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5 Favorite Classics That Are Not Jane Austen 🌷📚| Alcott, Bronte, Gaskell and more!
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- Опубліковано 17 сер 2024
- Hi! I’m Shannon and today I am talking about 5 of my favorite classic books that are not written by Jane Austen. You know I love Jane; however, these 5 books are some of my favorite non-Austen books to re-read and hopefully you’ll like them too!
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📕 Titles Mentioned:
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
The Professor by Charlotte Bronte
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
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⏱️ Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:45 Little Women
02:06 Anne of Green Gables
03:13 Jane Eyre
06:53 North and South
09:26 The Count of Monte Cristo
10:54 Rebecca
11:42 Outro
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Nice selection, and love the library in the background!
Thank you so much and thanks for watching!
Great list, Shannon! Out of all of those, I’ve only read Jane Erye (which I loved, but I read it about 20 yrs ago so I’m due for a re-read) and Rebecca which I just read and loved. All of the rest of these are on my list to get to!. :-) I love those editions of the Little Women and Good Wives books you have. 🤩
@@bookstalgic Jane Eyre is really a good one and Rebecca does have the same gothic vibe with the mysterious first wife thing. Those LW/GW editions are from Juniper! The set also came with Little Men and Joe’s Boys and I love them 😍
Terrific list. Thanks ❤
@@karengustafson7666 Enjoy! Thanks so much for watching!
Oh, I love Shirley! I wasn't very into Villette or The Professor. They had their moments. But Shirley I really enjoyed. Elizabeth Gaskell is my all time favorite author and love Cranford. Hope you enjoy these books too!
I'm hoping to get to Shirley and Cranford next year as I don't know if I'll be able to fit them in this year. I'm a huge fan of EG and hope to read all of her works!
I share some of your top re-reads. Besides Austen (which is definitely my top re-read author of all time), I have also re-read many times Jane Eyre, North & South and Little Women. With Jane Eyre, Mr Rochester's manipulative ways came out most clearly to me when I watched the BBC series with Timothy Dalton--his performance emphasized this. OTOH, I'll defend Jane in that when she comes back to Mr R at the end of the book, if you read their dialogue closely, she does not allow him to manipulate her, and this gives me hope for their future life together. I would add to your description of North & South that it differs from P&P in that it has a twist on class: although Thornton is rich like Darcy, Mr Thornton is acutely aware (as is Margaret) that he is not considered her equal in class. As you mentioned, Gaskell also deals with social & economic issues of the time which Austen does not. I re-read Little Women several times as a child, but not as an adult, although I am now in the midst of a re-read and it is eye-opening in many ways, especially as I am reading an annotated edition (Daniel Shealy, ed.). I recently re-read Anne of GG and from my (elderly) perspective, it feels like a book more about Marilla (who goes through much change in the book) than about Anne (who just gets a little older and wiser). My other top re-reads include 3 by Dickens: David Copperfield, Little Dorrit and Bleak House. I've tried to read The Count of MC, but I haven't gotten very far....I know I need to give it another try.
I haven't seen the Timothy Dalton version of Jane Eyre but it's been on my list and now I need to check it out. I am VERY intrigued with the annotated Little Women so please let me know your thoughts when you finish it (meanwhile, I'm going to look out for a copy!). I'm currently reading some of Louisa May Alcott's letters to a man who partially inspired Laurie from Little Women and I adore LMA's language - she is just as funny as Jane Austen. Agreed on North and South - Mr. Thornton is definitely a complex character and I enjoy him thoroughly (I hope you've seen the 2007ish adaptation, it's my favorite though I'm hoping to also catch the adaptation with Patrick Stewart this year). For AGG, I adore the growth of Marilla and whenever I do my next re-read, I do plan on focusing on her journey. So, Dickens is tough for me. I feel like I should love him but I generally have tough time. I'm halfway through David Copperfield and though I wasn't disliking it, I can't seem to finish it (I started it 2 or 3 years ago 🤣).
The Patrick Stewart version is rather boring and leaves out some key plot points. Stewart is OK (talks like he's on the stage instead of on TV) but Margaret & Mrs Thornton are ill cast.
@3:50 - I just finished Wuthering Heights and may record my discussion video this evening. WOW - uh super mixed feelings on it, but why do you consider it such an important novel as you suggest here? Thank you for the video.
Lawd, Wuthering Heights. I have such a complicated relationship with that book. I think the fault lies with it somehow being considered one of the greatest love stories and so when people actually read it, they are like "WTF". It is NOT a love story. It is a story about hate, obsession, revenge. I believe Hollywood is the fault of that love story myth because nearly every film/series until the 1990s focuses only on the first half of the novel showing how two young "lovers" are separated. They conveniently forget to show the second half where Heathcliff wreaks his revenge.
But it has endured for 180 years for a reason. Firstly, the language is beautiful. Emily was clearly the more talented of all of the sisters and had she lived, I cannot imagine what she should have produced. Sure, Charlotte was a commercial success with Jane Eye, but Emily was a poet and was able to use the English language to its advantage. That being said, my opinion is that Emily had a fantastical imagination with no experience on how to reel it in and you can tell that WH came from a new and inexperienced author.
Secondly, the book just begs for more exploration into themes of nature, religion, morality, love, class, money, race, and even intergenerational trauma. So much to dig into and those are the things I am going to explore if/when I ever do another re-read. I will not be going to WH when I want a feel-good love story.
@@ATruthUniversallyAcknowledged - 'love story' never even entered my mind when I read Wuthering Heights!! HAHA. Yeah, and I actually liked the second half focusing on the younger generation and no mention of the older Catherine at all, than the first half. Yeah, I did enjoy the writing - it was intricate and condensed considering the themes that were introduced - it would have been five times longer in the hands of someone like George Eliot HAHAHA. Thank you for the response.
@@JosephFrancisBurton I mean, we still love George Eliot regardless. 🤣