Classic Novels

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Wed, 2001-05-16 03:03

Classic Novels

What's your favorite "Classic Novel"? I'm planning to wind my way through a few of the heavys this summer and need some suggestions. My favorites are, "Crime and Punishment" or "The Brother's Karamzov". Yes, Doystoyeveski is the author that I measure all others by. I need to branch out from those old "ruskie writers". Any suggestions?

Wed, 2001-05-16 12:39

andrea

Anything by Zola and Balzac

Wed, 2001-05-16 19:32

skipwith camel

yes, zola; a talented writer as well as a great football player. a combination not found since camus.

Wed, 2001-05-16 23:10

Emily Dubberley

A Picture of Dorian Gray and anything by Daphne du Maurier

Thu, 2001-05-17 13:26

Deborah Spiers

George Eliot - especially Middlemarch - vital reading especially in an election year! Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness.

Thu, 2001-05-17 21:43

Gabrielle

Elizabeth Gaskell :North and South Charles Dickens : Our Mutual Friend When does 'Classic' start ? Can I have Rosamond Lehmann :The Weather in the Streets. ?

Mon, 2001-06-11 16:20

Tony Cook

Hey - come on folks - not a single mention yet for the wonderful Jane Austen. 'Emma' has to be an all time gem! pip pip, tony

Sat, 2001-05-19 11:33

Barry Wood

Hey Lloyd, Echoes From the Macabre is a collection of short stories by Daphne Du Maurier. Excellent book! My all-time favorite short story "The Birds" is there as well.

Mon, 2001-06-11 16:40

sigh,man

I can't stand Jane Austen novels. Homer-Oddyssey (wrong spellign me thinks) Milan Kundera - Immortality Adams- Restaurant at the end of the Universe and Copeland- Generation X. Don't know if you can call The Brentford Triangle a calssic but is a very good read from Robert Rankin

Tue, 2001-05-22 01:24

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Primate

Catch-22 and Closing Time by Joseph Heller. Top class logic-twisting in the former and sheer quality prose in the latter. Both damn funny too :)

Wed, 2001-05-23 19:13

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Wolfgirl

If you are going Russian, don't forget Gogol, the incredible Russian absurdist. 'Diary Of A Madman' and 'The Nose' will tickle your literary underbelly.

Wed, 2001-05-23 20:10

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curua

Dickens- Barnaby Rudge Collins- The Woman in White Lovecraft- Dreams in the Witch House

Fri, 2001-06-15 17:20

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Julian Simpson

Agh - not Jane Austen, the word classic and her name should never be linked. George Eliot's good though - Silas Marner and Middlemarch especially.

Sat, 2001-06-16 17:29

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Bobblehat2000

Candide - Voltaire.

Wed, 2001-06-20 22:47

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richardw

sigh said: << Don't know if you can call The Brentford Triangle a calssic but is a very good read from Robert Rankin << does that include sprout mask replica? i read all of those as they came out, can't get much more fun out of books. im sure the classic novels thread has already appeared, hasn't it? never mind tho, ive noticed that everytime it does there are some quality books suggested, gets better ever every time. id like to think that the site has something to do with this?

Tue, 2001-07-03 17:08

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Shabnam

Thomas Hardy's Far from the madding crowd, George Eliot's Mill on the Floss, And for a laugh......Pride and Promiscuity.....The lost sex scenes from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice! And no i'm not suggesting the former is a classic!

Thu, 2001-07-05 21:28

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Martin

Tale of two cities - dickens the naked and the dead - mailer

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