classic novels that are engaging?
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Nicolas and Alexandra
Portrait of a Lady Bleak House Call it Sleep How Green was My Valley |
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| Brithers Karamazov; The Idiot. Dostoyevsky in general is a more captivating read than Tolstoy. |
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| The Good Earth by Pearl Buck |
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| Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann |
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| Marjorie Morningstar. |
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Classics: Great Expectations, Crime and Punishment, Wuthering Heights, Vanity Fair, Madame Bovary
Contemporary Literary Novels: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Bel Canto by Ann Patchett The Human Stain by Philip Roth |
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (IDK if this counts as a classic in the purest sense, but I loved it)
Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow (well, anything by him) Bonfire of the Vanities is my favorite Tom Wolfe I enjoyed Oliver Twist, but I've found Dickens to be pretty divisive The Basil and Josephine Stories, by F. Scott Fitzergerald (also Tender Is the Night) And the PPs who said Vanity Fair are dead on. Loved it. |
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+1 million. Fantastic novel. |
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| A Picture of Dorian Gray |
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Sister Carrie
Dracula The Magnificent Ambersons Read all of these when I first got my Kindle and was looking for free classics. I was surprised how "modern" they read. All very engaging. |
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Gone With the Wind
House of Cards - Edith Wharton |
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Yes, when I was in high school and college I loved George Eliot - so, OP, you might want to check out Eliot. I remember liking Mill on the Floss, like this pp, but I also remember adoring Middlemarch. Caveat - now that I'm older I don't know that I would fall for the weepy sort of plot line but I remember really liking it then. I read almost all of her novels but Middlemarch was the one I remember best. Also if you haven't read them, Charlotte Bronte's Villette and Shirley were both quite enjoyable. I particularly loved Villette - although now that I'm older I don't know how I'd feel about the heroine's love relationship. |
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| Love Willa Cather! |
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DH Lawrence had a couple I couldn't put down:
Sons & Lovers Lady Chatterly Lovers Women in Love also: Frankenstein Les Miserables Brothers Karamozov Tale of Two Cities |
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I love W. Somerset Maugham: The Razor's Edge and Of Human Bondage.
Germinal - Zola The Jungle - Upton Sinclair More "recent" classics - Doctor Zhivago Lolita One Hundred Years of Solitude Love in the Time of Cholera House of the Spirits |