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RE: Which classics have you read? - 1/30/2008 8:32:47 PM
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Auben
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It's actually easier say what I haven't read.
Atlas shrugged
Black elk speaks**I have but haven't read yet
Bleak house
Bless me ultima**I have but haven't read yet
The contender
Dream of the red chamber
Education of henry adams**I have but haven't read yet
Ethan frome
Farewell to mazanar
Hiroshima**I have but haven't read yet
House of mirth
Incidents in the life of a slave girl**I have but haven't read yet
The killer angels
A lesson before dying
Steppenwolf
The things they carried
Tristram shandy
Vanity fair**I have but haven't read yet
I've read the other 123 or so.
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RE: Which classics have you read? - 1/30/2008 9:22:28 PM
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Emma
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
The Brothers Karamazov
1984
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Animal Farm
Do Greek plays count? If so I've read:
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles
Medea by Euripides
The Oresteia by Aeschylus
On my TBR list
The Divine Comedy
Les Miserables
War and Peace
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RE: Which classics have you read? - 1/30/2008 9:29:34 PM
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Animal Farm
Candide
Canterbury Tales (in part)
Frankenstein
Great Expectations
Gulliver's Travels
Jane Eyre
Moby-Dick
Oliver Twist
Paradise Lost (in part)
The Pearl
The Prince and the Pauper
Robinson Crusoe
The Scarlet Letter
St. Augustine's Confessions
Utopia
A lot of others ring a bell, but I'm not sure if that's because I read them long ago, or because I just recognize the titles. :)
I've also read Beowulf, The Illiad, and The Aeneid that I can think of right now.
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RE: Which classics have you read? - 1/30/2008 11:08:22 PM
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Most of the classics I read were books I was made to read in school.
Classics just don't interest me much.
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RE: Which [cliffsnote] classics have you read? - 1/31/2008 1:22:48 AM
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i have read the following (and i am pleasantly surprised i've read even this many of cliffsnote's "classics" list):
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
The Call of the Wild Jack London
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer
The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
Daisy Miller Henry James
The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
Hiroshima John Hersey
Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Le Morte d'Arthur Thomas Malory
Lord of the Flies William Golding
New Testament
The Odyssey Homer
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Old Testament
Paradise Lost John Milton
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
St. Augustine's Confessions St. Augustine
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne
The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Ulysses James Joyce
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RE: Which classics have you read? - 1/31/2008 10:55:53 AM
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From just the list you linked to, I've read (though some listed, I've read others by the same author, like Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, but not Bleak House, but not the book listed):
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (love him! His non-fiction is timeless. Have a Mark Twain quote calendar here at work)
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
Animal Farm George Orwell
Anthem Ayn Rand (read all of her books, fiction and non)
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner (but not Absalom, Absalom!)
Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
The Awakening Kate Chopin (loooove this book)
The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver (read and own most everything she's written)
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath (what sort of alternagirl would I be if I hadn't??)
Beloved Toni Morrison (just talking about this one yesterday)
Brave New World Aldous Huxley (depressing)
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Call of the Wild Jack London (one of my favourite books as a kid)
Candide Francois Voltaire (like Cousin Bette, too)
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger (prefer Franny and Zooey)
The Chosen Chaim Potok (LOVE Chaim Potok. Asher Lev is a must)
The Color Purple Alice Walker
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas (another fave from childhood)
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula Bram Stoker
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
The Fountainhead Ayn Rand
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Great Expectations Charles Dickens (another childhood fave, Miss Habersham is my hero)
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood (good book)
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
The House of Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne
Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper
Le Morte d'Arthur Thomas Malory
A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines
Light in August William Faulkner
Lord of the Flies William Golding
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
Moby-Dick Herman Melville
Mythology
New Testament
Night Elie Wiesel
1984 George Orwell
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Old Testament
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
The Outsiders S.E. Hinton
That's out of the first 100, anyways.
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RE: Which classics have you read? - 1/31/2008 1:27:33 PM
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Diary of Anne Frank
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dracula
Frankenstein
Go Tell it on the Mountain
The Grapes of Wrath
Gulliver's Travels
The Hobbit
Huckleberry Finn
The Lord of the Rings
Lord of the Flies
New Testament
1984
Of Mice and Men
Old Testament
Oliver Twist
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Outsiders
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Robinson Crusoe
The Scarlet Letter
Snow Falling on Cedars
Song of Solomon
The Sun Also Rises
A Tale of Two Cities
Three Musketeers
To Kill a Mockingbird
Treasure Island
Uncle Tom's Cabin
War and Peace
White Fang
Wuthering Heights
I'm very suprised that A Tree Grows in Brooklyn didn't make the list.
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RE: Which classics have you read? - 1/31/2008 1:29:44 PM
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quote:
ORIGINAL: miasma
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (love him! His non-fiction is timeless. Have a Mark Twain quote calendar here at work)
I love Mark Twain and John Steinbeck. They are my two favorite secular authors.
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RE: Which classics have you read? - 1/31/2008 2:01:24 PM
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Animal Farm
Brave New World
The Canterbury Tales
The Catcher in the Rye
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Diary of Anne Frank
David Copperfield
Dr. Jekylll & Mr. Hyde
Dracula
Emma
East of Eden
Ethan Frome
The Fall of the house of Usher
Frankenstein
The Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby
Huckleberry Finn
Jane Eyre
The Joy Luck Club
The Jungle Book
The Last of the Mohicans
Les Miserables
Lord of the Flies
Moby Dick
New Testament
1984
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea
Old Testament
Oliver Twist
The Outsiders
The Pearl
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince and the Pauper
The Red Badge of Courage
The Scarlet Letter
Sense and Sensibility
The Three Musketeers
The Tell tale heart ( or something like that - Edgar Allen Poe)
A Tale of Two Cities
To Kill a Mockingbird
Treasure Island
Wuthering Heights
I feel like I'm missing some!
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RE: Which classics have you read? - 1/31/2008 2:03:55 PM
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quote:
Great Expectations Charles Dickens (another childhood fave, Miss Habersham is my hero)
I absolutely loved this book as well - Miss Havisham...cobwebs and old wedding cake - love it!
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RE: Which classics have you read? - 1/31/2008 7:03:39 PM
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Animal Farm
As I Lay Dying
Brave New World
The Call of the Wild
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dracula
Fahrenheit 451
A Farewell to Arms
Frankenstein
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
Heart of Darkness
The Hobbit
The House of Seven Gables
The Last of the Mohicans
Lord of the Flies
The Lord of the Rings
Moby-Dick
New Testament
1984 - for the record, the title is Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Odyssey
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea
Old Testament
The Pearl
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince
The Red Badge of Courage
The Scarlet Letter
St. Augustine's Confessions
The Sun Also Rises
A Tale of Two Cities
The Three Musketeers
To Kill a Mockingbird
Treasure Island
There are a lot of classics missing from their list. In particular, I've read a lot more Hemingway than they list, and infinitely more Shakespeare.
Favourites that aren't listed include:
the Nick Adams stories - Hemingway
The Stone Angel - Margaret Lawrence
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
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RE: Which classics have you read? - 1/31/2008 7:12:12 PM
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My favey is Rebecca. I looooveeee Rebecca!! I never saw the plot twist coming. Great book.
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RE: Which classics have you read? - 1/31/2008 7:41:06 PM
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Animal Farm
Anthem
Atlas Shrugged
Billy Budd
Black Elk Speaks
Brave New World
The Brothers Karamazov
The Call of the Wild
Candide
The Canterbury Tales
Catch-22
The Catcher in the Rye
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The Count of Monte Cristo
Death Comes for the Archbishop
The Diary of Anne Frank
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Don Quixote
Dracula
Fahrenheit 451
A Farewell to Arms
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein
The Good Earth
The Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby
Gulliver's Travels
Heart of Darkness
The Hobbit
The House of Seven Gables
Huckleberry Finn
Invisible Man
The Jungle
The Last of the Mohicans
Le Morte d'Arthur
Lord of the Flies
The Lord of the Rings
Moby-Dick
My Antonia
New Testament
Night
1984
The Odyssey
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea
Old Testament
Paradise Lost
The Pearl
The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince
The Red Badge of Courage
The Return of the Native
Robinson Crusoe
The Scarlet Letter
The Secret Sharer
The Sound and the Fury
Steppenwolf
The Sun Also Rises
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The Three Musketeers
Treasure Island
White Fang
Some were really good, some made me wonder what was so classic about them, but all were worth the read.
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RE: Which classics have you read? - 2/1/2008 4:29:34 PM
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A great thread topic. This reminds me that I want to do more reading. I see many listed that I've read, but quite a few that I haven't, but should have.
I'll just add a few major classics that no one seems to have mentioned yet.
In the classic Christian category:
Pilgrim's Progress (I can't believe no one here has mentioned that one)
On the Incarnation of Our Lord, by St. Athanasius (happens to be on my desk to read again)
In the fantasy genre (perhaps not considered classics by some):
The C.S. Lewis Space Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength)
The Dune Chronicles (Frank Herbert)
Phantastes, Lilith, and many more by George MacDonald (1824-1905)
My favorite authors might all be considered in the classics category: Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald.
I cannot claim to have seen Cliff's Notes on any of these, but they are all considered exceptionally great works and they were all written by men who have been dead for a while.
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RE: Which classics have you read? - 2/1/2008 6:38:45 PM
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From the list provided:
All Quiet On the Western Front
Animal Farm
Diary of Anne Frank
The Handmaids Tale
The Joy Luck Club
1984
Old Testament
The Prince
St. Augustine's Confessions
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Also from Cliff's Notes:
Aristotle's Ethics
Plato's The Republic
Hamlet
Macbeth
Othello
Our Town
Romeo and Juliet
The Tempest
The Iliad
The Odyessy
I have a lot of Classics in my book collection that I have amassed in the last year, I can't wait to get started (about 30 of them).
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RE: Which classics have you read? - 2/1/2008 11:09:34 PM
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From the list:
Adam Bede
The Age of Innocence
Animal Farm
Anna Karenina
Atlas Shrugged
The Bell Jar
The Brothers Karamazov
The Catcher in the Rye
The Color Purple
Crime and Punishment
Daisy Miller
Emma
Ethan Frome
Farewell to Arms
The Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby
The House of Mirth
The House of Seven Gables
Jane Eyre
The Jungle
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Rings
My Antonia
New Testament
The Odyssey
Of Mice and Men
Old Testament
The Once and Future King
The Pearl
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince and the Pauper
The Red Badge of Courage
Robinson Crusoe
The Scarlet Letter
A Separate Peace
Silas Marner
Snow Falling on Cedars
Steppenwolf
The Sun Also Rises
A Tale of Two Cities
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Three Musketeers
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Turn of the Screw
Vanity Fair
White Fang
Wuthering Heights
Treasure Island
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RE: Which classics have you read? - 2/1/2008 11:33:15 PM
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We're using the Cliff's Notes list?
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Aeneid
The Age of Innocence
Animal Farm
Aristotle's Ethics
Atlas Shrugged
The Bean Trees
The Bell Jar
Beloved
Beowulf
Bless Me, Ultima
Brave New World
The Call of the Wild
The Canterbury Tales
The Catcher in the Rye
The Chosen
The Color Purple
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Crucible
Daisy Miller
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death of a Salesman
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Divine Comedy: Inferno
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A Doll's House
Don Quixote
Dracula
Dream of the Red Chamber
Dubliners
The Fountainhead
Frankenstein
The Giver
The Glass Menagerie
The Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby
Gulliver's Travels
Hamlet
The Handmaid's Tale
Henry V
The Hobbit
The House of Seven Gables
Huckleberry Finn
The Iliad
The Importance of Being Earnest
Jane Eyre
The Joy Luck Club
Julius Caesar
The Jungle
King Lear
Le Morte d'Arthur
Leaves of Grass
Les Miserables
Lord of the Flies
The Lord of the Rings
Macbeth
Madame Bovary
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Moby-Dick
Mrs. Dalloway
My Antonia
Mythology
New Testament
Night
1984
The Odyssey
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea
Old Testament
Oliver Twist
The Once and Future King
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Othello
Our Town
The Outsiders
Paradise Lost
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince and the Pauper
A Raisin in the Sun
The Red Badge of Courage
Republic
The Return of the Native
Robinson Crusoe
Romeo and Juliet
The Scarlet Letter
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Silas Marner
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Snow Falling on Cedars
Song of Solomon
The Sound and the Fury
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Tale of Two Cities
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
To Kill a Mockingbird
Treasure Island
Twelfth Night
Ulysses
Vanity Fair
Walden
War and Peace
White Fang
Wuthering Heights
I was an English major, so I've read most of what Cliff's Notes are available, but there are many missing classics and many called "classics" that I seriously question. But anyway, there it is.
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RE: Which classics have you read? - 2/12/2008 8:36:32 AM
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Mine are from the list, plus others including a class I took on 20th century literature.
1984
A Separate Peace
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
Animal Farm
Beloved
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
Heart of Darkness
Huckleberry Finn
Leaves of Grass
New Testament
Of Mice and Men
Old Testament
Pride and Prejudice
Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Call of the Wild
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
The Odyssey
The Pearl
The Red Badge of Courage
The Return of the Native
The Scarlet Letter
To Kill a Mockingbird
Walden
White Fang
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Wuthering Heights
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RE: Which classics have you read? - 2/12/2008 6:57:29 PM
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Here are the ones I have read:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Age of Innocence
Animal Farm
Bleak House
Brave New World
The Call of the Wild
The Canterbury Tales
The Catcher in the Rye
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
Daisy Miller
Emma
Fahrenheit 451
Frankenstein
The Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations
The Greta Gatsby
Heart of Darkness
Huckleberry Finn
Jane Eyre
The Last of the Mohicans
Mythology
New Testament
The Odessey
Of Mice and Men
The Old Testament
The Outsiders
Paradise Lost
The Pearl
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice
The Scarlet Letter
Silas Marner
Tess of the d’Ubervilles
Ulysses
Vanity Fair
Wuthering Heights
I was a bit surprised at what didn't make it, and I have read several books that didn't make the list by the writers that made it.
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RE: Which classics have you read? - 2/16/2008 7:00:37 PM
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Here are the books I have read from the list
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Animal Farm
As I Lay Dying
Anna Karenina
Bleak House
The Brothers Karamazov
The Call of the Wild
The Canterbury Tales
The Catcher in the Rye
The Color Purple
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crime and Punishment
Dracula
Emma
Frankenstein
The Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby
Gulliver's Travels
The Hobbit
Huckleberry Finn
Jane Eyre
Light in August
Lord of the Flies
The Lord of the Rings
Moby Diok
New Testament
1984
The Odyssey
The Old Man and the Sea
Old Testament
Oliver Twist
The Once and Future King
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince and the Pauper
The Scarlet Letter
Silas Marner
The Sound and the Fury
A Tale of Two Cities
The Three Musketeers
Treasure Island
The Turn of the Screw
War and Peace
Wuthering Heights
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