I just love reading literary classics. Among my favorites, there's Gone With the Wind, Pride and Prejudice, The Inportance of being Ernest, and many more. I'm from India, and people say that I'm a little young to read classics, because I'm 11 years old, but if any of you share my interest in classics, be sure to reply!

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Oh MM I'm so happy to hear you love them! Me too!!! I am more than 5 times your age and I am stillre -reading the ones you mention, plus all the others. I adore Hardy (Tess of the Durbevilles, etc) all Jane Austen , all the Brontes,esp 'Jane Eyre',all of Dickens.'Lorna Doone'(by RD Blackmoore) and so many more. Keep at it ! Let me know what other ones you read and enjoy. Don't forget!!

Oh, Jane Eyre, definitely!!! My favorite! And, isn't Pride and Prejudice wonderful? MM24, I'd love to hear about some of the other books you like to read, too. Have you read Showboat? I read it many years ago. There are so many great classics!

So you have a particularly favorite author? Or genre? Do you enjoy the classics from the 1800's more than books from the 1900's? What do you consider a "classic"? For instance, have you read "To Kill a Mockingbird"? Would you consider that to be a classic?

What others have you read?

Yes me too! I really love all the Steinbeck books and re-read them from time to time.

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Well, I don't like Jane Eyre... But I LOVE Sense and Sensibility! And since you said classics, do you consider Hamlet a classic?

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I think it's great that an 11 year old enjoys the classics. I recently read To Kill a Mockingbird and I liked it very much. How about Sherlock Holmes, are those considered classics?

All the ones that you people have named are classics. I agree with Linda, Pride and Prejudice is just great. Do tell me more about "To Kill A Mockingbird". I'll be on the lookout for it in libraries.
I'm going to start Jane Eyre, it's there in my house.
I haven't read a single Steinback book, though. Tell me more about it and I might read it.
Hamlet is definitely a classic. Most of William Shakespeare's books are. Among them, I've read Julius Caesar.
Sherlock Holmes books are definitely classics. I just love them and have 2 volumes which cover all the novels and short stories.Among my favourites are "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and "The Valley Of Fear".
Really nice to know that there a people like me who take keen interest in classics. Keep writing about your preferences and what you are reading now. You can also e-mail me at asitmehta@vsnl.com

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How could i forget Daphne du Maurier? Try "Jamaica Inn", "Rebecca", and E.M.Forster:"Howard's End" and "Passage to India." If you like scary stuff , there's nothing like Bram Stoker's "Dracula"!
At your age I loved the "Forsyte Saga" by Galsworthy and don't laugh, "War and Peace" is a wonderful book!(Tolstoy}.
Try "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"by Muriel Spark, and I could go on and on.... I frequently do, about books.Lastly ,you have to read "The Little Prince" (Antoine de Ste Exupery) for a wonderful simple story which brings you back to earth, and straightens out your priorities.

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I didn't like "To Kill a Mockingbird" that much... I read it in 10th grade and just thought, well, it wasn't that good.

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Welcome to the Book Corner MM! And thanks to all of you who have made Mickey welcome! I've been haveing computer problems recently and haven't gotten back here for a few days

Back to the subject! I love many of the classics. But I enjoy them more when I listen to them on tape, especially if the narrator is really good. I don't have the patience to plod through the old flowery language. I really enjoy being read to.

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I jsut bought Pridea nd prejudice at Barnes. YOu guys got me really excited to read it jsut then. I love the classics too. Especially the old classic classics. I jsut love the history and culture involved in them. especially Gilgamesh, Lysistrata, Genesis, Antigone. A fav's of a bit more modern are the devine comedy and cantabury tales (of course, who doesn't), Eliduc, Henrik Ibsen, Shakespear..esp. Midsummer's & Henry IV. The one i like more than all of those is The Song of ROland. I also love Hunchback of Notre Dame. I haven't read Les Miserable yet, but i plan on it. Oh i alomsot for got, i really like the man of la mancha too. I can't stop so i'll force myself. Maybe i should change my major back to english.

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Oh..& as for to kill a mockingbird. I haven't red it since the 9th grade, but i really enjoyed at the time, and that was before i hated reading class assigned books for the sole reason that they were class assigned. So i was quite close minded at the time.

Oh my goodness!

I didn't think ANYONE really knew of Daphne DuMaurier's Rebecca! It's is one of my favorite books! I *also* love To Kill a Mockingbird.

And my all-time favorite is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith. I *highly* suggest you read that book!! It is seriously one of the best books I've ever read

I'm 17 years old, and an avid read. I also enjoy reading the "classics". To me, a classic is basically anything they'd make you read in english class, lol. My goal is to read all of them.

Can any of you recommend any good books to read?

Hiya ally and welcome to FT (Fun Trivia)

By all means write to us in the Welcome Center and introduce yourself

Glad to see a "younger person" interested in the classics. As you may have read in this thread I like the classics better when I get them on tape. They're easier to listen to than read.

Join us in talking about any book you're reading and provide us with a review. Just don't give away the ending

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Those of you forced to read classics in high school... first off, I apologize on behalf of the world's English majors who have forgotten what it was like when they were assigned books in school! Second... go back and give them another try. I had one teacher in particular (11th grade English) who ruined a number of authors for me, especially F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathaniel Hawthorne, but I've since gone back and re-read most of their stuff and I like it much better when I don't have a paper to write and a teacher breathing down my neck.

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I reacently read Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure for the first time and loved it. I have to say though, the only reason I read it was because I'd watched the film being made in and around my university (lots of it was shot in Durham). If I hadn't watched the film, I don't think I would have read the book.

11 is not too young to read classics - I was reading Dickens when I was 9 - if you can do it, then good on you - you'll benefit from all the reading you can do in later life.

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Oh I LOVE classic books- especially The Wizard of Oz, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the Last of the Mohicans. Actually, when we needed to suggest a patrol name in scouts, I suggested Last of the Mohicans. So I guess I'm one of the 'Last' of the Mohicans!

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I ADORE the classics. My favorite novel is Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, and I can't stand the movie! They cut out my favorite character, Eponine!! I also adore Tale of Two Cities, Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Catch 22, everything Shakespeare, Walden, Beloved, The Great Gatsby....soooo many more! I'm reading This Side of Paradice right now by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The best books are the classics IMHO

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great place to be in, yeah am hooked to the classical literature....the are my window to the bygone world ..a beautiful and intriguing place....

i have read numerous..though unfortunately my confounded memory doesnt retain most of them....Their was Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge....a novel of Pain, power and providence ..then Jules Verne's Moby Dick..
and how could i miss Dorothy in the wizard of oz ...magnifucent...

221 B Baker Street is my favourite address, wish it could elementary .....

or Austen's Pride and Prejudice...or Bronte's Wuthering heights....
i love to go down the creek with Tom Sawyer ..Mark Twain....i am deeply in O Henry's Short stories favourite being the The Ransom of red cheif...recently i read Alduos Huxley's short story ...The Giconda Smile...

tell me dont you all, when you read these classics curse your luck at being born a century or two late ......woudn't it be worth while to be born in that era...having Jeeves as your butler .....but then in these materialistic and fast world....these books are the only succour....

well we could share all the trivia and exchange notes on various classics..would be eagerly looking forward to it .....

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JULES VERNE'S MOBY DICK??? You're kidding, aren't you, Shashwat? Or you mean 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; Captain Nemo is 1 of the all-time greats, a sort of soul brother to Ahab. I, though, prefer H.G. Wells: War of the Worlds, Time Machine, Invisible Man, Island of Dr. Moreau(a real horror tale!), et al. He really wrote some ghastly goodies! And there's more to Melville than Moby: Billy Budd, Israel Potter, Confidence Man, stories such as Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, and I and My Chimney. He even penned poetry! Give it a try if you ever run across it. tjoeb};>

You just have to read J.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" (one volume edition with "Fellowship of the Rings" "The Two Towers" and "Return of the King" ) or you can read them separately. There is talk that they could make it into a major motion picture trilogy.

Before reading the triology, should read the lead-in book "The Hobbit".

As for assigned books in school. My favorite was John Stienbeck's "Of Mice and Men". Loved that book.

One classic I really enjoyed, the first large (many paged) novel I tried to read, was "The Carpetbaggers". Don't remember the author.

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is a great book and movie.

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Hi Shaleece! Welcome to the Book Corner

I loved those books too! Many, many, Many years ago! I wish I had time to do it again.

Feel free to start posts of your own, tell us what you're reading!

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Hello to all the classic readers!!!!
Many of my favourite writers have already been talked about - actually, I've read almost all the books that were mentioned in this forum... all of them are my favorite...
I wonder why nobody here talks about French classics - besides Victor Hugo and Jules Verne, there are many others - my favorite authors are Alexandre Dumas, Gustav Flaubert ("Madame Bovary", "Education Sentimentale"), Stendhal ("Red and Black").
Secondly - why haven't anybody mentioned Jack London? I love his books, especially "Martin Eden".

I love the classics too...most of my favorites have already been mentioned: Jane Eyre, EVERYTHING of Jane Austen's, Gone With the Wind, To Kill A Mockingbird, Silas Marner; the list goes on. It's wonderful that a person of your age loves the classics! I have always read above my level too, and it's encouraging to find another young person who isn't interested in the trash they call "Young Adult Fiction".