Classics you know you should have read but probably haven't

Beschrijving
I know I feel guilt at the number of works I feel I ought to have read, but haven't quite managed to get round to yet... Well, let's try to prioritise!
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De vernuftige edelman Don Quichot van La Mancha
door Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
30,501 leden
449 besprekingen
4.1
Algemene Rangorde 2
106 Members
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Verklaringen
aulsmith : Read enough to know I don't want to finish
ManWithAnAgenda : Read, enjoyed.
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Oorlog en Vrede
door Leo Tolstoy
28,827 leden
457 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Algemene Rangorde 1
139 Members
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Verklaringen
Randall.Parr: I would really like to read this book. Okay. thanks.
Arrashid7: I read btw. high school and college. Got me hooked on more Russian lit.
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A Tale of Two Cities
door Charles Dickens
36,621 leden
456 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 13
83 Members
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Verklaringen
gilroy : Read it
jain: Read it in high school but need to reread as an adult.
JalenV: Another Dickens novel I listened to after checking it out from the library. I go to bed listening to books and it's an easy way to get through classics.
MyFathersDragon: I read lots of Dickens in 6th grade because I liked them.
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1984
door George Orwell
81,903 leden
1,270 besprekingen
4.2
Algemene Rangorde 10
98 Members
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Verklaringen
amanda4242: An important book, but I'll probably never read it again.
sturlington: Everyone should read at least once.
electrice : read
ManWithAnAgenda : Read.
MyFathersDragon: It is a classic so I thought I should read it.
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De grote Gatsby
door F. Scott Fitzgerald
72,096 leden
1,168 besprekingen
3.8
Algemene Rangorde 18
92 Members
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Verklaringen
tiddleyboom : Read it. Loved it.
.Monkey. : Read it. Disliked.
amanda4242: Read it twice and hated it twice.
JalenV: Had to read it for High School and hated it. I read The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo. Found her inserted characters and the magic interesting, still hated the Gatsby sections.
Aprill: Read it.
ahef1963: Read it; didn't really like it.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read it. Loved it.
MyFathersDragon: It was one of the classics to choose from to read in a high school class. I read lots of the choices, so I had options to choose from when it was time to write a book report.
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De goddelijke komedie
door Dante Alighieri
21,739 leden
188 besprekingen
4.1
Algemene Rangorde 6
94 Members
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Verklaringen
aulsmith : Got halfway through hell and gave up.
sturlington : Read Inferno in college. Not sure of the point of reading the rest.
Arrashid7: I plan to read it this summer.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read, loved.
MyFathersDragon: I didn’t finish. I read some in Italian, but I am not very good with Italian. I read more in English translation, but I wanted to go back to the Italian, and never finished.
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Sons and Lovers
door D. H. Lawrence
9,501 leden
100 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Algemene Rangorde 189
23 Members
ABVR, eromsted, lahochstetler, SilentInAWay, booksinbed, almigwin, lwbooklover, varielle, europhile, jefbra, icre8dstny, cathyta, jyssco, Cindy1954, Aprill, jaysbooks, ahef1963, LesleyAshton, james.proffitt, Laura1124, JessGalchutt, Sisif, MaureenONeill, ,anglemark ,henkl ,cpg , ,prosfilaes ,aulsmith ,sturlington ,Simone2
Verklaringen
aulsmith : This is the one Lawrence I read, and I agree with sturlington.
sturlington : You really only need to read one Lawrence, I think. I read Lady Chatterley's Lover and had no interest in reading more.
ahef1963: I really loved this book. It captured England so well.
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Schuld en boete
door Fyodor Dostoevsky
44,146 leden
492 besprekingen
4.2
Algemene Rangorde 5
98 Members
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Verklaringen
aulsmith : Started and decided not to finish
Aprill: I'm partway through. Hope to finish it some day.
ahef1963: Loved it.
MyFathersDragon: I read some in 6th grade, but I didn’t finish because it wasn’t very interesting to me.
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Aeneïs
door Virgil
22,897 leden
198 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 36
60 Members
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Verklaringen
aulsmith : Got through Carthage and gave up in disgust.
sturlington : Read in college.
aekd: Unlikely to read, but who knows?
MyFathersDragon: Mythology - I always read that. Then we read it in a 12th grade class, too.
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Jane Eyre
door Charlotte Brontë
58,939 leden
916 besprekingen
4.2
Algemene Rangorde 39
71 Members
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Verklaringen
tiddleyboom: I know the whole plot and resolution of Jane Eyre; I've just never read the book.
JalenV: I have read this book so many times since I was a school girl. However, it wasn't until PBS first aired "I, Claudius" that I understood that "West Indies Messalina" insult.
Aprill: Enjoyed it.
ahef1963: A favourite.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read.
MyFathersDragon: It was available when I was reading anything I could find. I reread it in high school.