Aug. 1st, 2006

Classics

Aug. 1st, 2006 08:33 pm
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I just finished reading Jane Eyre.

As far as nineteenth-century English-language literature goes, my experience is a bit spotty. I've read a lot of Dickens and a fair bit of Scott, Eliot, Collins, and Trollope; on this side of the pond, I've read quite a bit of Twain and some Hawthorne and Melville. I haven't read anything by Thackeray or Hardy, nor by Irving or Cooper (although I have Library of America volumes of both of the latter two). Any prose writer I haven't mentioned, you can probably assume I haven't dipped into. (Oh, wait; I've read Wuthering Heights as well.)

Anyone want to make any suggestions?

Actually, I'm debating tackling Les Miserables; I have a three-volume French edition that I bought in Paris in '89. That, however, will require considerable effort, and I may put it off yet again.

Addendum. My memory is going. I've also read a small amount of Kipling, and quite a bit of Austen, not to mention (in various amounts) Lewis Carroll, H. Rider Haggard, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Macdonald, O. Henry, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

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