Favorite Classic Novel

[Slytherine]

Do you have a favorite classic novel?
I'm limiting mine to five. I could go on for days though. *sigh*

My favorites:
-Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
-Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
-Sense and Sensibilty by Jane Austin
-Macbeth by Shakespeare
-The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne


~Slytherine

[LadyRushia]

-The Mayor of Casterbridge
-Twelfth Night
-Pygmalion
-East of Eden
-Pride and Prejudice

[EricTheFred]

On another day, I might have come up with a completely different five, because I have so many 'Favorites'. But, here goes:

The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Don Quixote Miguel Cervantes
Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
Sila Marner George Eliot

[MomoAdachi]

*Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll(sp?)
*Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley
*A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

[Sheenar]

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Odyssey by Homer
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (I'd consider this classic, it's pretty old.)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

And there are probably others...

[the_wolfs_howl]

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

[bigsleepj]

• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
• A Tale of Two Cities by that Dickens dude
• The Man who was Thursday by GK Chesterton

[mitsuki lover]

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
The Time Machine by H.G.Wells
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Martyr of the Catacombs by Anonymous
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

[EricTheFred]

Although I'm completely unsurprised at how many votes A Tale of Two Cities has garnered, I'm shocked to find I'm the only one who included any Hemingway. Am I really alone in loving the way this guy wrote, or are you folks just not considering him old enough to be 'Classic'?

[Sheenar]

Sorry, I just don't care much for Hemingway...just a personal preference. Just like I don't care for the writings of William Faulkner though he has a large following. Just personal preference --just don't like their styles...

[Tarnish]

Animal Farm and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are all that's coming to my head, right now.

[Radical Dreamer]

The Three Musketeers, by Alexander Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas
Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare

My gosh, I've read more than that, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head, without looking at a bookshelf. XD

Also, I really didn't like either of the books I read by Hemmingway (The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell To Arms); I guess I just don't care for his style. XD

[Shao Feng-Li]

Hmm... I like the novels by Robet L. Stevenson... But my favorite old stuff would have to be Sherlock Holmes.

[Fish and Chips]

How to Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of my top novels. Read straight through it. And if it counts, the Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien.

[kirakira]

The Odyssey By Homer
Anitigone By Sophocles
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
The Aeneid By Virgil
Confessions By St. Augustine

Just off the top of my head. I really like GK Chesterton, but I wasn't sure if he counted?

[Maledicte]

Frankenstein
Dracula
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Les Miserables
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The Adventures of Robin Hood

I like me some rip-roaring swashbucklers, yes I do.

[bigsleepj]

Just off the top of my head. I really like GK Chesterton, but I wasn't sure if he counted?

His books are public domain now, so TECHNICALLY he counts.

[GhostontheNet]

Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Hound Of The Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained by John Milton
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

[Aileen Kailum]

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. Interesting, because I despised this book until I saw the film version.
The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Read it for my American Lit. class in high school. It ended up being one of the few I liked.
The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. (Haven't read them all and can't remember the titles. Guess that means its time to go the library.)
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe. One of the few books that actually creeped me out.

As for Hemingway, the only book I've read of his is A Farewell to Arms, which I didn't care for. I didn't mind his style, just thought the whole story was silly.

[Nate]

I'm currently reading Lolita and I must say it's a very emotional and disturbing little book. I love it.

I've also read Three Kingdoms, which is of course considered one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature so I'm sure that counts. :p

[Angel Tifa]

Some of my favorites include:

-Chronicles of Narnia (all of them)
-Lord of the Flies
-The Great Gatsby

I hope to read more classics one of these days ^^.

[Slytherine]

I hope to read more classics one of these days ^^.

Well, contemporary literature stems from the classics, which is why it's normally pretty cool to read them. And if you don't like them, you have to at least respect them. It's like if you're a person who LOVES rock music:rock:. If you love rock music, you have heard/should hear some Classic Rock; it might not be your thing to listen to, but you should still respect it because it's the basis of what you like. If thay makes any sense...LOL.

Take Shakespeare, for example. Shakespeare CREATED archetypes. It's partly why I really enjoy reading him. I fan-girl over Poe and Shakespeare, lol.


~Slytherine

[Angel Tifa]

Oh for sure Slytherine ! Indeed I love rock music and enjoy all kinds of classic rock (ie. Led Zepelin, ACDC)!

Another classic I had in mind I'd like to read is Crime and Punishment. Or Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde.

[Slytherine]

Oh for sure Slytherine ]
Zepelin:rock:

Another classic I had in mind I'd like to read is Crime and Punishment.

I really liked Crime and Punishment personally. You should give it a read! ^_^

~Slytherine

[GeneD]

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
The Adventures of Robin Hood; the Howard Pyle classic comes to mind, but I've read many other versions and re-tellings.
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. I totally want to read this again, it was pretty funny. I also likes Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Tempest.

[rocklobster]

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. You can't beat this one.

[Danderson]

So, far the only things that come to mind are:
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Animal Farm
The Screwtape Letters

I probably have more....just can't think of any more at the moment....

[Slytherine]

Revised List [as of 4/7/08, 9:24am]:

1.) Macbeth by Shakespeare
2.) The Tempest by Shakespeare
3.) Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
4.) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
5.) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

~Slytherine

[Doubleshadow]

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn
Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Also numerous classical works, plays, etc.

[Wild Eagle]

The Iliad and The Odyssey- Homer
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
1984- George Orwell
Anne of Green Gables- Lucy M. Montgomery
Ivanhoe- Sir Walter Scott
The Hobbit- J.R.R Tolkien
The Magician's Nephew- C.S Lewis