I’d definitely recommend The Count of Monte Cristo. It does take time to get going, but it’s a great book nonetheless.
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If you’ve finished Dracula, it sounds like you’ve already started!!
I’d recommend continuing with the kinds of stories you like. Are you interested in social commentary? sci-fi or fantasy stories? romance? Find something that’s in your wheelhouse.
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Should look at Kendall’s classic book list . Most of the classics are a dollar a piece . Or used to be.
Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys’ novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886. The novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel.[1] A sequel, Catriona, was published in 1893.
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And of course all of Thomas Hardy’s books.
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The Odyssey by Homer. Many classical works reference the earliest writings from Greece and Rome – not to mention China, Japan, and India, or the Nordic myths when you get a little deeper in. You won’t fully grasp Shakespeare, or Pynchon for that matter, if you haven’t got a good foundation of the pre-Christian literary works. Most of the classics from the “modern” era – say, post Renaissance – were written by people who were taught Greek and Roman mythology, and the themes of those earlier works are inherent in much of European literature.
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I’d definitely recommend The Count of Monte Cristo. It does take time to get going, but it’s a great book nonetheless.
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If you’ve finished Dracula, it sounds like you’ve already started!!
I’d recommend continuing with the kinds of stories you like. Are you interested in social commentary? sci-fi or fantasy stories? romance? Find something that’s in your wheelhouse.
Should look at Kendall’s classic book list . Most of the classics are a dollar a piece . Or used to be.
Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys’ novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886. The novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel.[1] A sequel, Catriona, was published in 1893.
And of course all of Thomas Hardy’s books.
The Odyssey by Homer. Many classical works reference the earliest writings from Greece and Rome – not to mention China, Japan, and India, or the Nordic myths when you get a little deeper in. You won’t fully grasp Shakespeare, or Pynchon for that matter, if you haven’t got a good foundation of the pre-Christian literary works. Most of the classics from the “modern” era – say, post Renaissance – were written by people who were taught Greek and Roman mythology, and the themes of those earlier works are inherent in much of European literature.