Any reader of classics?

[chongjasmine]

Any of you read classics? If so, what is your favourite classics? I mean classics like Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy.

Edited November 26, 2022 by chongjasmine

[Kasimir he/him]

Possible to offer a rough definition of what you mean by 'classics'? Because in my head, when you say 'classics', I think of Virgil's Georgics and I'm worried that's not exactly what you mean here.

[Liahona]

So far, I've read very few of what are traditionally considered classics. I've read a Tale of Two Cities and Pride and Prejudice, but I need to read more. I recently bought a book with all of Jane Austen's works, and I'm excited to read it all.

[chongjasmine]

I mean classics like Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy.

As for me, I like Bram Stoker's Dracula.

[Guest]

I like classics too 

I've mainly read Russian classics till now 

Think: Doestovesky 

[Morningtide she/her]

I have read very few classics, but I'd like to read more! Does anybody have any suggestions?

[Elegy he/him]

Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is one of my favorite novels, I also think it's pretty accessible, so definitely worth a recommendation.

Apart from that, Kafka's The Metamorphosis and Goethe's Faust (the sequel as well, if you want to feel completely lost, it's probably one of the most complex pieces of literature of all time).

Honorable Mentions to the Kalevala and Paradise Lost.

[Wittles he/him]

Does Dune count?

[Cellit he/him]

Demonios , Dostoievski. Y... Un mundo feliz,  Aldous Huxley.

Although I have read more but I have to remember...

 

Edited January 31, 2023 by Cellit

[chongjasmine]

Dune counts. I consider it a classic.

[+Hoiditthroughthegrapevine he/him]

Here's a list of some of my all time favorite books that most people would consider classics:

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecia a and Roman's. 

Salammbo by Flaubert. 

Erehwon by Samuel Butler. 

The Possesed by Doestoevsky. 

The Brothers Karamazov by Doestoevsky. 

The Trial by Kafka. 

Demian by Herman Hesse. 

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. 

The Plague by Camu. 

Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell. 

Burmese Days by George Orwell. 

The Jewel of the Seven Stars by Bram Stoker. 

The Master and Margarito by Bulgakov. 

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick.

Rambeau's Nephew by Diderot. 

The Journals of Eugene Delacroix. 

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (the Dover ones illustrated by Gustave Dore). 

The 12 Caesars by Suetonius. 

The Man Who Was Thursday by G K Chesterton. 

Thus Spake Zarathustra by Nietzche. 

The Essays by Montaigne. 

The Robert Fagles translation of The Illiad. 

Kafka by the Shore by Haruki Murakami.