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vick
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vick asked in Arts & HumanitiesBooks & Authors · 1 decade ago

What are your favorite 'Classic' books with author names?

some of my favorites are catcher in the rye, the fountainhead and 1984

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Thomas Mann - Doctor Faustus

    Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment, The Karamazov Brothers

    Miguel de Cervantes _ Don Quixote

    Voltaire - Candide

    Albert Camus - The Stranger, The Plague

    Virginia Woolf - The Years

  • 1 decade ago

    Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson

    Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo

    Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte

    The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame

    The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells

    Le Petit Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

    Les Trois mousquetaires, by Alexandre Dumas

    East of Eden, by John Steinbeck

  • 4 years ago

    each once in a lengthy time period i favor to %. up a good youngster/youthful adult e book. this is been a lengthy time period yet those were ones I examine a lengthy time period back and they were fairly good. attempt an excellent and poor elegance sequence through Libba Bray. It don't have vampires even with the undeniable fact that it does have mythical creatures. this is fairly good and that i became studying them even as I examine the Twilight sequence and loved them a lot extra. also attempt books through Sarah Dessen. She does youthful adult books. The characters usually have issues yet they arrive across a fashion to conquer and locate something they searching for...ie like love. you could also examine Nick and Norah's countless Playlist. It did come out as a movie which i did not see even with the undeniable fact that the e book is sweet. you could inspect the web pages for those authors they sometimes grant you with a itemizing of different YA authors too. or you could attempt the standard public library, this is the position i got here across maximum of those books. good success!!!

  • 1 decade ago

    ( The Fountainhead is great; you can skip Atlas Shrugged and not miss anything )

    Anything by Thomas Hardy

    A Death In The Family by James Agee

    The Bridge on the San Luis Rey by Thorton Wilder

    Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

    Anything by Steinbeck

    Middlemarch by George Eliot

    O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

    A Passage To India by EM Forster

    Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

    Ethan Fromme by Edith Wharton

    that's all I can pull off the top of my head...

  • 1 decade ago

    "The Secret Sharer" Joseph Conrad (anything by him, really)

    "1984" George Orwell-same

    "The Sun Also Rises" Ernest Hemingway (The old Man and the Sea, The Pearl also excellent.)

    "A Christmas Carol" by Dickens.

    "The Woman in Green" Arthur C Doyle-any of his Sherlock Holmes books

    "The Merchant of Venice" Shakespeare

    Source(s): reader for 50 years
  • 1 decade ago

    To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

    The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

    Deliverance, James Dickey

  • 1 decade ago

    If you like 1984, you should also check out Animal House (also by Orwell). Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is great. Also, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and House of Mirth by Edith Wharton are great classics.

  • 1 decade ago

    Great Expectations-Charles Dickens

    Pride and Predjudice-Jane Austen

    Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck

    Anything Shakespeare!!

  • 1 decade ago

    MARY POPPINS P.L. Travers

    WINNIE THE POOH A.A. Milne

    CHRONICLES OF NARNIA C.S. Lewis

    WIND IN THE WILLOWS Kenneth Grahame

    GONE WITH THE WIND Margaret Mitchell

    Anything by Agatha Christie

    JANE EYRE Charlotte Bronte

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Sense and Sensability~ Jane Austen

    Black Beauty~ Anna Sewell

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