Im going with a friend to the library tomorrow and wanted to pick up some classic literature books!. Can you give me some ideas of good books to look out for!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: A Wrinkle in TIme 1984-Orwell (depressing but good) To Kill a Mockingbird The Count of Monte Cristo The Giver Uncle Toms Cabin The Chronicles of Narnia The Stand-Stephen King Of Mice and Men Www@QuestionHome@Com After reading your older questions you already read 1984 and Animal Farm, Davinci Code and Books from Dickens!. Those are really good books!. Anyway have you tried Illuminati by Dawn Brown!? If you like Davincicode, you may also like Black Order by James Rollins!. All Books by Jule Vernes!. Other books labeld as classics are, Gulliver's Travels , Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, Life on the Mississippi, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde!. The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle!. The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green!. Tales of Mystery and Terror by Edgar Elllen Poe!. A great adventure story in my opnion is Papillon by Henri Charriere!. In short, it is about a french criminal who is found guilty for murder, but he didn`t murder, but spent his youth in a french prision in french-guyana!. After several unssuccesful outbreaks, he did one successfull!. Altough i don`t think the libary will have the following books or you want to read them, i listend them Funny Stories of Lying Munchhausen http://bulfinch!.englishatheist!.org/baron!.!.!. Simpliccissimus http://web!.wm!.edu/history/rbsche/grimmel!.!.!. If you donn`t mind children books, go for the tales of the Brothers Grimm! The Robber Hotzenplotz by Otfried Preu?ler Max and Moritz by Wilhelm Busch Struwwelpeter in English Translation by Heinrich Hoffmann (well some stories could be a bit shocking) Non-Children Book The Marquise of O and Other Stories by Heinrich von Kleist!. Das Boot by Lothar Günter BucheimWww@QuestionHome@Com Anything by J!.D Salinger, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, George Orwell, Louise May Alcott, Mark Twain, Harper Lee, or Charles Dickens is always goodWww@QuestionHome@Com Try "Watership Down" by Richard Adams or "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Anything from Steinbeck, Vonnegut, Hardy, Huxley, and Hemingway!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Will Cather LM Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables) Jane Austin (Pride & Prejudice)Www@QuestionHome@Com One of my favorites was Catcher in the Rye by J!.D!. Salinger I also liked A Seperate Peace by John Knowles Www@QuestionHome@Com |