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Have you tried the new Beatrix Potter Mysteries, by Susan Wittig Albert? Very cute-gentle mysteries, with Beatrix Potter starring, as well as many animals who talk and have their own adventures. The first is The Tale of Hill Top Farm, and the second one, which came out in July, is The Tale of...

I am really into all the Victorians and was wondering if there are any othe Dickens fans on these boards. I am presently doing a reread of Oliver Twist, as Roman Polanski's new movie version is coming out in September, and I am looking forward to comparing the two.

While Alison Weir is the expert on all things Tudor, I though Miles did an excellent job on a nice historical fiction of Elizabeth. She did her homework, and though she moved a few things around, it works and made for an interesting read, IMO.

I do lots of rereading, but the ones I reread the most are: Little Women Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Great Expectations Old Curiosity Shop A Christmas Carol I can never seem to get enough of the Victorians!

Nevermind. I thought it might be a good idea, but if people are going to fight about it, forget it. I was looking forward to this book forum. Classic is classic. Be it 20thC, 15thC or 1st. Whatever.

I would love to see a board specifically for the classics. I can go to Fiction, but it would be nicer to have one more for period classics, like Dickens, Austen, Brontes, Hawthorne, Hardy, etc. I also wish we had avatars to choose from! Hint, hint!

I am presently reading through the Little House books, by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I never read them when I was a child, so after the holiday crazies I decided to give them a try. I am now on book 8 and having the time of my life, though I am anxious to get back to my classics! HearthCricket

I absolutely love Dickens! I have read through all his novels, though some more than others, and am on the last 100 pages of a reread of "The Old Curiosity Shop". I also just finished watching Lean's production of "Great Expectations", but I must admit I like the Masterpiece Theatre version...

My 5 most favourite books would be: Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte The Sketchbook, by Washington Irving Old Curiosity Shop, by Charles Dickens Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott A Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan And this leaves out so many others...sigh!

I have now read all of Dickens! I started out with reading A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations, but it was when I discovered that Oxford University Press sold the complete 21 volumes illustrated set, that I went insane with Dickens! Now I collect his works, and am always rereading...

Has anyone a favourite movie version of Anna Karenina? I have seen two different ones, so far. The recent Masterpiece Theatre one, which I did not care for, at all, as it made Anna seem selfish, and the so-called "Princesses" all seemed poor and dressed as commoners. But I just watched the...

I absolutely love the classics! My favourite authors are Austen, Brontes, Collins, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, Gaskell, Thackeray, Trollope. I recently finished Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy, for the first time, and when I am done with my reread of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, I plan to do a...