10 CLASSIC BOOKS FOR SUMMER
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 27. 06. 2024
- Looking for the perfect summer reading list? đđ In this video, we dive into "10 Classic Books to Read in Summer," offering you the best literature to enjoy during the sunny days. Whether youâre lounging by the pool, relaxing at the beach, or simply soaking up the sun in your backyard, these timeless classics will keep you entertained and inspired.
Discover literary gems from renowned authors that are perfect for summer reading. From adventure-filled novels to heartwarming stories, this list has something for everyone. Get ready to add these must-read classics to your summer reading list and embark on unforgettable literary journeys.
Books Featured:
"Far From the Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy
"Testament of Youth" by Vera Brittain
"A Month in the Country" by J L Carr
"Tender is the Night" by F Scott Fitzgerald
"Our Man in Havana" by Grahame Greene
"A Room With A View" by E M Forster
"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas
"A Murder in Mesapotamia" by Agatha Christie
"Silas Marner" by George Eliot
"The Warden" by Anthony Trollope
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Read Count of Monte Cristo this year thanks to you. This 63yo male loved it and couldn't put it down.
It's superb.
Last year, I too read and loved The Count of Monte Cristo at 63.
Read it in the latter half of last year and flew through the book in no time. Instantly one of my all-time favourite reads.
Same here. I read it a few months ago and it immediately made it into my top 3. It is a tad long inbetween, but the first and last 400 pages are mind blowing!
I would add Jerome K Jerome's: Three Men in a Boat to this summer reading list! Keep returning to the timeless adventure on the river Thames!
Graham Greene had actually been a secret agent for the British. Also his autobiography is my favorite of the genre, "A Sort of Life" is the first part. Another good autobiography is by Robert Graves "Goodbye to all That". Both of these writers wrote a whole lot that deserves to be read.
Iâve just finished Tender is The Night. Absolutely sublime writing, I fell in love with Fitzgeraldâs writing. His description of Rosemary sunbathing, the feel of dogâs breath on her, Dick tilting the umbrella to âclipâ the sun off her shoulder. Just magical writing.
Iâm just about to start it and so looking forward to it.
@@janeylfoster6197 Enjoy! Hope you love it :)
Love this seasonal list! Please do a must-read classic book list for the Autumn season!
I second that
Such a great list! đđ» I have read Far from the Madding Crowd, Silas Marner and A Room with a View and thoroughly enjoyed each of them! A Month in the Country is on my summer tbr.
Thanks for all the wonderful recommendations! đ
Tristan, you are a delight and your enthusiasm is contagious. Thank you for all you do.
A Month in the Country is definitely my pick. I need time for The Count of Monte Cristo. That may be a winter read for me.
I read A Month in the Country per your rec. loved it! Have put several of these on my TBR. Always enjoy your passion for the classics.
It's so good!
A Month in the Country is a jewel.
Testament of Youth is one of the best books I have ever read. Perhaps I loved it because I am a registered nurse of more than 50 years experience, much of which time I served as a nurse in the Australian Army.
It is heartening to see that Vera Brittain is membered today.
Of these 10, Iâve read 3-
1. Far from the madding crowd-it was ok. I found Bathsheba(I think thatâs her name) to be frustrating.
2. The Count of Monte Christo-loved this book so much. One of the best classics imo
3. Silas Marner-I read this in January and it has stuck with me. The characters drawn in such a short novel-wow!
Iâve read Dr. Thorne by Trollope, but not the Warden. I will pick it up!
I read Silas Marner a couple of years back (no one ever mentions it) - without giving anything away I would recommend reading. It is not a long book and is a lovely story. I'm halfway through the Barchester Chronicles and love Far From the Madding Crowd. The one that stands out for me from your list is Testament of Youth. Thank you for another great video
What a fun video and great summer reading suggestions! Iâve read all but 2 of the books. I had to comment because Iâve read Our Man in Havana several times but Iâve never heard anyone mention that book. I was so surprised to hear you recommend it. You made me want to read it again. lol
I loved Silas Marner and The Warden is a favourite of mine. I had The Warden at the top of my list to re-read but you had mentioned that you were doing the audiobook so Iâm anxiously awaiting that. đ€ đ
Thanks for your very enjoyable videosâŠ.packed with interesting content.
A few other books that I really like that suit the summer season:
* The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain). Not "serious literature" like Huckleberry Finn is, much lighter in theme and tone, but still makes for an enjoyable summer read.
* Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson). If comics can count.
* Dandelion Wine (Ray Bradbury). Just as his book Something Wicked This Way Comes fits the Autumn or Fall.
* The Sword in the Stone (T.H. White). It's the first part of The Once and Future King, which is one of my favorite books of all time and which I'd highly recommend reading in its entirety, but the first book best fits summer unlike the rest of the book.
* Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome). Hilarious, just hilarious. Maybe I should throw a P.G. Wodehouse novel in here like The Code of the Woosters or any number of others.
* To Say Nothing of the Dog (Connie Willis). A sci-fi "follow up" of sorts and homage to the previous Jerome book that's likewise hilarious.
Great to see "Silas Marner" and "Our Man in Havana" on your list, wonderful books who have been on my list of favourites for over 50 years. Great vlog. I hope everyone enjoys their summer reading.
The Count of Monte Cristo is one of my favorite books of all time! đ
1. One of the best available translations in English today is the Robin Buss translation with Penguin Classics. Also, I forget if Lawrence Ellsworth has a translation as well. If he does, I'm certain his translation would also be excellent. Ellsworth is working on The Three Musketeers series of books and he's considered a gold standard for many if not most of Dumas's novels now. In any case, it might be worth trying to read The Count of Monte Cristo in the Buss translation or the Ellsworth translation if Ellsworth has also done a translation of The Count of Monte Cristo.
2. Beware of translations of the novel that are abridged. Abridged doesn't only mean incomplete, but it also refers to other issues like bowdlerizations. That is, watering down or entirely removing passages of the novel that the translator(s) deemed too racy, offensive, or otherwise inappropriate for their audiences. Perhaps the most well-known abridged edition is a translation from 1846 known as the Chapman-Hall translation. Chapman-Hall are the names of the publishers back then, not the names of the translator(s) who remain anonymous (and translations of The Count of Monte Cristo on the market that say they're from "anonymous" or similar are most likely referring to the Chapman-Hall translation). However the Chapman-Hall translation is known to have bowdlerizations, omissions, and other issues.
3. In fairness, Chapman-Hall does of course use Victorian English if one likes the older language for Dumas. In that case, it might be best to get a modern revision of the Chapman-Hall that largely leaves the language in tact but fixes its issues. Such as Peter Washington's slight revision of the Chapman-Hall translation for Everyman's Library. Or David Coward's which in fact turns the abridged Chapman-Hall into an unabridged Chapman-Hall and fixes the other issues.
4. By the way, there's both a Count of Monte Cristo film as well as a mini series coming out this year - or is it already out? In any case, it's a good year to visit or revisit the book!
Interesting list. When I was about 14, I read an abridged version of CMC and not only loved it but also considered it one of my all-time favorite books ever since. So I had to read an unabridged and better-translated version to see what I think now. Having just finished the Penguin classics Robin Buss translation, I can say it is better than I remembered and just a fantastic tale. Currently, I'm reading the Pulitzer-winning biography of Dumas' father: The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss. Fascinating. Doctor Thorne is on my TBR and I'm moving Silas Marner up my lists. Happy summer reading, Tristan.
The Warden is one of the most delightful books Iâve ever read. Your description of its ideal reader fits me to a T
I look forward to watching this when I'm done with work stuff!
I hope you enjoy it, Yesica.
I'm right in the middle of the Count of MC, known in this house as The Fat Count because the postman had to redeliver it since it didn't fit through the oletter box..
Ha ha! A problem only book lovers can understand!
Tristan, could kindly do videos on BOOKS WHICH SHAPED say a certain discipline:
BOOKS WHICH SHAPED PSYCHOLOGY
BOOKS WHICH SHAPED PHILOSOPHY
BOOKS WHICH SHAPED ARCHITECTURE
BOOKS WHICH SHAPED POLITICAL SCIENCE AND GOVERNANCE, etc etc etc...
(Sorry I am repeating myself, but I hope you see my comments) You are amazing by the way... truly life changing.
Great list. I share your appreciation of âOur Man in Havana â. I hope that others will be encouraged to enjoy it.
âA Testament to Youthâ has been on my TBR for about 6 months. I canât believe I didnât realize it was a memoir. đ€Šââïž I will be reaching for it soon.
I am encouraged to read it!
Iâm on the fifth novel of The Barchester Chronicles and am enjoying the series very much. Canât believe Iâve never read Silas Marner and will have to remedy that soon!
Fabulous video, as always! There is a wonderful 1959 film of âOur Man in Havanaâ starring Alec Guinness as Wormold and, of all people, Noel Coward, as the MI6 agent, Hawthorne. It was directed by Carol Reed of âThe Third Manâ fame.
You have just added to my ever-growing reading list. This is what I'd like to read or re-read:
"Far From the Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy
I have never read any Thomas Hardy, other than a few extract in high school. I know, I know...
"Testament of Youth" by Vera Brittain
I had not heard of this book. I might read it at alongside some Wartime poetry, so personally I might move it to the autumn schedule.
"Tender is the Night" by F Scott Fitzgerald
I'm giving my age away now but I was in my early teens when I watched a miniseries based on this novel. It was summer, in the mediterranean country I grew up. Perfect timing. The miniseries totally captivated me so I immediately went to buy the book and devoured it. It was in translation, as English is not my first language but I loved it so much. I then went on to read all of FS Fitzgerald novels, one after the other. I was a precoscious teen. Years later I re-read Tender is the Night in English, but maybe it was the timing, the phase in my life - I didn't enjoy it as much. However, it has stayed with me and I have always felt that I would come back to it, and even purchased a beautiful Folio Society edition a few years ago. It's there on my shelf, waiting. Time to give it a second spin.
"A Room With A View" by E M Forster - I watched the film with Helena Bonham Carter and the late Julian Sands years ago, and if I am not mistaken, an incredible Maggie Smith. I never read the book (I read another couple of Forster's novels). On my list it goes.
"A Murder in Mesapotamia" by Agatha Christie
I devoured all of Christie's novels, in translation, over a couple of summers when I was maybe 10 years old. I have such fond memories of those reads, which in some ways changed my life because they triggered an intense interest in the anglo world.
On the list it goes too.
"Silas Marner" by George Eliot -
This will go on the list but first I need to tackle 'Middlemarch'. My experience with Eliot is limited to 'Daniel Deronda', which I had to read at University and which I not only did not enjoy, but which I am sure I did not understand from a language point of view. I was a first year student, in the UK at that point and my English was probably not up to it yet.
"The Warden" by Anthony Trollope. I volunteer at a charity bookshop and Trollope is one of those authors that really doesn't sell. We have TONS of Trollope sitting there, collecting dust. I have always assumed that he's a borefest, but your description of his novels in this and other videos has piqued my interest. I'll pick up a copy of The Warden from the shop asap.
Sorry for the looooong comment, I got a bit overexcited!
Thank you for making this list!
I read "Silas Marner" in grade school but had poor memories of it. I found a Geoge Eliot collection with over 5,ooo pages which I downloaded from the Play Store. It was a treasure, and of course, included "Silas Marner"! It is a wonderful story ... and has a great ending!
Thanks for this Tristan. Just started Far From The Madding Crowd, ordered A Month in the Country which sounds just perfect for where my head is at the moment and so looking forward to Tender is the Night. I started Testament of Youth in November but your comments have prompted me to go back to it.
Found this such an inspiring video and delighted to be jumping into these fantastic worlds.â€
The âlove rhombusâ thatâs gold đ
I want to read The Count of Monte Cristo and reread Far From the Madding Crowd, which I read decades ago and am sure that I will experience very differently now.
Testament of Youth is such a wonderful book on so many levels. She followed this with Testament of Freindship, about her relationship with fellow author Winifred Holtby (South Riding), and Testament of Experience.
As well as the excellent novel, A Month in the Country, there is also LP Hartley's novel,The Go-Between. The novel spans a summer in the early part of the 20th century in England. It opens with the well-known lines: ' The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. Thanks again,Tristan, another great video.
So many recommendations here. Love your videos-but it just makes my tbr list get longer and longer. Love how The Count of Monte Cristo appears on so many of your videos. One of my absolute favourites ever.
Where I live, summer starts around mid-April and ends around mid-June, gradually morphing into the monsoon season. So I've already finished my summer reads and they were:
1. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
4. A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles
5. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
6. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Thanks for the recommendations, by the way.
Oh that's a pityđ don't worry, I have a video on winter reads somewhere. Hope that'll be useful.
Strong list. I very much enjoyed Gentleman in Moscow. I've not read Hamnet.
how was a gentleman in moscow? i like your list and have read all ...
Love your list. Iâve read all but Hamnet which is one of my book clubs autumn reads and In Cold Blood which Iâd not heard of so Iâll be checking that out.
I think To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel everyone should read. It is my recommendation to everyone. One of my favorite novels of all time. Along with A Gentleman in Moscow. I loved it! My brother just returned my copy of East of Eden. Iâm going to reread it. From your list Iâm going to try the Capote book.
I loved this selection, because it contains so many books I have loved and which have meant an incredible amount to me. First, "Testament of Youth" is heart breaking, but I always feel like screaming "You MUST read this", because we know a great deal about the absolute carnage of the First World War, but this is written by a girl raised in an incredibly cloistered manner, who's always been chaperoned, never allowed to be alone with a man, and who not only loses every man she loves, but who volunteers as a nurse and has every shred of protection torn away from her, so that she cannot comfort herself that death is ever swift or easy, or glorious. I read "Tender Is The Night" when I was perhaps too young for it, and walked around in a fog of worry about the characters for days after. It is exquisitely written. As is "A Month in the Country". "Our Man in Havana" is Grahame Greene making fun of the British Secret Service, and wonderfully enjoyable. And "A Room With A View" is my favourite E.M. Forster. Of all Agatha Christie's books, I'm fascinated that you chose "Murder in Mesopotamia"; the setting is indeed very well described, and although you may not be reading the most perfect prose ever written, you are in a situation where the murderer is impossible to guess, and you'll have no idea how the murder was really committed. And while you're still wondering about the first murder, there's another. It's really fascinating. Which finally brings me to "Silas Marner", the first of George Eliot's books I read, long ago, and which I loved, and still love, dearly. I adore this whole selection.
Love this video Tristan! I purchased Tender is the Night based on some of your earlier videos. The writing is just gorgeous! And A Room With A View is one of my all time favorites!
Thanks to your inspiring recommendations, I have already read this year Far From the Madding Crowd, a new favorite, and The Count of Monte Cristo, another new favorite! And lo and behold, I just realized I had Testament of Youth on my bookshelf! Adding it to my summer stack. đ
My TBR grows every time I watch you, thank you.
I read A Month in the Country because of you. It truly is a gem.
Itâs such a treat to see that you have posted a new video! The Count of Monte Christo is next on my tbr list as soon as I finish The Mysteries of Paris. â€
Ok you've finally worn me down and convinced me to buy A Month in the Country, but it's winter here!
I've read Silas Marner but it was many moons ago. I've re-read The Mill on the Floss twice at least because I love it best of Eliot's novels but maybe I need to revisit SM too.
Lovely list!!â€
I loved Far from the Madding Crowd and I have A month in the country on my tbr!!!â€
All sound great. I have a copy of TCOMC to read as my next big book after War & Peace, but Room with a View and Silas Marner will be added to my TBR list.
Great, as always, Tristan. My favorite summer reading place is on the front porch of my Kansas farm, looking out across the fields and woods and pastures.
"Tender is the Night" is superb. Currently, I'm reading "Scottie, the Daughter of . . ."--bio of Scottie Fitzgerald, written by Eleanor Lanahan, granddaughter of Scott and Zelda. Not too far in, but enjoying it immensely.
I want to read "Our Man in Havana" soon. Sounds fun. Cheers and God bless.
I followed your suggestion earlier read and loved the Month in the Country. đ
Great video! I added many of these to my list. Thank you!
An amazing list, filled with many of my favorites! I love to hear you read aloud.
My Bookclub breaks for the summer, so thatâs my time to read whatever I want. Currently rereading Jane Eyre & loving every minute. Might continue the reread theme with Watership Down. Itâs been too long. Or maybe something from your list. Happy reading, everyone! đđ
The Count of Monty Cristo and The Warden both sound interesting. Great video.
Thanks Tristan youâve a great channel and I love your enthusiasm for the classics.
Thank you for another interesting video, Tristan! I enjoy your book talks a lot, your humour and enthusiasm.
I am a great fan of Anthony Trollope and the Barchester series especially. The characters are so well drawn. So I reread the books all the time. And possibly I'll reread The Warden this summer.
By the way have you read "Fathers and Sons " by Ivan Turgenev. That is one of my summer classics!đ
I love âA Room with a Viewâ. Iâve read it often and always find something new. Itâs deeper and more complicated than I grasped on my first read some thirty years ago.
Agreed. One of my all-time favorites. I also love the film with Helena Bonham-Carter, Julian Sands, and Daniel Day-Lewis. Amazing cinematography!
Iâm flying tomorrow for a one week beach vacation. Iâve purchased A Month in the Country and A Room With a View. I canât wait to get started!
I read The Great Gatsby recently and it was such an experience reading it again as an adult when it is not a school assignment! 'Tender is the Night' was in my sights next but after your chat I'm even more tantalized! Far from the Madding Crowd is one I really want to get to this summer too. I just read 'Room With a View'! I completely agree with you on E.M. Forster's writing. Its exquisite. I read 'The Count of Monte Christo' in my early twenties and thought it was good but I hear about it so much that I feel I need to give it a reread now that I'm a true grownupđ. It is amazing how the enjoyment of books, especially classics, change as one gets older. Do you have a list of classics that changed for you that way?
i ordered 2: tender is the night & silas mariner
A Room With a View is a great summer reading suggestion. I read and enjoyed Silas Marner recently and it reinforced a life lesson for me. Amazing how people's experience doesn't change. I'm pretty sure The Warden will make my list this summer. I've been threatening to read Anthony Trollope for a while and The Warden is a short entry. Thanks for the suggestion!
i used to spend summers reading ghost stories i don' t know why hahaha...but this is a great list
Summer is as good a time for ghost stories as any-the dead exist even when itâs hot & sunny.
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That's a great idea, do you have some recommendations? đ
@@Summalogicae maybe its a way for me to get the chills when its very hot hahah
@@jules6473 either non fiction books about ghost sightings (i love those hahaha);;;or any Victorian Ghost stories...like those from M.R.James or the penguin book of ghost stories
That's a wonderful list, as usual. I absolutely love Far from the Madding Crowd. I don't think I've read Our Man in Havana but the movie is wonderful and I think it's quite faithful to the story. I must put Tender in the Night on my TBR; I have it on my shelves so there's no excuse.
As for which book I would choose, well, we're having a particularly chilly winter down here this year, so I think I should read something Russian, with people travelling through snow drifts in troikas. đ
I have read all but three of this list. One of your best, IMHO! Want to read the others as well. So many standouts: Count of Monte Cristo, Silas Marner and Testament of Youth are favorites. Need to get to A Month in the Country, Tender is the Night and Murder in Mesopotamia.
The Warden appeals to me as one to read in the local Herb Garden. A Month in the Country also appeals as a profound read in 100 pages. I am interested to see what the author can do in such a short space. Out Man in Havana is already on my list, but I haven't been able to find a copy yet.
The only one i've is The Warden which i enjoyed. I own A Month in the Country and this motivates me to pick it up this summer. A Man in Havana sounds intriguing.
Count of Monte Cristo is my first pick for Big Book Summer. Iâm not even 100 pages in and Iâm hooked. Iâm enjoying the pace and the narrator. Iâm wondering why I havenât picked up this book before!
Silas Marner is my favorite Eliot.
Silas Marner was a 5 star read for me. It touched me so deeply. The Count Of Monte Cristo is (so far) my favorite book of all time. The Warden by Anthony Trollope was wonderful. The Barsetshire Chronicles as a whole made me absolutely fall in love with Trollope and has remained my favorite male Victorian author. đ
I love your lists!
Modern classics The Sheltering Sky-Bowles and The Magus-Fowles have summer (or at least hot weather) written all over them.
I read Testament of Youth when I was a teenager as I was studying Scars Upon My Heart (collection of poems by WWI women poets) as one of my A Level set texts. The 1970s BBC series of Testament of Youth was on at the same time. Such a beautiful book but utterly heartbreaking. Her poem, Perhaps, has always been one of my favourite poems. You can feel her grief bleeding through every line.
My wish list has just increased yet again!! Thankfully Iâve read probably the 2 biggest books The Count of MC and Far from the MC (MC being coincidental abbreviations) and also the Agatha Christie.
Iâm particularly interested in A Testament of Youth being a biography and also Our Man in Havana as I appreciate a bit of humour between the more somewhat depressing books Iâm reading. Anthony Trollope is an author I have never read and I do love a saga so The Warden is going on my list too. I have wanted to read Tender is the night since reading about Fitzgerald in Hemingwayâs A Moveable Feast so in conclusion, I need to go shopping and book a nice long holiday!!! đ
Dearest tristan have you ever made a video topic about your favorite writers and if not can you make a video about it. And i wil be waiting to see it
I read CoMC by Dumas a couple summers back and loved it for a summer read. This year I think Iâll give the beloved Carr a read.
Fun list. I take it as a challenge.
I've read: "Far From the Madding Crowd" (I love all of Hardy's novels, altho' Jude is difficult to love. Tess feels more summery to me, and much more Hardyesque) "Tender is the Night" (I read it a while back; but all you said about it was true;) "A Room With A View" (gorgeous summer escape;) "The Count of Monte Cristo" (which I read in the summer of 2023!) and "Silas Marner" (twice. I love Eliot. Its a great story.)
I like the sounds of "Testament of Youth" by Vera Brittain and "A Month in the Country" by J L Carr. I'm unfamiliar with both of those. I already have "Our Man in Havana" on my long-term TBR. I read "End of the Affair" last year and adored Graham Greene's writing style. I attempted the "The Warden" and just didn't connect with it. I'm probably not going to get to these this summer bc I'm about to begin Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel." If there is any summer left after that, I hope to start Marjorie Morningstar, by Houk.
Some other books I think are good summer classics? "Summer, by Edith Wharton. Also Age of Innocence. The Shakespeare Sonnets, two per day. Anne of Green Gables, A Light in August if you can bear Faulkner (this is a difficult one-read triggers,) The Three Musketeers, The Stories of John Cheever (G & T required,) Vanity Fair (oh, I how I love that novel), Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Great Expectations (is it the most summery Dickens?), Dharma Bums, and Cheri.
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Must read A Month in the Countryđ Really enjoyed Far from the Madding Crowd.
Tristan, have you considered posting Amazon affiliate links? It's a nice way for us to support your content if we decide to buy the books!
The only one that I have read is Murder in Mesopotamia. Thanks for all of the great recommendations!
You description of Greene's "Our Man in Havana" sounds a lot like Le Carre's "Tailor in Panama". You can't go wrong with the Count!
Tristan, could kindly do videos on BOOKS WHICH SHAPED say a certain discipline:
BOOKS WHICH SHAPED PSYCHOLOGY
BOOKS WHICH SHAPED PHILOSOPHY
BOOKS WHICH SHAPED ARCHITECTURE
BOOKS WHICH SHAPED POLITICAL SCIENCE AND GOVERNANCE, etc etc etc...
It's been so many years (30?) since I read A Murder in Mesopotamia that I don't remember any of it. So, either I'll read that or Tender is the Night. Thank you for your great recommandations.
I would love to read Silas Marner from your description. â€
Love Rhombus, that could be the name of a synth pop act đ
Agatha Christie was a great author. Her Mary Westamacott novels are fabulous. Her mysteries paid the bills but the novels she wrote for herself were brilliant.
Oh, Testament of Youth is calling to me. Will have to look for it, thanks. My knowledge of WWI is abysmal.
I'll start with Agatha. The Count is stll patiently waiting on my nightstand.
Have never heard of Testament of Youth! Thanks! What about Summer by Edith Wharton? It has the best kiss in literature!
Hi Tristan! Can you do a video on different translations of classic novels (particularly French and Russian, eg Hugo, Dumas, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky)? Iâd be very interested in your opinion and the translations you use. Love your videos!
Where in England are you from Tristan? I try every time I watch a video of yours to guess, but I'm puzzled, being from Ireland.
Loving the higher video volume btw.
Love this list Tristan!
Have you ever read/reviewed Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee? I think you would really enjoy it.
I love Silas Marner!
I ordered A Month in the Country because of your insistence that we read it! August will be the perfect time for me! It's on my list.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Warden!!â€â€â€
I want read A month in the Country and The Count!
Youâve mentioned A Month In The Country, by Carr, several times in various videos-Iâve ordered it on your recommendation and hope to report back good things.
Thanks!
Hope you enjoy it!
I did a video on summer reads and put The Count on there as well.
For Monte Cristo whose translation would you recommend?
I read the Robin Buss translation. Published by Penguin Classics. It was highly recommended by the collective wisdom of a Google search đ
I read the anonymous translation but the Robin Buss seems to be the most popular so i will read that next time.
I do love your laugh, Tristanđ
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is not just for summer. It is one of the greatest American books ever written.
Agreed. Iâve read it two or three times. Itâs an incredible novel.
Hi tristan. Can you recommend 10 classic comedy books please!
The one FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD BY THOMAS HARDY HIS FOURTH PUBLISHED NOVEL
Would you say Trollope's Chronicles need to be read strictly in order?
"Murder in Mesopotamia" is a very entertaining mystery, but one crucial element of the solution is pretty preposterous.
I would add The Go=Brtween