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12 Responses to “What books do you consider to be classics?”

1. John Squirrel on November 3rd, 2009 at 9:05 pm

   Neither of those two authors do it for me. A true classic is one that will last a lifetime and still be popular reading.

   Just about all Michael Crichton books fit that bill as well as Tom Clancy. Books like Moby Dick, HG Wells War of the Worlds will also still be considered true classics.
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2. Geenchy on November 3rd, 2009 at 9:52 pm

   To Kill a Mockingbird, by Monroeville, Alabama’s own Harper Lee.
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3. MadamNaka on November 3rd, 2009 at 10:38 pm

   The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway or Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
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4. Janet B #1 on November 3rd, 2009 at 11:07 pm

   Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe
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5. Jazz on November 3rd, 2009 at 11:38 pm

   Harry Potter might make it if the writing wasn’t so mediocore.
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6. Jenni on November 3rd, 2009 at 11:51 pm

   poe ,shakespeare, Dickins

   like um…
   oliver twist
   to kill a mockingbird
   of mice and men
   frankienstein

   excuse my great spelling
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7. Country Girl on November 4th, 2009 at 12:14 am

   I think there are so many books, both new and old that could, and will be considered classics one day. Some of the older one’s that have remained are Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, Anne of Green Gables by LM.Montgomery, and the old classic, The Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens. Even today they’ve been made into movies as well. Henry David Thoreau had his own following that has remained strong from his book "Waldon", especially here in New England.

   It will be interesting to see what books from this era will one day become classics because we have some pretty awesome writers from this era that will certainly leave behind some books that will one day be considered classics as well.
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8. Keeler on November 4th, 2009 at 12:47 am

   Just a note, Emily Dickinson was a poet, not a novelist.

   I think Hawthorne (House of the Seven Gables, The Marble Faun), both Shelleys (Frankenstein & assorted poems), Leroux (The Phantom of the Opera), Poe (The Fall of the House of Usher), Shakespeare (Hamlet, MacBeth), Chaucer (Canterbury Tales)…these are all confirmed classics that deserve to remain there!
   Of modern authors:
   Ray Bradbury (The Martian Chronicles)
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9. gormenghast10014 on November 4th, 2009 at 1:15 am

   There are too many "classic novels" to name. Some that I like are by Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Honore de Balzac, William Faulkner, Emile Zola, James Joyce and Vladimir Nabakov.

   You said "a lot of people say that some Emily Dickinson novels are classics". Ms Dickinson was a poet, not a novelist.
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10. Chasity J on November 4th, 2009 at 1:21 am

    the scarlet letter
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11. ck1 on November 4th, 2009 at 2:00 am

    Jane Austen’s works are definitely classics. Emily Dickinson’s poems are classics.

    Some other classic authors include:
    William Shakespeare
    Charles Dickens
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Mark Twain
    Louisa May Alcott
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    Robert Browning
    Lucy Maud Montgomery
    Leo Tolstoy
    Alexandre Dumas
    Mary Shelley
    Victor Hugo
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Oscar Wilde
    Dante
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Plato
    Homer
    Sir Walter Scott
    Ernest Hemingway
    Charlotte Bronte (and Emily)
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    George Eliot
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Gustave Flaubert
    George Gordon, Lord Byron
    John Keats
    Rudyard Kipling
    Jonathan Swift
    George Orwell
    Jules Verne
    C.S. Lewis
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    Gaston Leroux
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    Pearl S. Buck
    Virginia Woolf
    Herman Melville
    Jack London
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    Edgar Allan Poe
    Wilkie Collins
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    Lewis Carroll
    Daniel Defoe
    Thomas Hardy
    Henrik Ibsen
    Anton Chekhov
    Henry James
    Washington Irving
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    and many, many more (too many to list all or even half)…

    Here are some lists of classics that you may want to look through:
    http://www.listsofbests.com/list/11632
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/275958/Top-100-Novels-of-All-Time-as-Voted-by-Regular-People
    http://www.adherents.com/people/100_novel.html
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