Most Read This Week In Classics

A classic stands the test of time. The work is usually considered to be a representation of the period in which it was written; and the work merits lasting recognition. In other words, if the book was published in the recent past, the work is not a classic.

A classic has a certain universal appeal. Great works of literature touch us to our very core beings--partly because they integrate themes that are understood by readers from a wide range of backgrounds and levels of experience. Themes of love, hate, death, life, and faith touch upon some of our most basic emotional responses.

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Classics"

1984
Animal Farm
The Great Gatsby
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Pride and Prejudice
The Alchemist
The Diary of a Young Girl
Fahrenheit 451
The Little Prince
Wuthering Heights
Lord of the Flies
The Catcher in the Rye
The Metamorphosis
The Kite Runner
The Stranger
Romeo and Juliet
The Outsiders
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
Jane Eyre
The Help
Crime and Punishment
The Old Man and the Sea
White Nights
The Bell Jar
Dracula
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Hamlet
Holes (Holes, #1)
The Secret Garden
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Count of Monte Cristo
Life of Pi
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
The Giving Tree
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Road
Slaughterhouse-Five
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Siddhartha
East of Eden
Sense and Sensibility
Emma
Lolita
A Christmas Carol
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Meditations
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
The Grapes of Wrath
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
Anna Karenina
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
A Clockwork Orange
Persuasion
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
Les Misérables
Great Expectations
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Notes from Underground
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Brothers Karamazov
The Color Purple
The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
The Virgin Suicides
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
The Crucible
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
No Country for Old Men
The BFG
Catch-22
Gone With the Wind
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
Carmilla
Othello
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
Don Quixote
The Remains of the Day
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
Children of Dune (Dune #3)
Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
The Sun Also Rises
Treasure Island
War and Peace

J. Sheridan Le Fanu
But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
Cervantes Saavedra

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