Favorite Classic Novel

[kakashi]

My favorite classic novel would have to be Les Miserables.:p Victor Hugo is extremely long winded but that is one of the things that I like about him.

[Dusty Chalk]

Tie between Animal Farm and 1984, I think. Although, I really like Dante's Divine Comedy (such imagery!), so maybe that...

That said, Les Miserables was great -- made me cry.

[tomselleck69]

probably brothers karamazov. les mis is up there as well.

[Kaoru]

Fahrenheit 451 or maybe Animal Farm.

[kakashi]

Yeah, Animal Farm is good too!

[Libby]

I love old kids' books, so: Kim by Rudyard Kipling and The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

I also love the Oz series by L. Frank Baum, and his daughter Ruth Plumly Thomspon.

[Aratos]

So many to choose from. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? maybe.

[SaiRong]

I really like Charles Dickens, so I would say Great Expectations.

[Foreordained99]

I think mine must be Pride and Prejudice

[Klawzie]

Same here, Pride and Prejudice. Followed closely (very closely) by the Count of Monte Cristo.

[Foreordained99]

The origional film of Pride and Prejudice is great with Colin Firth...but i don't like the new one so much..

When i was younger, some of my favs were Watership Down by Richard Adams, and Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery

[mei-chan]

I just reread Wuthering Heights, so that scores high at the moment, but I also really like Jane Eyre, Crime and Punishment and Anna Karenina

[Ban Midou]

Watership Down by Richard Adams is good but i think that i liked Dante's Inferno Better.

[Chiaki]

The origional film of Pride and Prejudice is great with Colin Firth...but i don't like the new one so much..

When i was younger, some of my favs were Watership Down by Richard Adams, and Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery
Mmmmmmm, can't beat colin firth (diving scene especially)
Has anyone heard of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, it is my favourite book of alltime. Got into it because of a BBC costume drama around last christmas.
The tv show was great but the book is astounding. Would definetely recommend it. especially if you've read Pride and Prejudice as they have a similar sort of story (gorg man loves woman kinda thing)

[Chiaki]

The movie was great, except I though Mr Bingley was more gorg than Darcy

You can't beat the BBC though we have to remember, it's the book they are adapting it from, not the previous series.

[TheMangaQueen]

Mine would have to be Dracula (Bram Stoker), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Mark Twain, the only book I like by him) and The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas).

[Academy185]

One of my favorites is A Picture of Dorian Gray it truly shows what happens when humanity and pictures come to show the same person.

[Kantami]

Dr jekyl and mr hyde sumthin lyk that...

[rooboy666]

Count of Monte Cristo, Picture of Dorian Grey, the Scarlet Letter, Pride and Prejudice, and a Tale of Two Cities are all among my favorites. If I get to count Fahrenheit 451, Starship Troopers, and Watership Down then they're also among my favorites.

[*Kyo_Fan*]

the count of monte cristo hands down is the best story of revenge ever writ!!!!
i thought that canterbury tales was funny too w/ the descriptions of the pardoner & summoner

[Jacku]

Mine are The Count of Monte Cristo and Animal Farm.

[LadyTanyata]

Pride and Prejudice definitely. The new film has a lot missing out of it when compared to the novel. That's the only problem with the new film.

Also The Three Musketeers was good and Wuthering Heights too.

[Amma]

I think Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and also Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.

It was becasue of these two novels was that I have gained interest in classic novels. :)

[gal12]

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

[YamPuff]

Hey! I love Jane Eyre also! They made me read it in high school and I thought it was awesome! I like all Jane Austen's novels except Mansfield Park and Persuasions (they weren't as fun and I HATE Fanny). I think my fave would be Emma and Sense and Sensibility. Elinor is my favorite heroine...she's like me.

I'm now an English lit student! My dream! I HAVE to read classics! Woohoo!

Ok I'm done now.

[takethebackseat]

Lots of great choices here :D

I'd have to go with Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway.

[Shizu-san]

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
I never tire of Mr. Darcy...

Crime and Punishment by (now let's see if I can spell this right) Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Extraordinary man theory, put into practice! Yay, murder.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
Collapse/futility of the American dream. How lovely.

[extriandreamer]

Long list, Pride and Pred., Wuthering Heights, Les. Mis., Bro. Karamozov, anything Shakespere, Tale od Two Cities, Jane Eyre, and a ton more I can't think of.

[sferrick]

I love Les Mis (even with Victor Hugo's random chapters that go on and on about things that don't really have that much importance to the story), Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Song of Solomon, Animal Farm, The Phantom of the Opera and some other things too that I can't name off the top of my head right now. :}

[luckymegami]

I presume that Shakespeare counts as classic? If so...I like anything...particularly The Twelfth Night.

[Iblis]

Does "A House for Mr. Biswas" count?

That was a good book. :D

[Tsuzuki]

does Phantom of the Opera count?
i believe it is fairly old....

[kakashi]

I love Les Mis (even with Victor Hugo's random chapters that go on and on about things that don't really have that much importance to the story), Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Song of Solomon, Animal Farm, The Phantom of the Opera and some other things too that I can't name off the top of my head right now. :}
Haha! Victor Hugo does do just that.

[maria100]

Oh I can't choose! Oh alright, I will choose a few: Pride and Prejudice, Oliver Twist, Wuthering Heights, Secret Garden and Black Beauty to name a few.
I still haven't got around to reading 1984 or any other George Orwell books but hope to do so soon, when I get the chance.

[Hale_Cross]

"Where the Red Firn Grows"

[YamPuff]

I don't know if I answered here before but...Jane Eyre.

[adichappo]

hmm...i'm not really one for classics. Les Miserable was good but as someone else mentioned...Vicotr Hugo does go on a bit about things that really don't matter that much (did we really need 200 pages detailing the french sewar system of the time?)
probably Shakespear's Midsummer Night's Dream or Much Ado About Nothing...hilarious both! ^_^

[MephistoWaltz]

The Count of Monte Cristo. That book kicks major ass.

[tonyadpx]

The Dickens classic "Great Expectations." Rarely does a classic novel hook me like this one did. Now I own three different copies.

[Haiku]

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

[NekoSama]

"Phantom of the opera"! Yay Erik! he was sooo sweet at the end, although he got annoying when he was mean...

[SweetNymph]

He got homicidal when he was mad. XD

Who doesn't love him? ^^

I like Jane Eyre. It's like Beauty and the Beast. ^.^

[Nekochii]

Little Women, Black Beauty and Bridge to Terabithia.

[alucard666]

thats a hard one, but i think dracula would have to be it.

[YamPuff]

Does Anne of Green Gables count? That is my ultimate fave of all time.

If not, than Jane Eyre, some of Jane Austen.

[KaYoKitten]

Egads, you people are going to drive me mad, aren't you? I'm a HUGE fan of older stories, in particular the ones geared for "children" of the times.

Treasure Island, Moby Dick, Alice in Wonderland, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, Jungle Book, Peter Pan and Wendy, Arabian Nights, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth...I absolutely ADORE Jules Verne's work.

Dracula, Frankenstein (I <3 Mary Shelley AND her husband, Percy)...1984, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Canterbury Tales, all of Dante's work, but in particular Inferno...

^^; I could go on all night--I LOVE to read.

[YamPuff]

UK, you are probably the only person I know that has read more classical novels than my mother and I have. All my friends are the types who think reading is weird and classical weirder.

We're taking North and South by Gaskell this year in college plus David Coppefield. I almsot sobbed upon hearing this. I've already read them both. T____T

I loved The Tenant of something or other by one of the Bronte sisters. (Yeah...great memory I have) And I adored Watership Down, again I don't know if that counts.

[ddr tatsujin]

What's so great about animal farm? Isn't it that book/ movie where all the dead animals come back to life?

My favorite classic is Ulysses by James Joyce. That and the Decameron

[skyefall]

Le Fantome de l'Opera by Gaston Leroux (does that count?)
and Dracula by...someone. Hee hee.. I love vampires. ^_^

[darkdarcy20]

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen. I just love the characters and I wish I could find my own Mr. Darcy.

[YamPuff]

Watership Down is another favorite. And White Fang.

Both incredibly interesting in the fact that they are written through the point of view of the animals. And realistically done as well, White Fang moreso. Watership Down sorta stretched it, but kept that realistic edge at the same time. I loved them both.

[Tajtan]

Wuthering Heights.

[RedmanDemon]

The five or something like that

[RainbowSpatula]

The Catcher In The Rye.
I LOVE that book. <3 I think I cried at one point..

Watership Down and Animal Farm are up there, too.

[ghanima]

Picture of Dorian Gray, Pride and Prejudice, Les Miserables, Count of Monte Cristo, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre.

well there are tons more butthose are the ones i reread the most.

[WhistleBlower]

The Catcher In The Rye.
I LOVE that book. <3 I think I cried at one point..

Watership Down and Animal Farm are up there, too.
Im totally with you on The Catcher In The Rye. I cried when I lost my copy. Unfortunately I dont think I will ever love watership down because all I remember is my teacher making me read it in gr.4 (with "reflections") as part of the bloody gifted group.-_- She is going to suffer for making that group.

[butterflychan2]

Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre...those are my favorites, I enjoy my classics!

[nikitia]

the divine comedy, any shakespere, poe...i like the classics
the phantom of the opera is another one

[YamPuff]

Watership Down and Animal Farm are up there, too.
I love Watership Down. Who knew rabbits could be so interesting?

[tarotgirl22]

My favorite classic so far is Pride and Prejudice...followed by The Count of Monte Cristo and Dracula.:D theres so many to choose from. And of course you can't forget Phantom of the Opera and Wuthering Heights.

[EdwardFanGirl13]

The original Dracula is my fav. It will be until the day I die. I absolutely LOVE anything to do with vampires and werewolves, so Dracula is a given. But I like almost all of the classics...Except for Pride and Predjudice. Sense and Sensibility was also boring. They both made me fall asleep. They aren't really bad...but those are the only two books that have ever taken me more than a week to read. (Pride and Predjudice=3 months / Sense and Sensibility= 6 months)

[PururinEleven]

One Flew Over the Coocoo's Nest (would that be considered classic?), and Catcher in the Rye are my top two faves. I also liked Persuassion (which is by the same person who wrote Pride and Prejudice, but her name escapes me at the moment).

[SweetNymph]

Would Peter Pan count as a classic? It's certainly a children's book for it's time--meaning there are only a few words I had to look up, and it's easy to follow.

Grapes of Wrath and To Kill a Mockingbird were good, too.

[Little Momo]

My favorite is "A Great and Terrible Beauty"

[Chexednut]

To Kill a Mockingbird most definately. I really liked that book. The other one I read was Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Now that was a 600 pages that I didn't care to digest.

[happy_sakura]

Catcher in the Rye, To Kill A Mockingbird and Animal farm.

[Chexednut]

Sign of the Beaver was good. I remember that I read that one in 6th grade. Our blasted teacher wouldn't let up on us.

[ArriahNicolas]

Pride and Prejudice as many people mentioned. I do love that Mr. Darcy <3 XD(Mr. Knightly a close second)

1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451, The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gasby*hears guns cocked*


A few more actually...my memory is very short

[FluffyKitsune]

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Lord of the Rings - J R R Tolkien
Much ado about nothing - William Shakespeare