Most Read This Week In 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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Most Read This Week Tagged "Classics"

Animal Farm
The Alchemist
1984
Pride and Prejudice
The Great Gatsby
And Then There Were None
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Metamorphosis
Fahrenheit 451
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Old Man and the Sea
The Catcher in the Rye
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Brave New World
Dune (Dune, #1)
Romeo and Juliet
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1)
The Bell Jar
Wuthering Heights
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
Jane Eyre
The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
Hamlet
The Secret Garden
Tuesdays with Morrie
The Outsiders
The Diary of a Young Girl
Flowers for Algernon
The Remains of the Day
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
Rebecca
Kindred
The Color Purple
Heart of Darkness
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Matilda
Crime and Punishment
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
The Giving Tree
The Shining
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
Mrs. Dalloway
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Time Machine
Chess Story
Notes from Underground
Passing
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
A Clockwork Orange
Treasure Island
A Farewell to Arms
Holes (Holes, #1)
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
The Bluest Eye
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Tale of Two Cities
The Prophet
The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
Charlotte's Web
Peter Pan
The Pearl
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)
Waiting for Godot
All Quiet on the Western Front
Othello
Candide
The Prince
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle, #4)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
White Nights
Love in the Time of Cholera
Around the World in Eighty Days
Madame Bovary
The Crucible
Great Expectations
The Trial
Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)
In Cold Blood
The Turn of the Screw
The Tempest
The Count of Monte Cristo
I Am Legend
The Grapes of Wrath
The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6)
Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #25)
Franny and Zooey
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
The Wind in the Willows

Charlotte Brontë
“ No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise. ”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

Emily Brontë
“ If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave. ”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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