Classic Novels can be intimidating when you don't know where to start. These books are a great introduction to the classics. All are beautiful, poetic, layered and nuanced. And often still as relevant today as when they were written...if not more so!...
Sections
5
The Easiest Classics
Forever Favourite Classics
Easy Classic Poetry
More Difficult Classics ( but worth it)
Children's Classics
The Easiest Classics
Easiest Classics to start with
A beautiful gothic novel that predates and inspired Dracula
Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
A great introduction to the Russian Classics. Very short, not as complex as some or as long and intimidating. It's about yearning, isolation, loneliness and unrequited love !
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The poet Rilke's advice on writing and creativity as well as mediations onlife, loneliness and isolation.
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Forever Favourite Classics
Slightly more difficult to read but beautiful, poetic, layered with meaning
An absolutely beautiful book looking at love from the perspective of a woman, different social standings and an insight in to the English class structure.
A bit challenging at the start. Take notes on the characters, give yourself time to read the n...
Pride and Prejudice: Amazon.co.uk: Austen, Jane: 9781503290563: Books
A gothic masterpiece
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
A dark novel about love, betrayal and generational trauma...not for the faint of heart!
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Beautiful, melancholy and poetic...a slow burn that will have you contemplating life, science and responsibilitity...but also grief, loneliness and isolation
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The obsession with youth and beauty and the terror of this obsession!!
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Easy Classic Poetry
Easy classic poetry
Poetry from ancient Greece!
Come Close (Penguin Little Black Classics)
poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America's greatest writers.
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun (764)
More Difficult Classics ( but worth it)
Classics that are definitely more difficult to read, but definitely worth the effort
A tragic love affair but also betrayal, faith, family, marriage, Imperial Russian society, desire, and the differences between rural and urban life...a complete escape into literature!
Anna Karenina: Leo Tolstoy
A meditation on life, death and dying
tolstoy_death_ilyich.pdf
Beautiful, poetic, tragic
Hamlet - Entire Play
A must read!
Romeo and Juliet - Entire Play
Children's Classics
Classic Children's Classics
A must read for any child and adult. It's beautiful, bizarre and incredibly poetic! Pure eacapism
