Classic lit

[Yellow Fang]

What next for my edification?

Read Great Expectations - the most moving book I've ever read.
Next read Tess of the d'Urbervilles - didn't like the ending.
Then read Jane Eyre - left me cold.

 

[laurence]

Moby Dick?
Ulysses?
Last Of The Mohicans?

 

[Yellow Fang]

I hear Moby Dick is very long and Ulysses is supposed to be incomprehensible. I think I may have read Last of the Mohicans or part of it. Not bad for an 18th century book. I may have a go at Moby Dick some day.

 

[WhiteWolf]

1984
Animal Farm (no not THAT video )
And Arthur Conan Doyle's back catalogue

Should keep you going for a while.

 

[Yellow Fang]

1984 is on the list. I read three-quarters of it when I was fifteen or sixteen but then gave up.
Did Animal Farm at school.
I may read Keep the Aspidistra Flying and The Clergyman's Daughter some time.
I'm sure I've read some of Arthur Conan-Doyle but I don't really want to read any more.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Does it have to be British classics?
What about the great Russian classics?

 

[swee'pea99]

The Great Gatsby.

Or, if you want a bit more of a challenge, Middlemarch.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Does it have to be British classics?
What about the great Russian classics?

Could be a rusky, but don't you have to read it in the Russian to get the full benefit?

 

[Yellow Fang]

The Great Gatsby.

Or, if you want a bit more of a challenge, Middlemarch.

Read Gatsby - he was mixed-race passing for white.
Middlemarch is supposed to be George Elliot's best isn't it?

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Could be a rusky, but don't you have to read it in the Russian to get the full benefit?

Well, if you are able to
I think you will enjoy a good translation of war and peace or Anna Karerina.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Well, if you are able to
I think you will enjoy a good translation of war and peace or Anna Karerina.

OK, one or other is on the list.

 

[beastie]

May I recommend The Count of Monte Cristo by Alex Dumas. One of the best stories ever.

 

[Yellow Fang]

May I recommend The Count of Monte Cristo by Alex Dumas. One of the best stories ever.

Interesting.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

May I recommend The Count of Monte Cristo by Alex Dumas. One of the best stories ever.

All by Dumas: great adventures for us kids at heart.

 

[swee'pea99]

Ian McEwan on the Late Review show just now, challenged to name the perfect novel, said Anna Karenina. (I've never read it, but I pass it on FWIW.)