okay here are some classics ive read and what i thought of them. please suggest more based on what i liked <3 thanks
LOVED: frankenstein, jane eyre, sense and sensibility
liked: wuthering heights, pride and prejudice, dracula, picture of dorian gray
meh: persuasion, emma
i am currently reading dr jekyll and mr hyde and carmilla will probably be next after that
pls lmk if there are any other classic-ish books that i might like!!!!
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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
also perhaps “classic” isnt the right word i think i am looking for stuff written in the 18th-19th centuries or anything with that vibe really
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
I recommend the compilation of fairy tales by Oscar Wilde. As for other authors Demian by Herman Hesse, Letter to the Father by Franz Kafka, Tales of Love, Madness and death by Horacio Quiroga, and definitely Jules Verne books, and Alice in wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Edith Wharton sounds like an author you might like – “Ethan Frome” is more of a novella but I loved it – will tug at those heartstrings, and ‘Age of Innocence” is def a classic
Can’t go wrong with the Count of Monte Cristo!
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Rudyard Kipling’s Kim
If your Elizabethan English is up for it Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities
The Tale of Genji for what is considered the first novel, from Japan
Dante’s inferno and the others in the trilogy
Poe’s stories might be up your alley, as well as The Moonstone or The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, and Great Expectations or Our Mutual Friend by Dickens.
Gotta add in Johnathan Swift, for both Gullivers Travels (all 4 travels, most don’t even know about the other 3 lands/ races he visited or what they represented in English society) and his essay A Modest Proposal (that’s classic satire that was the peak of 18th Century Liturature.
Alexander Locke’s The Rape of the Lock.
Rappaccini’s Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a great short fantasy-horror-romance novel that’s often overlooked
Edit: I forgot to add a couple modern authors that have done a series of mashups of classic horror novels.
James Lovegrove’s The Cthulhu Casebooks: Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows. A new series of classic Holmes and Watson adventures, but they revolve around the occult, zombies, and the paranormal. They are the so called unpublished cases that Watson did not want released since they are not solved by Holmes deduction or logic.
And with OP’s current love of some of the classic horror and fantasy the author Theordoa Gross has a fantastic series called The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club Series,
It follows all the daughters of the most famous horror villians, Mary Jeckly (Dr Jekyll’s daughter), Diana the daughter of the monster Hyde, along with Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherin Moreau, and Justine Frankenstein. Fun fantasy Victorian/Edwardian suspense mystery
Brideshead Revisited