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The classics
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items even though I wasn't a fan of classics in the beginning, these are some that I liked and because of which I started reading them
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the classics I love the most
Must read
these are books that I think everyone should read at least once in their life
If you like true stories that explore the limits of human endurance, this is a book that can touch you deeply. Charrier, a former French prisoner, shares his extraordinary adventure of fighting for freedom, living in brutal conditions and facing inju...
Papillon
Both works explore themes of power, manipulation, the dangers of authoritarian regimes, and how power can deform society and individuals
Animal Farm And 1984
The plot of the book is set during the Great Depression, in a small American town in the South, where racial tensions were very present. Through
the story of the trial of an African American, book
explores deep social problems, but also the human abi...
To Kill a Mockingbird
If you like books that deeply explore the human psyche, ethical dilemmas and inner conflicts, Crime and Punishment is a must read. The novel offers you something more than a simple crime story - it is a philosophical journey through the mind of one m...
Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)
The novel, which Dickens described as his favorite work, depicts the social and economic context of the time in which it was written. David Copperfield is also a semi-autobiographical novel in which, in the words of Dickens himself, "complex threads ...
David Copperfield
The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoyevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book...
The Gambler
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby, she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo
Sense and Sensibility
What is so impressive about Beware of Pity is Zweig's ability to make us feel the violently shifting emotions of all his characters as if they were our own. Only a writer of great sensitivity could do this. His theme, or moral, which he does not obtr...
Beware of Pity
the classics I love the most
these are classics that I really liked and that I gladly recommend to everyone
This book explores the themes of love, social norms, and prejudice through the characters of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Through their relationship, Austen shows how pride and prejudice can shape opinions and decisions, and how these attitudes ca...
Pride and Prejudice
The novel has in many cases been interpreted as a work dealing with repressed emotions and deep inner anguish, making it one of the most exciting and complex stories in English literature
Wuthering Heights
Tolstoy explores not only human relationships, but also larger questions about life, death, faith, morality, and purpose. The novel provides a lot of space for deep thinking and reflection.
If you like works that combine emotional stories with deep p...
Ana Karenina (English Edition)
A phenomenal novel!
Take your time and patience for this
Lost Illusions
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a “revenge tragedy,” in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father’s murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark. Much of its fascination,...
Hamlet
Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe, in 1599. For it, he turned to a key event in Roman history: Caesar’s death at the hands of friends and fellow politicians. Renaissance writers disagree...
Julius Caesar
Dostoyevsky paints like Rembrandt, and his portraits are artistically so powerful and often so perfect that even if they lacked the depths of thought that lie behind them and around them, I believe that Dostoyevsky would still be the greatest of all ...
The Brothers Karamazov
One of the most excoriating, compelling, and remarkable books ever written: and without question one of the greatest
The Idiot
“White Nights” tells of love and loss on the streets of St. Petersburg, “A Nasty Business” presents the hilarious tale of a general dropping in on the wedding of a subordinate, while “The Meek One” is an existentialist tale of marriage and tragedy
White Nights
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s. Austen observes with insight and humour the interaction between ...
Northanger Abbey