Recommendations of Classic Books
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Re: Recommendations of Classic Books
I recommend The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. It's a gripping mystery which kept me at the edge of my seat throughout the whole. I started off listening to the audiobook, but I got so impatient to find out what happened that I dug out my physical copy and started reading it at full speed. The Woman in White is written in the form of diary entries from the perspectives of various characters within the story. It starts off with Walter Hartright, drawing master, encountering a woman in white on a lonely road on his way to London. He is later hired to teach the beautiful Laura Fairlie and her half-sister Marion Halcombe, and gets embroiled in finding out who or what the woman in white is.
Another recommendation I would like to venture to give is The Chronicles of Barsetshire by Anthony Trollope. This is a series of about 6 novels, starting with The Warden. The writing may be a bit draggy, especially if you're new to reading classics, but the barb and wit with which Trollope writes this exposition on the clergymen of Barsetshire is unparalleled. I have only read the first 2 novels but I am fully intending to read the rest eventually. I absolutely love his writing here. Trollope has also written the Palliser series (also six novels), starting with Can You Forgive Her?, which I also enjoyed but I found that it was not as light-hearted as The Chronicles of Barsetshire.
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Nothing compares to the relationship between Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy.
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An amusing moral of the story could be: "Don't fall in love with your fiance's tempestuous cousin."
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I must agree with The Tuggernaut. Crime and Punishment is a complex classical book and I love it.
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Yes, indeed! I have all the books myself. "That's elementary, my dear Katherine!"Katherine Smith wrote:I would recommend any of the Sherlock Holmes books because even though there have been plenty of movies and television series; the books are fantastic. I am almost done with my complete Sherlock Holmes book and I am glad that I asked for it for Christmas three years ago.
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The Tuggernaut wrote:I recently read Fyodyr Dostoyevsky's paragon of classic Russian literature, Crime and Punishment. The protagonist of the novel is a young intellectual student who resides in St. Petersburg, named Raskolnikov. He lives in squalid poverty and murders an immoral pawn-broker for what originally appears to be her possessions. But, as Dostoyevsky delves deeper into the mind of Raskolnikov, the reader finds more intriguing motives for his crime, and Raskolnikov seems to view himself as a great man (he is constantly comparing himself to Napolean) that is exempt from moral law. In this page-turner Raskolnikov attempts to avoid arrest and redeem himself by helping the poor family of a prostitute. This novel was written by Dostoyevsky as an attempt to combat the growing Russian nihilism of the time period, and the author sternly reminds us that nobody is above moral law, whether your punishment comes in the form of imprisonment or grief and remorse.
one of my favorite books. We had it in our school program, but back then you read it as a crime story and you don't understand the whole deep meaning behind. I would recommend to read it in the mature age.
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Great book and movies are cool too.Miriam Molina wrote:Yes, indeed! I have all the books myself. "That's elementary, my dear Katherine!"Katherine Smith wrote:I would recommend any of the Sherlock Holmes books because even though there have been plenty of movies and television series; the books are fantastic. I am almost done with my complete Sherlock Holmes book and I am glad that I asked for it for Christmas three years ago.