Question:
What are some great classic books/poems?
2010-09-23 14:13:25 UTC
I want to be an author and I want to read some really great classic books, poems, stories, plays, etc. thanks!
Seven answers:
2010-09-23 14:21:09 UTC
Gone With the Wind <----One of my favorites

Wuthering Heights <-----Another favorite

To Kill a Mockingbird <------Favorite

A Tale of Two Cities <----Favorite

Scarlett Letter <------"

The Three Musketeers

The Count of Monte Cristo

Last of the Mohicans

Robison Crusoe

Huckleberry Finn
A M Frantz
2010-09-23 14:38:21 UTC
Definitely read a lot of Shakespeare. Going back even further, a selection of the best Greek and Latin writers will introduce you to some true classics and help in understanding much later literature. Homer of course, and I would also recommend Thucydides and Plutarch's lives, along with some plays from Euripides.



Huckleberry Finn is an essential. The 19th century was a great age for novels, and you should read widely in that literature. Not just the great English writers like Dickens, Hardy, Trollope, and Austen, but some translations of Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Les Miserables, etc. For poetry, I'd look in any standard anthology of great poems in English. Read a selection from various poets and periods, and select a few poets whose work interests you to read in greater depth. Personally, I love Auden and Dickinson, but YMMV.



For more recent literature, Joyce's Portrait of the Artist, Kafka's The Trial, and Faulkner's Light in August (if, like me, you find The Sound and the Fury unreadable) are a minimum for 20th century lit.



I would also recommend a little non-western literature to broaden your horizons. It would be hard to improve on Waley's superb translation of The Tale of Genji, the first and still greatest romance novel ever written, and a good translation of the classic T'ang dynasty poets Du Fu and Li Po, to get a view of a very different approach to poetry.
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2010-09-23 14:17:52 UTC
Well, it depends on what genre you like. Jane Austen has romance covered, along with the rather less happy kinds of stories written by the Bronte sisters. There's lots of epics about adventure and knighthood, eg: Ivanhoe, The Count of Monte Cristo, the Three Musketeers. I personally really like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
ThePearlStar
2010-09-23 14:37:16 UTC
The Power and The Glory by Graham Greene

(Greene waspretty sexist and a bit of an extremist,so keep that in mind,but it's a wonderfully written book--alot of ideas and insights that I would never of thought of)





John Keats (poet)

I really like his poetry as well as...

Percy Byshe (sp?)Shelley (poet)



'Madame Bovary' by Gustave Flaubert was also good.

Hope this helps and wishing you great success as a writer!!(:
Mandy
2010-09-23 14:19:42 UTC
The princess plot and hush and the giver

you can also read a lot of newberry award books
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2010-09-23 14:17:38 UTC
read jules verne, oscar wilde, dante, nathaniel hawthore, charles dickens, mark twain, or shakespeare. basically all the famous authors of the 19th century.
2010-09-23 23:16:19 UTC
i think these are great books.

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