Classics never die...

[dalitheoddity]

Well Howdy all devout readers.

Dont y'all agree that there's nothing better doing then curling up in your comfies with a book?
My favourite types of books are those really funky yellowed books that smell like age itself, that you would generally find in some cute little opportunity shop. Things like, "Pride and Prejudice", "Gone with the Wind" and the like.
Drop me a line if you like stuff like this too (so i can be assured that im not the only "olde worlde" book worm.)
- a fellow book reader

 

[selune]

I have several turn of the century poetry books. I love the color and musty old book smell. Just holding them, you can imagine who might have owned them before...

 

[FranklinNoble]

I like old Hemingway novels.

And just about anything by/about Winston Churchill.

And, of course, old Bibles, commentaries, etc. I'd love to find some old Spurgeon material.

 

[FromTheAshes]

I'm reading the King of Elfland's Daughter. It's a bit more recent then some classics, being published mid-19th century and all, but the author is perhaps the founder of the modern fantasy genre, and is of some historical interest, besides just being a darn good book.

 

[Mary of Bethany]

Anything by Jane Austen is wonderful.

Little Women is a great classic, too.

Charles Dickens' works.

Dostoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov". I'm just re-reading "Crime and Punishment".

 

[Amy]

Ahhh, a gathering of classic lovers!

Count me in. Jane Eyre is one of my favorites.

 

[paging_jonah]

I love reading classics. I've been reading a lot of those B&N Classics editions. Right now I'm working on Candide by Voltaire.

 

[indigo tree]

I have an old copy of The Hobbit from the seventies.(Its not that old, I guess, but its the oldest I have) It has a wonderful musty/nostalgic smell to it and the pages are yellowed. Its wonderful. I love it.

 

[Lady Knight]

i love classics!!!!! and books!! the oldest book i have is 108 years old
its The Last of The Mochkins (i know thats not how you spell it but you get the idea, sorr that i cant spell )

 

[Sors]

Not much a fan of victorian era novels, and although I like most early to mid 20th century classics, I am somewhat burned out on them from lit classes.

As far as classics go, I have to say my favorite is a more modern classic The Catcher in the Rye. I also enjoy most of the humor in Mark Twain.

Greatest classic comedy - Catch 22

 

[but'n'ben]

There's something warm about reading Sherlock Holmes. I like nothing better on a cold rainy day than reading the Hound of the Baskervilles. Or Wuthering heights because it's set on a cold, rainy moor.

I'm reading a book called "Old and New Edinburgh" just now which is 122 years old. I'm a historian so it not only interests me but I can feel and smell the history from it...or maybe it's just dust!! It's a fascinating read though. A lot of you may have heard of Burke and Hare the Edinburgh 'graverobbers'. The book has the transcript from their trial. It's an amazingly interesting read.

I'm also really into Edgar Allen Poe's work. I also like Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde is just fantastic! Importance of Being Earnest was really amusing.

 

[MeekSheep]

Read a lot of those books in my teen years; I bet classics are must-read stuffs as they reflect moral history of humanity. Hmmm, let me recall....

Anna Karenina, Wuthering Heights, Doctor Zivago, Lady Chaterley's Lover, The Greek Mythology, Homer's Iliad and Odessey, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex,....Les Miserables (have seen Cameron Makintosh broadway musical hit, too), Gone With the Wind (also seen the Oscar-award winning movie),.....etc.

All are great literary achievements of humankind....

 

[MeekSheep]

I must not discount the greatest literary classic, the Bible, which I must read and review over and over again. The old Testament contains stories that reflect the saga of God-chosen people-- from Abraham to Moses, Joseph, Joshua, David, King Solomon, Daniel, Job, ....(oh I need to refer to my Bible...) Great stories we must first tell our children and I'm sure they won't forget as they grow...

 

[Gwendolen]

I love Mark Twain, L.M. Montgomery, and Louisa May Alcott. Dickens and Austen are good too, but I haven't read much of them.

 

[SnowDove]

Hmmm...here's my kind of book! I love Jane Austen (call myself a faithful Austenite) and the stories from Dickens and Wilde are treasures as well! Little Women is my all time favorite book...I giggled my way through!

 

[SeRapH&CheRi]

As far as classics go, I have to say my favorite is a more modern classic The Catcher in the Rye.

This has got to be one of most funniest books I've ever read! Such wit! One of my favorite modern classics.

Austen fan here! My all time favorite is of course - Pride and Prejudice.

 

[dalitheoddity]

Austen fan here! My all time favorite is of course - Pride and Prejudice. [/QUOTE]

Fellow Austen fan! I Looooooooooovvvvvvve Pride and Prejudice too! I love Mr Darcy, and Elizibeth. They are so illustrious and complex. And the book would'nt be complete without the comedic relief of the daft Mr Collins and his Lady Cathrine Deburgh (wrong spelling i think). Mrs Bennet is also a lovely character with her intent of finding husbands for her daughters and Mr Bennet for hummoring her the whole way through.

- God's little oddity dali...

 

[Sors]

I love Mark Twain, L.M. Montgomery, and Louisa May Alcott. Dickens and Austen are good too, but I haven't read much of them.

I can't stand most Victorian novels (Dickens and Austen) but boy do I love Mark Twain.

 

[fieldmouse3]

I love classics, too....I rarely read anything new!

 

[stonetoflesh]

I'm reading the King of Elfland's Daughter. It's a bit more recent then some classics, being published mid-19th century and all, but the author is perhaps the founder of the modern fantasy genre, and is of some historical interest, besides just being a darn good book.

Lord Dunsany is great, and his influence upon fantasy is unarguable. I've read a ton of his short stories and a few of his novels-- incidentally, The King of Elfland's Daughter was my introduction to his work. (Loved it!) Date of publication is 1924 though... Sorry, I don't mean to nitpick!

[From what I understand, The Wood Beyond the World-- written by William Morris and published in 1894 -- is widely considered to be the first fantasy novel...]

Some other early fantasy classics I love:
E.R. Eddison-- The Worm Ouroboros
Edgar Rice Burroughs-- A Princess of Mars
William Morris-- The Well at the World's End
James Branch Cabell-- Figures of Earth