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Any classic literature fans here? I love classic literature and buy copies of them at the book store. My favorites are the stories of the Arabian Nights and Moby Dick.

I dislike a lot of classic literature for its neglect of the most important element of writing: storytelling.

Moby Dick is wonderful, though. ^^

I like:

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll
Julius Caeser - William Shakeshere
Mother Night/Breakfast for Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Witching Hour - Anne Rice
aaaand
A couple of H.P Lovecraft storys.

Ah, I love classic literature.

Moby Dick (I am rereading right now)
Pride and Prejudice
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
The Cruicible
To Kill a Mockingbird
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Time Machine
Animal Farm
1984
Black Beauty
Bless Me, Ultima
The Bible
Frankenstein
Gulliver's Travels
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Les Miserables
Lord of the Rings
Chronicles of Narnia
The Hobit
The Iliad
Watership Down
Works of Edgar Allen Poe

[quote="WildSimba"]I like:

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll
Julius Caeser - William Shakeshere
Mother Night/Breakfast for Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Witching Hour - Anne Rice
aaaand
A couple of H.P Lovecraft storys.[/quote]

I forgot about the Jungle Book. I like that one too.

My faves off of that list are:
Romeo and Juliet
Black Beauty
the bible
Frankenstein
Hunchback
and Edgar Allen Poe

2 others I love that aren't on there:
Dracula and Phantom of the Opera!

I am ridiculously obsessed with The Great Gatsby (I just finished writing a 13 page paper on it), and As I Lay Dying. In general, I'm a huge classic lit fan!

Here's my list of favorite classic authors / writers and novels:

Jane Austen
H.P. Lovecraft
Charles Dickens
H.P. Wells
Jules Verne
Ernest Hemingway
Oscar Wilde
Edgar Allan Poe
Lewis Carroll
William Shakespeare
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte
'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte
'Agnes Grey' by Anne Bronte
'Dracula' by Bram Stoker
'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelly
'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' by Mark Twain
'The Scarlet Letter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne
'The Lord of the Rings' by J.R.R Tolkien