How to Read the Classics--Four Tips!
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2017
- I've always been a big fan of the classics, but I know not everybody is. These are my tips on how to get reading the classics, because let's face it: Anna Karenina is really long. Let me know in the comments which classic novels are your favorites!
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You talk about Classics in such an unpretentious way, it's really refreshing!
My tips include: 1. go see Shakespeare classics on the stage or film; 2. read the Bible (or watch summaries on CZcams); 2. Read Homer's Illiad and the Odyssey---then dig in because you will have a lot of the basic references as a foundation. Then as you read the Classics 4. Read a chapter at a time (since a lot of classics were serialized in the popular press of their time--many times each chapter is a whole episode or story); and, 5. Don't let the foreign expressions or intricate footnotes throw you. In fact, don't let anything you don't really understand thwart you. Finally, if you are lost, Wikipedia and other websites can annotate or explain what lost you as you went along.
The Stranger by Albert Camus is short yet profound
Regarding abridgments: It is well known that Alexander Dumas got paid per word for his books, and, as such, this accounts for the extreme redundancy of Monte Christo (he was a great writer, but he had to make money after all!). So, many of the abridgments simply pare down these superfluous redundancies. Umberto Eco details this vividly in his introduction to the Everyman's Library version. Great point about useless elitism. One's mastery of a book should be linked to what one got out of the book, not whether it was abridged or not.
Sherlock Holmes tales are great as he's such a classic and well known character. The stories are short to avoid being overwhelmed and build up to bigger stuff.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a great shorter classic to read.
One tip I would say is reading classics via a reading device. You can highlight a word and it gives you definitions for them.
I wanna read War and Peace, but damn it’s intimidating AF!
”Little Women” is a light classic reading.
Of mice and men is amazing I had to read it for school and it was so good. Even kids in the class who didnt like reading loved the books
Dyamm girl those eyebrows. I love it.😍
Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
I have just retired, and my plan is to read more books, especially the classics. I have taken some book lists, including BBC's The Big Read and PBS Great American Read, and sorted them by the number of pages. So, now I have purchased several shorter books to get some momentum going.
I was literally just searching videos on classics and yours just came up in my subscription box and it really was helpful!!
Does anybody know what edition of Anne of Green Gables that was?
For me, The Count of Monte Cristo is better Unabridged, because it contains darker adult themes of drugs, harems and revenge.
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis are very easy to read. At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald is another good fantasy story. Also please consider the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. These are modern classics which are like old fashioned fairy tales. The Beowulf translation by E. Talbot Donaldson is very lively and interesting (it's a prose translation of the poem), and it is a really good book. A translation can make a lot of difference in how much you enjoy it.
I loved Anna Karanina.❤
"A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett is an easy read.
love that book purse so much!