"princess garnet" wrote:I saw an adaptation of it on PBS's "Mystery" some years ago.
THAT would be so much fun!
"princess garnet" wrote:I saw an adaptation of it on PBS's "Mystery" some years ago.
"The Czar" wrote:I don't really care for the Victorian era much. Too much bodice ripping, not enough meat for my taste. That said, my favorites...
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (This is a smart, well written Victorian novel with a dark side.)
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (I am about 300 pages in and can hardly put it down. Immense in scope already, and very well written.)
Anything by Dostoyevsky - (Oddly, I haven't read brothers Karamozov yet, it will be next when I finish War and Peace. But I have read most of his others, and Crime and Punishment and The House of the Dead in particular I love).
The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - (has anybody read his "new" one? http://www.amazon.com/Last-Cavalier-Adventures-Sainte-Hermine-Napoleon/dp/1605980005/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1306083613&sr=1-1
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Treasure Island - Robert Lewis Stevenson
Here is some of my favorites that are set in the 19th C, but not actually written there.
The Flashman Series - George Macdonald Frasier (These are hilarious, and contain more history than you think).
The Sharpe Series - Bernard Cornwell
The Aubery-Maturin Novels - Patrick O'brien (All you ever wanted to know and then some about the Napoleonic Era Royal Navy.)
"Thurinius" wrote:Have to agree with several of these. I'm 1113 pages into War and Peace and absolutely loving it. Before I started that I was on Anna Karenina, again which I loved. Though I disliked the two main characters: Anna and Vronsky. I couldn't warm to them at all. But every other character was a joy.
Flashman - so sad there won't be any more of them.
And the three musketeers I never get bored of that book. I can read it again and again.
"Nefret" wrote:Little Women
Emma
David Copperfield
The Devils
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Count of Monte Cristo