When I really want something entirely gripping and enticing to read, I pick up a Classic. There is not a single modern book I can think of that gives me the kind of excitement and powerful emotion that reading a Classic gives me. The fact that they were written a very long time ago, by amazing people who have left their mark on the modern literary world, and who have shaped the way books are today. Especially when I read a Brontë (my favourite authors!), the fact that they sometimes talk about ideas not even discussed in their time (especially women's rights) astounds me. If you want a book where you are taken on a journey so far from the modern world we live in- pick up any of these books- they are some of my favourites on my bookshelf!
Here are the books! By the way, they are not organised in any kind of order, just randomly!
Emily Brontë- Wuthering Heights
Robert Louis Stevenson- Kidnapped
Elizabeth Gaskell- Cranford
Mary Shelley- Frankenstein
Brontë (all three of them!)- Selected Letters
Elizabeth Gaskell- The Life of Charlotte Brontë
George Orwell- Nineteen Eighty-Four
Thomas Hardy- Tess of the D'Urbervilles
William Golding- Lord of the Flies
Charles Dickens- Great Expectations
Anne Brontë- Agnes Grey
Mark Twain- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Jungle Books- Rudyard Kipling
Anne Brontë- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Charlotte Brontë- Villette
Harper Lee- To Kill a Mockingbird
L. Frank Baum- The Wizard of Oz
Susan Coolidge- What Katy Did At School
Robert Louis Stevenson- Treasure Island
George Orwell- Animal Farm
The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anna Sewell- Black Beauty
Frances Hodgson Burnett- A Little Princess
Susan Coolidge- What Katy Did
L. M. Montgomery- Anne of Green Gables
Charles Dickens- Oliver Twist
Eleanor H. Porter- Pollyanna
Charlotte Brontë- Jane Eyre
I hope that you have enjoyed this mini blog post. If you would like book reviews or anything from any of these books, do let me know :) Also, if you would like a tour of my many bookshelves, please also let me know!
Until next time :)
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