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Classic Lit for Beginners as an English Lit Major

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These are my recommendations for anyone trying to get into classic literature. It can be daunting to start reading classics as the they tend to be harder or ineligible due to the the archaic or outdated language. so i’ve compiled a list of books that...
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Something Romantic

 
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This book is what made me love classic lit. It is written beautifully. The stylistic writing choice made by wilde transports its readers to a soft spring afternoon where the beautiful and the affluent are obsessed with eternal youth. The protagonist ...
The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
 
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This book was one of my all time favorites in high school. It is a book i recommend to everyone and believe everyone should read. The ending of this book is what makes this book so good. This book explores topics of existentialism, and the absurdity ...
The Stranger - Albert Camus, Matthew Ward: Books
 
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life and death are two of the main themes of the book. We start and end the book with death and in between we find life maybe it was purposefully written like that by camus to show how death is nothing more than a cause of life. Anyways i hope that m...
A Happy Death - Camus, Albert: Books
 
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This book is soo good. If you want something short but so god damn beautiful this book is for you. Not going to spoil to much but it explores how important art is to an individual despite how often it is considered “useless” or “unimportant”. I’m go...
Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum
 
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If you love romance and heartbreak than this book is for you. I love this book so much and if i could pay money to read it for the first time i would. This is one of the very few romance novels i’ve read and let me tell it set the bar so high, i don’...
Atonement: A Novel: McEwan, Ian: 9780385721790
 
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I have only seen the first movie and in my humble opinion the movie does not do this book justice. This book is soo good it is a sci-fi novel and that might turn a lot of people off but stick with it especially if you like star wars, you are going to...
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