Most Read This Week In Classics

A classic stands the test of time. The work is usually considered to be a representation of the period in which it was written; and the work merits lasting recognition. In other words, if the book was published in the recent past, the work is not a classic.

A classic has a certain universal appeal. Great works of literature touch us to our very core beings--partly because they integrate themes that are understood by readers from a wide range of backgrounds and levels of experience. Themes of love, hate, death, life, and faith touch upon some of our most basic emotional responses.

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Classics"

1984
The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0)
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Alchemist
Romeo and Juliet
Charlotte’s Web
The Outsiders
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
Wuthering Heights
Matilda
Holes (Holes, #1)
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
The Old Man and the Sea
Life of Pi
The Bell Jar
Tuesdays with Morrie
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
Man’s Search for Meaning
Dracula
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
Emma
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Grapes of Wrath
White Nights
Sense and Sensibility
A Tale of Two Cities
The Count of Monte Cristo
Flowers for Algernon
Lolita
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Les Misérables
Treasure Island
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
The Princess Bride
Persuasion
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
The Trial
All Quiet on the Western Front
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Don Quixote
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Sun Also Rises
The Time Machine
Wonka
The Witches
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Lorax
The Silence of the Lambs  (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
The Holy Bible: King James Version
War and Peace
Mrs. Dalloway
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
The Silmarillion
Peter Pan
The Brothers Karamazov
Black Beauty
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Remains of the Day
The Bluest Eye
Death of a Salesman
A Streetcar Named Desire
Mansfield Park
A Room of One’s Own
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Northanger Abbey
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
Candide
The Pearl
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Things They Carried
The Prophet
Much Ado About Nothing
The Canterbury Tales
Cat’s Cradle
Animal Farm / 1984
The Wind in the Willows
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
Waiting for Godot
The Divine Comedy
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Go Ask Alice
A Little Princess
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3)
The Phantom of the Opera
A Doll's House
The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Heidi

Leo Tolstoy
All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.
Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Jane Austen
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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