Classic Literature

I like the canturbury tales i have them and a few other books. the complete shakespeare and poe. and i like pride and prejudice.... i haven't completed it yet though. i accidently left it at home last week.

"Classic" is a moving target. In high school, we read Hamlet but we also read On the Road by Jack Kerouac.

I define classic as something that has stood the test of time. Even when taken out of it's own time and place, it is still a good book that shares something of value about the human condition.

I try to make a point to read a classic once in a while, but I do run into classics that I don't like - Withering Heights, for example, is depressing and pointless.

I loved Jane Eyre. I love Frankenstein.

As Tina pointed out, it's something of a moving target. I consider Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" a classic, but it's very contemporary too.

Of the normal set of classics, I've only read a few, mostly the ones from school. I find some of the ones that were originally published episodically (Dicken's "Great Expectations" for example) quite interesting since they were basically the drama "shows" of the day.

I quite liked Wuthering Heights, I'm probably biased though as I'm named after the main character.

I guess I'm not the melodrama type, so Wuthering Heights wasn't my cup of tea. I just thought how the book ended didn't leave anyone better off or much different. I'm glad I took the time to read it. Clearly it is an important and influential novel.

I did finish it which says something, because I didn't finish Great Expectations. For the record, I liked Great Expectations mostly, except I got sidetracked. At some point, I'll go back and try again. Maybe the abridged version cause Dickens sure knew how to stretch it out.

Pride & Prejudice is one of my all-time favorites! The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe and East of Eden, which was also a great movie.

The first thing that popped into my head at "classics" was the ancient greek plays and then ancient western philosophy.
I've studied and done a lot of Shakespeare but for some reason I never considered his work classic, although I'm not really sure why not
I think the moving target right right! Or maybe the word "classic" is kinda vague...

Catcher in the Rye is defiantly a classic.

Well I like Shakespeare and Poe. Rossetti is one of my favourite poets.

But I consider things like The Wasp Factory, To Kill A Mockingbird, 1984, Animal Farm to be classics, even though they might not be that old

Rossetti's a bastard.

I've never read his poetry but I know that as a person he was a wanker.

Wrong Rossetti, I mean Christina Rossetti. I may have spelt it wrong. Sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, one of my favourite painters (although maybe that's who you mean, I think he did poetry too)

I am a shakespeare fan

Ohhh I loved beowulf Great Tale

I'm in favor of Poe's literature, and he is a Classic to me. Hemmingway and Thoreau are both some great choices. Zora Neale Hurston, I researched her in 5th grade and fell in love with her. I rediscovered her a few years ago and now can really appreciate her stuff.

idk... I always kind of thought that classics ... defined themselves, and most of them are pretty well known already


but yea... Poe... my favorite! I have nevermore scribbled all over my wall

I think To Kill a Mockingbird, Tell Tale Heart, and Cask of Amontillado are all classics. I also think the Most Dangerous game would have to be one. I haven' t gotten to reading Pride and Prejudice or Wuthering Heights(haven't had time since I started highschool two months ago). I also think Shakespeare books are classics, haven't gotten to reading any of those yet either. I have read The Hobbit, definitely a classic.