Classics

A classic stands the test of time. The work is usually considered to be a representation of the period in which it was written; and the work merits lasting recognition. In other words, if the book was published in the recent past, the work is not a classic.

A classic has a certain universal appeal. Great works of literature touch us to our very core beings--partly because they integrate themes that are understood by readers from a wide range of backgrounds and levels of experience. Themes of love, hate, death, life, and faith touch upon some of our most basic emotional responses.

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The Handmaid's Tale
Animal Farm
The Alchemist
1984
Fahrenheit 451
And Then There Were None
The Little Prince
The Great Gatsby
Pride and Prejudice
Of Mice and Men
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
The Old Man and the Sea
Frankenstein
The Metamorphosis
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
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  • Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  • Pride and Prejudice
    To Kill a Mockingbird (To Kill a Mockingbird, #1)
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    Jane Eyre
    1984
    Wuthering Heights
    The Catcher in the Rye
    Animal Farm
    Romeo and Juliet
    Lord of the Flies
    Frankenstein
    Little Women
    Of Mice and Men
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Sense and Sensibility
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    Homer
    “ …There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad. ”
    ― Homer, The Iliad

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “ The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty. ”
    ― Cervantes Saavedra

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