I just read through this thread and was shocked to find that I have never posted here.
Here are some of my favorites:
Austen's works (especially Northanger Abbey, Pride & Prejudice, and Mansfield Park)
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
I'm woefully deficient in my Russian literature, but I plan to tackle War & Peace this year. Read Dr. Zhivago. Didn't much care for it.
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What are your favorite 19C books?
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Some of my favorites are well known classics like the Scarlet Pimpernel and Wuthering Heights - but I'm currently reading Mohun by John Esten Cooke. Cooke was considered one of the greatest writers about Virginia and the Civil War in the 1800s. It is heavily Civil War so may not appeal to all, but I enjoy his writing style.
Other not-so-famous authors of 19th C would be Randall Parrish, Captain Charles King, and E.P. Roe if anyone has the same strange interests that I do
Other not-so-famous authors of 19th C would be Randall Parrish, Captain Charles King, and E.P. Roe if anyone has the same strange interests that I do
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Winner of the 2011 John Esten Cooke Award for Southern Fiction
Winner of the 2011 Next Generation Indie Award for Regional Fiction
2011 Next Generation Finalist in Romance and Historical Fiction
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Little Women
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The Devils
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Count of Monte Cristo
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David Copperfield
The Devils
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Count of Monte Cristo
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We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
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We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}
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I richly enjoyed "Lady Audley's Secret" a couple years ago - a nice proto-Columbo character, some great humor with a little dog an a hat, no surprises at all, but a story constructed well enough to keep the action compelling nonetheless.
Have recently been re-reading Alcott's darker works and enjoying that immensely. Drugs and secrets and love, oh my!
Have recently been re-reading Alcott's darker works and enjoying that immensely. Drugs and secrets and love, oh my!
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[quote=""DianeL""]I richly enjoyed "Lady Audley's Secret" a couple years ago - a nice proto-Columbo character, some great humor with a little dog an a hat, no surprises at all, but a story constructed well enough to keep the action compelling nonetheless.[/quote]
I saw an adaptation of it on PBS's "Mystery" some years ago.
I saw an adaptation of it on PBS's "Mystery" some years ago.