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
The Metamorphosis
The Kite Runner
Wuthering Heights
The Stranger
The Outsiders
Romeo and Juliet
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Help
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
White Nights
Jane Eyre
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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
The Secret Garden
Holes (Holes, #1)
It
Hamlet
The Giving Tree
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Life of Pi
The Count of Monte Cristo
Sense and Sensibility
Slaughterhouse-Five
East of Eden
The Road
Memoirs of a Geisha
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Emma
Siddhartha
A Christmas Carol
The Grapes of Wrath
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
Anna Karenina
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Lolita
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
Persuasion
Meditations
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
Great Expectations
The Death of Ivan Ilych
A Tale of Two Cities
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Notes from Underground
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
The BFG
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)
A Clockwork Orange
Carmilla
Les Misérables
The Color Purple
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Crucible
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
The Brothers Karamazov
Gone With the Wind
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Treasure Island
The Virgin Suicides
Chess Story
The Remains of the Day
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
Children of Dune (Dune #3)
Catch-22
Where the Red Fern Grows
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose
Mary Shelley

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

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