Good Classics

[manatherindrell]

I don't normally like the classic books by the great authors of the past like Mark Twain or John Stienbeck but I have found a coulple that I liked, like The Old Man and the Sea and Of Mice and Men, and Watership Down. Anybody else have some classics that they liked?

 

[MonkeyCatcher]

Watership Down, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1984, Animal Farm, Treasure Island, Lolita. I'm sure that there are heaps more, but my brain just isn't working at the moment.

 

[Billy]

War and Peace, Oliver Twist, Northanger Abbey (and most of Jane Austen's other books, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and many others I just can't think of right now.

 

[DemoPlay]

oliver Twist, A christmas Carol and others i cant be bothered to write.

 

[SFG75]

I have to concur with MonkeyCatcher in regards to Lolita. I'd also give a ringing endorsement to The Grapes of Wrath, anything by Mark Twain, as well as Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.

 

[blueboatdriver]

Add Anna Karenina to the list for me.

 

[WoundedThorns]

the stranger, the bell jar, the jungle, the little prince, of mice and men, lord of the flies

there's more classics out there than you'd imagine. well, theres a lot of 20th century modern literature as well.

 

[novella]

I don't normally like the classic books by the great authors of the past like Mark Twain or John Stienbeck but I have found a coulple that I liked, like The Old Man and the Sea and Of Mice and Men, and Watership Down. Anybody else have some classics that they liked?

You're kidding, right? The books I love are mostly classics, and I like to think of the newer books I love as classics-to-be. This question seems totally inverted to me, but should be, rather, are there any classics you don't like? This is, after all, a book forum.

 

[Mari]

Try The Moon Is Down as another short Steinbeck novel. After that, try graduating to Grapes of Wrath. It's worth it.

In general, I prefer classics. Give me Mrs. Dalloway over Bridget Jones any day.

 

[DiscworldSim]

I think everyone should read Dracula by Bram Stoker - I'm reading it at the moment and I find it hard to put down!

 

[novella]

A few of the classic authors I love, who rarely get mentioned here, are: E.M. Forster, Thomas Mann, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner . . . . . .

for shorter pieces I don't here enough about the deserving works of Christopher Isherwood, Maxim Gorky, Jean Stafford, and Ring Lardner, among others.

Authors I think are writing the classics of the future are Annie Proulx, Joan Didion, Haruki Murakami . . .

So-called classic authors that I think will never regain popularity are Wm. Thackeray, Henry James, Matthew Arnold . . .