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
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Little Prince
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Fahrenheit 451
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
Lord of the Flies
The Kite Runner
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Romeo and Juliet
The Stranger
Wuthering Heights
The Outsiders
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Jane Eyre
The Help
Dracula
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
The Old Man and the Sea
Crime and Punishment
The Bell Jar
White Nights
Hamlet
Holes (Holes, #1)
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
The Giving Tree
A Christmas Carol
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Life of Pi
Memoirs of a Geisha
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Slaughterhouse-Five
Siddhartha
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Sense and Sensibility
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Emma
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
Lolita
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
The Grapes of Wrath
Persuasion
The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Lord of the Rings
East of Eden
Anna Karenina
The Crucible
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Carmilla
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
Les Misérables
The Haunting of Hill House
The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)
A Clockwork Orange
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
The Color Purple
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
Notes from Underground
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The BFG
Catch-22
Treasure Island
Gone With the Wind
Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
Beowulf
Othello
The Brothers Karamazov
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
Mrs. Dalloway
The Plague
Stoner
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
Don Quixote
Children of Dune (Dune #3)
The Witches
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
The Virgin Suicides
The Remains of the Day
Chess Story
Where the Red Fern Grows
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Goodnight Moon

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

Mark Twain
′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read. ...more
Mark Twain

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