Sadly, I didn't read a lot of the classics while in school. So now I'm trying to catch up and read as many as I can. So my question to all of you is what your favorite classics are and why?
Most of the 'classics' I've read has been because they made me at school and at the time of reading I hated every single one of them. Looking back now some ten years later, I'll say that there are now a couple that I can admit tell a good story, even though I was forced to read them.
1984 by George Orwell, Homer's Oddyssey and even Macbeth by Shakespeare are examples of this (although I know Macbeth is a play and not a book. I've decided it counts on grounds of being classic)
Apart from that, when I was a child I had a abridged versions of The Flying Dutchman (I can't remember who wrote this) and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe and I rather like those. Oh and Jules Vernes' Journey to the Centre of the Earth!
Come to think of it actually, I've also read The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder more times than I can count and ditto on the Narnia series by C.S. Lewis.
Hm. Looks like I've read more classics than I thought...
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1984 by George Orwell, Homer's Oddyssey and even Macbeth by Shakespeare are examples of this (although I know Macbeth is a play and not a book. I've decided it counts on grounds of being classic)
Apart from that, when I was a child I had a abridged versions of The Flying Dutchman (I can't remember who wrote this) and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe and I rather like those. Oh and Jules Vernes' Journey to the Centre of the Earth!
Come to think of it actually, I've also read The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder more times than I can count and ditto on the Narnia series by C.S. Lewis.
Hm. Looks like I've read more classics than I thought...