How many of the classics, both modern and of literature, have you actually read?

I'm a historian focusing on ancient gaul. So for the most part, "modern" to me is everything post 1815 (my own opinion) and pre 1946s (afterwhich is contemporary) So, In that range i've head a lot of the russian classics (big fan of dostoïevsky) where in a learned about the multiple types of narration -- he uses four primary types if I remember correctly.

Since I'm a french native speaker, I've also read and quite like Jules Verne, Honoré de Balzac (La Comédie Humaine), Molière, Proust. I've learned a lot from balzac in regards to how he does characters and descriptions.

I've read more classics, like Pushkin, but it's not so much that I enjoy them or really learned anything from them.

 

For Dostoevsky, I've read The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, and Notes from the underground.

I could not finish 'the idiot.'

A lot of people say 'The Possessed' is a masterwork as well. I might try that next.

 

I majored in World Literature and a minor in Philosophy and religion. So I have read them all...almost to the point that my bookshelves are toppling.

 

Lol really?

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I just ordered the complete works of Poe yesterday. Have read 90% of his poetry and a couple of his stories. Will be able to get them all read though including his only novel. My favorite writer.

I've read the first jungle book and both the Alice in wonderland books. The Alice novels being my favorite book and the jungle book coming in close behind them.

I'm currently reading Summer by Edith Wharton. I don't know if it or any of her novels are considered classics but she was the first women to win a Pulitzer Prize. Summer is actually pretty good so far, imo.

Plan to read everything Shakespeare's written that we have. Also read the first chapter of the old man and the sea by Hemingway because I was interested in this Iceberg theory of his and I'm going to complete it after Summer.

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I really just recently had the interest to read some of the greats. There might be Some I'm forgetting. Pretty sure I read where the red fern grows. Just barely started wade in these waters though.

 

Great book.

 

Good luck with the history plays!

 

I was looking at some lists of “books everyone should read at least once” and was disappointed in myself that I hadn’t read many so I’ve added a load to my list.

Some of these might not be “classics” but I’ve read;
Dickens
A Christmas Carol
A Tale of Two Cities

Carroll
Alice In Wonderland
Through The Looking Glass

Shakespeare
Romeo & Juliet
Hamlet
Macbeth

A Town Like Alice
Animal Farm
Lord of the Flies
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Little Women
Jane Eyre
Diary of Anne Frank
The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Crucible
Treasure Island
Flowers in the Attic
Interview With the Vampire
The Secret Garden
Ann of Green Gables
A Prayer for Owen Meany