I’m new to reading classic books. It oddly started with “Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare. I HAD to do it for my literature class in school but i honestly fell in love with the book and I’ve been trying to read more classic books lately.
I’ve got a few recommendations from my literature major friends at university.
Like, Wuthering Heights, The Count of Monte Cristo, Frankenstein, White Nights.
Any more must reads? And are these books really worth it?
Thankies so much in advance! 🫶🏻
by Weak_Pineapple_3354
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Dante – read the whole Divine Comedy. Very worth it
If you liked Twelfth Night, you might also like Shakespeare’s As You Like It or Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.
Or you might like the romance and banter in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Wuthering Heights is dark, but I liked it. I liked Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier even more.
If you like the idea of an elaborate revenge plot, The Count of Monte Cristo is long but good.
Frankenstein took me a bit to get into. It finally clicked when I realized that Frankenstein and his monster are both adolescent males. If you’re in college, think loner freshman males, and all the bad decisions will not seem so outlandish.
I’d add a few others I think are essential for our day and age:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury