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Jul 03, 2022 12:49PM
hi! i really wanna start reading some classics but i don’t know where to start. does anyone have any favourite classics? i’d love some recs <3
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i think Jane Eyre is really good - i’m currently reading it and i loooove it so maybe you could give that a try! ❤️🩹
anything by Jane Austen, little women, lord of the flies, the picture of Dorian grey
little woman!! v easy to get into :)
twelfth night by Shakespeare is hilarious... but make sure you get the no fear Shakespeare book, because it has old English & modern speaking to make it easier to read
amelia (kenji’s version) wrote: "hi! i really wanna start reading some classics but i don’t know where to start. does anyone have any favourite classics? i’d love some recs <3"Okay, well these are the classics that I’ve read so far:
> Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
> A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess
> 1984 by George Orwell
> Animal farm by George Orwell
Not romance, but still good reads!
And I’ve been wanting to read The great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Agnes Grey, Vilette, Gone with the wind, Scarlett, To kill a mockingbird, The catcher in the rye, The picture of Dorian Gray.
Hope this helped ✨
Ooo Animal Farm is really good!!!
♡ Brittny ♡ wrote: "Ooo Animal Farm is really good!!!"Yes, I really thought so too! I really enjoyed reading the book and I thought the underlying satirical message is very interesting. I recently started reading Coffee and cigarettes, which is a bundle of Orwell's essays and he wrote about the freedom of the press and writers in one of his essays; it was about totalitarinism and he wrote it a few years before 1984 got published, so that made the essay even more interesting to me after reading 1984 itself. (Fun fact: both Animal Farm and 1984 were turned into films too, but I've never watched those.)
The picture of dorian grey and wuthering heights are great, easy to read, highly recommended. Right now I'm reading Dracula and I think it's very good, really engaging and the setting is ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Persuasion, Count of Monte Cristo, To Kill a Mockingbird, Les Miserables, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Little Women, Sense and Sensibility, Great Expectations, The Picture of Dorian Grey ❤️
Murder on the Orient Express!I wouldn't recommend The Picture of Dorian Gray personally. Me and my sister both DNF'd the thing, and my sister likes classic literature!
