How do you define a classic?
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Re: How do you define a classic?
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1. Therese Raquin- Emile Zola (1867)
2. The Trial- Franz Kafka (1925)
3. The Turn of the Screw- Henry James (1898)
4. Tender Is The Night- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934)
5. Animal Farm- George Orwell (1945)
6. Nostromo- Joseph Conrad (1904)
7. Jane Eyre- Charlotte Brontë (1847)
8. The Sound and the Fury- William Faulkner (1929)
9. Candide- Voltaire (1759)
10. The Metamorphosis- Franz Kafka (1915)
11. The Naked and the Dead- Norman Mailer (1948)
12. The End of the Affair- Graham Greene (1951)
13. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (1927)
14. Myra Breckenridge- Gore Vidal (1968)
15. Madame Bovary- Gustave Flaubert (1856)
16. The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath (1963)
17. The Beast Within- Emile Zola (1890)
18. Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf (1925)
19. Decline and Fall- Evelyn Waugh (1928)
20. Orlando- Virginia Woolf (1928)
21. Jude The Obscure- Thomas Hardy (1895)
22. Villette- Charlotte Brontë (1853)
23. The Human Factor- Graham Greene (1978)
24. Silas Marner- George Eliot (1861)
25. Adam Bede- George Eliot (1859)
26. Far From The Madding Crowd- Thomas Hardy (1874)
27. Kim- Rudyard Kipling (1901)
28. Middlemarch- George Eliot (1872)
29. Lord Jim- Joseph Conrad (1900)
30. Shirley- Charlotte Brontë (1849)
31. Naked Lunch- William Burroughs (1859)
32. The Mayor of Casterbridge- Thomas Hardy (1886)
33. Down and Out In Paris and London- George Orwell (1933)
34. Mr Norris Changes Trains- Christopher Isherwood (1933)
35. Goodbye to Berlin- Christopher Isherwood (1939)
36. Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison (1952)
37. Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866)
38. The Quiet American- Graham Greene (1955)
39. Blood Meridian- Cormac McCarthy (1985)
40. The Moonstone- Wilkie Collins (1868)
The common thread, I have found, is the examination and elucidation of human character; the quality of the writing is generally impeccably high; there is a challenge in reading these books. Many of these have stood the test of time and rigorous discussion. Age is a secondary consideration; although high regard is accrued over time. There are three books that stand out even from this list of high quality;
Jane Eyre, Madame Bovary and Cime and Punishment
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