Classic Literature


Pride and Prejudice
The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
1984
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Animal Farm
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Of Mice and Men
Sense and Sensibility
The Catcher in the Rye
Emma
Crime and Punishment

Most Read This Week

Snow White and Other Grimms' Fairy Tales (MinaLima Edition)
The Diaries of Franz Kafka (The Schocken Kafka Library)
Gold
The Book of Rumi: 105 Stories and Fables that Illumine, Delight, and Inform
Everyday Shakespeare: Lines for Life
The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories
Early Light
Opowiadania prawie wszystkie
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumAlice in Wonderland by Jane CarruthPeter Pan by J.M. BarrieOh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss
Stories to Carry You Away
62 books — 44 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Thug Notes
42 books — 6 voters

Stitch by Pádraig KennyThe Love Pug by J.J. HowardCastle Diary by Richard PlattAsk Emma by Sheryl BerkThe Odyssey by Gillian Cross
Middle Grade Reads based on Classics
27 books — 2 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Classic Lit 101
71 books — 4 voters


E.A. Bucchianeri
Upon the publication of Goethe’s epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or indeed, to understand this magnum opus in its entirety, from this point onward his drama was the rule by which all other Faust adaptations were measured. Goethe had eclipsed the earlier legends and became the undisputed authority on the subject of Faust in the eyes of the new Romantic generation. To deviate from his path would be nothing short of bl ...more
E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World, Vol. 2

Charles Dickens
LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snow-flakes — gone into mourning, one mi ...more
Charles Dickens, Bleak House

More quotes...
~classic literature~ 𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒃 :) 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭…more
21 members, last active 18 days ago
Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) The world is made up of two kinds of people: first, those who love classics, and second, those w…more
15,781 members, last active an hour ago
﹒    † swords, intellectualism, and dark fantasy ✶ ˚    ✦   .  for lovers of vivid dark fantasy laced with shadows of intellectualism, philosophy, …more
7 members, last active 4 months ago
hopeless romantic society ✧・゚: *✧・゚:* if you like fairytales, taylor swift, poetry, dark academia, old love letters, crowd…more
17,903 members, last active 10 hours ago

Tags

Tags contributing to this page include: classic-literature and classic-lit