WHICH CLASSIC SHOULD YOU START WITH?
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- čas přidán 28. 09. 2016
- Are you at a loss for where to begin with the classics? Ever wondered whether Charles Dickens, Jane Austen or H.G. Wells are right for you? Well with the breadth of classic books out there I believe there is a classic for everyone and hopefully this video will provide you with a starting point no matter your contemporary tastes.
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The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
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The Odyssey by Homer
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Grimms' Fairy Tales
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Best Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson
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Best Fairy Stories of the World
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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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Emma by Jane Austen
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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Sherlock Holmes the Dark Mysteries
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I love the look of the editions of the classics you're holding up... very pretty
My personal favourites at the moment are The Count of Monte Cristo, The Picture of Dorian Grey and Tess of the D’Urbevilles. Admittedly I still have plenty more to read - very excited for Crime and Punishment!
I absolutely love Wuthering Heights and The Great Gatsby. For children’s classics, I really enjoy The Secret Garden, The Wizard of Oz and Black Beauty. There are so many to choose from!
Dystopian recommendation: 1984 by George Orwell
My favorite classic is The Sorrows of Young Werther, by Goethe. I also love Elective Affinities and I'm preparing myself to start reading Faust. A more modern classic that I worship is Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse. It's such an AMAZING book. Also, I adore The Tin Drum, by Gunther Grass. It is fair to say that I am a big fan of German literature. Other classics that I also love are Germinal, by Émile Zola; Dom Casmurro, by Machado de Assis (Brazilian author); Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse; 1984 and Animal Farm, by George Orwell; Dubliners, by James Joyce; Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann; The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde; and Bartleby, the Scrivener, by Herman Melville.
I'd always been intimidated by Crime and Punishment without ever knowing what it was about, not what I expected at all! Wanna read it so bad now haha
This is such a fantastic way of recommending classics. I have delved into a few classics over the years, but haven't read many of the ones listed in this video. I definitely have to read some of these soon :D
Great suggestions and very beautiful books :)
Your accent is very refreshing! Thank you
I’m currently reading gone with the wind and i am absolutely loving it. I’ve read 100 pages of it this weekend (which for a classic, is impressive for me)
my two absolute favourites are Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald. The characters Dickens creates are so fascinating and I love the themes running through GE. As for The Great Gatsby, I challenge you to find anything more beautiful.
I love BBC Sherlock, Elementary, Mr. Holmes, have even read various Sherlock stories from other authors....have grown up loving mysteries. I have absolutely no idea why I haven't read the original stories yet. I even have a copy sitting on my shelf staring at me. I must remedy that soon!
Hi! Thanks for this vid. I love to read the classics! I want to purchase this collection but would you have a review on the font size of the text? I'm hearing mixed reviews in Amazon about the format and typos in some of these books. I'm interested in getting Wuthering Heights. Thanks in advance!
I love the Macmillan collection. I’ve got over 20 of them.
Great video Jean! I need to get one of these books, they are beautiful! I think my favourite classic is Pride & Prejudice, but I've mostly read modern classics so far (my fave is Steppenwolf), I really need to read some older ones..
Great video, Jean :) I love how you compared Lord of the Rings to The Odyssey - never thought of that before, but it's so obvious 😇 and two of my favourite classics are Jane Eyre and Mrs Dalloway 😊
What a fantastic video! Oh!
I would like a horror, thriller or psychological classic
Favorite classic at the moment: Middlemarch by George Eliot!
As soon as you said LOTR I was like "she's gonna recommend the Odyssey" so that was great haha. I (shamefully) haven't read Sherlock Holmes yet but I want to read A Study in Scarlet soon! Picking a favorite classic is difficult but my top list is Sense and Sensibility, A Room With a View, North and South, Far From the Madding Crowd, Jane Eyre and Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Daniel Deronda Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing 😃