Beginner's guide to British classics (by 2 Literature students)
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2015
- In which we recommend British lit classics and discuss classic shaming (plus reading British classics when English is your second language)
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brönte
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Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
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I just finished Jane Eyre and I have to say, I completely agree with what you guys said. I was so worried when I picked it up because it was like 500 pages of classic literature, but it flowed so well, was easy to read, and was incredibly compelling - so much that I read it in one week, while going to school every day, doing homework, working out, etc - I'm a busy person, so it's very rare that I read a 500 page book in one week. Just goes to show that I couldn't put it down. I even secretly read it in some of my classes, lol. Would absolutely recommend to anyone, especially teenage girls. I'm 18 and I've never related more to a character, even though our lives are so different. Agh. I'm in love.
My advice for getting into Shakespeare in particular, is to read the sonnets first. It gives you a feel for the language, and they are so beautiful, but also short!
I read Gone with the Wind when I was about thirteen, and let me tell you, the sense of accomplishment from finishing that book is extraordinary. Great story too
With regards to book shaming, just remember that all classics started off as popular fiction first, so don't let anyone make you feel bad for preferring "low brow" stuff to the canon.
Also, totally agree with what you guys said about adaptations. I recently wrote an essay for uni about how the BBC mini series of Pride and Prejudice can be seen as a way of accessing Austen's world. It really helps if you're struggling with the texts.
Loved the video x
Lit major here - No matter how hard I try I still can't catch the Jane Austen train. I've gone halfway through Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility. One of these days...
I prefer Elizabeth Gaskell's writing. Her syntax is so charming. North and South was a joy to read (the BBC drama is also excellent), and I'm almost done with Wives and Daughters.
Jane Eyre is my all-time favorite book. Absolutely obsessed. I also have most of the movie/tv adaptations.
Omg wide sargasso sea! Amazing
I'm reading it at the moment and I am hooked!
just finished Jane Eyre and I literally can't even explain in words how much I loved it. It's the best book I've ever read. my god I want to reread the entire thing and I've only finished it about 2 hours ago (now watching BBC's 2006 adaptation)
Maddie M was that the version with Toby Stevens and Ruth Wilson? I adore that version
I really needed some good recommendations. Firstly thank you of that. Secondly about Jane Eyre: I learned english as my 2nd language and we have read Jane Eyre in school after 6 years of learning. It was a really short version like 70 pages or so. And I have to admit I loved it. My english was terrible at that time but I was fine with the story and it was way easier than I expected it to be. However three years later I wanted to read the full version to see if I get on with it. And I did. My english got a thousand times better and I had no problems to read Jane Eyre in a week.
I would recommend it to everyone who is starting with classics. Jane Eyre is easy to read and good to enjoy AND something you sound really intelligent with when you say that you've read it.
The structure of Frankenstein is actually called the Chinese Box Structure, I studied it for my course :)
Another good Jane Austen book I recommend is "Northanger Abbey" because it is light-hearted, quirky, and it explores a young girl stepping out in society and trying to figure things out and falling in love. It's quite relatable because the main character is a teen, who is struggling with awkwardness and messes up while trying to do the right thing and deals with peer pressure. It's really sweet and fun and easy to read.
I think 1984 is a great one to start with.
Yesss!!!
You're absolutely right
Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express is such an amazing book. Shes a lot easier to read than I originally thought she would be and I really enjoyed that
Probably my favourite video in the history of booktube. I love you two together!
I was so glad to see The Picture of Dorian Grey as your first classic of choice. It is absolutely my favourite classic, and, to me, it embodies everything a book should be: dark, funny and stimulating.
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I love all the videos you do with Rosianna! Loved the Shakespeare one you did last year as well.
This was great, hope there'll be another installment. Great reminder about old favorites and insights to a few books I haven't read yet. Saw you on Essie Buttons' channel recently (happily) and immediately made a beeline to yours.
This is the first video of yours I've watched and it took me 20 seconds to hit the subscribe button. You are both so engaging, I can't imagine anyone not being excited to at least start to read a book after watching this- classic or otherwise
I remember trying to read Wuthering Heights when I was about 15, and i just couldn't get past the language and I just started reading it again after 4 years and I'm so glad that I can finally get through it! It was so comforting hearing Sanne say that it is a struggle because I remember when I was 15 I felt like I was pathetic for not being able to understand the language in Wuthering Heights so knowing that it it isn't just me who thinks it is difficult to grasp at times made me feel a lot better.
I love these types of videos. I already have some of these on my to read list but you girls just gave me more to check out. :)
I find anything by F. Scott Fitzgerald amazing, love his writing style and how he sets a scene - you can really submerge yourself in his novels!
This video actually encouraged me to walk into the world of classics. My friend is a lit student and she reads a lot of classics as well & tried to suggest some but I think this helped more.
I'm so glad you mentioned Sense and Sensibility! I've always been a bit daunted by classics and I've found them quite difficult to understand in the past but we read Sense and Sensibility for our A2 Coursework this year and it completely changed my perspective on classics in general! While it's highly possible that the reason I found it much easier to read is that I've now studied literature to alevel standard so have been guided through it much more I just related to it so much and absolutely loved it!
So glad you decided to discuss this topic! I'm a recent subscriber and I love your topics in general but this is highly relevant to what's happening in the "book world". People being elitist and stories belonging to a few people. I've done my share of being a snob in the past but now I keep telling people that books are for absolutely everyone and you can enjoy the classics and YA and everything in between. There is no hobby more accesible than reading! (well, except for the time thing but every passion requires time). Nice list of favorites! I've read them all and can wholeheartedly say that they helped me appreciate the classics. Recommendation: Persuasion, my absolute favorite Austen (and her best heroine in my opinion).
Thank you for sharing your suggestions! Pretty much all of these are on my TBR :)
Great video! I love both classics and YA, thank you for reminding us to just read what we love! :)
This video is so great! Needs to be more content like this on UA-cam.
I was so skeptical about Frankenstein when I approached in at A Level and found it extremely difficult, but a year late I re read it for enjoyment and absolutely adored the story and the format.
My favourite classic is by far Wuthering Heights as it is just a masterpiece. I have read it three times now and every time it gets better.
Amazing indications! Thank you very much ❤️
Thanks for this video, Sanne and Rosianna! I've been trying to read more classics this year, and I found the ones I have read I really enjoyed, so it has made me more conscious of getting out of my comfort zone in terms of genre :)
Such a lovely Video! Thank you guys so much for your tips! I really want to start reading classics in english (living in Germany) ... and this video encouraged me so much! Cant wait for summerbreak
This video was truly awesome. I am seriously going to ramp up the number of classics I will be reading this second part of the year.
You and Rosianna make a very interesting couple to listen to. I'm glad you guys collab together!
Happy reading ;)
Yay, so many lovely choices. Frankenstein remains one of my favourite texts - read it so many times! And Austen was the writer that showed me that classics didn't mean hard and boring when I was young and intimidated by all those scary dead writer books!
Great suggestions! What a gorgeous edition of Jane Eyre, I have a copy that has been sat on my shelf for ages - I think I'll have to pick it up soon!
I remember first reading P&P and Jane Eyre when I was 16, hating the former and loving the latter. In the 10 years that have passed since then, I've re-read them a number of times and it's amazing how time changes my interpretation of each narrative. Must say though, Jane Eyre will always be special to me x
my new cousin-in-law just introduced me to your vids! love them, I would love to share a few of these on my blog!
I AM feeling so happy because I've read all of these. Yay!! Can you do a classiscs II?? Love your videos! Love from Brazil!
just listening to you and Rosianna talking about literature gets me so excited! as a fellow literature student I experience a lot of classic shaming at uni and it frustrates me so much that people feel the need to do that.
Jane Eyre is seriously one of my favourite books ever and I'm also a big fan of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, although I needed to read Brave New World a second time, because I didn't get the ending at all.
Frankenstein is probably my favourite book of all time and it was the first classic I ever read. I totally agree with you, I thought I knew all about it but really the novel is so different and so intriguing that I just got lost in it. I think, compared to the language used in a lot of other older classics, it's really easy to understand and get into and I always recommend it as the best place to start with classics.
I really enjoyed this video! I have some sort of rough arrangement and more motivation now to my "classics to read" list (that so far is left..untouched) It is so nice to see people talking about books with such openness and honesty. The watching the first bit of the film thing was a very good tip! Although I am really the most careful when it comes to spoilers :) I hope you can make a video on Russian literature next time! :)
pride and prejudice is one of my favourite ever books, my mum has always loved it and then I decided to read it and couldn't stop! I love your channel and this video was amazing x
More than anything, I seriously appreciated your book shaming anecdote at the beginning! Agree, agree, agree! And your recs are spot on. :)
I studied Wide Sargasso Sea for A Level and had totally forgotten how amazing it is. I am going to read Jane Eyre and WSS back to back to get full appreciation for them both, thanks for the reminder! xx
Thank you for doing this video! Just as you, my native language is not english, I am from Latin America, and I've been wanting to read a Classic in English for so long, but I feel intimidated by them 🙈. After watching this video, I think I might give it a try to Sense and Sensibility!
Cristina Solano yo tambien soy de latinoamerica!
Cristina Solano English is not my native language but I guarantee you that after reading the classics your level will improve greatly :D. I want to read Latin American classics in Spanish but I found the language too difficult!
Don't be intimidated! We have some amazing literature and you'll truly love it.
Great starter list!
Love this video! I've just finished Uni and after 3 years of rejecting novels I'm delving into them again! Would love to see a modern classics edition of this? 😊
The Picture of Dorian Grey is on my TBR, can't wait to read it.
Ahh, I love this! I'd absolutely love to see one on American classics as well! I have struggled through most of the classics I've read, including Dorian Gray, but I recently had that 'eye-opening experience' with To Kill a Mockingbird where I was like 'This is so much more fun than I'd expected it to be?' (If you do an American version, you have to include that one!) and I just got obsessed with it and it's really made me want to read more classics!
Also, that edition of Jane Eyre is absolutely gorgeous!
These are all really great recommendations! I know it gets more difficult the older the text, but I've also noticed that a lot of readers never venture beyond the 1800s. For the more seasoned classics readers who have enjoyed the classic 19th-century novel I would definitely recommend giving some of the earlier novels a try - Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Pamela, The Mysteries of Udolpho, etc. And for non-Brit Lit, I think everyone should read Don Quixote, which is really such a fun read. Some people get nervous thinking that classics are Serious Literature and don't realise that popular novels were still sold on entertainment value back in the day.
Loved this video! I've just filmed the classics book tag and between that and this I am now massively entering a classics phase. I've always been a massive lover of classics but I think one of the easier ones to read is A Tale of Two Cities - not too long or anything and I find Dickens is actually overall a much easier read than you'd anticipate.
Thanks for this. I've been looking for easy classics to start with because something like Pride and Prejudice is a little bit scary to me right now :D Thanks ladies
Thank you SO much for this video! I was surprised to see that the only book I haven't read yet was 'Frankenstein'. Usually I struggle with classics (I'm from Germany, so English isn't my native language) but the books you talked about were relatively easy to understand.
I think the most important thing to do if you want to read classics but struggle with language (because you're from another country, for example) is to just keep going and everything will make sense eventually. ;)
Pleeeease do an American version of this! :)
Oh my gosh YES to all these suggestions. Loved the Importance of being Earnest, loved wide Darussalam sea (though now can never read Jane Eyre in the same light - screw you Rochester!), but Alice in Wonderland and Frankenstein will always be my favourites! Love, love, love this video !
I just finished reading Sense and Sensibility, and I loved it!! I gave it 5 stars in goodreads and recommend to all that haven´t read it.
This is honestly a great video!
ALthough I'm not a beginner in classics, I really love this genre, btu ths video is so interesting, amazing and useful!
I've always wanted to read 'Frankenstein' btu I never got to it, but finally I have some time now, so hopefully I will pick up this one)
When you started with Oscar Wilde, I knew I'd like your picks :D As an English major I'm definitely no stranger to classics and have read and loved all of these. Great recommendations!!
I got into a lot of slightly harder classics through audiobooks. A lot of public libraries now have free audiobook collections and apps that mean you can listen to them on your commute or while you're doing something else. It was really handy that during some of the denser passages (like in Anna Karenina, the passages about agricultural policy in Russia..) I could phase out a bit and make a cup of tea but still have it read to me. Really helped me get through a lot of books that I just could not get through in print.
I haven't read any of these classics yet as I mostly read German classics. Your edition of "Frankenstein" is so beautiful. I need to have it. Thanks for putting up the link :)
Classics are my great love when it comes to Literature, they're just so beautiful and perfect! It's American, but To Kill A Mockingbird is my favorite book of all time. Very easy, very funny, very beautiful. A Little Princess is one of the easiest classics to get through, I feel, yet still very beautifully written. That's the first classic I would recommend to someone who hasnt delved into classics yet. Anna Karenina is also a beautiful novel, though it does seem pretty daunting. It's easier than it looks though. I had the exact same experience as you with both Jane Eyre and Frankenstein, and both are in my list of favorite books now. Love this video!
Great suggestions, I loved that Oscar Wilde was mentioned. I think children's books are also a great way to start reading classics (as you mentioned Alice in Wonderland and also The Secret Garden, Peter Pan or The Wizard of Oz, for example).
I had to read some short stories by Oscar Wilde for my english class and I really loved it, I never thought I would love those short stories but it surprised me a lot
Loved this! I've been trying to get into reading more classics, so now I know where to start :) you should definitely do the American version you mentioned!
READ THEM TWICE YES! DO THIS PEOPLE! EVEN IF IT'S BORING THE FIRST TIME, THE SECOND IT ALL WORKS OUT. When I was in AP Lang and AP lit, when we reread the book after discussing the main themes, the book came together. Frankenstein and The Great Gatsby are some of my favorite and so so so beautiful. :)
I love this video. Frankenstein really surprised me too, I got so sucked in. And Sense and Sensibility is my favourite Austen so far! Pride and Prejudice is great and I still adore it, but S&S is just... love.
Also, your shirt!! I am in love with it! Can I ask where you got it? (If you would rather not share, just throw fairy dust at me and I will be distracted :P)
Butterfly Elephant Books Haha, it's from Zara!
Sorry to beat Sanne to it, but just in case she doesn't see your comment, the shirt is from Zara. I saw it online a few weeks ago and had to rush out to get it straight away, it's so cute! :)
booksandquills thank you! :D
Sophie Cronshaw haha she did reply but I appreciate the help anyway! It's so gorgeous ^___^
S&S is on my to read list, I have a gorgeous book with 4 Jane Austen novels in it
I was such a dick in high school about what people hadn't read/watched. I'm so glad I grew out of that.
Love The Importance of Being Earnest. One of my favourite classics! :)
I'd love to see a list of modern classics since you mentioned it. I thought all of these suggestions were great!
Frankenstein started my love for classics. ❤️ I haven't read Sense and Sensibility, but for someone wanting to start reading classics with Pride and Prejudice I would recommend watching the adaptation with Keira Knightly first. :)
It is nice to watch these kinds of videos. I could see how British literature took some getting into, but these familiar works really do help. I read half of them and my favorite is Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. These two novels were so brilliant and I agree that John Tenniel's illustrations were just so fascinating! I need to read some of the Sherlock Holmes series and something by the Bronte sisters, too. Glad to hear your feedback! -Josh
I read Jane Eyre in Spanish after you recommended it in several videos and I absolutely adored it! I've tried reading some Jane Austen novels in English but so far I've only managed Pride and Prejudice (since I know the story so well and have read it a couple of times in Spanish).
I really admire how fluent you are in English and I hope I'll get there someday! Best wishes to Rosianna in the US :)
Two words : Watership Down
Ember Lafonte So much yes!
Jane Eyre is my all time favorite book! It's so beautiful!
I think Oliver Twist is a good one to start with. I've just finished reading it for the third time and I love it so much! It isn't slow paced, there are lots of interesting characters, backstories are beautifully woven. So yes, I recommend it.
I needed this video! This summer I said that I wanted to read more classics. I'm re-reading Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier and it's one of my favourites x
Sanne is so right about Jane Eyre. It came as a free book on my phones generic e reader app. I read it while I was in college entirely on my phone between studying sessions and classes. About 3/4 of the way through I bought a physical copy and read the rest that way. It was surprisingly easy to read but it's really long. However, it's completely worth getting to the end. On one hand, it's intriguing because life for the characters is so foreign to us, but on the other hand all the emotions are so relatable. It's really a great book to dive into.
Frankenstein is one of my favourite books and such an easy read as well. For Jane Austin I'd recommend Persuasion as its her shortest work so a good start to get a feel for her writing.
Great video! *Love* Jane Eyre and The Picture of Dorian Gray and I still need to read Frankenstein! "Monster" classic I'd recommend - Carmilla. I'd also highly recommend 1984 and Little Women. My favorite classic of all time is Macbeth.
Catcher in the Rye is my favourite.
And I remember reading Wuthering Heights in high school and really really liked it, even though during that time I wasn't much into reading. I could've just done Cliffnotes, but for some reason I pushed through because enjoyed reading it so much.
Haha I appreciate that it felt like Rosianna and I shared a cheeky 'that's what she said' moment when you said 'it's not that big.' Ayooooo!
I've never watched one of her videos before but I like listening to her speak so much! I'll get my butt on over and subscribe I guess :)
I think I will finally delve into Jane Eyre. I have been pondering it for over a year now so I think you have finally given me the extra push I needed. Also, please do the American classic books! That would be so lovely to see what you guys think. I studied American Classics, which can be daunting, but it would be nice to see a perspective outside the uni vibe. Also, Sanne, your shirt is absolutely adorable! Best wishes :)
I've always been daunted by classics. I tried pride and prejudices and just struggled so hard but I found a niche in children's classics like 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan that I really loved. I still do want to delve into the "adult" classics and think I'll try picture of dorian grey first as that one stood out to me most from the humour side of things! I did however read a quarter (I don't remember why I stopped) of Jane eyre and totally agree that it's so readable and easy despite its daunting size.
Thank you for this video it was very useful for me :)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is kinda tricky book to read and it can be a struggle but once you get into there's SO MUCH to think about that it really changes the way you read. There were so many little epiphanies (pun intended) in that book and I highly recommend it.
I started with Great Expectations and then Crime and Punishment as a kid but the real experience began when I embarked on a great read which has lasted all my long life.
Yes yes! I agree with Jane Eyre. I never read a classics before (in my country, we never asked to read ANY kind of literature to review which is sad). But Jane Eyre gave a satisfying feel after I finished it. It is worth a struggle. The first 50 pages were so hard to get through but after that I couldnt stop reading it. Thank you for your recommendations!! I'm looking forward to read Jane Austen's books.
I totally agree with you and your choices! I also suggest "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" and "Peter and Wendy" by J. M. Barrie, "The Wizard of Oz" by Lyman F. Baum, "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson, "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov (if you are over 20, in my opinion).
For some non-English classics: "Anna Karenina" by Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoj, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez, "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende, "Il barone rampante" by Italo Calvino.
A Must-reads (but mostly challenging) are "Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo and "Il gattopardo" by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, too.
Jane Eyre is my all time favourite book and will probably always be my favourite classic.Great video this is so helpful I've read some but not many classics but I always want to read more. I read Pride and Prejudice and it put me off Jane Austen's writing a little but Sense and Sensibility has always intrigued me
Please do an American version of this video! I loved it so much, I want more of your classics recommendations!
As for approaching Shakespeare as a non-native English speaker, you can also read a play in your native language first to know what's going on (and possibly also appreciate the translation[s]) and then move on to the original English text for full-on origianl experience.
Love you guys so much ;-;
Classics are really daunting, and I have Crime and Punishment and other really long ones that I'm still struggling to finish, but I actually read Tess of the D'Urbervilles byt Thomas Hardy about a year ago and completely loved it. The story is just so engrossing, and things are so tragic for the main character that you fall in love with her! The writing is quite easy to follow, but poetic enough to resonate with you if you've ever been into the English countryside :)
Lord of the Flies is another great starter. It's very short and was one of the first classics that really had an impact on me.
Frankenstein is so good! I need to read that again.
Jane Eyre is one of my favorite books ever. It got me through my AP Literature class my senior year of high school, in a weird way.
I'm really lucky because I never had to "get into" classics. Both my parents have amazing taste in books so I just grew up around good books. The first classic I read was "Jane Eyre" when I was about 8 or 9 (though obviously, I didn't "get" a lot of it). Wonderful video and great recommendations from both of you! :) xoxo
Great list! Jane Eyre is in my to read pile but I keep avoiding it...
In terms of Brit Classics I've always found Persuasion by Austen is the one I recommend now to people (I adore it more than P&P) as it is v. short and v. sweet. Also Dracula by Bram Stoker. You think you know it but you don't. It's the only classic that I've ever found that shifts between P.O.V. in a very modern way and since it was published near the turn of the 20th century it's a really comfortable read (though a bit long). The edition I own is annotated so it has loads of historical background information which I adore but its not necessary to understand the novel.
Loved this video, would love an American version too!
To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic that many people read because it's completely modern and relevant. I didn't love it, but I know many who do, even if they don't like classics as much as me.
There is a whole sub genre to classics that doesn't have the vocabulary, all the books are short, and you can decide what level of depth you read them with. In my opinion, you should start with these. Ex. Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Fahrenheit 451, etc.
For the kind of classics most people imagine, I would recommend Wuthering Heights and Les Misérables. These are harder, yes, but once you get into them the language is so beautiful.
I love Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock! One of my copies has the original illustrations by Sydney Paget which made it even better.
I think A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens might be one of my all time favorite classics and a great place to start.
Most of the classics I read, I read them for British and American Lit. I agree with you ladies, that there is a lot of classic shaming and most people feel the pressure to lie about how many classics they have read indeed.
***** One common mistake people do is, thinking Frankenstein is the monster and not the doctor who invented him.
Because of you I read Jane Eyre (a couple of months back) and it is definetely going to be hard to top this book when it comes to classics.
Pride and Predjudice was really good but Jane Eyre is my absolute favourite! Thank you for introducing me :)
I absolutely loved Frankenstein, and I felt it had a similar vibe to The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, which is also pretty short as well, and soo worth reading. It's actually one of my favourites by now.