Must Read Classics

‘One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.’

Carl Sagan – Astronomer, Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, Astrobiologist

It would be a rather extraordinary challenge to read all the classics, so, when choosing your next book consider the following for a balanced selection:

Make sure you have a balance between male and female authors (M/F).

Try and pick books set in different cultures.

Make sure you have read a couple of translated texts.

Try and spread your selection across history and into the future.

January 22, 2019January 22, 2019

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

China; Early 1900s; Female Author – Nobel Prize Winner

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January 22, 2019January 22, 2019

A Passage to India by E. M. Forster

Colonial India; 1920s; Male Author

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January 22, 2019February 20, 2019

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

USA; Early 1900s; Male Author – Nobel Prize Winner

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January 22, 2019February 17, 2019

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

France and Italy; 1815-1839; Male Author – Translation

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January 22, 2019January 22, 2019

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

France; Early 1800s; Male Author – Translation

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January 22, 2019January 22, 2019

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

Colonisation of America; Mid 1700s; Male Author

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January 22, 2019January 22, 2019

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

USA; Early 1900s; Female Author – Made influential contributions to African American literature.

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January 22, 2019January 23, 2019

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

England; Early 1800s; Female Author

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January 22, 2019February 20, 2019

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

USA; Early 1900s; Female Author

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January 22, 2019February 20, 2019

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

USA; Early 1900s; Male Author – Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize and considered this to be his best piece of work.

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