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

Emily Brontë
If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Homer
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.
Homer, The Iliad

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