Friday, September 24, 2004 - Brushing Up On The Classics
Axinar had a great post today. Go read it yourself, my summary would be inadequate. It made me realize how seriously I am lacking in the reading of classic literature. I find it a little disturbing that too much of my knowledge of the classics derives from television and movies. So I have decided it is time to pick up the gauntlet and get reading.
Here is a list of books that I intend to tackle(over the next several years, let's be realistic here). The web addresses listed are the places where you can find these novels online for free! Poverty is no excuse for ignorance! (oh, wait, unless you don't have a computer...)
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/author.html
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Last of the Mohicans - James Fennimore Cooper
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
The Prince - Nicolo Machiavelli
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baronness Emmuska Orczy
Common Sense - Thomas Paine
Anthem - Ayn Rand
Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
*****
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/frameset.html
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert L. Stevenson
Treasure Island - Robert L. Stevenson
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H.Lawrence
Moby Dick, or The Whale - Hermann Melville
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Three Musketeers - Andre Dumas
Ulysses - James Joyce
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
*****
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/quickstep/1103/time6.htm
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper lee
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
*****
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/quickstep/1103/time4.htm
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
*****
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/quickstep/1103/time3.htm
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Faust - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Candide - Voltaire
*****
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/quickstep/1103/time2.htm
Divine Comedy: The Inferno - Dante Alighieri
Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
*****
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/quickstep/1103/time1.htm
The Republic - Plato
The Aeneid - Virgil
The Iliad - Homer
*****
http://www.classicreader.com/toc.php/sid.1/
Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Nicholas Nickelby - Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Man In The Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu - Sax Rohmer
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne
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http://www.classicreader.com/toc.php/sid.2/
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
2 Comments:
You have a lot of books on your want to read list that are also on mine. Some of my favorites that I have read include:
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
-I've read this one a number of times since I was a kid
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
-I love Jack London! My favorite by him is The Sea Wolf. The Star Rover is another that I really enjoyed by him.
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baronness Emmuska Orczy
-This one was fun and a short read
Anthem - Ayn Rand
-Gives you a lot to think about. I still want to read Atlas Shrugged
Treasure Island - Robert L. Stevenson
-This is another favorite childhood one
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
-Excellent book!
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper lee
- Read this one in school
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
-This was a school read as well.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
-One of my favorite books. I'm a sucker for a victorian romance.
Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
-Another school read. Very funny!
Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
-I enjoyed this quite a bit but never finished the series. One of my favorites by Burroughs is the Outlaw of Torn.
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
-Great story intermixed with a lot of politics.
Some of my other favorite classic authors include Jane Austin, Edith Wharton and L.M. Montgomery. The list could go on forever.
Thank you for your recommendations and support. Lioness, I don't know how you do it. I devour books, but I don't think I could do the classics at the rate you manage. Yeah, maybe I am being ambitious, but this task should be enjoyable enough that I actually complete it!
More classics recommendations are welcome!
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