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Classic Literature Book list please?
I need to know classic CRITICALLY REVIEWED and what not books such as:
The Great Gatsby
The Catch in the Rye
Of Mice and Men
etc. etc.
List allyou can!
3 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Okay, get ready. This is a really long list. I have personally read and loved all of these books, and I hope they'll be what you're looking for. Here we go:
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Around the World in Eighty Days
(Jules Verne)
The Lost World
The Hound of the Baskervilles
A Study in Scarlet
The Valley of Fear
The Poison Belt
The Land of Mist
When the World Screamed
The Disintegration Machine
Beyond the City
(Arthur Conan Doyle)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Othello
Much Ado About Nothing
(William Shakespeare)
The Magician's Nephew
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle
(C.S. Lewis)
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
(J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Scarlet Letter
The House of Seven Gables
(Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Garden of Eden
For Whom the Bell Tolls
To Have and Have Not
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
Across the River and Into the Trees
The Old Man and the Sea
Islands in the Stream
(Ernest Hemingway)
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Northanger Abbey
Emma
(Jane Austen)
The Green Dwarf
Shirley
Jane Eyre
The Professor
(Charlotte Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
(Emily Brontë)
Agnes Grey
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
(Anne Brontë)
Nicholas Nickelby
The Pickwick Papers
Old Curiosity Shop
Cricket on the Hearth
Bleak House
Hard Times
Little Doritt
A Tale of Two Cities
(Charles Dickens)
Gulliver's Travels
A Modest Proposal
(Jonathan Swift)
Frankenstein
(Mary Shelley)
Dracula
(Bram Stoker)
Anne of Green Gables
(L.M. Montgomery)
The Call of the Wild
White Fang
The Sea Wolf
To Build A Fire
Love of Life
To the Man on the Trail
An Odyssey of the North
The Iron Heel
Martin Eden
(Jack London)
The Man With the Iron Mask
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
(Alexandre Dumas)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Body Snatcher
The Bottle Imp
The Sire de Malétroit's Door
The Merry Men
A Lodging for the Night
The Beach of Falesá
Young Man With the Cream Tarts
The Adventure of the Hansom Club
The Isle of Voices
Kidnapped
Treasure Island
(Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Jungle
Babbitt
(Upton Sinclair)
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
The Gold Bug
The Purloined Letter
(Edgar Allan Poe)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
(Baroness Orczy)
The Swiss Family Robinson
(Johann David Wyss)
Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Double-Barreled Detective Story
The Mysterious Stranger
The Prince and the Pauper
(Mark Twain)
Pygmalion
An Unsocial Socialist
Cashel Byron's Profession
Love Among the Artists
The Irrational Knot
Immaturity
(George Bernard Shaw)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Intentions
A House of Pomegranates
Poems in Prose
Ravenna
Lady Windermere's Fan
A Woman of No Importance
The Importance of Being Earnest
(Oscar Wilde)
This Side of Paradise
The Beautiful and Damned
Tender Is the Night
The Last Tycoon
(F. Scott Fitzgerald)
And then these books aren't really "classics" but they are well-known, well-received books by acclaimed authors:
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Martian Chronicles
The Machineries of Joy
A Medicine For Melancholy
(Ray Bradbury)
Towards Zero
And Then There Were None
The Mirror Crack'd
They Do It With Mirrors
Murder Is Easy
Sparkling Cyanide
Evil Under the Sun
Murder on the Orient Express
(Agatha Christie)
And then, just for fun:
Give War a Chance
Holidays in Hell
All the Trouble in the World
(P.J. O'Rourke)
Jurassic Park
The Andromeda Strain
Congo
Sphere
(Michael Crichton)
Marley and Me
(John Grogan)
Whew. If you read all of those, you won't have to ask for a new book for the next several years. It's quite a selection. If not, I at least hope this helps a little. Maybe you could answer my question? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ak4ya...
- LibraryGalLv 71 decade ago
The Awakening
The Grapes of Wrath
The Three Musketeers
The Count of Monte Cristo
A Tale of Two Cities
Nicholas Nickleby
Puddin'head Wilson
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Persuasion
Emma
Fahrenheit 451
The Power and the Glory
The Tin Drum
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ullysses
Portrait of a Lady
Lord Jim
Anna Karenina
Hope this helps.
- alisterLv 44 years ago
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn long previous With The Wind All Quiet on the Western front liked catch-22 the completed Sherlock Holmes the super Gatsby Invisible guy Lord of the Flies Moby Dick Uncle Tom’s Cabin Wuthering Heights To Kill a Mockingbird