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Book Review: Classics

This section contains reviews of various classics of the English Literature. It also invites reviews from readers who have read such Classics.

What is a Classic?

Louise Cowan, in the book 'Invitation to the Classics' provides a very simple definition to the word 'literary classic'. According to her, an author's work can be described as a classic if it has the following features:

-It exhibits artistic merit.

-It portrays life as complex and depicts negative and positive aspects of human nature and the trying of values and character.

-It affects the reader’s understanding of self.

-It can be and deserves to be reread.

-It is appreciated in various times and places as it portrays the human drama.

-It is considered a classic by a sufficiently large number of people.

-It stands the test of time.

List of book reviews of Classics

We have the following book reviews of Classics with us:

Frankenstein-Mary Shelley

The Call of the Wild-Jack London

Black Beauty-Anna Sewell

The Iliad-Homer

The Odyssey-Homer

Gulliver's Travels-Jonathan Swift

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

Lord Jim-Joseph Conrad

Heart Of Darkness-Joseph Conrad

The Three Musketeers-Alexandre Dumas

Macbeth-William Shakespeare

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List of Literary Classics

A very small indicative list of literary classics, written mostly in English is given below. This list is by no means comprehensive. The purpose of this list is merely to serve as a possible guide to book lovers who want to read Classics.

Title	Author
The Three Musketeers	Alexandre Dumas
Ivanhoe	Sir Walter Scott
The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas
Last of the Mohicans	James Fenimore Cooper
Moby Dick	Herman Melvilles
A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens
Robin Hood	Howard Pyle
Arabian Nights	Antony Galland
Les Miserables	Victor Hugo
Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe
Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe
Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift
The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Victor Hugo
Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain
Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley
The Prince and the Pauper	Mark Twain
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte
Great Expectations	Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment	Feodor Dostoevsky
The Call of the Wild	Jack London
All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque
King Solomon's Mines	H. Rider Heggard
From the Earth to the Moon	Jules Verne
Knights of the Round Table	Howard Pyle
The Speckled Band	Arthur Conan Doyle
The Time Machine	H.G. Wells
Lord Jim	Joseph Conrad
Ben Hur	Lew Wallace
The Odyssey	Homer
The Iliad	Homer
Hamlet	William Shakespeare
Macbeth	William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet	William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar	William Shakespeare
Silas Marner	George Eliot
Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte
Black Beauty	Anna Sewell
Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson
The Prisoner of Zenda	Anthony Hope
In the Reign of Terror	G.A. Henty
The Octopus	Frank Norris
Faust	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lives of the Hunted	Ernest Thompson Seton
The Lion of the North	G.A. Henty
Fang and Claw	Frank Buck
The Song of Hiawatha	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mr. Midshipman Easy	Captain Frederick Marryat

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