Are you a reader? What are some of your favorite classic literature pieces and who are some of your favorite class authors? I have to say that two of my very favorites would be Jane Austen and Mark Twain. My favorite pieces written by them would be Northanger Abbey and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Don't get me wrong, there are many other worthy contenders, but these would have to be my top two of all times in the Classics department. So, What about you?
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I've read other classics as I've gotten older and have been pretty critical of them. They were too much like soap operas, for instance, Henry James' Portrait of a Lady and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. I didn't like Crime and Punishment until near the end, and I didn't llike at all Brothers Karamazov.
One that I felt was fabulous was Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. I realize that's a book that you either love or hate. I loved it.
I adore Eudora Welty and Virginia Woolf. Their voices and visions were also unique. Alexander Pope makes me smile, as do modernist humor writers like Alexander Woollcot, Dorothy Parker, and E B White. (I could have spent a lifetime waiting on that Algonquin table, and nary a complaint!)
I have just started reading Jane Austin's books and i enjoyed "Innocents Abroad." I like Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, Anna Kareina. I enjoy James Michener's books and books by Herman Wouk.
Lately I cannot seem to find a book that interests me. Is it the sign of the times.
I have been trying to slog my way though a list of F. Scott Fitzgerald's favorite books that I found in a biography of him.
I have read his classic, The Raven, but he is the author of manymore and I enjoy them all.