ermm...The Grave by the handpost? I absolutely loooooved that story :)
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Permalink Reply by Shelly on
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Oh whoops! I made a type-o! Whatever the case, I enjoyed reading it!
(and my 15 minutes are up! I can't even change it!)
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Permalink Reply by Shelly on
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I have to say, when I started it, I didn't think I would like it (a friend of mine recommended it to me, and truth be told, I'm bored to death with the books she usually recommends) but I kept going back to it, and then when I finished I was like "hmm, I think I like it."
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Permalink Reply by Shelly on
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I haven't read that one. In fact, this is the only Hardy book I've read. I felt like Far from the MADDING ;) Crowd was mostly me feeling sorry for Gabriel, and watching (watch me butcher her name) Bathsheba make mistake after mistake. (which I may have enjoyed a little bit, because I didn't care for her)
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Permalink Reply by R...RAWR on -
Jude the Obscure is the only Hardy novel I can stand. Tess and Madding both did my head in- and of course, were the texts I had to study for Lit. :(
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Permalink Reply by Ella Unread on
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Oh! I think Sabrina the Teenage witch had to read that in one of the episodes...lol, sorry for the stupid reference :P
Ewww!! pig's penises? hahah well that's something interesting!
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Permalink Reply by Lashes on -
I would have been one of the classmates who didn't like it! I can't do Hardy... I was an English major and thus should like it as a piece of classic literature, but I can't stand books where nothing good happens to the main character!
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Permalink Reply by Andy Jones on -
Without a doubt... 'Around the World in Eighty Days'. One of my favourite books. Then read the 'Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', and 'The Lost World'. All amazing literature classics!!!
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