What are the most interesting world classical novels? ?

Question: What are the most interesting world classical novels!? !?

Classical novels to be taught in the World Literature Class!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Foe
Things Falling Apart
Beloved
Soul Mountain
A House for Mr!. Biswas
etc!.
These are Nobel Prize winning books!.
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Sorry Magical, Shakespeare is not a classical novel! Shapespeare was responsible for writing plays, sonnets, poetry, and the occasional article in the newspaper!. His work is indeed classical, but there are no novels for him!.

Perhaps you should read some Jane Eyre, or Charles Dickens has many that are classic, A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Tale of Two Cities, etc!., What about reading some Victor Hugo, or Edgar Allen Poe, or Hawthorne, or maybe some Homer, or Virgil!. There are so many!. I think that if you search on line, you will be able to find a reading list for (Advanced Placement) students, these kids are really challenged, and so there will be a treasure trove of books listed!. My own personal favorite is Don Quixote, by Cerventes!. It is a wonderful story!.

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the books we took up in World Literature in freshman year (college):

-> Bhagavad-gita (Indian religious epic!. informational but a little boring!. i'd suggest something else of the same subject matter, the Ramayana is better in my opinion)
-> 100 years of solitude (gabriel garcia marquez books are always good)
-> The Iliad (homer, of course)
-> Cassandra (christa wolfe, one of my favorite novels, retelling of the iliad from cassandra's point of view)
-> Disgrace (J M Coetzee, set in post-apartheid Africa, heavy but well-made)
-> Antigone (Sophocles, or you could go with any of his Oedepus the King plays)
-> The Harafish (Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel-prize winner, wonderful story)
-> Les Miserables (victor hugo)
-> Don Juan Tenorio: Drama religioso-fantástico en dos partes (Don Juan Tenorio: Religious-Fantasy Drama in Two Parts, by Jose Zorrilla)
-> The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha (if you don't want Don Juan because it's a play, better known as "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, this one is more fun to discuss, i think)

those are all i remember at the moment!. you could add Beowulf (Norse mythology is quite interesting), or a Shakespearean play (King Lear, perhaps), and maybe a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, O!. Henry, or Guy de Maupassant just to round it off!.

oh, and "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess is also very good!. interesting to discuss in class, set in a dystopic future!. and you can end it with a showing of the film adaptation!.

oh, and "noli mi tangere"(touch me not) or "el filibusterismo"(the filibusterer, sequel to noli) by Jose Rizal, the Philippine national hero!. set in colonial Philippines, really controversial at the time!. originally in spanish,i think english translations are easy to come by!.

ok,ok, i'm stopping, lol!. hope you check those books out!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Lol!. Alright Jan, your right!.
Jules Vern, Charles Dickens, Geoffrey Chaucer, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, The Bronte Sisters and H!.G!. Wells probably fit the category better!.
I thought The Phantom of the Opera, Swiss Family Robinson, 2000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jane Eyre and anything by Jane Austen were all great books!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

If your talking about the high school level then 1001 Arabian Nights is good since it is a bunch of short stories!. Abridged version of Les Miserable wouldn't be too bad!. Or Cyrano De Bergerac (ok that's a play not a novel so sue me)!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Pride and Prejudice
Rebecca
Oliver Twist
Pickwick Papers
Anne of Green Gables
The Railway Children
Jane Eyre
1984
Around the World in 80 Days
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