5 Favorite Classics of All Time
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
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i love it when people talk about classics ❤️
My five favs are; The Pilgrim's Progress, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe, and A Christmas Carol.
Those are all such great books! I can see why they are your favorites.
Hi, Kailey. Luke here. I just stumbled across this video from 2 years ago and had to share. My favorite classics, in no particular order would be:
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
The Moonstone
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Time Machine
Huckleberry Finn
As always, thanks for sharing!
The Water Babies, Bleak House, To the Lighthouse, The Mill on the Floss, Wives and Daughters, Persuasion, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,
And The Way We Live Now, and The Pickwick Papers
The Count of Monte Cristo is absolutely amazing and it is within my top favorites as well! I'm surprised I don't see as many people talking about it. Also I have David Copperfield on my shelf currently and I am tempted to read it very soon.
Agree, it's slow-paced at first but when you get to the middle to the end is sure a wild ride. One of my favourite books of all time.
Love seeing your fave reads, Kailey! So many i still need to get into 💛✨
Loved this video, and was just going to type my question about Bleak House when you mentioned it at the end. Interesting that Pride and Prejudice didn't make your cut.
Nice channel and great video; your enthusiasm suits you well for this. I like your choices, too, and like you, I had to add and subtract quite a few near-hits before arriving at "the five".
To qualify I decided I had to have read the book at least twice, or how could it be a true favorite? I always mention two books that I loved but can't imagine re-reading them: "Moby Dick" and "Cold Mountain". There are other one-timers I could mention, but enough. The list is as shown because they represent my beginning love for literature or a particularly happy time in my life. Some I have read three or four times.
Great Expectations: Dickens
The Professor’s House: Cather
Far From the Madding Crowd: Hardy
The Grapes of Wrath: Steinbeck
The Sun Also Rises: Hemmingway
The Count is also my favorite of all times. I've read in french, something very challenging to me. I don't know why is it so underrated. In my top list are Macbeth and Les Misérables as well. As a brazilian, I would recommend The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas as great classic book.
My list: C. of Monte Cristo.
Les Miserables
Macbeth
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas - Machado de Assis
I love much ado about nothing! It's so charming and just really funny. Only Shakespeare play I read and laughed out loud
Yes! It's so witty and hilarious!
I love Crime and Punishment. Pride and Prejudice was good, too. Hamlet is my favourite Shakespeare play. The Scarlet Letter has my fav character of all time, the little girl Pearl, who’s a bright charismatic light in so much darkness. The Red Badge of Courage was quite interesting, and The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is the most complex 100 pages I ever read.
We share two favorites! Jane Eyre and the Count of Monte Cristo!! 💜
This is such a great video! I haven't read many classics (other than for school) and I've been afraid to start. I loved the TV miniseries of North and South so maybe I'll begin with that! Have you ever done a video on which TV or movie adaptations from classics are the best? Would that even be a booktube video then? Lol
My favorite play is Cyrano De Bergerac by Rostand. A couple of my favorite classic books are Persuasion by Austen, Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens and He Knew He Was Right by Trollope. But it is so hard to choose just a few favorites and you're right the list does change over the years.
Wonderful! I love Persuasion too. That letter! ;)
Nicholas Nickleby is actually not one of my favorite Dickens. I haven't read He Knew He Was Right yet, but I hear good things about it!
Cyrano is so wonderful! I've watched the movie with Gerard Depardue dozens of times.
I love David Copperfield too (hard to choose my favorite of Dickens as I like Oliver Twist, Bleak House, and Great Expectations too). Shakespeare's As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest are among my most loved plays, and The Tempest may be my most favorite (again, it's hard to choose.). :)
Midsummer Night's Dream is my second fave Shakespeare!
Oh... Jane eyre! I want to reread it now..
Mr. Micawber is really the author's father, John Dickens.
I am glad someone else enjoys the Bleakhouse. I get boo a lot for saying it. :) Do you know of any good biographies on Dickens? Great Expectations is still my fav out of his works......Sorry for asking on an older video just stumbled onto it tonight.
Sorry, I have never read any biographies of Dickens.
I can’t rank mine. Let’s just say, tied for first place are...
Lord of the Rings
Our Mutual Friend
Woman in White
Watership Down
Pride and Prejudice
Close contenders:
Persuasion, Wives and Daughters, Jane Eyre, Puddinhead Wilson, War & Peace, To Kill a Mockingbird, Little Dorrit, and Seven Story Mountain
Love North and South 😍 and Jane Eyre 😍 but i agree about Mr. Rochester
The Brontes are not known for writing balanced men characters. haha! All the men in Bronte books are horrible people in one way or another.
In no particular order: Anna Karenina, Ulysses, Jude the Obscure*, Jane Eyre, Don Quixote .... The count of Monte Cristo .... talk about tough language of the classics per your earlier video ... but more than worth the pain of the language 🙏
Ugh I so agree about Mr. Rochester! I couldn't finish Jane Eyre and he was the reason...
Ahh I love Much Ado About Nothing!
Oooh I don't know my full list but I KNOW The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett would be #1. And I think The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux would be in the top 5 as well!
I adore the Secret Garden! It's in my top favorite Children's Classics list.
You should give Jane Eyre another chance. I know Mr. Rochester is ... ugh. But there's so much more to the story, and Jane herself is a marvel. I don't think you would regret giving it another try. The story is so rich and powerful!
Happy Reading!
I LOVE Jane Eyre and North and South
Yay! Such good books!
I was happy to see The Count of Monte Cristo on your list, at the top, no less. It is in my Top-5 all-time too. I also loved Jane Eyre, which is certainly in my Top-10, at least. I am American, and my all-time favorite book is Lonesome Dove. Not sure about the three remaining spots.
I also love much ado 😊
Great choices. I'd put Bleak House as my number one, but Copperfield's great, too. And The Count of Monte Christo is fantastic. Think of it as a mini-series. LOL
We share the same #1 classic 😊
1. Jane Eyre
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Little Dorrit
4. Hamlet/Romeo and Juliet/The Phoenix and the Turtle 😁
P.S. John Thornton from North and South is my dream man 😍lol
Hands off my John Thornton! He's mine! ;) haha!
Little Dorrit is the very last Dickens that I need to read to finish my goal to read all of Dickens. So many people tell me it is a good one, my expectations are high!
My favorite classics are: Don Quixote (Cervantes), The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), Ivanhoe (Walter Scott), The idiot (Dostoievski) and Red and Black (Stendhal). Besides, I love Emma (Jane Austen) and Bleak house (Dickens). I will read David Copperfield and North and South, and I will reread Waverley, because the novels written by Walter Scott are unforgettable. Kisses!
#1 Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
#2 Goethe's Faust but only the Walter Arndt translation (Norton)
#3 Against the Day--Pynchon
#4 Middlemarch
#5 Mason and Dixon--Pynchon
#6 Brothers K
try watching the 2020 emma adaptation. johnny flynn’s take on mr. knightley made me swoon and his chemistry with anya taylor-joy (playing emma) was amazing!
I haven't watched it yet, because I'm afraid to be disappointed, but I will give it a try!
Les Miserables, The Count of Monte Cristo, Moby Dick, Bleak House, The Lord of the Rings.
One of my reading goals for 2019 is to read my first Dickens (well, besides A Christmas Carol as I’ve read it twice). Which Dickens do you think a classics newbie should read first?
Definitely either Oliver Twist or Pickwick Papers. They are fun and easy reads, compared to Dicken's other lengthy and heavy works. Happy Reading!
Books for MKs Thank you for the recommendation! Adding both to my 2019 TBR.
A Tale of Two Cites, then all the rest.
funny... I love Mr. Rochester and don't like Jane much at all.
Thanks for the spoiler warning.