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artemis -> Which classics have you read? (1/30/2008 8:03:42 PM)
I'm sure we'll all disagree on the definition of a "classic," so I'm defining it as such... if there are Cliff's Notes available, then it's a classic [8D] Here's a list.

artemis -> RE: Which classics have you read? (1/30/2008 8:13:46 PM)
I have read: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Age of Innocence Animal Farm Anna Karenina Atlas Shrugged Bless Me, Ultima Brave New World The Brothers Karamazov The Call of the Wild Candide The Canterbury Tales Catch-22 The Catcher in the Rye A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (only read the first half) The Count of Monte Cristo Crime and Punishment Cry, the Beloved Country The Diary of Anne Frank Don Quixote (only book one) Dracula (only the first half... then lost the book) Emma Ethan Frome Fahrenheit 451 A Farewell to Arms Frankenstein The Giver The Good Earth Great Expectations The Great Gatsby Gulliver's Travels Heart of Darkness The Hobbit The House on Mango Street Huckleberry Finn Invisible Man The Joy Luck Club The Jungle The Last of the Mohicans Les Miserables Lord of the Flies The Lord of the Rings Madame Bovary Moby Dick My Antonia Mythology (Edith Hamilton) New Testament [;)] Night 1984 The Odyssey Of Mice and Men The Old Man and the Sea Old Testament [;)] The Once and Future King The Outsiders Paradise Lost (portions, as required in school) The Pearl Pride and Prejudice The Prince (Machiavelli) The Red Badge of Courage The Return of the Native The Scarlet Letter A Separate Peace Tess of the d'Urbervilles The Three Musketeers To Kill a Mockingbird Uncle Tom's Cabin Utopia (only the first half) Vanity Fair Wuthering Heights hmm... that was more trouble than it was worth. I should have thought of a better way to do this...

Auben -> RE: Which classics have you read? (1/30/2008 8:32:47 PM)
It's actually easier say what I haven't read. Atlas shrugged Black elk speaksI have but haven't read yet Bleak house Bless me ultimaI have but haven't read yet The contender Dream of the red chamber Education of henry adamsI have but haven't read yet Ethan frome Farewell to mazanar HiroshimaI have but haven't read yet House of mirth Incidents in the life of a slave girlI have but haven't read yet The killer angels A lesson before dying Steppenwolf The things they carried Tristram shandy Vanity fairI have but haven't read yet I've read the other 123 or so.

_Cinderella_ -> RE: Which classics have you read? (1/30/2008 8:47:37 PM)
New Testament Old Testament The Picture of Dorian Gray Robinson Crusoe I think That is all from the list. I read Swiss Family Robinson which I thought was [:'(].

artemis -> RE: Which classics have you read? (1/30/2008 8:53:10 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Auben Bless me ultimaI have but haven't read yet Vanity fairI have but haven't read yet I loved both, especially Bless Me, Ultima. But I'm a Spanish teacher, so that's to be expected. I have the book in both Spanish and English. quote: ORIGINAL: PCtheGreat I read Swiss Family Robinson which I thought was [:'(]. gasp I loved Swiss Family Robinson when I was a kid and forced my siblings to watch the movie with me over and over and over [:D] My lifetime goal is to read all the books that are available in Cliff's Notes. I have a lot of reading to do [&:]

rnershigh -> RE: Which classics have you read? (1/30/2008 9:22:28 PM)
Emma Pride and Prejudice Wuthering Heights The Brothers Karamazov 1984 Adventures of Tom Sawyer Animal Farm Do Greek plays count? If so I've read: Lysistrata by Aristophanes The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles Medea by Euripides The Oresteia by Aeschylus On my TBR list The Divine Comedy Les Miserables War and Peace

solo_soprano22 -> RE: Which classics have you read? (1/30/2008 9:29:34 PM)
Animal Farm Candide Canterbury Tales (in part) Frankenstein Great Expectations Gulliver's Travels Jane Eyre Moby-Dick Oliver Twist Paradise Lost (in part) The Pearl The Prince and the Pauper Robinson Crusoe The Scarlet Letter St. Augustine's Confessions Utopia A lot of others ring a bell, but I'm not sure if that's because I read them long ago, or because I just recognize the titles. :) I've also read Beowulf, The Illiad, and The Aeneid that I can think of right now.

sunshine4God -> RE: Which classics have you read? (1/30/2008 11:08:22 PM)
Most of the classics I read were books I was made to read in school. Classics just don't interest me much.

techne -> RE: Which [cliffsnote] classics have you read? (1/31/2008 1:22:48 AM)
i have read the following (and i am pleasantly surprised i've read even this many of cliffsnote's "classics" list): The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain The Call of the Wild Jack London The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger Daisy Miller Henry James The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Hiroshima John Hersey Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Le Morte d'Arthur Thomas Malory Lord of the Flies William Golding New Testament The Odyssey Homer The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Old Testament Paradise Lost John Milton Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne St. Augustine's Confessions St. Augustine The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne The Turn of the Screw Henry James Ulysses James Joyce

miasma -> RE: Which classics have you read? (1/31/2008 10:55:53 AM)
From just the list you linked to, I've read (though some listed, I've read others by the same author, like Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, but not Bleak House, but not the book listed): The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (love him! His non-fiction is timeless. Have a Mark Twain quote calendar here at work) All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy Animal Farm George Orwell Anthem Ayn Rand (read all of her books, fiction and non) As I Lay Dying William Faulkner (but not Absalom, Absalom!) Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand The Awakening Kate Chopin (loooove this book) The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver (read and own most everything she's written) The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath (what sort of alternagirl would I be if I hadn't??) Beloved Toni Morrison (just talking about this one yesterday) Brave New World Aldous Huxley (depressing) The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky The Call of the Wild Jack London (one of my favourite books as a kid) Candide Francois Voltaire (like Cousin Bette, too) Catch-22 Joseph Heller The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger (prefer Franny and Zooey) The Chosen Chaim Potok (LOVE Chaim Potok. Asher Lev is a must) The Color Purple Alice Walker A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas (another fave from childhood) Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky The Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson Dracula Bram Stoker Ethan Frome Edith Wharton Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway The Fountainhead Ayn Rand Frankenstein Mary Shelley The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Great Expectations Charles Dickens (another childhood fave, Miss Habersham is my hero) The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood (good book) Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad The House of Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou Jane Eyre Charlotte Bront� The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper Le Morte d'Arthur Thomas Malory A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines Light in August William Faulkner Lord of the Flies William Golding The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien Moby-Dick Herman Melville Mythology New Testament Night Elie Wiesel 1984 George Orwell Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Old Testament Oliver Twist Charles Dickens One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey The Outsiders S.E. Hinton That's out of the first 100, anyways.

DenimDiva -> RE: Which classics have you read? (1/31/2008 1:27:33 PM)
Adventures of Tom Sawyer Diary of Anne Frank Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dracula Frankenstein Go Tell it on the Mountain The Grapes of Wrath Gulliver's Travels The Hobbit Huckleberry Finn The Lord of the Rings Lord of the Flies New Testament 1984 Of Mice and Men Old Testament Oliver Twist One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Outsiders The Picture of Dorian Gray Robinson Crusoe The Scarlet Letter Snow Falling on Cedars Song of Solomon The Sun Also Rises A Tale of Two Cities Three Musketeers To Kill a Mockingbird Treasure Island Uncle Tom's Cabin War and Peace White Fang Wuthering Heights I'm very suprised that A Tree Grows in Brooklyn didn't make the list.

DenimDiva -> RE: Which classics have you read? (1/31/2008 1:29:44 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: miasma The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (love him! His non-fiction is timeless. Have a Mark Twain quote calendar here at work) I love Mark Twain and John Steinbeck. They are my two favorite secular authors.

violetlight -> RE: Which classics have you read? (1/31/2008 2:01:24 PM)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Animal Farm Brave New World The Canterbury Tales The Catcher in the Rye A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court The Count of Monte Cristo The Diary of Anne Frank David Copperfield Dr. Jekylll & Mr. Hyde Dracula Emma East of Eden Ethan Frome The Fall of the house of Usher Frankenstein The Grapes of Wrath Great Expectations The Great Gatsby Huckleberry Finn Jane Eyre The Joy Luck Club The Jungle Book The Last of the Mohicans Les Miserables Lord of the Flies Moby Dick New Testament 1984 Of Mice and Men The Old Man and the Sea Old Testament Oliver Twist The Outsiders The Pearl Pride and Prejudice The Prince and the Pauper The Red Badge of Courage The Scarlet Letter Sense and Sensibility The Three Musketeers The Tell tale heart ( or something like that - Edgar Allen Poe) A Tale of Two Cities To Kill a Mockingbird Treasure Island Wuthering Heights I feel like I'm missing some!

violetlight -> RE: Which classics have you read? (1/31/2008 2:03:55 PM)
quote: Great Expectations Charles Dickens (another childhood fave, Miss Habersham is my hero) I absolutely loved this book as well - Miss Havisham...cobwebs and old wedding cake - love it!

9drtr -> RE: Which classics have you read? (1/31/2008 7:03:39 PM)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Animal Farm As I Lay Dying Brave New World The Call of the Wild The Count of Monte Cristo Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dracula Fahrenheit 451 A Farewell to Arms Frankenstein The Grapes of Wrath The Great Gatsby Heart of Darkness The Hobbit The House of Seven Gables The Last of the Mohicans Lord of the Flies The Lord of the Rings Moby-Dick New Testament 1984 - for the record, the title is Nineteen Eighty-Four The Odyssey Of Mice and Men The Old Man and the Sea Old Testament The Pearl Pride and Prejudice The Prince The Red Badge of Courage The Scarlet Letter St. Augustine's Confessions The Sun Also Rises A Tale of Two Cities The Three Musketeers To Kill a Mockingbird Treasure Island There are a lot of classics missing from their list. In particular, I've read a lot more Hemingway than they list, and infinitely more Shakespeare. Favourites that aren't listed include: the Nick Adams stories - Hemingway The Stone Angel - Margaret Lawrence Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

Dancre -> RE: Which classics have you read? (1/31/2008 7:12:12 PM)
My favey is Rebecca. I looooveeee Rebecca!! I never saw the plot twist coming. Great book. kim

HighPlainsDrifter -> RE: Which classics have you read? (1/31/2008 7:41:06 PM)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Animal Farm Anthem Atlas Shrugged Billy Budd Black Elk Speaks Brave New World The Brothers Karamazov The Call of the Wild Candide The Canterbury Tales Catch-22 The Catcher in the Rye A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court The Count of Monte Cristo Death Comes for the Archbishop The Diary of Anne Frank Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Don Quixote Dracula Fahrenheit 451 A Farewell to Arms The Fountainhead Frankenstein The Good Earth The Grapes of Wrath Great Expectations The Great Gatsby Gulliver's Travels Heart of Darkness The Hobbit The House of Seven Gables Huckleberry Finn Invisible Man The Jungle The Last of the Mohicans Le Morte d'Arthur Lord of the Flies The Lord of the Rings Moby-Dick My Antonia New Testament Night 1984 The Odyssey Of Mice and Men The Old Man and the Sea Old Testament Paradise Lost The Pearl The Prince and the Pauper The Prince The Red Badge of Courage The Return of the Native Robinson Crusoe The Scarlet Letter The Secret Sharer The Sound and the Fury Steppenwolf The Sun Also Rises Tess of the d'Urbervilles The Three Musketeers Treasure Island White Fang Some were really good, some made me wonder what was so classic about them, but all were worth the read.

Dred -> RE: Which classics have you read? (2/1/2008 4:29:34 PM)
A great thread topic. This reminds me that I want to do more reading. I see many listed that I've read, but quite a few that I haven't, but should have. I'll just add a few major classics that no one seems to have mentioned yet. In the classic Christian category: Pilgrim's Progress (I can't believe no one here has mentioned that one) On the Incarnation of Our Lord, by St. Athanasius (happens to be on my desk to read again) In the fantasy genre (perhaps not considered classics by some): The C.S. Lewis Space Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength) The Dune Chronicles (Frank Herbert) Phantastes, Lilith, and many more by George MacDonald (1824-1905) My favorite authors might all be considered in the classics category: Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald. I cannot claim to have seen Cliff's Notes on any of these, but they are all considered exceptionally great works and they were all written by men who have been dead for a while.

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lexie -> RE: Which classics have you read? (2/1/2008 6:38:45 PM)
From the list provided: All Quiet On the Western Front Animal Farm Diary of Anne Frank The Handmaids Tale The Joy Luck Club 1984 Old Testament The Prince St. Augustine's Confessions Uncle Tom's Cabin Also from Cliff's Notes: Aristotle's Ethics Plato's The Republic Hamlet Macbeth Othello Our Town Romeo and Juliet The Tempest The Iliad The Odyessy I have a lot of Classics in my book collection that I have amassed in the last year, I can't wait to get started (about 30 of them).

CoeurdeLeon -> RE: Which classics have you read? (2/1/2008 11:09:34 PM)
From the list: Adam Bede The Age of Innocence Animal Farm Anna Karenina Atlas Shrugged The Bell Jar The Brothers Karamazov The Catcher in the Rye The Color Purple Crime and Punishment Daisy Miller Emma Ethan Frome Farewell to Arms The Grapes of Wrath Great Expectations The Great Gatsby The House of Mirth The House of Seven Gables Jane Eyre The Jungle Lord of the Flies Lord of the Rings My Antonia New Testament The Odyssey Of Mice and Men Old Testament The Once and Future King The Pearl The Picture of Dorian Grey Pride and Prejudice The Prince and the Pauper The Red Badge of Courage Robinson Crusoe The Scarlet Letter A Separate Peace Silas Marner Snow Falling on Cedars Steppenwolf The Sun Also Rises A Tale of Two Cities Tess of the D'Urbervilles The Three Musketeers To Kill a Mockingbird The Turn of the Screw Vanity Fair White Fang Wuthering Heights Treasure Island

stellaluna -> RE: Which classics have you read? (2/1/2008 11:33:15 PM)
We're using the Cliff's Notes list? The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Aeneid The Age of Innocence Animal Farm Aristotle's Ethics Atlas Shrugged The Bean Trees The Bell Jar Beloved Beowulf Bless Me, Ultima Brave New World The Call of the Wild The Canterbury Tales The Catcher in the Rye The Chosen The Color Purple A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court The Count of Monte Cristo The Crucible Daisy Miller Death Comes for the Archbishop Death of a Salesman The Diary of Anne Frank The Divine Comedy: Inferno Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde A Doll's House Don Quixote Dracula Dream of the Red Chamber Dubliners The Fountainhead Frankenstein The Giver The Glass Menagerie The Grapes of Wrath Great Expectations The Great Gatsby Gulliver's Travels Hamlet The Handmaid's Tale Henry V The Hobbit The House of Seven Gables Huckleberry Finn The Iliad The Importance of Being Earnest Jane Eyre The Joy Luck Club Julius Caesar The Jungle King Lear Le Morte d'Arthur Leaves of Grass Les Miserables Lord of the Flies The Lord of the Rings Macbeth Madame Bovary The Merchant of Venice A Midsummer Night's Dream Moby-Dick Mrs. Dalloway My Antonia Mythology New Testament Night 1984 The Odyssey Of Mice and Men The Old Man and the Sea Old Testament Oliver Twist The Once and Future King One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Othello Our Town The Outsiders Paradise Lost The Picture of Dorian Gray Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Pride and Prejudice The Prince and the Pauper A Raisin in the Sun The Red Badge of Courage Republic The Return of the Native Robinson Crusoe Romeo and Juliet The Scarlet Letter Shakespeare's Sonnets Silas Marner Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Snow Falling on Cedars Song of Solomon The Sound and the Fury A Streetcar Named Desire A Tale of Two Cities The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Tess of the d'Urbervilles To Kill a Mockingbird Treasure Island Twelfth Night Ulysses Vanity Fair Walden War and Peace White Fang Wuthering Heights I was an English major, so I've read most of what Cliff's Notes are available, but there are many missing classics and many called "classics" that I seriously question. But anyway, there it is.

Grace-N-Mercy -> RE: Which classics have you read? (2/12/2008 8:36:32 AM)
Mine are from the list, plus others including a class I took on 20th century literature. 1984 A Separate Peace A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams Animal Farm Beloved Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller Heart of Darkness Huckleberry Finn Leaves of Grass New Testament Of Mice and Men Old Testament Pride and Prejudice Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Call of the Wild The Grapes of Wrath The Great Gatsby The Odyssey The Pearl The Red Badge of Courage The Return of the Native The Scarlet Letter To Kill a Mockingbird Walden White Fang Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Wuthering Heights

HisCovenant -> RE: Which classics have you read? (2/12/2008 6:57:29 PM)
Here are the ones I have read: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Age of Innocence Animal Farm Bleak House Brave New World The Call of the Wild The Canterbury Tales The Catcher in the Rye The Count of Monte Cristo Crime and Punishment Daisy Miller Emma Fahrenheit 451 Frankenstein The Grapes of Wrath Great Expectations The Greta Gatsby Heart of Darkness Huckleberry Finn Jane Eyre The Last of the Mohicans Mythology New Testament The Odessey Of Mice and Men The Old Testament The Outsiders Paradise Lost The Pearl The Picture of Dorian Gray Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Pride and Prejudice The Scarlet Letter Silas Marner Tess of the d�Ubervilles Ulysses Vanity Fair Wuthering Heights I was a bit surprised at what didn't make it, and I have read several books that didn't make the list by the writers that made it.

scoop001 -> RE: Which classics have you read? (2/16/2008 7:00:37 PM)
Here are the books I have read from the list The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Animal Farm As I Lay Dying Anna Karenina Bleak House The Brothers Karamazov The Call of the Wild The Canterbury Tales The Catcher in the Rye The Color Purple A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court The Count of Monte Cristo Crime and Punishment Dracula Emma Frankenstein The Grapes of Wrath Great Expectations The Great Gatsby Gulliver's Travels The Hobbit Huckleberry Finn Jane Eyre Light in August Lord of the Flies The Lord of the Rings Moby Diok New Testament 1984 The Odyssey The Old Man and the Sea Old Testament Oliver Twist The Once and Future King A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Pride and Prejudice The Prince and the Pauper The Scarlet Letter Silas Marner The Sound and the Fury A Tale of Two Cities The Three Musketeers Treasure Island The Turn of the Screw War and Peace Wuthering Heights Norman

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