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
The Alchemist
The Diary of a Young Girl
Fahrenheit 451
The Little Prince
Lord of the Flies
The Catcher in the Rye
Wuthering Heights
The Metamorphosis
The Kite Runner
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Stranger
Romeo and Juliet
The Outsiders
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
The Help
Jane Eyre
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
White Nights
The Old Man and the Sea
Crime and Punishment
The Bell Jar
Dracula
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Hamlet
The Secret Garden
Holes (Holes, #1)
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Life of Pi
It
The Giving Tree
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Road
Slaughterhouse-Five
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Siddhartha
Sense and Sensibility
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
East of Eden
Emma
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
A Christmas Carol
Lolita
Anna Karenina
Persuasion
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
The Grapes of Wrath
Meditations
The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
Great Expectations
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
Les Misérables
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Notes from Underground
A Clockwork Orange
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Crucible
The Brothers Karamazov
The Color Purple
The BFG
Catch-22
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
Carmilla
Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
Gone With the Wind
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
Chess Story
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
Othello
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Treasure Island
The Virgin Suicides
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
The Sun Also Rises
Children of Dune (Dune #3)
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
Don Quixote

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

John Ruskin
All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.
John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies

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