read the classics

1. Bright Lights Big City
2. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
3. Anna Karenina
4. The Age of Innocence
5. Wonderland
6. The Other Boeyln Girl
7. Wuthering Heights
8. Lolita
9. Slaughterhouse-five
10.Interview With the Vampire
11. Swiss Family Robinson
12. Robinson Crusoe
13. The Call of the Wild
14. The Sun Also Rises
15. The Last of the Mohicans
16. Catch-22
17. A Room WIth a View
18. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
19. War and Peace
20. The Bell Jar

1. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
2. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
3. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
4. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
5. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
6. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
7. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
8. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
9. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
10.The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
11.Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
12.A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
13.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
14.Ulysses – James Joyce
15.The Trial – Franz Kafka
16.Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
17.The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
18.The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
19.Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
20.Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
21.For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
22.Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
23.Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
24.Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
25.The Once and Future King – T.H. White
26.Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
27.The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
28.One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
29.Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
30.The World According to Garp – John Irving
31.The Color Purple – Alice Walker
32.Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
33.Beloved – Toni Morrison
34.Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
35.The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
36.Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
37.The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
38.Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
39.Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40.The Hours – Michael Cunningham
41.The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
42.Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
43.The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
44.Life of Pi – Yann Martel
45.Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
46.Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
47.Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
48.The Plague – Albert Camus
49.The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
50.Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust

1. The Three Musketeers (1844) Alexandre Dumas
2. Ivanhoe (1820) Sir Walter Scott
3. The Count of Monte Cristo (1844) Alexandre Dumas
4. Last of the Mohicans (1826) James Fenimore Cooper
5. Moby Dick (1851) Herman Melville
6. A Tale of Two Cities (1859) Charles Dickens
7. Robin Hood (1883) Howard Pyle
8. Arabian Nights (1704) Antony Galland
9. Les Miserables (1862) Victor Hugo
10. Robinson Crusoe (1719) Daniel Defoe
11. Don Quixote (1605) Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
12. Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle (1819), The Headless Horseman (1819)
13. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1883) Robert Louis Stevenson
14. Westward Ho! (1855) Charles Kingsley
15. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) Harriet Beecher Stowe
16. Gulliver’s Travels (1726) Jonathan Swift
17. The Deerslayer (1841) James Fenimore Cooper
18. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) Victor Hugo
19. Huckleberry Finn (1884) Mark Twain
20. The Corsican Brothers (1845) Alexandre Dumas
21. 3 Famous Mysteries: The Sign of the Four (1890) Arthur Conan Doyle, The Flayed Hand (1880) Guy de Maupassant, Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) Edgar Allen Poe
22. The Pathfinder (1840) James Fenimore Cooper
23. Oliver Twist (1838) Charles Dickens
24. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) Mark Twain
25. Two Years Before the Mast (1840) Richard Henry Dana Jr.
26. Frankenstein (1818) Mary Shelley
27. Marco Polo (1921) Donn Byrne
28. Michael Strogoff (1876) Jules Verne
29. The Prince and the Pauper (1882) Mark Twain
30. The Moonstone (1868) William Wilkie Collins
31. The Black Arrow (1888) Robert Louis Stevenson
32. Lorna Doone (1869) Richard Doddridge Blackmore
33. Sherlock Holmes Stories: A Study in Scarlet (1887) Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) Arthur Conan Doyle
34. Mysterious Island (1874) Jules Verne
35. Last Days of Pompeii (1834) Edward Bulwer-Lytton
36. Typee (1846) Herman Melville
37. The Pioneers (1822) James Fenimore Cooper
38. The Adventures of Cellini (1562) Benvenuto Cellini
39. Jane Eyre (1847) Charlotte Bronte
40. Edgar Allen Poe Mysteries: Pit and the Pendulum (1845), Adventures of Hans Pfall (1845), The Fall of the House of Usher (1838)
41. Twenty Years After (1845) Alexandre Dumas
42. Swiss Family Robinson (1813) Johann Wyss
43. Great Expectations (1861) Charles Dickens
44. Mysteries of Paris (1842) Eugene Sue
45. Tom Brown’s School Days (1856) Thomas Hughes
46. Kidnapped (1886) Robert Louis Stevenson
47. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870) Jules Verne
48. David Copperfield (1850) Charles Dickens
49. Alice in Wonderland (1865) Lewis Carroll (C.L. Dodgson)
50. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) Mark Twain
51. The Spy (1821) James Fenimore Cooper
52. The House of the Seven Gables (1851) Nathaniel Hawthorne
53. A Christmas Carol (1843) Charles Dickens
54. The Man in the Iron Mask (1850) Alexandre Dumas
55. Silas Marner (1861) George Eliot (Marian Evans)
56. Toilers of the Sea (1866) Victor Hugo
57. The Song of Hiawatha (1855) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
58. The Prairie (1827) James Fenimore Cooper
59. Wuthering Heights (1847) Emily Bronte
60. Black Beauty (1860) Anna Sewell
61. The Woman in White (1860) William Wilkie Collins
62. Western Stories: The Luck of Roaring Camp (1870) Bret Harte, The Outcasts of Poker Flats (1870) Bret Harte
63. Man Without a Country (1863) Edward Everett Hale
64. Treasure Island (1883) Robert Louis Stevenson
65. Benjamin Franklin (1817) Benjamin Franklin
66. The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) Charles Reade
67. The Scottish Chiefs (1809) Jane Porter
68. Julius Caesar (1607) William Shakespeare
69. Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) Jules Verne
70. The Pilot (1823) James Fenimore Cooper
71. The Man Who Laughs (1869) Victor Hugo
72. The Oregon Trail (1849) Francis Parkman
73. The Black Tulip (1850) Alexandre Dumas
74. Mr. Midshipman Easy (1836) Captain Frederick Marryat
75. The Lady of the Lake (1810) Sir Walter Scott
76. The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) Anthony Hope (Hawkins)
77. The Iliad (962 B.C.) Homer
78. Joan of Arc (1801) Frederick Schiller
79. Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) Edmond Rostand
80. White Fang (1906) Jack London
81. The Odyssey (927 B.C.) Homer
82. The Master of Ballantrae (1889) Robert Louis Stevenson
83. The Jungle Book (1894) Rudyard Kipling
84. Edgar Allen Poe: The Gold Bug (1843), The Tell-Tale Heart (1845), A Cask of Amontillado (1845)
85. The Sea Wolf (1904) Jack London
86. Under Two Flags (1868) Ouida (Louisa de la Rame)
87. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (185%) William Shakespeare
88. Men of Iron (1891) Howard Pyle
89. Crime and Punishment (1866) Feodor Dostoevsky
90. Green Mansions (1904) William Henry Hudson
91. The Call of the Wild (1903) Jack London
92. Henry W. Longfellow: Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), Evangeline (1847)
93. Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894) Mark Twain
94. David Balfour (1893) Robert Louis Stevenson
95. All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) Erich Maria Remarque
96. Daniel Boone (1939) John Bakeless
97. King Solomon’s Mines (1885) H. Rider Heggard
98. The Red Badge of Courage (1895) Stephen Crane

99. Hamlet (1603) William Shakespeare

but i am making my way slowly through the classics.
it was my new years’ resolution this year.. and a good friend of mine decided to join me so we’re keeping each other focused on this goal.
i’ve read The Picture of Dorian Gray
Treasure Island
we’ve just recently finished Wuthering Heights.. which i loved!!
up next is Don Quixote..

I LIKE READING ABOUT WOMEN IN THE OLD WEST THEY LIFE,S HOW THAY MADE IT

I started reading “Pride and Prejudice” and am surprised by how much i’m enjoying it! I’m determined to read more of Jane Austen’s works and explore other “classic” literature.

http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2007/10/12/48-classic-books-to-boost-your-learning-experience/

This website has several classics listed with download sites. Once again, this will make my goal easier. I am pleased.

“The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings”
“The Great Gatsby”
“Jane Eyre”
“The Sun Also Rises”
“In Our Time”
“Turn of the Screw”
“Absalom, Absalom!”

I’m starting with A Tale of Two Cities. And I’m hoping that the whole book is as interesting as that first famous sentence…It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….

I always wanted to read the classics, but i never really knew how were they, but now i know. For example, i red Ivanhoe, just because, and now i discover that is a classic.
Well, i´m going to look all the list, look them in spanish and start with the one that looks better :)