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
The Great Gatsby
Pride and Prejudice
The Diary of a Young Girl
Wuthering Heights
Fahrenheit 451
The Little Prince
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
The Catcher in the Rye
Lord of the Flies
The Kite Runner
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
The Metamorphosis
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Outsiders
Romeo and Juliet
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Help
The Stranger
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Jane Eyre
White Nights
The Bell Jar
The Old Man and the Sea
Crime and Punishment
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
Dracula
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Hamlet
The Secret Garden
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Holes (Holes, #1)
The Giving Tree
Memoirs of a Geisha
Life of Pi
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Road
Slaughterhouse-Five
A Christmas Carol
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
Sense and Sensibility
Emma
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Lolita
Siddhartha
The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Grapes of Wrath
Anna Karenina
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
The Magician’s Nephew
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Persuasion
East of Eden
The Lord of the Rings
Great Expectations
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
A Clockwork Orange
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)
The Color Purple
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Crucible
Les Misérables
Notes from Underground
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
Carmilla
The BFG
Gone With the Wind
Catch-22
The Virgin Suicides
The Haunting of Hill House
Othello
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
The Brothers Karamazov
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Beowulf
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Treasure Island
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
Where the Red Fern Grows
Chess Story
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
No Country for Old Men
Madame Bovary
Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
The Plague
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
The Sun Also Rises
The Witches
Children of Dune (Dune #3)
Their Eyes Were Watching God

Arthur Conan Doyle
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Arthur Conan Doyle; Corrections And Editor Edgar W. Smith; Illustrators, The Hound of the Baskervilles

William Shakespeare
O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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